Speaker 1: Hello and Love and to the e a Anthony Back
Speaker 1: and Bart Scott podcast. But there is a problem today, Anthony,
Speaker 1: there is no Bart Scott. Yeah, you know, he's uh,
Speaker 1: he seems to be very busy. He's got a lot
Speaker 1: of stuff going on. You you seem to think at
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Speaker 1: we could probably jump on here and grab him. But uh,
Speaker 1: he may need some beauty rest to you know, long days.
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Speaker 1: Throughout the year, we're gonna be talking about the Jets,
Speaker 1: the National Football League. We're gonna dive into some college
Speaker 1: football as well. I know Bart wants to talk about
Speaker 1: pop culture, so you're gonna be up on that. Well, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: I get something. I'm gonna have to look at some
Speaker 1: TikTok's and snapchats and stuff like that and figured it
Speaker 1: all out. Uh. First things first, it's midweek here at
Speaker 1: one Jets Drive. You're down at Tampa UM four Jets fans.
Speaker 1: The world is falling apart right now because of what
Speaker 1: happened in Week one. You used to be a player.
Speaker 1: You were in the locker room before. What's the temperature
Speaker 1: right now there? And how quickly do you have to Okay,
Speaker 1: it's one game, fellas, let's go. Yeah. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: from the fans perspective, and that's how we kind of
Speaker 1: look at it now. Me being a former player, you
Speaker 1: you know, you should be disappointing. You want you were excited.
Speaker 1: You know, every team that's out there had a crazy offseason.
Speaker 1: You know, they didn't have the full gamut of opportunities,
Speaker 1: and and and preseason and all that stuff. And then
Speaker 1: there were some teams that went out there and and
Speaker 1: had great weeks, right, and then there were some there
Speaker 1: were a lot that people were surprised about. You know,
Speaker 1: one thing about that is, as you say, yeah, but
Speaker 1: you gotta kind of you know, level out as far
Speaker 1: as what you think this team will be off of
Speaker 1: sixty five snaps, right, that that's not how it works
Speaker 1: in the league. I say this all the time when
Speaker 1: I talk about NFL games. Whatever you did the week
Speaker 1: before doesn't guarantee you anything the next week. And that's
Speaker 1: good and bad, right, So you always have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to improve. Now, when I look at the Jets and
Speaker 1: I watched their film, do I see ways that they
Speaker 1: can improve or could have been better in that football
Speaker 1: game where next week they can automatically just you know,
Speaker 1: put up more yards and do better thing. Absolutely? You know,
Speaker 1: catching football's right, is not a you know, end of
Speaker 1: the season situation that that gets better. Uh. You know,
Speaker 1: accuracy in the pocket, seeing things after one game when
Speaker 1: you didn't have any live action, that's fixable and that
Speaker 1: can be better the next week. I thought the offensive line,
Speaker 1: nice start for them. You know, it's a good start
Speaker 1: for the offensive line. Uh, can it be better? Absolutely
Speaker 1: that there's still cohesion and cohesive that it has to
Speaker 1: be bound together. That takes a couple of weeks. And
Speaker 1: that's everybody. Now. The the end result, you know, being
Speaker 1: down to twenty one nothing, all those things that happened
Speaker 1: in the game. That's not ideal, it's not it's not
Speaker 1: great for the the eyeballs, right, But I think what
Speaker 1: happens is from a player's perspective, is you're very critical
Speaker 1: of yourself on the film. I think the coaches should
Speaker 1: be very critical of the players on the field because
Speaker 1: you know, there were plays in the game that Adam
Speaker 1: Gates called that if they were ex secute it, they're
Speaker 1: good place right, and vice versa. I'm sure Adam wants
Speaker 1: to have some plays back that he could call differently.
Speaker 1: But that's how it works in the week the week process,
Speaker 1: I find things out. It's funny. I talked to him
Speaker 1: about that this week we're taping for his show, Adam
Speaker 1: Gay Show, which airs locally in New York m CBS. UH.
Speaker 1: He said the flow of a game can change just
Speaker 1: by a couple of plays because instead of back to
Speaker 1: back or three consecutive three and ounce you're on the
Speaker 1: field for additional three plays. And there are a couple
Speaker 1: of plays early in that game where Sam Donald's got
Speaker 1: Brishad Perriman open and he hits that ball nine times
Speaker 1: out of ten. And does that change the outcome of
Speaker 1: the game. I'm not saying that, but it changes the
Speaker 1: temperature of that game, the temple of that game early
Speaker 1: because the Bills just took off where the Jets canna
Speaker 1: get a stop early and the Bills just consecutive drives
Speaker 1: over and over in the ends on your down twenty
Speaker 1: one nothing, and then your game plan has to shift.
Speaker 1: You're right, And I think you know you're you are talking.
Speaker 1: You know, when you start a game, you have a
Speaker 1: certain script of plays in your mind. You know, I
Speaker 1: don't know if Adam has you know when we played,
Speaker 1: when I played, you know with Gruden, he'd have fifteen
Speaker 1: places scripted out and it wasn't in that order, but
Speaker 1: you wanted to get these fifteen in. Guys read it overnight.
Speaker 1: They knew it was to expect. But that changes, right
Speaker 1: like you said, uh, you know, you get down a
Speaker 1: couple of scores, or you have a couple of three
Speaker 1: owns or maybe the runs that you thought were gonna
Speaker 1: be really good versus that front don't pan out. So
Speaker 1: now what what's the alternative and can you figure it
Speaker 1: out quick enough before a crazy situation happens where oh man,
Speaker 1: all of a sudden you're down twenty one nothing. So,
Speaker 1: you know, I think it's overall too it's it's defense,
Speaker 1: get you know, getting off the field on third down,
Speaker 1: you know, not giving up drives. I mean, look, the
Speaker 1: Bills had a good game plan. It worked. Everybody comes
Speaker 1: in with a thought of a good game plan, but
Speaker 1: you have to execute it. And you know that the
Speaker 1: Jets have an opportunity to be better at that, and
Speaker 1: I think they can. You know, this is not the
Speaker 1: super Bowl team coming in next week that played the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl for We're not is a bit different when
Speaker 1: we get to that, but you can definitely get better
Speaker 1: on a lot of the things. There's a lot of
Speaker 1: improvement right for the for the Jets to happen that
Speaker 1: this week. Mike Dyson always used to say that it's
Speaker 1: great to have a game plan until somebody punches you
Speaker 1: in the face, no doubt, and then you got to
Speaker 1: adjust on the fly. And right now, the Jets took
Speaker 1: a punch in week one, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: But what were you most encouraged about. We saw Marcus
Speaker 1: may stat stuff for what ten tackles, two sacks, two
Speaker 1: past defenses of forced fumble. You mentioned the offensive line.
Speaker 1: Adam seemed very pleased with the play of that front overall,
Speaker 1: and rookie McKay Beckton is getting a lot of love
Speaker 1: out there in social media circles from people. People study
Speaker 1: the tape and watch the All twenty two. You're right,
Speaker 1: you know, Look, it was a good star for McKay.
Speaker 1: Went against a formidable opponent a few guys. You know,
Speaker 1: Jerry hughes good players on the edge. He had a
Speaker 1: really nice finishing pancake block to the second level you got.
Speaker 1: You love seeing those things, and we talked about this
Speaker 1: in our in the pregame. You know, this kid loves
Speaker 1: playing the position. He gets amped up to do it.
Speaker 1: You can see his passion on the field. Now, what
Speaker 1: are the things that normal high end rookies coming in
Speaker 1: plane left tackle? There aren't many right that that start
Speaker 1: day one. What are the things that they need to
Speaker 1: get better? Right? Well, McKay said it after the game.
Speaker 1: He said the speed of the game will Okay, we
Speaker 1: hear that from the quarterbacks perspective. We hear that from
Speaker 1: running backs and wide receivers. But what he's talking about is, Okay,
Speaker 1: when you know you got an outside defensive end and
Speaker 1: they come up the field, stick they foot in the
Speaker 1: ground and they immediately cross your face and then there's
Speaker 1: other some movement and there's other movement around you, you
Speaker 1: have to react better and that becomes something that you see, right,
Speaker 1: You kind of get that sense you your moved to
Speaker 1: a little quicker and you know if it's something from
Speaker 1: a standpoint of another player where it's across and a
Speaker 1: linebacker comes off the edge anticipation, So that's nothing to
Speaker 1: do with he's slow and he can't do it. What
Speaker 1: he's saying is, it's this man on Sunday's game day,
Speaker 1: which they haven't had. He hasn't had. It's it's old
Speaker 1: last man. You gotta go and be ready for it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you have taken a look at the San Francisco forty
Speaker 1: Niners obviously advanced the Super Bowl last year, disappointing an
Speaker 1: outcome for them at home where I thought they had
Speaker 1: opportunities to put maybe Arizona away early. I thought they
Speaker 1: did a better the play early in that game against
Speaker 1: the Cardinals, but Kyler Murray got it going on the ground.
Speaker 1: What do you see thirty thousand foot view as we
Speaker 1: look ahead to the forty Niners in this matchup. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mentioned that you don't look like the same team
Speaker 1: from the Super Bowl and uh not because they haven't
Speaker 1: got a lot of work together. I mean they're banged
Speaker 1: up number one. Uh they really don't have a legitimate
Speaker 1: one slash even two receiver on the field right now.
Speaker 1: Deebo Samuels is on I R he's out, Travis Benjamin
Speaker 1: uh Covid out, so he decided to opt out to
Speaker 1: the season. Uh so they're they're they're really utilizing some
Speaker 1: players there there. May yeah, he may be back, but
Speaker 1: I mean again, he's gampy, hasn't played an NFL game yet.
Speaker 1: And Kittle coming out of that game when I watched it,
Speaker 1: he got his a knee injury. He came back and played,
Speaker 1: but again, you know, how did that field during the week.
Speaker 1: So and Garoppolo did not look um as clean as
Speaker 1: maybe I've seen him in the past. And he doesn't
Speaker 1: get a lot of credit for what he does he's
Speaker 1: a game manager specifically because that's how their offense is run.
Speaker 1: That the key for their offense right now that they're utilizing,
Speaker 1: and I gotta think it will amp up even more
Speaker 1: is the backs. Tevin Coleman is a guy that's got great,
Speaker 1: great speed, elite speed. He gets the ball, you see
Speaker 1: it immediately. He's not messing around the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: He's trying to take every opportunity to get through and
Speaker 1: break a big one. And he has that potential. So
Speaker 1: gap sound defensive lineman is gonna be h huge in
Speaker 1: this game. Also, you know their run style. You think
Speaker 1: about the old Broncos right with Tarrell Terrell Davis, that
Speaker 1: outside zone, all the linemen going left and right in
Speaker 1: the back, you know, he kind of feels it, sticks
Speaker 1: his foot and goes either goes outside, he goes inside,
Speaker 1: or he cuts back. So discipline on the back side
Speaker 1: is gonna be well big as well. So you know,
Speaker 1: I think they're gonna lean heavy on a run game.
Speaker 1: Uh with his Jerick Jed excuse me, Mary McKinnon back
Speaker 1: and a Raheem Monster is another guy. He had a
Speaker 1: huge game so offensively, I think from a defensive perspective
Speaker 1: for the Jets, they should feel good about the opportunities.
Speaker 1: What they're gonna see on film, how they did it
Speaker 1: against Arizona, and what they're gonna be on So there's
Speaker 1: gonna be some things, and you know the game plan
Speaker 1: will be different. A lot more guys are dropping in
Speaker 1: coverage versus the Bills. I anticipate a little more aggression
Speaker 1: in this football game. You can get some more guys
Speaker 1: in the box. You've got three receivers that will be
Speaker 1: on the field for for the forty niners that had
Speaker 1: four catches total. So and those are those who considered
Speaker 1: their ones and twos and threes right now, So that's
Speaker 1: not good. So they're heavy run at running back, heavy
Speaker 1: tight end offense, defensive line. Now that for forty nine,
Speaker 1: that's a different ball game, right Osa Armstead d Ford
Speaker 1: is there. I mean, these guys are legit. You know,
Speaker 1: Kwan Alexander one of the best fastest linebackers in the NFL.
Speaker 1: So those core guys are good. But when you if
Speaker 1: you can get a little protection and hold them off,
Speaker 1: now you're talking about a second level. No, Richard Sherman,
Speaker 1: they got a bunch of cornerbacks that are injured their
Speaker 1: best cornerback. Excuse me there, Their best leading tackle in
Speaker 1: the game was a cornerback. Not a good formula for
Speaker 1: success for a defense. I think they're corner Uh Coleman
Speaker 1: was his name. He got fifteen tackles in the game
Speaker 1: at the cornerback position. So not a good deal. Either
Speaker 1: he's given up a lot of plays or he's got
Speaker 1: to be in support. So again, there's opportunities on the
Speaker 1: field for the for the Jets to have a positive
Speaker 1: game on both offensive defense. Jests. Jets historically hip and
Speaker 1: very good against the run. And I know Josh Allen
Speaker 1: did damage last week and I'm gonna talk about that
Speaker 1: in a little bit. But Jimmy Garoppolo, you don't have
Speaker 1: to worry about him running Uh some r p o s.
Speaker 1: That's that's not their deal. There. You mentioned that wide
Speaker 1: zone run scheme, and interesting part of that, like you mentioned,
Speaker 1: is everybody thinks that automatically means they running wide. No,
Speaker 1: they're moving wide and that running back has an option
Speaker 1: to cut it back inside and a lot of times
Speaker 1: they're cutting it right back up the middle. But um,
Speaker 1: like you said, for the Jets, I actually think this
Speaker 1: is a better opponent for them to maybe prepare for defensively,
Speaker 1: because Allen puts so much pressure on you because it
Speaker 1: becomes a numbers problem. Right. Yeah, you know his legs
Speaker 1: clearly last season in game one again reared its ugly
Speaker 1: head in Game two, Game two obviously Game one this year,
Speaker 1: um and us and he got into a really nice
Speaker 1: groove passing. I don't think anybody expected him to to
Speaker 1: throw the ball with the consistency and accuracy that he
Speaker 1: did in that football game. You you dropped, you know,
Speaker 1: eight guys because you feel like he's not gonna be
Speaker 1: able to read the zones and do good things against
Speaker 1: against your pest defense. But you know he was able
Speaker 1: to check down, do something short, open it up a
Speaker 1: little bit, and you know that that ultimately with the
Speaker 1: the ability to rout, move with his legs and run
Speaker 1: that that that you're right, that is a tough combination.
Speaker 1: And look, the Jets are gonna face teams that have
Speaker 1: those similar situations from a quarterback position. So it's good
Speaker 1: tape for them to learn from. But there you have
Speaker 1: to figure out how to stop that. It's a division opponent.
Speaker 1: You gotta get better at it. And again, even though
Speaker 1: Garoppolo isn't a guy that does those kind of things.
Speaker 1: When you got running backs that can cut back at
Speaker 1: any moment, every guy up front has to be in
Speaker 1: their gaps. So again, a lot of emphasis is going
Speaker 1: to be on the defensive line play and you're hitting
Speaker 1: the nail on the head Noble Hewitt and everybody's talked
Speaker 1: this week has stressed I dis a plan. I think
Speaker 1: I've heard it more lean up to this ball game
Speaker 1: that maybe all of last year, just because of the
Speaker 1: way San Francisco approaches this. Um. You know, Neville made
Speaker 1: a reference elephants on parade. Yeah, you don't hear that
Speaker 1: too often, but the forty Niners that they're gonna put
Speaker 1: some stress on you kittle real quickly on him. What
Speaker 1: do you do? What do you do defensively? Uh? Two?
Speaker 1: Negate or not negate him to contain him even though
Speaker 1: he's banged up. He's a unique player, Anthony, you played
Speaker 1: the position. This is a guy the last two years
Speaker 1: who said between eighty and ninety catches over a thousand
Speaker 1: yards receiving intent total touchdowns, and he's a great run blocker.
Speaker 1: So what do you do against Kim? Well, you get
Speaker 1: you don't let him beat you in the past game.
Speaker 1: He is really really fast up into his routes on
Speaker 1: the football field. He can get across the field better
Speaker 1: than anybody. And what he does in his pass routes
Speaker 1: with the speed is he has unique technique, unique technique,
Speaker 1: so again understanding leverage breaking points. He has a great
Speaker 1: mix of that. Usually you have tight ends that have
Speaker 1: good speed and they run and they just kind of
Speaker 1: run by guys, and you have like a Witten who's
Speaker 1: not very fast, but he just understands how to find
Speaker 1: windows and runoff guys, so he always has space. He's
Speaker 1: a combination guy, so to me, and we talked about
Speaker 1: such a weak receiving corps for the forty nins, you
Speaker 1: got to bracket him. Always have two eyes on this guy,
Speaker 1: all right. That that's kind of the plan going into
Speaker 1: the football game. And don't let him beat you. And
Speaker 1: then put the pressure on your corners or somebody else,
Speaker 1: whether it's one on one coverage to defend everybody else.
Speaker 1: You know, let um, you know, Pettis the receiver beat you.
Speaker 1: Let these guys go out, Trent Taylor, let these guys
Speaker 1: be the guys, make force them to be good. After
Speaker 1: coming off the game with only four total catches between
Speaker 1: the three ride receivers. So that that's kind know what
Speaker 1: I would do. Okay, that's and you know, Greg Williams
Speaker 1: isn't isn't dumb. He sees this. He knows who were
Speaker 1: the guys you gotta take away their their top guys.
Speaker 1: But the problem is this, the backs out of the
Speaker 1: backfield negate a little bit of those bracket things you
Speaker 1: can do with linebackers because you gotta have eyes on backs,
Speaker 1: and uh, one route that you know I want Jets
Speaker 1: fans to be alert on is the back out of
Speaker 1: the backfield. So they'll start on the backfield on the
Speaker 1: quarterback he runs out on an angle and then he
Speaker 1: comes back in. Well that was heavily Yeah, that was
Speaker 1: heavily thrown the game. But the issue is if the
Speaker 1: backer now sits on that, he has another he has
Speaker 1: an option he can go in or he can take
Speaker 1: it up the scene. So it's a difficult route to defend,
Speaker 1: especially now when you're talking about you've got tight ends
Speaker 1: and stuff like that that are really good. So, uh,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a lot of stress on the linebackers
Speaker 1: when you have backs and tight ends that can do
Speaker 1: those kind of things. I mean, it's it takes unique
Speaker 1: work during the week, which you don't have a lot
Speaker 1: of at a high, high tempo rate. And of course
Speaker 1: film study, which is only one but again, these are
Speaker 1: things that are on tape in the past. So just
Speaker 1: here and you talk right now. I'm wondering if the
Speaker 1: Jets want to employ maybe some three safety looks this
Speaker 1: week because Ashton Davis is a very good athlete, and
Speaker 1: you would I would think he's one of the faster
Speaker 1: players on the Jets defense. Again, this is so early
Speaker 1: in his career. And the other point of this is
Speaker 1: you got Brandley McDougald, but Marcus May was so effective
Speaker 1: in the box, but he is also a rangeing guy
Speaker 1: who can cover. So how do you use your safeties
Speaker 1: this week? Yeah, you're right. You know, Marcus was kind
Speaker 1: of all over the field, multiple positions, attacking positions, which
Speaker 1: were good. You know, we need that, and he showed
Speaker 1: out big. I mean, I think we talked about he
Speaker 1: would have been an FC player, the defensive player of
Speaker 1: the week if the Jets have won that game. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, it's it's interesting. You know, you want to
Speaker 1: be aggressive because you're right, Garoppo is not a guy
Speaker 1: that has a lot of movement. He's got good awareness though,
Speaker 1: he's got good internal clock in the pocket, so he's
Speaker 1: good at at and but you know, when you have
Speaker 1: the backs and the quick things that they're able to
Speaker 1: hit and get out of the hand quickly, then you're like, okay,
Speaker 1: well you don't want to get caught in space with
Speaker 1: the back and the linebacker. So it is a chess game,
Speaker 1: right that. That's that's what it is. You know, Greg
Speaker 1: Williams is that that he's a great chess player. And
Speaker 1: this will be good because Kyle Shanahan, like I've known
Speaker 1: Kyle for a long time, Kyle from when he was
Speaker 1: a ball boy with his dad and Denver, when he's
Speaker 1: pouring coffee and drawing cards with me and Tampa. This
Speaker 1: guy's elevated quickly. But he understands matchups. He's very good
Speaker 1: at that, and that's something that he's going to try
Speaker 1: to utilize. Even though he's he's he's undermanned offensively as
Speaker 1: far as firepower. He's gonna find where he can get
Speaker 1: those little matchups and take advantage of him. You all
Speaker 1: have to watch Pregame Central for more analysis from Anthony
Speaker 1: packed about Jets forty nine ers that it's eleven thirty Sunday.
Speaker 1: Lastly on this game, before we start talking a little
Speaker 1: bit more about the entire division. Do they move the
Speaker 1: guys up front when they moved both an, when they
Speaker 1: move Armstead around, when they move forward around? Because in
Speaker 1: particular I'm thinking about Beck, then who is he mostly
Speaker 1: going to be matched up with this week? It's gonna
Speaker 1: probably Bosa, Yeah, you know. Look and and then here's
Speaker 1: the difficulty. Okay, when you watch the game, they have
Speaker 1: wide nines all day long, So that means that the
Speaker 1: the defensive ends will be about a full body and
Speaker 1: a half outside the tackle, and then they'll be angled,
Speaker 1: so feet will be kind of cocked out, hand helmet
Speaker 1: shooting towards the quarterback, and they'll be in low stances.
Speaker 1: So him and Armstead will be coming off that edge hard.
Speaker 1: So what it gives them it gives the im ability
Speaker 1: to get some some momentum forward. And then if they're
Speaker 1: really good and they have multiple pass rush kind of moves,
Speaker 1: then now now you're like, okay, you can get the
Speaker 1: tackle on an islands, how can I beat them? And
Speaker 1: that's kind of what they did against Arizona. Now Humphries
Speaker 1: DJ Humphreys are tackle did a decent job, but look
Speaker 1: at he took his his bumps and he's been in
Speaker 1: the league for a couple of years and he's a
Speaker 1: highly paid guy. The Boast on one on one with
Speaker 1: any tackle the league is a tough deal. So how
Speaker 1: do you counter that? You know, what do you do?
Speaker 1: You do you have a back okay, do you have
Speaker 1: a back chip? Do you have the tight end kind
Speaker 1: of you know, get in space? You know you normally
Speaker 1: sometimes you don't have to even touch the guy, being
Speaker 1: at he's a wide nine. If you just have the
Speaker 1: tight end standing there and just being in the spot,
Speaker 1: and he can make him hesitate for a second, even
Speaker 1: if he doesn't touch him, that maybe give that gives
Speaker 1: the tackle enough time as well to kind of get
Speaker 1: locked in and shut him down a little bit. Of course,
Speaker 1: the extra tenth of five tenths of a second the
Speaker 1: quarterback needs. So he'll be challenged this week. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, he's there's a ton of film. It's not
Speaker 1: like he's gotta go back fifteen games to figure out
Speaker 1: how he does his stuff. You know, Boast is aggressive,
Speaker 1: He's got a quick inside move and he's got a
Speaker 1: motor that doesn't quit. The guy does not stop. It's
Speaker 1: a unique deal because usually guys that are premier pass rushers,
Speaker 1: they take off some snaps right there. Just not this guy.
Speaker 1: Dude had heavy run, he goes heavy pass. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be an all day challenge. I'm looking forward to. Man,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be good. Might as well do it early.
Speaker 1: Do it early to be fun. Because he goes against
Speaker 1: Jerry Hughes last week, and Hughes still a very effective
Speaker 1: player at thirty two years old. Now you're facing a
Speaker 1: guy in Bossa who had nine sacks, is a rookie
Speaker 1: and he can bring it off the edge. And you know,
Speaker 1: the spotlights on Frank Gore this week. But we'll talk
Speaker 1: about that in a pregame central. Uh. Let's let's continue,
Speaker 1: uh talking about quarterbacks now in the fc S. What
Speaker 1: do you think about Cam Newton? What you saw out
Speaker 1: of him first appearance of the New England Patriots. They
Speaker 1: take down the Miami Dolphins. A much different offensive attack
Speaker 1: with Newton at the controls because a lot of called
Speaker 1: runs for the new quarterback. Yeah, I mean, well, you know,
Speaker 1: look at what Josh Allen very similar, but you know better, right,
Speaker 1: they utilize them even more. Um. Look, it's tough to
Speaker 1: defend that. You know, they had two hundred fifteen or
Speaker 1: sixteen yards rushing overall between backs and quarterback. The one
Speaker 1: thing that I did see as Cam Newton took a
Speaker 1: lot of shots. And that's one thing that you know,
Speaker 1: if if if you're looking from the outside in, you're
Speaker 1: worrying about that. Okay, yeah, it looks good. It's it's
Speaker 1: great when you get those yards and it's it's it
Speaker 1: puts defense in a in a stream. But man, you
Speaker 1: know you're one hit away from a guy, you know,
Speaker 1: you know, cracking a rib or you know, five brews.
Speaker 1: I mean, he's not a little dude, he's not squirty.
Speaker 1: I mean you watch a guy like Kyler Murray this
Speaker 1: weekend rush for ninety five yards. Nobody even touched the guy, right,
Speaker 1: He's he's so quick and elusive and he gets out
Speaker 1: of bounds. It's just hard to get shots. Cam is like, okay,
Speaker 1: he saw him run into the end zone. He's not
Speaker 1: as like, you know, nimble, and he dives in and
Speaker 1: two guys just railroad them outside of the out of bounds.
Speaker 1: I mean, so uh, you know, those things will add
Speaker 1: up over time, and I think that's where the problems
Speaker 1: will start happening. Okay, like you know through the week
Speaker 1: when he's banged up, like, how okay, we gotta pull
Speaker 1: back a little bit on this, or they just say,
Speaker 1: you know, we're just gonna ride it out and just
Speaker 1: see how it goes. Who knows what with with Belichick
Speaker 1: and those guys think. But I think from from a
Speaker 1: from a standpoint of the long chevy of his of
Speaker 1: the season, I can't imagine that's gonna be a game
Speaker 1: plan that's gonna work weekend and we got so how
Speaker 1: does what's the counter? Right? The passing game is okay,
Speaker 1: but it wasn't great, So they're gonna have their issues
Speaker 1: as the season goes on. I don't think they can
Speaker 1: maintain but early on, I mean, listen, that's it's tough
Speaker 1: to defend that Patriots, great organization, elite coaching staff. The
Speaker 1: roster took some hits in offseason, especially on the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball, and they look a lot differently offensively.
Speaker 1: They're always going to be competitive, are they still? With
Speaker 1: Newton the team to beat in the division. They've won
Speaker 1: seventeen in the last nineteen AFC East Championships. Um, where
Speaker 1: do you land with them now? And it's more than
Speaker 1: just Cam, but you know, I'm just looking at the
Speaker 1: landscape from the quarterback position and how different this team
Speaker 1: is now. Well, they're gonna learn and understand the attributes
Speaker 1: that can bring to the table. Um. You know, Cam
Speaker 1: obviously is gonna have a chip on his shoulder this year,
Speaker 1: Uh to to do some thing great. You know, Listen,
Speaker 1: you gotta give the Patriots the benefit of the doubt
Speaker 1: because regardless of the guys that opted out on defense
Speaker 1: or this or that, they're well coached, well disciplined, and
Speaker 1: really that takes and Trump's a lot of talent sometimes
Speaker 1: we've always seen in the last couple of years, they
Speaker 1: have a lot of talent at certain positions, but they
Speaker 1: still find ways to win well. Their discipline, they understand
Speaker 1: their technique, they're in the right spots, and that's that's
Speaker 1: put on a high demand, you know, across the league.
Speaker 1: It's not like that everywhere, It really isn't. It's that
Speaker 1: that's the difference between what they've been able to do
Speaker 1: for the last twenty years compared to what teams are
Speaker 1: have aspirations to do because you know influx of different players,
Speaker 1: you know free agency, you know high end players that
Speaker 1: kind of do it their way. That the guys that
Speaker 1: are on that roster do it their way, that the
Speaker 1: coaching staff's way, and that's how they teach it. So
Speaker 1: when you see them on Sundays, it gives them a
Speaker 1: better chance to win football games or at least keeps
Speaker 1: them innute because of that, And that's the reason why
Speaker 1: you lean on that for them to be the favorite.
Speaker 1: So where are you on Josh Allen? Polarizing figure. There's
Speaker 1: a lot of people can't stand him, don't think he's
Speaker 1: ever gonna be accurate enough. There are other people think that, hey,
Speaker 1: this is a guy who's continued to get better from
Speaker 1: year one to year two, when he started year three
Speaker 1: with a very good game that first time in his
Speaker 1: NFL career where he passed for more than three hundred yards.
Speaker 1: A great athlete. Uh, I don't know how you want
Speaker 1: to describe him, Anthony. Some people would say, this is
Speaker 1: a fantastic athlete who plays quarterback, but you know, is
Speaker 1: the game changing whereas maybe Josh Allen didn't work at
Speaker 1: ten fifteen years ago, but his style is right for
Speaker 1: the NFL right now, Yeah, again, you know, it's it's
Speaker 1: that kind of happy medium. How do you want to
Speaker 1: utilize him? Yeah, he ran the ball quite a bit.
Speaker 1: I don't I don't recall him taking too many shots,
Speaker 1: but he did on the fumble early on the game,
Speaker 1: he almost got flipped over. I mean, listen, those those
Speaker 1: things are dangerous. I mean it's always surprising, you know.
Speaker 1: I remember when h Jon Gruden was on the Fired
Speaker 1: Coaches Association in Tampa. I used to go to a
Speaker 1: office and we used to watch film and that year
Speaker 1: r G three was a quarterback that was doing a
Speaker 1: lot of this stuff for for Washington and he made
Speaker 1: a cut up. I think it was like halfway through
Speaker 1: the season. He made a cut up of r G
Speaker 1: three And this is the year they went to the playoffs. Uh.
Speaker 1: He had like a hundred and seventeen hits and he
Speaker 1: put them all in one film and it's like man like, dude,
Speaker 1: he and he showed me these He's like, how does
Speaker 1: your quarterback sustained this for the air And obviously what
Speaker 1: happened he didn't. He got hurt. Uh. So it's it's
Speaker 1: just amazing to me. Again, it is the ultimate extra
Speaker 1: guy if your quarterback and do it. But man, there's
Speaker 1: there's it's it's like high risk, high reward with that.
Speaker 1: So uh now the passing side of it, Yeah, that
Speaker 1: was a little bit of surprise. Now did he throw
Speaker 1: anything deep down the field? Things? You know, where he
Speaker 1: needed to make a big play? You there's a lot
Speaker 1: of it was in within ten yards. I'd say I
Speaker 1: didn't see anything crazy. I mean, look, perfect example of
Speaker 1: what Josh Allen is sometimes is that that goal line
Speaker 1: situation when he rolled out to the left and the
Speaker 1: guy I think it was Brown, was wide open and
Speaker 1: he threw with fifteen feet over his head. So you know,
Speaker 1: does he still have a little bit of that in him? Yes?
Speaker 1: Do you hope you pick a day when you're playing
Speaker 1: him that he does that, of course, but that that's
Speaker 1: still there. The biggest thing I think for the Bills
Speaker 1: that they tell him every week, probably in the meeting room,
Speaker 1: is look, just just don't don't turn the ball over,
Speaker 1: and if it's not there, just just get rid of it.
Speaker 1: I Mean, they have a good defense, they can sustain,
Speaker 1: they want, they want to be in the game in
Speaker 1: the fourth quarter and then roll the roll the dice
Speaker 1: and That's what I think. There's continuing to ask him
Speaker 1: along with trying to grow him through the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he looks like a Sunday player to me. And now
Speaker 1: that's a small sample size that first game against the
Speaker 1: New York Jets, but his accuracy, the way he's scanning
Speaker 1: the field, Um, the athletics has always been there, right,
Speaker 1: So he's gonna be one to watch. He's matching up
Speaker 1: with the Miami Dolphins this week, and that's what I
Speaker 1: wanted to ask you about their quarterback situation. Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: Tough day at the office in Week one against the Patriots,
Speaker 1: but uh, interesting situation because it's a delicate balance there.
Speaker 1: Fitz played very well for the Dolphins last year, but
Speaker 1: you got to uh, and you know, at what point
Speaker 1: do you start thinking about possibly putting in your rookie
Speaker 1: rookie quarterback? Well, you know, I think from what we're hearing,
Speaker 1: and what I'm hearing is it's it's it's straight medical.
Speaker 1: So regardless of what Fitzpatrick does, Um, you know, if
Speaker 1: he's not ready to go medically, they're going to try
Speaker 1: to buy as much time as possible. Now are medically
Speaker 1: is he okay? And they're just trying to push it
Speaker 1: as much as they can, so if that moment comes
Speaker 1: that fits he just you know, has ten interceptions in
Speaker 1: first four games or something like that, and they say, okay,
Speaker 1: well he's ready medically, we're just buying time to get
Speaker 1: him more acclimated. We're gonna put him in. You know,
Speaker 1: he was dressed in the game. Um, you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know what their situation is. I don't know how
Speaker 1: to how to you know, you dictate what that injury
Speaker 1: will do. I think that's what what they keep in mind.
Speaker 1: And you know, is there gonna be a point where
Speaker 1: they feel like they need to play them, they will, Yeah, absolutely,
Speaker 1: because again Fitz he has those kind of games. It's
Speaker 1: not you're not gonna win ball again. They've also seen
Speaker 1: another side of fits where he can come out and
Speaker 1: throw for foreign receptions before touchdown. So if they can
Speaker 1: get them more of those early on, then they can
Speaker 1: delay the process. I mean, they want to win games.
Speaker 1: You know, there's no tanking, and we get that, but um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think they just would like to try
Speaker 1: to get through this season without playing him if possible,
Speaker 1: And I think that they're going to try to keep
Speaker 1: that as much as much are you. Are you surprised
Speaker 1: by some of the love out there for the Miami Dolphins.
Speaker 1: Peter King, Uh, tremendous reporter. You know we all read them,
Speaker 1: uh you know throughout the years for decades now. He
Speaker 1: actually picked the Miami Dolphins to win the an FC
Speaker 1: East this year. Yes, no, Look, Peter King has been
Speaker 1: reporting for a long time. He does a good thing.
Speaker 1: You know, there's a lot of good things, and he's
Speaker 1: got great sources, which is great. But I would say
Speaker 1: that that's they got a nucleus of players that's promising
Speaker 1: for sure. There's no doubt they've accumulated draft picks. They've
Speaker 1: gotten some guys. It takes time. I mean, you know
Speaker 1: two is not gonna come in and just wow you.
Speaker 1: I mean, look at Joe Barrow did a decent job
Speaker 1: but still just showed a lot of rookie uh inconsistency.
Speaker 1: So um, you know, the sky is bright for for
Speaker 1: those guys, there's no doubt. But I mean this year,
Speaker 1: I just don't see. Maybe he's looking at the division
Speaker 1: overall and thinks there's an opportunity there. They may not
Speaker 1: win a lot of games, but they can keep it close.
Speaker 1: But to me, I just not this season. Okay, so
Speaker 1: we're on during a week two right now, who is
Speaker 1: your pick to when they see East Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: coming out of just the first week of what I've seen,
Speaker 1: I'd say the Bills would be the leader in the clubhouse.
Speaker 1: Uh you know, yeah, I do know. The Patriots played well,
Speaker 1: but they won eleven against Miami at home, so it
Speaker 1: wasn't like they knocked the doors off these guys. So
Speaker 1: I would say that, you know, for me, Buffalo looked
Speaker 1: really good and uh, you know, they really haven't tipped
Speaker 1: the iceberg as far as utilizing some of their weapons,
Speaker 1: and know Cole Beasley really do anything in the game,
Speaker 1: didn't need to utilize him. He's gonna be a big
Speaker 1: gup factor for them on third downs. We'll see what
Speaker 1: he brings the table. And Diggs got warmed up, but
Speaker 1: they didn't try to take any shots with him. So again,
Speaker 1: I I foresee them that they can get better. Even
Speaker 1: though you know, we feel like because Josh Josh had
Speaker 1: a three D game, they may have maxed out. I
Speaker 1: don't think they did. So right now, they're they're the
Speaker 1: leaders in the clubhouse. Who are you rooting for? If
Speaker 1: you're a Jets fans Sunday night. Hopefully the Green and
Speaker 1: White secure the home opener against the Forts. But it's
Speaker 1: the New England Patriots versus the Seattle Seahawks. Obviously, the
Speaker 1: Jets made a big trade with the Seahawks in the offseason.
Speaker 1: Every time the Seahawks lose, that's a good thing for
Speaker 1: the Jets because they have their first round pick, not
Speaker 1: only one, but two. But you know, their record is
Speaker 1: going to be important come April for the Jets because
Speaker 1: that's the second first round pick they have. And you know,
Speaker 1: and Jets fans, we know what they think about New England.
Speaker 1: So what are you rooting for that? Well, let's I mean,
Speaker 1: let's let's be honest. Seattle is a good team. I mean,
Speaker 1: if we're rooting for Seattle to go four and twelve,
Speaker 1: you're forget about it. It's not happening. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: if you watch any of the Falcons uh Seahawks game
Speaker 1: this past weekend, you're like, man, like, these dudes are good. Like,
Speaker 1: you know, Russell Wilson's like the real deal and he
Speaker 1: continues to shine. Just put any quarterback in the league,
Speaker 1: maybe except my homes but on a lot of days
Speaker 1: I think he's just as good as bat Mahomes, just
Speaker 1: a different well. And then to go back, who am
Speaker 1: I rooting for? I'm rooting for Seattle. I mean, listen,
Speaker 1: we're playing this season. We need we need, we need
Speaker 1: to patch to lose games. I mean that that's just
Speaker 1: what it is. That the Jets want the Patriots to lose.
Speaker 1: I would want the Patriots the Patriots to lose as well.
Speaker 1: You'll figure out the draft pick and all that stuff, like,
Speaker 1: you know, the draft is is different. You can you
Speaker 1: you find guys and you do your homework regardless of
Speaker 1: where they're drafted. You know, you expect all your draft
Speaker 1: picks to be good regardless of where they are. So
Speaker 1: if a guy's draft that in the high second or
Speaker 1: low second, you know, you do your homework and get
Speaker 1: the right player that's gonna help you, You're gonna be fine.
Speaker 1: Whereas you know, look this season, man, it's it's about
Speaker 1: wins and losses. So I would say that Joe Douglas
Speaker 1: and company and then the rest of the staff, and
Speaker 1: even though they may have some animossy and they want
Speaker 1: to see a guy lou you know, louse, they want
Speaker 1: Seattle to win this game. Okay, fair enough, and I
Speaker 1: think Seattle is going to win that game because Russell
Speaker 1: wil said, I don't know what the Seattle's record was
Speaker 1: in one possession games last year, but it was ridiculous.
Speaker 1: And people, you know, they go up and down the
Speaker 1: roster and say, well, Seattle's roster so much more talented
Speaker 1: than a number of other rosters in National Football League.
Speaker 1: Well maybe the answer is no. But the quarterback is
Speaker 1: just on a different level than most players in this league,
Speaker 1: most quarterbacks in this league. And he doesn't make mistakes.
Speaker 1: He he doesn't make mistakes. He doesn't punch your team
Speaker 1: in a bad spot for in completions last week, you know,
Speaker 1: and he's continuing drives the defense not on the field
Speaker 1: long time. They don't have to worry about a lot.
Speaker 1: I mean that that's kind of the key. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know, he's you know quarterbacks that that cut down
Speaker 1: on their mistakes. Your team has a chance to win
Speaker 1: every week. That I don't care if you're Miami, it
Speaker 1: doesn't matter who you are. So that's that's key and instrumental.
Speaker 1: And then if he can play at a high level
Speaker 1: like he does, so he doesn't make mistakes, but yet
Speaker 1: he can still throw for three plus yards and four touchdowns.
Speaker 1: I mean, man, that's like it's hard to find. Man,
Speaker 1: you just don't get that. Who You got Buffalo going
Speaker 1: down to Miami, and we're taking a look at inside
Speaker 1: the division here, So let's let's finish it up with
Speaker 1: that matchup. Yeah. I like, Uh, I like Buffalo. I mean,
Speaker 1: you know Miami's you know, I think they're gonna be
Speaker 1: up and down all over the place this year, that
Speaker 1: you're not gonna get a good read on them. I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be a team that you know, could
Speaker 1: play well and then the next two weeks they be
Speaker 1: you know, they just vanished and then once in a
Speaker 1: while up and down. You know, Buffalo, I I I'm
Speaker 1: pretty confident. I think everybody sees what they have. You know,
Speaker 1: they're improving. You talked about Alan, you like you see
Speaker 1: him ascending. He definitely, you know, coming off his best
Speaker 1: game his career. You know, there'll be some confidence. You know,
Speaker 1: it doesn't guarantee them anything, but uh, you know, from
Speaker 1: a quarterback position, sometimes feeling good about yourself having that
Speaker 1: confidence rolling in the game too, that that can that
Speaker 1: can help you. Uh. Talk about this on the pregame show.
Speaker 1: But how does Adam get Sam Donald into a rhythm
Speaker 1: early this week? Are there plays where you can scheme
Speaker 1: things up whereas and maybe an easy completion or to
Speaker 1: get him on the move. What would you do just
Speaker 1: so that because Sam said it himself, listen, I gotta
Speaker 1: take a deep breath, you know, set myself in the
Speaker 1: pocket and you know, get comfortable out there. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: know he he looked a little antsy to me, just
Speaker 1: kind of like Bama. You know it just it's worse.
Speaker 1: And we talked about the pregame show. Where Sam's gonna
Speaker 1: make his biggest strides at the quarterback position and where
Speaker 1: the great ones make their strides is pre snap analysis
Speaker 1: right now. Pre snap analysis is great because you're envisioning
Speaker 1: what's gonna go on and where to go because where
Speaker 1: the defense dictates you to throw the football. But you
Speaker 1: also have a tap to trust and have the uh,
Speaker 1: the the cohesion with the with the receivers or the
Speaker 1: tight end whoever that is. You know, Breshad Perryman is
Speaker 1: a new receiver. Okay, he's he's he's gonna watch the film.
Speaker 1: He's gonna see things that Perriman did that were really
Speaker 1: good that maybe he missed and now when those plays
Speaker 1: come back around, he's gonna feel better about it if
Speaker 1: the defense that he gets dictates him getting the football.
Speaker 1: But you know, again, it's just it's it's having patients,
Speaker 1: but it's in a timely manner because you don't have
Speaker 1: a lot of time either, right, So again it's just
Speaker 1: processing information fast. Like the quarterbacks that can leave the
Speaker 1: huddle see things guys are getting lined up, and then
Speaker 1: in those four or five seconds, if that can process
Speaker 1: that information to give them the best chance to succeed,
Speaker 1: they'll have good games. So, uh, you know, Sam can
Speaker 1: bounce back, you can you can call slants and you
Speaker 1: can call hitches and those things are great. And if
Speaker 1: that's something that maybe you feel that quarterback needs and
Speaker 1: go with the conversation because that's what you saw. Then
Speaker 1: find it looked like it's a little bit of an
Speaker 1: accuracy thing for for Sam. So maybe he needed a
Speaker 1: couple of wrinkles Game one to kind of get his
Speaker 1: his kind of uh confidence going early in the football game. Now,
Speaker 1: can he not make those throws that he threw to
Speaker 1: start a football game? Absolutely not, that's not the case.
Speaker 1: It's just that Game one kind of that's just how
Speaker 1: it kind of played out for him. So and the
Speaker 1: run game can help, you know. Play action passes are
Speaker 1: easy passes to down the field, you know when when
Speaker 1: you get guys kind of you know, falling down going
Speaker 1: for the run fake because you're running the ball effectively. So, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a lot of things that they can do.
Speaker 1: I would expect Adam to try to get him in
Speaker 1: a groove early on in this football game. All right, listen,
Speaker 1: I want to get to college. But we're gonna have
Speaker 1: to do that next week when the mad backer Bart
Speaker 1: Scott joins us. I just want to get your thoughts
Speaker 1: as a former player, a guy who's covered both the
Speaker 1: National Football League and college for a while. Now, you
Speaker 1: watching the game, what's your sense of the environment on
Speaker 1: the field, do you think that has any impact on
Speaker 1: the players? And this this is is this all odd
Speaker 1: that you look and you see the cameras band throughout
Speaker 1: the stadium and there is absolutely nobody there. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: mean from from an audience perspective, I don't think there was.
Speaker 1: You couldn't tell. I mean, you know, they're pumping noise
Speaker 1: in um, you're hearing those things which which you know,
Speaker 1: you normally hear, so it's to me, it's the same
Speaker 1: from a player's perspective. You know, we talked about it. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, guys kind of emotionally get into games because
Speaker 1: of you know, when big players happen, they hear the crowd,
Speaker 1: they feed off the energy. You know, you don't you
Speaker 1: don't really have that. But on on the other end,
Speaker 1: guys aren't really like relying on the crowd to help
Speaker 1: them play better, right, So it's you know, there's some
Speaker 1: noise in the in the in the in the stadium
Speaker 1: that they hear, so there's there's an effect of it.
Speaker 1: But um, you know, like situational stuff just gets harder,
Speaker 1: like third downs, keith third downs, fourth goal line and
Speaker 1: stuff where you would have an advantage if you were
Speaker 1: home and say you were the defense defending the Bills
Speaker 1: at your place into the goal line. The Bills would
Speaker 1: wouldn't have a big deal trying to hear things and
Speaker 1: operate and operate where they would if if they were
Speaker 1: on the road and trying in those situations. So I
Speaker 1: think that's how it affects that the players is you know,
Speaker 1: even though it's not a big deal, you're not hearing
Speaker 1: that kind of stuff. It's super loud the other team does.
Speaker 1: So it's it's now they don't have that that you
Speaker 1: don't have the luxury on defense or offense, whatever that
Speaker 1: scenario is, that you can like, oh man, you know
Speaker 1: they may jump off size that. There's so many things
Speaker 1: that can go wrong for a team on the road. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know when there are in those critical situations because
Speaker 1: of the crowd, you're not gonna have that. So again,
Speaker 1: it puts more stress on defense. I would assume just
Speaker 1: from a numbers perspective, third down conversions in general, I
Speaker 1: don't know what they were. Somebody some stack I will
Speaker 1: probably come up with this, but they're probably a little better, right,
Speaker 1: a little better than than Week one last year. I
Speaker 1: would say nothing two of eleven last week. Who's that?
Speaker 1: I just think it's it's going to be odd Sunday
Speaker 1: Jets home opener. And you know this fan base, how
Speaker 1: pump they get, and they used to they typically we'd
Speaker 1: be out there at My Life, me and you, and
Speaker 1: we'd see thousands of people out there in the parking
Speaker 1: lot tail gaining things like that. So it's just odd
Speaker 1: having a home opener and knowing that your fans aren't
Speaker 1: going to be there. It's gonna be different. But listen,
Speaker 1: you got a game on your belt. These guys are
Speaker 1: all professionals, bless Austin told us the other day that,
Speaker 1: hey man, when I was on the field, I'm so
Speaker 1: locked in, I don't even know what the hell is
Speaker 1: happening elsewhere. So I gotta imagine that's the way it
Speaker 1: is for most professionals. But we're gonna miss the fans
Speaker 1: out there, no doubt about that, because that's one of
Speaker 1: the it's one of the top things of the year
Speaker 1: opening day, you know, and you celebrated that with the
Speaker 1: Green and White Faithful many times over the course of
Speaker 1: your playing career. Well more fans will watch Pregame Central
Speaker 1: with us right at eleven am when the games are
Speaker 1: at one, which is great. So we look to double
Speaker 1: or triple our viewership on those platforms, and and and
Speaker 1: and and again. It's it is tough. I mean, even
Speaker 1: from a fans perspective, people want to go to the games,
Speaker 1: they want to tailgate. They know this is like you know,
Speaker 1: think about you know, every when I go drive to
Speaker 1: the stadium every game and come over there, I mean
Speaker 1: I see the same RV the same kind of people.
Speaker 1: They're out there. This is part of their life, right
Speaker 1: that people look forward to this, uh, every single season,
Speaker 1: and it stinks for the fans. You're right, so it
Speaker 1: plays on both ends of it. But you know from
Speaker 1: a player's perspective, you can get past it from a
Speaker 1: fan and and from like everybody else or it's just
Speaker 1: well it's it's not man, no fans like it's empty,
Speaker 1: eighties thousand seats, stadiums empty. It's just it's it's mind boggling.
Speaker 1: Pre game Central airs at eleven. You're gonna be here
Speaker 1: and a lot more from this guy, Anthony back to
Speaker 1: Eric Coleman is going to join me here at once
Speaker 1: Jets Drive. Our linebacker was absent today, but the mad
Speaker 1: backer is going to join us next week. Right now,
Speaker 1: our podcast has the name of E. A. A B.
Speaker 1: Embarked Scott Landing Gear Podcast. But if people want to
Speaker 1: change that, send in some suggestions. Yeah, because right now
Speaker 1: we are an open book. Uh fifteen seconds you're down
Speaker 1: there in Tampa. Tom Brady's opener was what fifteen seconds? Okay, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: it'll be it'll be better. It'll be better. They'll get better.
Speaker 1: They need some time. The man, the guy has been
Speaker 1: in the same system for twenty years, same players, same operation.
Speaker 1: It's different now. I mean, hecky, he's never been called
Speaker 1: out by a coach, and a coach called him out,
Speaker 1: and what he shouldn't have called him out because it
Speaker 1: wasn't his fault. So he's dealing with those things and
Speaker 1: that's new. So uh, they'll bounce back. But man, you
Speaker 1: h tough loss for them. Well, great start on the
Speaker 1: pod today. We'll see you next week right here, but
Speaker 1: pregame Central eleven am Sunday. Thanks. One thing I can
Speaker 1: say is I probably won't speak as much with Bart
Speaker 1: coming on the broadcast, So this is about the magnitude
Speaker 1: of what I'll be saying. It would be our first episode. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you've got you've got your worries and if I have
Speaker 1: a good one, brother,