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Speaker 1: appearance on Inside the Jets, and Bryce Petty joins us
Speaker 1: as well. Your sir here. Hello, Hello, I just want
Speaker 1: to be known real quick. I understand I have big
Speaker 1: shoes to fill and Barts goot, but between Bart and
Speaker 1: I we have a combined seven thirty two tackles in
Speaker 1: the NFL. That's impressive. Hey we're still waiting on the
Speaker 1: first touchdown though, Well yeah, that's okay. You've got a
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Speaker 1: New York Jets. Uh. Bryce was actually interviewed by the
Speaker 1: A four mentioned Ethan Greenberg already today And uh you
Speaker 1: did like the sweater? Huh? I did? I did? I
Speaker 1: had to ask where he got it. Yeah, it was
Speaker 1: just a little bit bit from my wife. Hey, man,
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Speaker 1: they're having a sale. Dude, that's two for two. He's
Speaker 1: got a good he's got a good memory. So a
Speaker 1: fan of Banana Republic. Okay, So Bryce Petty make your
Speaker 1: first start of the two thousand seventeen season against the
Speaker 1: New Orleans Saints. You come back to the facility on Monday.
Speaker 1: You watched the film. What did you see? Yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: I saw some good things, and you know, even after
Speaker 1: the game, you know, I felt good about it from
Speaker 1: a from a standpoint of the mental aspect growing as
Speaker 1: a quarterback. You know, I knew, you know, everything that
Speaker 1: I saw. I knew what I was seeing from a
Speaker 1: game plan, um, execution wise, and and that's really you know,
Speaker 1: for growth from you know, first year to second year
Speaker 1: to third year. You know, I felt really good about
Speaker 1: you know, there's some little things here and there that
Speaker 1: we can clean up. Obviously, Um, you know I can
Speaker 1: make those throws, make the throws you know to the outside,
Speaker 1: and so those are things that you know, it took
Speaker 1: me a little while to go to sleep last night,
Speaker 1: you know, knowing knowing that I missed those but again
Speaker 1: easy corrections and uh, really felt good about it. How
Speaker 1: do you feel going into Sunday's game this year compared
Speaker 1: to your first career start last year? Like, take us
Speaker 1: through your mind? What are you thinking? How are you
Speaker 1: preparing differently from year two to year three? Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's different for everybody. I think
Speaker 1: for me, um, definitely one of those guys that that
Speaker 1: UH experiences is a big part of my confidence. So,
Speaker 1: you know, last year it was I was like, man,
Speaker 1: this is this is the NFL, you know, and and
Speaker 1: whether it was the Rams or you know, I remember
Speaker 1: playing against the Rams and Peewee, you know, and so
Speaker 1: just to go out there on Sunday, I know you're
Speaker 1: gonna play the Rams is was a crazy feeling. So
Speaker 1: there's a lot of nerves in there and not really
Speaker 1: knowing what to expect. So so this year going to
Speaker 1: the dumb and playing Drew Brees, you know, we had
Speaker 1: some nerves, but at the same time, UM, I knew
Speaker 1: what to expect, and uh, I know that I could.
Speaker 1: I know I could play. So um, you know, I
Speaker 1: think confidence is is is has grown just as much
Speaker 1: as anything else in said. The jett is supported by
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Speaker 1: Price Petty speaking of responses everything I like to start
Speaker 1: of your game because they send a pressure on you
Speaker 1: and you converted with the first down hot reads Austin
Speaker 1: Seferie and jenkinsis all right, yeah exactly. And it was
Speaker 1: kind of cool because at the same time, you know,
Speaker 1: you you practice plays during the week. Um. And and
Speaker 1: not to say that that that, um, you have routes
Speaker 1: or that you put things in plays to be ghost
Speaker 1: routes if you will, um, but that was one of
Speaker 1: those routes that really wasn't supposed to be my read, um,
Speaker 1: and you know it was me and Austin has been
Speaker 1: on the same page and making it play. How does
Speaker 1: the relationship between yourself and offensive coordinator John Moore and
Speaker 1: change once your name the start and quarterback of the Jets. Yeah, well,
Speaker 1: I mean he calls me Josh a lot more, um,
Speaker 1: you know, so I think that I guess as a compliment, Um,
Speaker 1: great looking dude, great hair. So that's always a good thing.
Speaker 1: But Bart Scott was very impressive with the Josh McConnell's there. Yeah. Yeah, shoot,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people are, um, you know,
Speaker 1: but I think at the same time, um, you know,
Speaker 1: he's talking directly you more, you know. And and then
Speaker 1: there's that um, that coach player relationship that when you're
Speaker 1: the guy, um, you know, things kind of float through you.
Speaker 1: You know, when you're back up, it's it's okay, what
Speaker 1: is Josh like? You know? And then now it's what's
Speaker 1: what I like? So you talked about it before we
Speaker 1: came on air, he said, Uh, my arm felt a
Speaker 1: lot differently last week because you didn't get a lot
Speaker 1: of reps at practice prior to the start against the Saints.
Speaker 1: Of course, you came into the game and relieve Josh
Speaker 1: McCown against the Broncos, But how many reps where you
Speaker 1: getting at practice prior to last week? And how many
Speaker 1: times did you throw the ball last week entering that
Speaker 1: ball game? Right? Yeah? I shoot, man, it's crazy how
Speaker 1: when you take mental reps you don't get tired. And
Speaker 1: I don't know what that is, but uh yeah, you
Speaker 1: know when um, when I got out of last week,
Speaker 1: I was, man, you know, my arms kind of sorts
Speaker 1: a good feeling. You know, it's a good store. But um, yeah,
Speaker 1: you don't take many reps, um, you know, and and
Speaker 1: and certain coaches, um, you know have different ways. I know,
Speaker 1: chan you know last year and last year's last year,
Speaker 1: but um, you know he had you know, a second
Speaker 1: string to do a couple of reps you know, every
Speaker 1: every now and then. So, um, that part was different.
Speaker 1: But you know this year with this staff, it was
Speaker 1: all Josh. So I hadn't taken many reps since. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, really since preseason. When you look at yesterday's game,
Speaker 1: something that you said posting that I wanted to bring up,
Speaker 1: as you said, the toughest thing for you to swallow
Speaker 1: was that the defense created three turnovers, but only three
Speaker 1: points were converted. So what's moving forward? What does the
Speaker 1: offense need to do in order to turn turnovers into points? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just it's just capitalize on those on
Speaker 1: those moments you know, we can't, uh, especially when you know,
Speaker 1: turnovers in this league or feeling far between and with
Speaker 1: that group you know in New Orleans, man, they're they're
Speaker 1: really stout group on offense, and so when you get
Speaker 1: those turnovers, you gotta capitalize on it. And you know,
Speaker 1: it really is just maintaining our focus. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: with with sudden change, you know, a sudden change of
Speaker 1: a turnover and being able to capitalize, So we just
Speaker 1: got a small focus and executees play. What do you
Speaker 1: think about the fight, the resiliency of the team yesterday
Speaker 1: against the Saints. No moral victories inside the locker room,
Speaker 1: but frankly, a lot of people didn't give you a
Speaker 1: chance to be on the same field in the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: and you guys are sitting there, uh twenty four nineteen,
Speaker 1: very late in that ball game. Yeah, definitely. Uh, you
Speaker 1: know I's telling either earlier today. You know, resiliency is
Speaker 1: a is a term that I think it's kind of
Speaker 1: lost in society today, and I think that that's you know,
Speaker 1: if if a team is characterized by, you know, the
Speaker 1: word resiliency, I think you've got a great team at
Speaker 1: least something to build around, you know. So, um, you know,
Speaker 1: obviously no, no, no moral victories at all. But at
Speaker 1: the same time, man, when you have fight and you
Speaker 1: have grit, uh, you know, within your locker room, that's
Speaker 1: definitely something to build around and something to hold onto because, um,
Speaker 1: you know, victories wins, you gotta take them how you
Speaker 1: can get them. And and even if it is hey man,
Speaker 1: we fall hard, you know. Uh, Like you said that,
Speaker 1: there wasn't a whole lot of people that gave us
Speaker 1: a chance, but it doesn't matter to us, you know.
Speaker 1: And so when you go in there and you have
Speaker 1: that mindset and then you know you're gonna have fight,
Speaker 1: you're gonna have grit, that's how you pull out games.
Speaker 1: Just jumping off that point is what is it about
Speaker 1: this team that is resilient, that has that grip? Because
Speaker 1: when you look at the losses, the average loss for
Speaker 1: this year's team outside of the Broncos game and Week
Speaker 1: two in Oakland is seven points. So you're in every
Speaker 1: ball game. What is it about this team that's so resilient? Yeah, well, man,
Speaker 1: I think you just hit it on the head. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it's the experience of knowing that, man, were in
Speaker 1: every game, you know, when when everybody was saying, you know,
Speaker 1: preseason that we wouldn't win a game, and then you
Speaker 1: come out and and you're in every game until the
Speaker 1: last couple of drives um or a driver two there
Speaker 1: within the game that it's really a difference. Um. That's
Speaker 1: what creates that resiliency is because you know, it comes
Speaker 1: down to the fourth quarter. In this league, it doesn't
Speaker 1: matter who you are any any Sunday is is any
Speaker 1: given Sunday. Um, you know, so so anybody can win.
Speaker 1: What were the Saints doing defensively? Said U. Uh, in
Speaker 1: the back end, they're playing the pass a little bit
Speaker 1: and then we're giving up the run to you guys.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, and that's you know, first half, that's really
Speaker 1: what was what was happening the other where they were
Speaker 1: playing off and and uh, a little bit more zone
Speaker 1: than I had and I anticipated because everybody thought a
Speaker 1: lot of man coverage because that's what we saw from
Speaker 1: the Saints against Atlanta and Matt Ryan and those good
Speaker 1: receivers they manned up on off exactly exactly. I see
Speaker 1: you're watching your film too. Yeah, that's that's what we
Speaker 1: thought too. So you know, you just gotta everything. And
Speaker 1: that's what's funny is is no matter how much you prepare,
Speaker 1: um for a team that can come out Sunday and
Speaker 1: be totally different, and so you have to be able
Speaker 1: to adjust. And um, you know, I thought our guys
Speaker 1: did a great job. And when re really pound the
Speaker 1: football and we get behind those big guys up front,
Speaker 1: you know our offense is wide open at that point
Speaker 1: and so um, you know, we just gotta stick with
Speaker 1: that um, and and continue do a good job. And
Speaker 1: those guys do a great job weekend and week out. Um.
Speaker 1: But yeah, you know that the Saints came out with
Speaker 1: a little bit different game plan, had to week a
Speaker 1: little bit. Um. But like you said, I mean it
Speaker 1: was it was a game right there in the until
Speaker 1: the end. So just touching on one of the running backs,
Speaker 1: Eli McGuire had that beautiful catch down the sideline. What
Speaker 1: what have you seen from him? And secondly is you
Speaker 1: have three running backs that can all catch the ball
Speaker 1: out of the backfield. How does that help you? Yeah?
Speaker 1: You know, first of all, elis a stud man. You know.
Speaker 1: I I really enjoy playing with him and enjoy watching
Speaker 1: him really, I mean it's been since day one. On
Speaker 1: the field, Uh, he's been a pro, been a pro
Speaker 1: about you know, his practice habits and and who he
Speaker 1: is each and every day that he comes in the
Speaker 1: locker room. Um. And then you know, on the field,
Speaker 1: he's just a he's a matchup problem. You know, he's
Speaker 1: he's quick and shifty, but he doesn't look quick and shifty,
Speaker 1: which is you know it's tough. So um. But yeah, man,
Speaker 1: when you've got three three running backs, they can catch
Speaker 1: the foot or the ball of the backfield. It makes
Speaker 1: our job a lot easier one with checkdowns. But too,
Speaker 1: you know, as much man uh coverage is as as
Speaker 1: the NFL is um most of the time, those are
Speaker 1: your matchups, those running backs coming out of the backfield.
Speaker 1: So you know, with BP and Forte and a lie
Speaker 1: to to compliment is this is a good backfield. Eric
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Speaker 1: said the Jets, what is your favorite pass against the Saints?
Speaker 1: Because I look back when you guys are clawing and
Speaker 1: scratch and trying to get back into that ball game
Speaker 1: and you're throwing up the sideline to a tight window
Speaker 1: to a rookie from California, Chad Hanson. That was a
Speaker 1: high good play. Yeah, it was great catch, unbelievable catch.
Speaker 1: And and to be honest, as soon as you said
Speaker 1: what was your favorite pass, that was that was the
Speaker 1: first thing that popped in my head just because that
Speaker 1: was you know, it was a cover two ball and
Speaker 1: and you know, we had talked about it last week
Speaker 1: about you know, pumping the team and then going outside
Speaker 1: and and it just kind of resonate with me a
Speaker 1: little bit through the week. It's like, man, I want
Speaker 1: to hit this ball and uh and and so it
Speaker 1: presented itself in the game. Um and Chad did a
Speaker 1: great job of taking the outside releases of what you
Speaker 1: tell the you know, receivers and cover two and took
Speaker 1: it outside release and kept going and um and made
Speaker 1: a great catch. What's the one thing when you look
Speaker 1: at the film outside of foot work, because you already
Speaker 1: told that to me earlier, what's something that you say,
Speaker 1: that's the thing I want to focus on this week
Speaker 1: throughout practice and executed on Sunday against the Chargers. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: you kind of took it out. I mean, the footwork
Speaker 1: is a big thing. But at the same time, I
Speaker 1: think I think just seeing the whole field, you know,
Speaker 1: there was play that really hit me um and and
Speaker 1: uh not that I had a sour taste my mouth,
Speaker 1: but it was it was the right after the pick
Speaker 1: the Leonard got um and we had Um I threw
Speaker 1: it was like a bunch set to the right through
Speaker 1: the plate, I mean the ball to Chad. The very
Speaker 1: next play. Um, they showed a cover zero look and
Speaker 1: then they got out of it, but I was kind
Speaker 1: of interested in audibling um and not really looking at
Speaker 1: the defense. And so all that to say that I
Speaker 1: just really want to see the field, um, to see
Speaker 1: the whole field and and not get rushed or enamored
Speaker 1: by what the front looks like um or what I'm
Speaker 1: thinking in my head and just and just take a
Speaker 1: deep breath and and and make sure that you know
Speaker 1: as the balls being a snap, um from pre snap
Speaker 1: to post snap, it's the same picture in my head. Well,
Speaker 1: we're off to a good start here where Price Petty.
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Speaker 1: Jet's house. Bryce, we were just talking about it before
Speaker 1: the l A Chargers. We gotta get used to saying that.
Speaker 1: I'm still accustomers saying the San Diego Chargers. L A
Speaker 1: Chargers played against the Kansas City Chiefs Saturday night. You
Speaker 1: watched the ball game the tape of that today. What
Speaker 1: did you see from them defensively as you start your preparation. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: Well really what you're doing is just you're trying to
Speaker 1: get a feel for him. You know who they are.
Speaker 1: They wont higher, they too higher. They like play zone
Speaker 1: man and do they blitz you know that kind of thing.
Speaker 1: So it's not a whole lot of in depth study
Speaker 1: at that point. It's just really good to know him. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, so it's kind of crazy. But what it's all.
Speaker 1: They like to play a lot his own, you know,
Speaker 1: like to play a lot of his own. And then
Speaker 1: you know personnel. I think they got some injuries up,
Speaker 1: uh you know, in their back end. So uh we'll see,
Speaker 1: you know, as as preparation goes on, especially tomorrow, when
Speaker 1: I get a you know, dive in get a better
Speaker 1: feel for them there. All right, So can you just
Speaker 1: kind of take us through the rest of we can
Speaker 1: talk about it. You dive in a little bit today,
Speaker 1: more tomorrow and then what yeah, yeah, and then we
Speaker 1: go to practice, you know, so so Tuesday is kind
Speaker 1: of our day to come in and and we kind
Speaker 1: of have now that we we put our own game
Speaker 1: playing together, but we just hey, this is what we like,
Speaker 1: this is what we're seeing. Um, and you get with
Speaker 1: a couple of players, and then that's always fun. And
Speaker 1: then you know Wednesdays when you really dive in, that's
Speaker 1: your long day and that's that's the first install of
Speaker 1: of this week's game plan and when That's what's funny
Speaker 1: about the NFL is every week is different, you know.
Speaker 1: Whereas college it's like this is who we are, that's
Speaker 1: what we're gonna do. Um. In the NFL, every week
Speaker 1: is a new week. And and you could be not
Speaker 1: that you're gonna have different you know, schemes or whatever,
Speaker 1: but um, you know, you you you figure out what
Speaker 1: they do and you figure out what works, uh to
Speaker 1: be the best to get them. I really enjoyed that
Speaker 1: the way you just described that. So take us into
Speaker 1: a few years back at Baylor, that offensive system you ran,
Speaker 1: because I remember after you the Jets drafted you in
Speaker 1: the fourth round, you came out and said, we really
Speaker 1: didn't have a playbook. And now the playbook changes each
Speaker 1: week here depending on the opponent in the National Football League. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, it's fun. It really is. Yeah.
Speaker 1: And and and and I think the them, or at least
Speaker 1: my favorite way to describe it was it was checkers
Speaker 1: back then, and I was chest and so um and
Speaker 1: not to use that lightly, but what we did at
Speaker 1: Baylor worked. Um, it was it was what got us
Speaker 1: touchdowns with what got us wins. And so never fight
Speaker 1: the system there. Um And so up here it's different.
Speaker 1: You know, you've got defenses doing a whole lot of
Speaker 1: different schemes, different players. Um. You know, they can maximize
Speaker 1: uh with with with scheme and with with uh you know,
Speaker 1: the players that they have. So um, it's it's definitely
Speaker 1: definitely fun to come up here and it's like you're
Speaker 1: you're really hunting in on on what football really is.
Speaker 1: How it's interaction changed with John Morton maybe now compared
Speaker 1: to those first twelve weeks or so. Yeah, well he's
Speaker 1: definitely talking to me a lot more, you know, and uh,
Speaker 1: and that's what's fun. You know, it's fun. You know,
Speaker 1: he's got a great background, comes from a great lineup
Speaker 1: of coaches that he's worked under a lot of players
Speaker 1: and he's coached um. And so you can see that
Speaker 1: with with how he is and how he coaches. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, so knows a lot a lot of football. Um.
Speaker 1: And I love his system, I really do. It's it's
Speaker 1: a fun system and it's and it's something that I
Speaker 1: think you know, as as any quarterback that grows up
Speaker 1: watching the league, you always hear about West Coast, West
Speaker 1: Coast and and it's it's almost a bucket list thing
Speaker 1: to be able to say that you've played in the
Speaker 1: West Coast and then learned the West Coast because it's
Speaker 1: a it's a lot of volume. Um. But but man,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, when you throw it all across
Speaker 1: the yard, uh. And especially where he came from, you know,
Speaker 1: with the Saints, you know you can see them do
Speaker 1: it every Sunday. So um, it's it's a really fun
Speaker 1: fun offensive being rumor on the street is that certain
Speaker 1: play calls are sentences long true or false. Yeah, that's true. Man,
Speaker 1: They can be. They can be lengthy if you will, Yeah,
Speaker 1: exact aircraft. Excuse me, they can all right, So you
Speaker 1: talked about it a little bit just then, is what
Speaker 1: specifically do you like about this West Coast offense and
Speaker 1: working with Johnny Bone in particular. Yeah, well, like I said,
Speaker 1: I mean just the pedigree of what it is and
Speaker 1: and it allows you as a quarterback, um, a lot
Speaker 1: of freedom for one. And then too, everything has answers,
Speaker 1: you know, so whether you know they're playing man out,
Speaker 1: they're playing zone or one higher two, you know, everything
Speaker 1: has answers for for what you're seeing, which is what
Speaker 1: you gotta love, you know. And so now you know
Speaker 1: again once you have the ability to throw the football,
Speaker 1: which everybody, if you're up here you can Now it's
Speaker 1: it's can you you know, diagnose and and uh, you know,
Speaker 1: figure out what the defense is doing from a pre
Speaker 1: snap standpoint and then get ready and execute post snap.
Speaker 1: So I think that again, this is this offense allows
Speaker 1: you to do that. And then with coach mo um,
Speaker 1: you know, he just he brings a fire every day.
Speaker 1: You know exactly what you're gonna get every day. Um,
Speaker 1: he's passionate about what he does. He he's got a
Speaker 1: lot of of you know, a lot of people told
Speaker 1: him he couldn't and so it's you know, and and
Speaker 1: I love you waited first chance, right, he was eighteen
Speaker 1: years or so and an NFL assistant before he got
Speaker 1: a chance to be the offensive play color exactly exactly.
Speaker 1: And you could tell, I mean every day that he
Speaker 1: comes in and here he grinds, you know, and he's
Speaker 1: in there a lot. Uh. And so as a player,
Speaker 1: you respect that, um. But but for him to to
Speaker 1: have waited that long, uh and and get to this
Speaker 1: point now, he's definitely taking advantage of Did you get
Speaker 1: a chance to talk to Drew Brees at all after
Speaker 1: the games? After Sunday's game, because you know that's that
Speaker 1: TV shot that a lot of times we see after
Speaker 1: the ball games the two quarterbacks talking. Yeah, yeah, we
Speaker 1: did a little bit. We shared a little bit. Uh.
Speaker 1: He came up in and you know, of course with
Speaker 1: smiling when he walked up, which is I mean, that's
Speaker 1: Drew and uh, it was it was crazy to meet him.
Speaker 1: You know, I was two guys when I played, uh
Speaker 1: you know, back in the day, I was either Brad
Speaker 1: Farvard Drew Brees. As those are my guys. So did
Speaker 1: you know to play against him and get to look
Speaker 1: over him do his thing on Sunday and live or
Speaker 1: you know, live in person? Was it was really cool?
Speaker 1: But uh, you know he was just saying, our Texas
Speaker 1: boys gotta stay together, so making sure everything was good. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's something that started, Greens. That's something that I asked
Speaker 1: you about during off season when you were learning this
Speaker 1: system because John Morton came over from New Orleans. He
Speaker 1: had two stints under Sean Payton. He learned from John
Speaker 1: Gruden with the Oakland Raiders back in the day. Um
Speaker 1: was that, Hey, did you watch some film of Breeze
Speaker 1: while you started taking those beginning steps here? Yeah? Yeah,
Speaker 1: and and and a ton of a ton of our
Speaker 1: clips where of the Saints? Um yeah, yeah, exactly. So
Speaker 1: uh and he's one of my favorite quarterbacks to watch,
Speaker 1: you know, regardless. So it's fun to kind of be
Speaker 1: able to pair or I guess, marry up. You know
Speaker 1: what he's doing because we have the same or at
Speaker 1: least similar offenses and in some facets. When you go
Speaker 1: back to when John Morton was first hired, you get
Speaker 1: the playbook, what's your initial reaction because like you said,
Speaker 1: it's lengthy. It can be paragraphs to be sentences. What
Speaker 1: is Bryce Petty's initial reaction? It was funny because uh,
Speaker 1: well my initially re action when I got it was
Speaker 1: holy crap. But uh, you know, I was sitting I
Speaker 1: was sitting with in the truck of my dad, like, Dad,
Speaker 1: I'm that am I supposed to learn this? You know.
Speaker 1: I'm like, I've gotta carry it with two hands, and uh, man,
Speaker 1: I'll never forget. He's like, man, he's gotta take them
Speaker 1: one day at a time, one day at a time,
Speaker 1: and you'll be fine. And uh and it's funny how
Speaker 1: it works out. Inside the Jets is supported by Victoria Knox,
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Speaker 1: you said in the first segment that maybe you were
Speaker 1: a little bit anxious against the Saints. What does that
Speaker 1: mean from a quarterback's perspective? Yeah, well, I think just
Speaker 1: just nature of the position itself. Um, you know, and
Speaker 1: I hate using the P word and so it's perfect.
Speaker 1: You know, you gotta whisper it. But but you want, um,
Speaker 1: you want to be as successful and as productive as
Speaker 1: you can, because if you're not, then your offense struggles.
Speaker 1: It's directly through you. It's almost like you know, if
Speaker 1: a picture uh doesn't do well in an outing, you
Speaker 1: know it's the the E R A is up there.
Speaker 1: And so so as a as a quarterback, you want
Speaker 1: to be successful. You want to be productive, and you
Speaker 1: want to You've had a good week of preparation, You've
Speaker 1: had a good week of practice, and so you just
Speaker 1: want to put it out there for your guys. And
Speaker 1: I think that's the toughest part about this position is, um,
Speaker 1: you know, from from the locker room perspective or the
Speaker 1: team perspective of what football gives you. Um, those guys
Speaker 1: give so much and you do as well, and so
Speaker 1: you just want to play well for them. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: those guys in the locker room and on your and
Speaker 1: on your team. So um, it's just one of those
Speaker 1: deals that I don't think. I guess I've kind of
Speaker 1: always told myself today that I'm not anxious as day.
Speaker 1: I'll quote football. Yeah, yeah, I kind of like that.
Speaker 1: Are there passes that when you look at on film,
Speaker 1: you say, from a quarterback quarterbacks perspective, like you said,
Speaker 1: I want to be perfect. Are there some throws in
Speaker 1: the NFL that you say you gotta make a hundred hundred? Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know? And and and that's the part you know
Speaker 1: about about Sunday that the bitterness that I have is
Speaker 1: is there's a couple of those throws that you know
Speaker 1: that you gotta be a hundred of a hundred and
Speaker 1: I wasn't you know, I had uh you know that
Speaker 1: the checkdown to matt um and this in the second
Speaker 1: quarter there uh that I missed. And then there was
Speaker 1: you know on the uh I guess the third or
Speaker 1: fourth drive? Um or the yeah, third drive down in
Speaker 1: the down the red zone. I miss Robbie on the right.
Speaker 1: He motioned outside and I missed him. Um, you know
Speaker 1: you can't miss those throws. You can't miss those throws.
Speaker 1: And so um, you know, the whole thing about quarterback
Speaker 1: has been on a rhythm, and so a lot of
Speaker 1: times when if you do miss those throws that you
Speaker 1: know you can knock down hunter percent, it just kind
Speaker 1: of throws things off a little bit. How is the
Speaker 1: communication yesterday between you and West Johnson? Because I would imagine,
Speaker 1: you know, fifteenth week in the season, it's a little late.
Speaker 1: Maybe things don't go as well, but to me, it
Speaker 1: seemed everything was working pretty much as expected. And West
Speaker 1: was one of the guys that when you were named
Speaker 1: started he said, listen, I'm really excited for Bryce this year,
Speaker 1: especially given what he did last year. Now transferring it
Speaker 1: to two thousand seventeen. Yeah, yeah, well I I paid
Speaker 1: West hunter Bucks, so we should have said that. Um,
Speaker 1: but now I love West and and the whole. I mean,
Speaker 1: I don't know if we could have have pulled a
Speaker 1: louder stadium for the first start, you know. And so
Speaker 1: it's unbelievable how loud that places it got. It got
Speaker 1: wild and out a couple of times. Yeah, it was.
Speaker 1: It was. It was loud, like at the point where
Speaker 1: I couldn't hear myself think, you know, And that was
Speaker 1: probably one of the smiles that I got, because it's
Speaker 1: so much of it is manufactured noise. It's not even
Speaker 1: the fans, it's just that the dome keeps everything inside
Speaker 1: and the music is so dumb. Well yeah, hey it's
Speaker 1: a party down there. I know about it. So, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what. So that was that was fun. That
Speaker 1: was fun to you know again, you know, another thing
Speaker 1: to check off your your your checklist. There of places
Speaker 1: to play because you always hear about how loud the
Speaker 1: Dome is, and especially you know this year with the
Speaker 1: Saints rock and you know how they are. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: I was gonna be a challenge for us and I
Speaker 1: thought they handled it really well. What's the biggest lessons uh,
Speaker 1: watching Josh McCown you were able to absorb this year? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think just from from an every day, day in
Speaker 1: day out, what has it like being a professional starting
Speaker 1: NFL quarterback? You know, I think that guy from a
Speaker 1: preparation standpoint, from a Wednesday practice, Thursday practice walk throughs,
Speaker 1: everything he did was on a on a on another level.
Speaker 1: And and you see that in his play. He had
Speaker 1: a fantastic year. And man, I I'm telling you, my
Speaker 1: heart just broke, you know, knowing that that he broke
Speaker 1: his hand and as soon as he went down, I
Speaker 1: was like, okay, he said, I think it just broke
Speaker 1: my hand, you know, so um, immediately my heart sank
Speaker 1: for that. But um, you know, being able to just
Speaker 1: watch him and sit back and how he uh you know,
Speaker 1: he really is a coach out there. Well, what was
Speaker 1: he doing on Sunday, he had the player coach responsibility
Speaker 1: exactly exactly. I don't really know what that title means either,
Speaker 1: but um, you know, it was great to have him
Speaker 1: out there. It really was because I think a lot
Speaker 1: of people, um, you know, in that situation, you know,
Speaker 1: you got family holidays, whatever, you've just had, you know,
Speaker 1: thirteen weeks of of really fantastic football and then go
Speaker 1: down like that, a lot of people probably bug out,
Speaker 1: you know. And the fact that he wanted to be
Speaker 1: down here, he wanted to help, Uh, it means a lot,
Speaker 1: and it shows a lot about who he is on
Speaker 1: and off the field. What's the difference in relationship between
Speaker 1: yourself and Josh on game day specifically just talking about
Speaker 1: yesterday when he was the player coach, compared to your
Speaker 1: relationship with let's say Jeremy Bates on a game day. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know when the the the good thing about um,
Speaker 1: you know both of those guys as they're on the
Speaker 1: same page, and they've been on the same page, you know,
Speaker 1: they were together in Chicago. Yeah, and so they kind
Speaker 1: of know how each other operate, how each other thinks.
Speaker 1: And that's a big thing you know when when you
Speaker 1: have um, you know, not necessarily the camaraderie, but when
Speaker 1: you have that relationship of kind of been on the
Speaker 1: same page, you know, how uh to handle each other
Speaker 1: game day, you know, because some people are different. You know,
Speaker 1: some people get you know, really hot, some people are
Speaker 1: just even flow you know, I don't want to be
Speaker 1: talked to whatever, you know. So, um, they did a
Speaker 1: great job of just kind of of jelling um and
Speaker 1: and figuring out, hey, this is what we're doing, this
Speaker 1: is what we can combat it with, and how do
Speaker 1: I just you know what I love about Jeremy Bates
Speaker 1: and Jets quarterback coach and offensive coordinator John Morton, is
Speaker 1: you just their enthusiasm for the game, their passion for
Speaker 1: the game. They're out there going a hundred miles per
Speaker 1: hour every hour of the day. And I think that's infectious.
Speaker 1: It really is. It really is. But because you know,
Speaker 1: you know what you're gonna get when you walk in
Speaker 1: the building, and that's a big thing. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: everybody's a professional. Everybody has um, you know, things outside
Speaker 1: the building, but when you come in the building, you
Speaker 1: know it's time to go to work, because these are
Speaker 1: these guys are gonna go to work, you know. And
Speaker 1: so Uh, man, I'll tell you what, Man, just just
Speaker 1: the football i Q that I've I've learned from an
Speaker 1: off season with with coach Bates um and and seeing
Speaker 1: him in season and how he attacks, um you know,
Speaker 1: third downs and how he attacks just the overall new
Speaker 1: game plan for each week. Um, it really does a
Speaker 1: good coach. He really really is. To me, the chemistry
Speaker 1: on this team seems off the charts because you talked
Speaker 1: about it. Josh breaks his hand and your heart sax
Speaker 1: and you're about to go in and have your first
Speaker 1: taste of the season end. No matter really what's transpired
Speaker 1: throughout the season or always, seems like every player on
Speaker 1: this team is playing for each other. They're going a
Speaker 1: hundred percent the efforts there. From your perspective being inside
Speaker 1: that locker room, what is the chemistry like of this team? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean it's not fake. I promise you that it's
Speaker 1: It's about as genuine as it can possibly be. Um.
Speaker 1: I think everybody, uh within that locker room, you know,
Speaker 1: would would give anything to to to anybody else that
Speaker 1: needed it, you know, And and that's what you gotta have.
Speaker 1: You know that football is a fun game. Um, it's
Speaker 1: a tough game. It's a really tough game and every Sunday. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, a win's a win. But when you know
Speaker 1: that you are fighting your butt off of that guy
Speaker 1: next to you. Um, you know, whether he's on offense, defense,
Speaker 1: special teams, second stringth third string, it doesn't matter. Um,
Speaker 1: that's what that's what makes you know the good teams
Speaker 1: great teams. You've been in Christian Heckerberg shoes before, you've
Speaker 1: been the guy who's a play away. Um, how have
Speaker 1: you seen him improve on the practice field also in
Speaker 1: the meeting room? And um at your relationship like with him? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I really can't stand the guy. And I'm just kidding. No,
Speaker 1: man hacks great, heck's great, and and uh, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what he is. Um, you know, there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people that would have got a lot of different
Speaker 1: I guess routes. Um being a situation that he was
Speaker 1: in a preseason and you know how it transpired. But
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what, man, the kids, the kids resilient,
Speaker 1: the kids positive, and uh, he's a joy to be around.
Speaker 1: And um, you know from from being inside the U,
Speaker 1: you know, just a quarter of meeting room to practice
Speaker 1: and then you know we that whole thirteen weeks we
Speaker 1: were switching, um, you know, reps and scout team, and
Speaker 1: it was a competition for us. You know, we would
Speaker 1: go completions, completion, completions. When you threw it in completion,
Speaker 1: you came out, Um, and it got heated a couple
Speaker 1: of times. I didn't talk to him for a while. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, he's a great kid man and he's he's
Speaker 1: got a lot of football ahead of him. This past weekend,
Speaker 1: you have family down in Louisiana. I don't know if
Speaker 1: a lot of people know that your Texas boy who
Speaker 1: was down there? How many people were down there? I
Speaker 1: know last time when you spoke to the media, he
Speaker 1: said it was about fifteen and counting. Yeah. Is it
Speaker 1: ended up probably about twenty five people? Um, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was crazy. But yeah, so it's it's not Louisiana. It's Louisiana. Louisiana.
Speaker 1: Yeah you can. Can you call it the boot? Yeah,
Speaker 1: or you can call it boot or yeah yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: yetta call it knowledge? Or do I have to be
Speaker 1: from down there to say that? You know what? Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's out of my paper war It's New Orleans. That's
Speaker 1: what people But that's what people who don't. Yes, but
Speaker 1: I didn't say that. I did not say that. So anyway,
Speaker 1: you're a big family representation last week. But you got
Speaker 1: some folks coming to MetLife Stadium. Yeah, yeah, we do,
Speaker 1: we do. Yeah, Mom, dad and my sister are coming
Speaker 1: up and and that's been a blast. You know, they
Speaker 1: came up for Thanksgiving to and um the football holidays
Speaker 1: are always kind of funny. And we've been on that route.
Speaker 1: You know. Luckily I was busting up to play right
Speaker 1: down the road at Baylor, which is about an hour
Speaker 1: from home, so you know, we've had practice and I
Speaker 1: check on down but now being a you know plane
Speaker 1: right away, Uh, it makes a little bit different or difficult.
Speaker 1: But they always seem to find a way to get
Speaker 1: up here, which is which is awesome. And lastly, Broce,
Speaker 1: how much would it mean for this team to finish
Speaker 1: with the win record at home, secure a fifth victory
Speaker 1: at My Life Stadium, to close out the home sl Yeah,
Speaker 1: without a doubt. I mean, it's it's it's so much
Speaker 1: more than than just these last two games. You know,
Speaker 1: for us, it's it's about finishing. It's about uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we had our backskins the wall from the very good
Speaker 1: go and I think that's something that really brought us together,
Speaker 1: and so what better way to end it than than
Speaker 1: go out and MetLife with a whim. Well, Bryce, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us tonight on Inside the Jets.
Speaker 1: We'll be right back having Welcome back to Inside the Jets,
Speaker 1: Sir Allen and Ethan Greenberg here at Vanderbilt Sports and
Speaker 1: Spirits inside the Windham Hamilton Park. You can subscribe to
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Speaker 1: in its entirety commercial free, and be sure to catch
Speaker 1: myself and Ethan Greenberg for this week's Jets Chargers game preview.
Speaker 1: We're joined as always by Champennington and former Chargers center
Speaker 1: and color analyst Nick Hardwick as he gives us some
Speaker 1: inside on the pulse and say travel to MetLife Stadium
Speaker 1: for the final home game for the Green and White
Speaker 1: and two thousand and seventeen Greens. I can't believe it,
Speaker 1: we're already here in the final home game of the
Speaker 1: two thousand and seven. You know, it's uh, it really
Speaker 1: flies by, and I honestly I can't wait. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be a nice Christmas eve Day this Sunday and then
Speaker 1: soon before we know it's gonna be the off season. Well,
Speaker 1: you know what the Jets off And we talked to
Speaker 1: brace Putty about this is the Jets have played with
Speaker 1: tremendous energy at home. You really think about the way
Speaker 1: they played at the met this year, they could be undefeated.
Speaker 1: I mean, you look at the games they've lost. It
Speaker 1: was New England Patriots type game. In the fourth quarter,
Speaker 1: they had a lead on Atlanta, they had a lead
Speaker 1: on Carolina. Um right now, four and three, you could
Speaker 1: be looking easily at a six and one mark, let's
Speaker 1: say that. And at MetLife Stadium, it's apparent that the
Speaker 1: Jets defense comes out extremely fast and they're extremely energetic.
Speaker 1: We knew that both sides of the ball. Really and
Speaker 1: I said this before, but outside of weeks two and four,
Speaker 1: team the Jets have lost by an average of seven points.
Speaker 1: And you mentioned that the Jets have played the Patriots,
Speaker 1: the Falcons, the Panthers. That's three quarters of the Super
Speaker 1: Bowl teams from the past two seasons. This Jets defense
Speaker 1: and the offense really seemed to perform. Well, it's just
Speaker 1: on the road that's the next step for this Jets team. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I thought they showed the fight they battled against
Speaker 1: the New Orleans Saints. A lot of things to build
Speaker 1: off of. I'd like to takeaways. I didn't think going
Speaker 1: into the game that, hey, they're gonna come in that
Speaker 1: kind of quantity when you go against the Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: who entered that ballgame in week fifteen with just six interceptions,
Speaker 1: that you have an opportunity to get a pick. But
Speaker 1: Xavier Cooper inside rush forces an errant throw by Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: and Leonard Williams made a heck of an interception none
Speaker 1: in the second half. Then later in the ballgame, the
Speaker 1: Jets took points off the board. You got Jamal Adams
Speaker 1: with a big time hit, Jordan Jenkins were covering a
Speaker 1: fumble and then buster screen, and I thought played fantastic
Speaker 1: against the Saints, who I continue to think one of
Speaker 1: your favorite guys. Wow, he's played very well over the
Speaker 1: of course, the last three or four games, he's been
Speaker 1: one of the better Jets. He made an unbelievable individual effort.
Speaker 1: He got beat on a play, didn't give up force
Speaker 1: the fumble, and he recovered the change. The Saints coming
Speaker 1: into yesterday's game, we're tied for fourth in the NFL
Speaker 1: in giveaways and the Jets had three yesterday. Yes, that's
Speaker 1: very impressive. And then you tweeted this yesterday. I thought
Speaker 1: it was really funny. Is who won that pool? Leonard
Speaker 1: Williams picking off Drew Brees for his first career interception,
Speaker 1: And really what goes unnoticedes that when you watch the replay,
Speaker 1: Leonard Williams tries to get by one of the Saints
Speaker 1: offensive lineman. He can't do it, so he still he
Speaker 1: blocked that, so he starts to drop back. Xavier Cooper
Speaker 1: knocks Drew Brees and Leonard's there to pick it off,
Speaker 1: sets the Jets up on the Saints eleven yard line. Well,
Speaker 1: that was another thing that was impressive about Sunday's ball game. Again,
Speaker 1: no moral victories. The Jets are five and nine, they're
Speaker 1: missing the playoffs for seven consecutive year. But defensively, you
Speaker 1: went into the ballgame without Mohammed Wolkerson, and Leonard Williams
Speaker 1: went out with the concussion. He was a concussion protocol.
Speaker 1: Then you you have guys contributing like Xavier Cooper up
Speaker 1: front and before the damn broke on mark Ingram's fifty
Speaker 1: yard run that made it thirty one and nineteen and
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter, I had the Saints with eighty one
Speaker 1: yards rushing on twenty seven attempts. That's three yards of carry.
Speaker 1: And coming into yesterday's game, Alvin Kamara and mark Ingram
Speaker 1: you could say are the best duo in the NFL
Speaker 1: in terms of the running back, and after watching him
Speaker 1: in person, I would echo those sentiments because the thing
Speaker 1: about Camara is he's not even like a running back.
Speaker 1: He's just a weapon. Period. Yeah, he can run it
Speaker 1: up the gut, but he can line up in the slot,
Speaker 1: he can go outside, he can do everything on a
Speaker 1: football field. Mark Ingram average five point one yards per
Speaker 1: carry entering Sunday's ball game and Camara seven point oh.
Speaker 1: That leads the NFL. And to hold those two guys
Speaker 1: to three yards of carry through four quarters is very impressive.
Speaker 1: And yes, the Jets defense had that break in the end,
Speaker 1: but outside of that, mark Ingram and Alvin Camaro were
Speaker 1: essential non factors after Ingram's initial fifty four yards screen. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but you know, to be fair, we can't say non
Speaker 1: factor because he had eight yards. They were limited and
Speaker 1: the Jets did a good job against that pair. Breeze
Speaker 1: at down of the day, got his numbers. It's tough
Speaker 1: to hold a guy down like that. Guy's gonna become
Speaker 1: the NFL's all time passing yards leader in two thousand eighteen. Offensively,
Speaker 1: I thought the Jets got the run game going at times.
Speaker 1: We talked to Bryce Petty about Eli McGuire. We're seeing
Speaker 1: contributions from different guys. Seven players had receptions from Petty.
Speaker 1: Yes today. Well, talking about the run game for a second,
Speaker 1: there is on the jets first borring drive, it was
Speaker 1: twelve play, seventy five yards. Ten of those plays came
Speaker 1: on the ground, and of course it resulted in a
Speaker 1: Bloud Powell touchdown, which really set the Jets up early.
Speaker 1: And not only that, but it took seven minutes off
Speaker 1: the clock. And the more Drew Brees is on the sideline,
Speaker 1: the better chance you're gonna have to win. We didn't
Speaker 1: talk to Bryce about this, but he is a tremendous
Speaker 1: long ball thrower um and the couple of times that
Speaker 1: he had the opportunity to get it down the field
Speaker 1: against the Saints, he connected the one to Eli McGuire,
Speaker 1: and then we think about the other one up the
Speaker 1: opposite sideline to Chat Hanson. Late in the game. I'm
Speaker 1: gonna be interested to see if the Jets are able
Speaker 1: to open it up a little bit more against the
Speaker 1: Chargers team who was still in the playoff hunt. You
Speaker 1: talk about Eli McGuire there for a second, is that's
Speaker 1: another Louisiana boy. He played his college ball at Louisiana Lafayette.
Speaker 1: He said he played at the Super Dome three out
Speaker 1: of the four years that he was a part of
Speaker 1: the Raging Cajuns. And oddly enough, or ironically enough, as
Speaker 1: McGuire told me before the game on Friday, that his
Speaker 1: daughter turned six months to the day on game day.
Speaker 1: So that's a nice little tidbit there, and McGuire scoring
Speaker 1: his first career receiving touchdown his daughter turns six months
Speaker 1: old on the same day. Nice job. So a couple
Speaker 1: of a couple of bits of news, uh, coming from
Speaker 1: the Jets today. They wave veteran Jeremy Curly um. He
Speaker 1: played eight games for the Jets, of first eight games
Speaker 1: this season and twenty two receptions. He was also the
Speaker 1: team's primary punt returner. But the Green and White part
Speaker 1: ways here on Monday. Jeremy Curley joined the team September five,
Speaker 1: of two thousand, seventeen. He was actually inactive for week
Speaker 1: one because he barely had a cup of coffee. In
Speaker 1: this system with John Morton that we talked about and
Speaker 1: Bryce Patty said, how complex it can be. And in
Speaker 1: the early part of the season, Curly was an important
Speaker 1: part of this offense and especially on especially on third down,
Speaker 1: and him and Josh mccowny in a street they were
Speaker 1: like twenty one twenty one targets, twenty one completion. So
Speaker 1: Curly did provide um a veteran presence and he was productive.
Speaker 1: With that being said, this means more opportunities from a
Speaker 1: guy like a developing Chad Hanson, who we continue to
Speaker 1: see come on, and our Darius Stewart as well well,
Speaker 1: those two guys from the beginning of the season, Todd
Speaker 1: Bowl said, those two guys will come and in the
Speaker 1: in the first i'd say five or so weeks, it
Speaker 1: was predominantly Jermaine Curs, Robby Anderson, and Jeremy Curly because
Speaker 1: those guys needed time to digest everything in bull Bull
Speaker 1: said that later on in the season, they're gonna have
Speaker 1: their chances, they're gonna have their opportunities, and so far
Speaker 1: they've shown some things they flashed, But this is really
Speaker 1: a nice little slate for both Hanson and Stewart, who
Speaker 1: have i'd say alternated time as the predominant third option
Speaker 1: for the Jets team. All Right, we're gonna break down
Speaker 1: the New York Jets class with the l A Chargers
Speaker 1: on Christmas Eve when we come back from Vanderbilt Sports
Speaker 1: and Spirits. You're listening to Inside the Jets, Welcome back
Speaker 1: to Inside the Jets. Eric Ellen here at Vanderbilt Sports
Speaker 1: and Spirits Inside and Windham Hamilton's Park, joined by Ethan
Speaker 1: Greenberg of New York Jets dot Com. Ethan, speaking of
Speaker 1: fan duel fantasy analysis, would I would advise folks who
Speaker 1: are planned this week and looking at some Jets, it's
Speaker 1: how about the Jets running backs? Because I look at
Speaker 1: this Chargers defense and to say they've been susceptible. Two
Speaker 1: teams rushing to football. And not only that, but this
Speaker 1: upcoming Sunday e A is the championship in fantasy football
Speaker 1: for the majority of leaves to night marks the end
Speaker 1: of the semifinals. So if anyone is playing next Sunday, congratulations.
Speaker 1: But if you're looking at these Jets running backs, I
Speaker 1: mean Nick Hardwick said this on the Official Jets podcast
Speaker 1: earlier today, and that will be on your phone if
Speaker 1: you want it in a couple of days. Is you
Speaker 1: can get that SoundCloud, you can got whatever the sace,
Speaker 1: whatever you whatever you want do. We got options. That's
Speaker 1: that's the moral of the story here. But he said
Speaker 1: that the Chargers ran a lot of dime packages against
Speaker 1: the Kansas City Chiefs end the chief said, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna put a lot of corners out there,
Speaker 1: we're just gonna run it. And conversely, Kareem Hunt had
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty five yards on the ground and Blow
Speaker 1: Paul got into the end zone his fourth rushing touchdown
Speaker 1: of the season against the New Orleans Saints Elia McGuire,
Speaker 1: like we mentioned before, and his first receiving touchdown of
Speaker 1: the year. But not only that is these guys look
Speaker 1: like we talked about before, they're receiving threats as well.
Speaker 1: So that only helps your fantasy. Yeah, but you know what,
Speaker 1: and I get asked this all the time. A couple
Speaker 1: of times I've been on some serious fantasy programming and
Speaker 1: folks asked me what running back should I start this week?
Speaker 1: From the Jets backfield, and I say, I don't really know,
Speaker 1: because John Morton is an equal opportunity employer. Uh, Bryce
Speaker 1: Petty through the ball to seven different targets, seven different
Speaker 1: to seven different receivers had receptions against the Saints. And
Speaker 1: then you never know who in the backfield for the
Speaker 1: Jets is gonna have the hot hand. Well, the thing
Speaker 1: that makes it interesting is if you can predict who's
Speaker 1: gonna score, who has the hot hand, then that's who
Speaker 1: you should go with. But other than that, you just,
Speaker 1: you know, flip a coin. But you can't really flip
Speaker 1: a coin because there are three options, so you gotta
Speaker 1: pick a name out of a hat. But you talk
Speaker 1: about Petty completing different passages to different receivers. Someone I
Speaker 1: wanted to bring up is how about Joejoe Natson. And
Speaker 1: I know he got promoted from the practice squad to
Speaker 1: the active roster. He's been the team's primary returner since
Speaker 1: he's got wheels, okay, and we knew that coming in.
Speaker 1: And yesterday he had an end around and he had
Speaker 1: a nineteen yard reception got out of bounds. And that's
Speaker 1: someone that the past couple of weeks, John Morton has
Speaker 1: used not only as a decoy but as a threat.
Speaker 1: Also Robby Anderson is also closing in a thousand yards.
Speaker 1: Speaking about speaking of individual milestones Jets and Chargers on
Speaker 1: the other side of the ball and approving secondary will
Speaker 1: face Philip Rivers after taking on Drew Brees and finishing
Speaker 1: it up with Tom Brady. Doesn't get any easier. It
Speaker 1: doesn't get easier, And we talked about this throughout the
Speaker 1: past couple of weeks. But this is a tough test
Speaker 1: for the Chargers because they're in the thick of the
Speaker 1: playoff hunt. They need to win out the rest of
Speaker 1: the two thousand teams season and they're coming all the
Speaker 1: way from l A. So that's not an easy thing
Speaker 1: to do this late in the season and they're coming
Speaker 1: off a loss in Kansas City. How are they going
Speaker 1: to respond? Nick Hardwick said that the team looked like
Speaker 1: a young team in Kansas City. So I'm really curious
Speaker 1: to see how the Charges respond, especially when you think
Speaker 1: about how this Jets team has played at home and
Speaker 1: the Jets defense. We talked about if they have a
Speaker 1: tough test because you you handled Drew Brees in New Orleans,
Speaker 1: Chargers look a little bit bang Billy. Yeah, Rivers, how's uh,
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen. Keenan Allen is someone that's been often injured
Speaker 1: throughout his career, but when healthy, he's a top receiver
Speaker 1: in football unless year he showed it, and then the
Speaker 1: Jets have to keep movin Gordon and check because he's
Speaker 1: a guy who Anthony Lynn likes to give the football
Speaker 1: to Russian, but Philip Rivers also gonna be throwing the
Speaker 1: football to him as well. When I look at the
Speaker 1: Jets right now, um, people at home are saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: five and nine, seventh consecutive season without a playoff berth
Speaker 1: and and that is accurate. But what I'm seeing from
Speaker 1: the Jets defensively I really like because you have pillars
Speaker 1: at all three levels. I think about Leonard Williams up
Speaker 1: front along that defensive line. You're seeing Darren Lee continue
Speaker 1: to progress. The secondary has you very excited right now.
Speaker 1: Greens with Jamal Adams and Marcus May who are interchangeable,
Speaker 1: they can do a lot of things on the football field,
Speaker 1: and it means so much to them. I think the
Speaker 1: second the defense as a whole is coming into its
Speaker 1: own right now, and I'm gonna be very interested to
Speaker 1: see what they do this week. Against something at at
Speaker 1: times an explosive Chargers offense these last three weeks of
Speaker 1: the NFL season, when you look at it, the Jets
Speaker 1: defense has Drew Brees, Philip Rivers, and Tom Brady. And
Speaker 1: this is a very good test for this Jets defense,
Speaker 1: especially because of what you just said. The Jets have
Speaker 1: shown flashes and they're close in certain degrees. I love
Speaker 1: what you said. And when you said they have pillars
Speaker 1: at each layer of the defense, well how about this.
Speaker 1: And those guys aren't going away, and they're only gonna
Speaker 1: get better. Leonard Williams is only gonna get better, so
Speaker 1: is Darren Lee, and so are the safeties. The Saints
Speaker 1: were three of ten on third down yesterday, and I
Speaker 1: know Drew Brees and the Saints on the year were
Speaker 1: eighteen and third down percentage. But here's the thing is
Speaker 1: that that Saints offense is a beast. Okay, so the
Speaker 1: Jets had a good job. Simply puts Jets Chargers Holiday Special. Uh,
Speaker 1: Jets have a chance to move to five and three
Speaker 1: at MetLife Stadium this weekend. It's gonna be a fun
Speaker 1: one and I'm very interested to see how Bryce Petty
Speaker 1: performs into set. It started the two thousand and seventeen season.
Speaker 1: Top Boles made it clear today that he is the guy.
Speaker 1: The rested away for Ethan Greenberg thanks to Bryce Patty.
Speaker 1: We'll see you next week on Inside the Jet