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Speaker 1: Well over to the Official Jets Podcast. We are presented

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Speaker 1: by Winn bat Battan is a team sport, but together

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Speaker 1: went Bat. Eric Allen here inside the studio will be

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Speaker 1: joined momentarily by the mad Backer Bart Scott. But first

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Speaker 1: thanks to Elijah Vera Tucker for coming upstairs here on Monday.

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Speaker 1: How would you describe the first three weeks of the

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Speaker 1: would describe it as, um, you know, just learning how

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Speaker 1: to deal with adversity. Um, you know, obviously we want

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Speaker 1: to be three and all right now, but that's how

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Speaker 1: we're at. So it was a good win last weekend

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Speaker 1: and out of Cleveland in the hostile environment. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: we gotta find ways to win at home now and

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Speaker 1: get the job done. And all we could do is

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Speaker 1: just build off of these last three weeks. See we

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Speaker 1: need improve on and moving from there. And then me

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Speaker 1: personally pretty much the same thing. Um, you know this,

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Speaker 1: there's some good and bad things. I know what I

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Speaker 1: what we need to improve on. So it's pretty much

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Speaker 1: moving on and getting the job done as professionals. How

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Speaker 1: about the transition over to right guard. You made it

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Speaker 1: look pretty easy. Yeah, it's definitely different. Uh, you know,

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Speaker 1: playing playing left guard and would be on the left

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Speaker 1: But I mean I said that, you know, I've enjoyed it. Um.

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Speaker 1: You know, like I've always said, where I'm at, whatever

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Speaker 1: But I'm feeling comfortable with that right guard. You know,

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Speaker 1: we got like what four team more games love, So yeah,

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Speaker 1: it guts heard on. How do you think Max Mitchell

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Speaker 1: has handled everything? I mean, you guys have been playing

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Speaker 1: everybody at tackle here since the summer, and the continuity

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Speaker 1: is something that you guys are all striving for up front.

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Speaker 1: But he was forcing that lineup in week one. Uh.

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Speaker 1: From my eyes, he's fair pretty well. What do you

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Speaker 1: think about having fourth round pick out the Louisiana Yeah,

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Speaker 1: that's that's a money mitch Man. Uh. Now, he's definitely

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Speaker 1: held his his own. Um. You know, I feel like

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Speaker 1: especially with the past you know, a couple of weeks. Um,

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Speaker 1: And like I said, he's handled his own, especially just

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Speaker 1: he's been doing this thing man in the run game

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Speaker 1: and in the past two so only up from here.

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Speaker 1: You know, let me ask you about Pro Football Focus,

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Speaker 1: how much did pay attention to those grades, because right now,

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Speaker 1: for three weeks a VT the number one ranked run

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Speaker 1: pretty cool to see. Um. Me personally, I don't. I don't.

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Speaker 1: I'll never look at that. You know, I'll have family

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Speaker 1: you know, it's just motivation for me really to keep

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Speaker 1: prove one and things like that. Overall, I don't really

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Speaker 1: think it's more important as you know what you see

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Speaker 1: then also you know, what's your coaches c two. Um,

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Speaker 1: so yeah, you're your own harshest critic. And we talked

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Speaker 1: you think that's coming along. Yeah. Overall, man, I really

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Speaker 1: look him in the eye, you know, always be respectful

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Speaker 1: to others. Um. I mean, it's just a lot of

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Speaker 1: things I could go you know through, you know, talk

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Speaker 1: about what they did to raise me to be the

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Speaker 1: man I am today. But I really am grateful all

428
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Speaker 1: for my parents and like all my family as well too.

429
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Speaker 1: But how cool is that in terms of them being

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Speaker 1: firefighters and putting themselves out on the line for other people,

431
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Speaker 1: And how much does that help, like in your professional setting.

432
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Speaker 1: I'm not saying you're a firefighter, but as far as

433
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Speaker 1: that teamwork mentality of understanding the importance and also self sacrifice, yeah, no, yeah,

434
00:22:07,040 --> 00:22:09,679
Speaker 1: it's crazy because, um, I mean it's pretty similar in

435
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Speaker 1: a lot of ways. You know if you think about it.

436
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Speaker 1: You know, when they go into a fire, they were

437
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Speaker 1: relying on, you know about how whatever it is, five

438
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Speaker 1: or ten other other people in there with them to

439
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Speaker 1: take care of them and make sure they're doing the

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Speaker 1: little things right. And it kind of translates a football

441
00:22:25,000 --> 00:22:27,200
Speaker 1: as well. You know, for football as a team sport,

442
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Speaker 1: if one guy you know, out of loving isn't doing

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Speaker 1: his job, then you know something bad could happen, you know, um,

444
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Speaker 1: or something might not go your way. So I feel

445
00:22:39,440 --> 00:22:42,040
Speaker 1: like that's uh, you know, there's similar in that way too.

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Speaker 1: And then I feel like when you go into a

447
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Speaker 1: firehouse of fire station too, you know, they're all really

448
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Speaker 1: close and tight with each other because they spend all

449
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Speaker 1: day with each other, kind of like you know, a

450
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Speaker 1: football team in the league. You know, they're always with

451
00:22:53,000 --> 00:22:56,080
Speaker 1: each other, practice meetings, everything like that too, and they

452
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Speaker 1: all go through a lot with each other as well.

453
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Speaker 1: So some a lot of similarities in Uh, so let's

454
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Speaker 1: look ahead. If indeed Zach Wilson is back in the

455
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Speaker 1: lineup this week, what can you say about how hard

456
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Speaker 1: he worked in the off season after his rookie year

457
00:23:12,600 --> 00:23:17,040
Speaker 1: and also how excited are you being a teammate for

458
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Speaker 1: his next opportunity. Yeah, well answered the second question. So

459
00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:25,359
Speaker 1: I'm very excited to see you know, Zach Wilson this season.

460
00:23:25,960 --> 00:23:30,280
Speaker 1: That's my dog, um. And you know I've known, uh

461
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Speaker 1: or I know that he's been put into work, you know,

462
00:23:32,240 --> 00:23:36,399
Speaker 1: in the off season. You know we're talking everything like that. Um.

463
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Speaker 1: But you can see it too when he came into

464
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Speaker 1: training camp and even for an o t as. You know,

465
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Speaker 1: he's really starting to take on that leadership role and

466
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Speaker 1: the and he knew what he had to do, you know,

467
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Speaker 1: to approve from last year. So you know, whenever he

468
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Speaker 1: comes back, you know, make sure it comes back healthy

469
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Speaker 1: enough to play. Um. But I'm excited to see what

470
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Speaker 1: he does. Man, it's gonna be fun. You said, he's

471
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Speaker 1: your dog. Why is Wilson your dog? Why have you

472
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Speaker 1: guys always hit it off? And and what do you

473
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Speaker 1: appreciated by him? I mean, you know, I got drafted

474
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Speaker 1: with him, so you know, I feel like that automatically,

475
00:24:06,800 --> 00:24:09,080
Speaker 1: you know, made us pretty tight. Um. But you know

476
00:24:09,119 --> 00:24:11,680
Speaker 1: he's also a great dude off the field enough. If

477
00:24:11,720 --> 00:24:14,880
Speaker 1: you know him, you know he's pretty He's a pretty

478
00:24:14,960 --> 00:24:17,000
Speaker 1: humble guy. You know, doesn't like to talk a lot

479
00:24:17,040 --> 00:24:20,840
Speaker 1: about himself. UM. Always puts the team first, no matter what.

480
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Speaker 1: But yeah, I mean I'm just really excited to see

481
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Speaker 1: what he does this year because I know he's been

482
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Speaker 1: put in that work. Um, just like everybody else on

483
00:24:27,560 --> 00:24:30,760
Speaker 1: this team, he just hasn't had an opportunity to to

484
00:24:30,800 --> 00:24:33,480
Speaker 1: show it yet. So when he doesn't get the opportunity,

485
00:24:33,520 --> 00:24:35,600
Speaker 1: you know, we're all gonna be here for him. What

486
00:24:35,760 --> 00:24:39,520
Speaker 1: changes for you as alignment? Because no knock on Joel,

487
00:24:39,720 --> 00:24:43,760
Speaker 1: he has his strengths, but he's not as athletic or

488
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Speaker 1: a mobile as Wilson at this point in their careers.

489
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Speaker 1: With Tim back in there, what changes for you guys, Um,

490
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Speaker 1: I wouldn't say too much changes. I mean, at the

491
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Speaker 1: end of they you always want to clean pocket no

492
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Speaker 1: matter what. UM, So pretty much nothing changes. I mean

493
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Speaker 1: when you have a younger QB like Zach, you know,

494
00:25:03,359 --> 00:25:05,600
Speaker 1: a little bit more mobile. Um, you know he could

495
00:25:05,640 --> 00:25:08,440
Speaker 1: kind of get out of you know some tricky situations

496
00:25:08,800 --> 00:25:12,000
Speaker 1: a little easier than others. Um, So I feel like

497
00:25:12,000 --> 00:25:13,760
Speaker 1: that's that's pretty much the difference. But from an old

498
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Speaker 1: line standpoint, you know, the mindset doesn't change at all.

499
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Speaker 1: You know, keep the depth of pocket, you know it tackles,

500
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Speaker 1: take them out wide, and uh, keep the quarterback clean

501
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Speaker 1: a VT. I really appreciate it coming in here. Hey,

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Speaker 1: did you want to announce anything here as far as

503
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Speaker 1: personal news or no? Let me think I can't dig

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Speaker 1: it nothing right now. Um, but you know, if I

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Speaker 1: think it's something else, eat it out or something good. Deal. Man,

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Speaker 1: just got done talk into Elijah Vera Tucker as we

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Speaker 1: opened the podcast. A v t really downplay that move

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Speaker 1: from lafe left guard to right guard. How difficult is

525
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Speaker 1: that transition, even though he did play across the line

526
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Speaker 1: at USC. Well, let's tell you what you know. Great

527
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Speaker 1: players never complain and nailed the things that are difficult

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Speaker 1: to most. They make seamless and easy to do. I

529
00:27:03,000 --> 00:27:06,400
Speaker 1: think he's downplaying a little bit. He is a great player. Um,

530
00:27:06,480 --> 00:27:09,399
Speaker 1: he's a sending player, and I think he's shortly becoming

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Speaker 1: one of the best guards in the NFL. But it's

532
00:27:11,880 --> 00:27:14,360
Speaker 1: not easy to do whenever you're used to having one

533
00:27:14,440 --> 00:27:16,880
Speaker 1: leg up in, another leg back, and one arm down

534
00:27:16,920 --> 00:27:19,639
Speaker 1: another arm down, and also the chemistry of learning how

535
00:27:19,640 --> 00:27:21,840
Speaker 1: to play next to a new person right rather on

536
00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:23,680
Speaker 1: the other side of the center and you're on the

537
00:27:23,720 --> 00:27:26,840
Speaker 1: other side of a tackle. You know, everything has you know,

538
00:27:26,920 --> 00:27:29,679
Speaker 1: minor adjustments, and especially when you're talking about being on

539
00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:31,840
Speaker 1: the dominant side, when you talk about the tight end

540
00:27:31,920 --> 00:27:35,919
Speaker 1: is usually on the right hand side because most quarterbacks

541
00:27:35,920 --> 00:27:38,800
Speaker 1: are right handed. So now you're learning everything because that

542
00:27:38,840 --> 00:27:42,439
Speaker 1: controls the entire you know, scheme of how you're deciding

543
00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:45,640
Speaker 1: to block. You're not sliding you know, usually that way,

544
00:27:45,680 --> 00:27:48,000
Speaker 1: or you're sliding another way, and it makes a difference.

545
00:27:48,119 --> 00:27:50,000
Speaker 1: But he's done it, and he's done a tremendous job

546
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Speaker 1: of it. I think he's one of the very, very, um,

547
00:27:52,720 --> 00:27:56,000
Speaker 1: you know, one of the many bright spots that the

548
00:27:56,080 --> 00:27:58,680
Speaker 1: Jets half earlier in the season. And there's no doubt

549
00:27:59,240 --> 00:28:04,119
Speaker 1: about that. Yeah, what changes for him though, playing against

550
00:28:04,480 --> 00:28:08,400
Speaker 1: playing next to a fourth round pick who the Jets

551
00:28:08,680 --> 00:28:11,800
Speaker 1: took in the draft and Max Mitchell, who you're probably

552
00:28:11,840 --> 00:28:14,440
Speaker 1: thinking in April that, hey, this guy isn't gonna get

553
00:28:14,480 --> 00:28:17,200
Speaker 1: many snaps in year one, while in fact he started

554
00:28:17,240 --> 00:28:19,280
Speaker 1: the first three games. You go back to the Jets

555
00:28:19,280 --> 00:28:24,240
Speaker 1: tackle rotation, you go from Fanton training camp to right tackle.

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00:28:24,280 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: Who starts at right tackle? Uh, excuse me to go

557
00:28:28,560 --> 00:28:30,639
Speaker 1: back to the start of training camp where we're thinking

558
00:28:30,880 --> 00:28:34,520
Speaker 1: it's a left tackle competition, and then Beckton starts at

559
00:28:34,600 --> 00:28:38,200
Speaker 1: right tackle, then Fant moves to right tackle, Dwayne Brown

560
00:28:38,360 --> 00:28:41,440
Speaker 1: comes in, Phant moves back to left tackle, and then

561
00:28:41,520 --> 00:28:45,400
Speaker 1: finally Brown gets hurt and you got Max Mitchell right tackle.

562
00:28:45,800 --> 00:28:48,720
Speaker 1: But maybe that's enough, just trying to explain that, you know,

563
00:28:48,840 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: make your hand hurt so you can imagine how he felt.

564
00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:55,560
Speaker 1: Because everybody does something different. Everybody stands. Once person stands,

565
00:28:55,680 --> 00:28:58,080
Speaker 1: maybe a little bit wider. Somebody else may want to

566
00:28:58,120 --> 00:29:00,640
Speaker 1: get bigger splits. If you talk out being ever to

567
00:29:00,680 --> 00:29:03,720
Speaker 1: go stretch plays, you talk about you know, t G blocks.

568
00:29:04,040 --> 00:29:07,200
Speaker 1: You know, that's about having chemistry with everybody right and

569
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Speaker 1: talked about when in the center is pulling from the

570
00:29:09,200 --> 00:29:11,280
Speaker 1: from the from the right side. You know, it's a

571
00:29:11,280 --> 00:29:14,120
Speaker 1: lot of different variations, and you want to be able

572
00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:17,640
Speaker 1: to have conversations with the person you're playing next to

573
00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,000
Speaker 1: because you're hoping that they see the game and see

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00:29:20,040 --> 00:29:22,680
Speaker 1: the fronts the same way you see it. Well, everybody

575
00:29:22,720 --> 00:29:25,560
Speaker 1: sees and has different strengths and weaknesses, and you know,

576
00:29:25,640 --> 00:29:27,720
Speaker 1: he's had three different guys in there, and he's you

577
00:29:27,760 --> 00:29:29,560
Speaker 1: know now he has a young guy in which he's

578
00:29:29,640 --> 00:29:31,520
Speaker 1: used to being a young guy and used to you know,

579
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Speaker 1: maybe leaning on fat and getting some advice and being

580
00:29:35,000 --> 00:29:37,360
Speaker 1: able to be talked to. That he's doing all the

581
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Speaker 1: talk and as he's trying to explain and kind of say, hey,

582
00:29:40,280 --> 00:29:42,480
Speaker 1: look for this, watch out for that, and be a

583
00:29:42,520 --> 00:29:45,239
Speaker 1: coach on the field. That's a lot more responsibility than

584
00:29:45,280 --> 00:29:48,160
Speaker 1: he probably anticipated having before the start of the season.

585
00:29:49,000 --> 00:29:52,480
Speaker 1: Stops and starts offensively for the Jets, especially at these

586
00:29:52,520 --> 00:29:56,320
Speaker 1: home games. Just Greg's airline field goals covered the scoring

587
00:29:56,360 --> 00:29:59,160
Speaker 1: against the Baltimore Ravens and the Cincinnati Bengals. With that

588
00:29:59,200 --> 00:30:03,880
Speaker 1: being said, I think you should be encouraged about the

589
00:30:03,920 --> 00:30:06,160
Speaker 1: talent that's out there on the field. We go on

590
00:30:06,160 --> 00:30:09,440
Speaker 1: the backfield and we see Breece Haw and Michael Carter

591
00:30:09,600 --> 00:30:13,160
Speaker 1: and then Garrett Wilson continues to do his things. Elijah

592
00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:16,280
Speaker 1: Moore is here as well. Corey Davis made a big

593
00:30:16,280 --> 00:30:18,920
Speaker 1: catch over the middle. But just for the Jets right

594
00:30:18,960 --> 00:30:22,760
Speaker 1: now moving into Week four, or what do you have

595
00:30:22,960 --> 00:30:27,880
Speaker 1: to see from them offensively as we move ahead as

596
00:30:27,920 --> 00:30:31,560
Speaker 1: they're trying to get everybody going at the same time. Well,

597
00:30:31,560 --> 00:30:34,280
Speaker 1: I think one you know, when Garrett Wilson went out,

598
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Speaker 1: it really put a lot of pressure on Elijah More

599
00:30:37,640 --> 00:30:40,680
Speaker 1: because you know, he's not the tallest receiver, and we

600
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Speaker 1: we realized last year that him playing in a slot

601
00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:46,560
Speaker 1: is what's most beneficial to the team, and we have

602
00:30:46,640 --> 00:30:48,800
Speaker 1: to move him out to bring Braxton Burials to a

603
00:30:48,840 --> 00:30:51,959
Speaker 1: position that he's comfortable with. Now, you know, Elijah's out

604
00:30:52,000 --> 00:30:55,240
Speaker 1: of position, He's getting jump balls. He's not the biggest target.

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00:30:55,320 --> 00:30:57,080
Speaker 1: You want him coming across the middle. You want him

606
00:30:57,080 --> 00:30:59,600
Speaker 1: with the ball in his hands in space, not really

607
00:30:59,680 --> 00:31:03,000
Speaker 1: running go routes, you know. So you know, Garrett Wilson

608
00:31:03,000 --> 00:31:05,040
Speaker 1: showed a tremendous amount of toughness. I think you probably

609
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Speaker 1: earned even more respect from his teammates the fact that

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Speaker 1: he came back after taking a vicious hit to the ribs.

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00:31:10,920 --> 00:31:13,680
Speaker 1: Anybody that's ever had injured ribs know how difficult that is,

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Speaker 1: especially when you're talking about reaching over your head and

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Speaker 1: running and also continue to take shots on there, you know.

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00:31:19,600 --> 00:31:22,160
Speaker 1: But he continued to play, you know, well and hard.

615
00:31:22,480 --> 00:31:25,120
Speaker 1: But it also showed that, you know, he's a guy

616
00:31:25,160 --> 00:31:27,560
Speaker 1: that sets the table. You know, his separation and his

617
00:31:27,880 --> 00:31:30,920
Speaker 1: short area quickness, you know, forces defenses to have to

618
00:31:30,960 --> 00:31:33,840
Speaker 1: respect him, which opens everything up for other people. Now

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Speaker 1: you ask yourself, Okay, where could they get better at.

620
00:31:36,760 --> 00:31:39,240
Speaker 1: I think they can get better at and really started,

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Speaker 1: you know, because teams are blitzing them, or teams are

622
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Speaker 1: getting quick pressure, you know from the from the on

623
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Speaker 1: the tackles. Trey Henderson had it up a day, you know,

624
00:31:47,400 --> 00:31:49,680
Speaker 1: three sacks after not having any sacks during the year.

625
00:31:50,280 --> 00:31:52,760
Speaker 1: It's time to start screening these guys to slow him down,

626
00:31:53,040 --> 00:31:56,040
Speaker 1: you know, draws to slow him down, whams and wolves

627
00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:58,440
Speaker 1: type of place to slow him down because you know

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Speaker 1: teams are going especially when you know Jack Wilson gets

629
00:32:00,680 --> 00:32:02,560
Speaker 1: in and everyone to test, you know, to see if

630
00:32:02,560 --> 00:32:05,600
Speaker 1: that knee is healthy, especially going against Blitzburgh this week,

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Speaker 1: they're gonna come at him. They don't have the pure

632
00:32:08,720 --> 00:32:11,720
Speaker 1: press rushers that that the Bengals had. What they have

633
00:32:11,960 --> 00:32:14,880
Speaker 1: is ability to get pressure by blitzing and adding more

634
00:32:14,880 --> 00:32:17,160
Speaker 1: people than you can block and confuse the young quarterbacks.

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Speaker 1: So the quickest way is for everybody know that they're

636
00:32:19,360 --> 00:32:21,320
Speaker 1: the hot route, but also to throw a lot of

637
00:32:21,360 --> 00:32:24,880
Speaker 1: screens to really slow them down, much like Cleveland did

638
00:32:24,880 --> 00:32:28,360
Speaker 1: to the Jets of week two. If Wilson is indeed

639
00:32:28,360 --> 00:32:32,040
Speaker 1: the starter against the Pittsburgh Steelers, and we're waiting to

640
00:32:32,080 --> 00:32:35,080
Speaker 1: get the word as far as him being medically cleared.

641
00:32:35,440 --> 00:32:39,360
Speaker 1: What's your expectations for him? Because last year he suffered

642
00:32:39,440 --> 00:32:42,200
Speaker 1: or suffered the PCL sprain against the Patriots. He came

643
00:32:42,200 --> 00:32:45,560
Speaker 1: back in the season's back half. He played really wild

644
00:32:45,680 --> 00:32:49,280
Speaker 1: nine total touch John's two interceptions protected the football, but

645
00:32:49,320 --> 00:32:52,960
Speaker 1: there also is a danger there, I think inherently for

646
00:32:53,040 --> 00:32:55,200
Speaker 1: a young player to come back and try to make

647
00:32:55,280 --> 00:32:57,640
Speaker 1: up for lost time. Well, I hope that he saw

648
00:32:57,680 --> 00:33:00,640
Speaker 1: that the successor Joe Flacco had was putting that ball

649
00:33:00,800 --> 00:33:02,840
Speaker 1: in the hands of the playmakers and letting him do

650
00:33:02,880 --> 00:33:04,880
Speaker 1: the work and leaning in on the veterans in this team,

651
00:33:05,200 --> 00:33:06,680
Speaker 1: you know. So I hope that he will come back

652
00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:09,920
Speaker 1: and and be surgical with the ball, understand get his

653
00:33:09,960 --> 00:33:12,600
Speaker 1: pre snap reads, do the little things, you know, changed

654
00:33:13,160 --> 00:33:16,280
Speaker 1: the snap counts, being able to audoboid the line of scrimmage,

655
00:33:16,480 --> 00:33:19,560
Speaker 1: but also continue to have chemistry. It's crazy because Joe

656
00:33:19,560 --> 00:33:22,239
Speaker 1: Flaco had tremendous chemistry with Garrett Wilson, but we know

657
00:33:22,360 --> 00:33:26,440
Speaker 1: that Zach Wilson last year had tremendous chemistry with Elijah More.

658
00:33:26,760 --> 00:33:28,560
Speaker 1: So let's see if that continues and maybe he can

659
00:33:28,600 --> 00:33:31,560
Speaker 1: get Alijah More going a little bit, because now it's

660
00:33:31,640 --> 00:33:33,680
Speaker 1: to the point where I think people are really respecting

661
00:33:33,720 --> 00:33:35,720
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson and know that, you know, you have to

662
00:33:35,800 --> 00:33:39,080
Speaker 1: really put good players, you know, uh, you know, on

663
00:33:39,160 --> 00:33:42,160
Speaker 1: him or he's going to create separation and move the change.

664
00:33:42,440 --> 00:33:45,120
Speaker 1: So maybe that opens the other guys up. As you know,

665
00:33:45,160 --> 00:33:49,080
Speaker 1: Garrett Willson can be a bit of a decoy just

666
00:33:49,480 --> 00:33:52,720
Speaker 1: on paper. You look at the lineup the Jets head

667
00:33:53,080 --> 00:33:58,320
Speaker 1: in Week eighteen last year against the Buffalo Bills versus whatever.

668
00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:02,400
Speaker 1: The lineup with this, especially the skill positions, it's night

669
00:34:02,480 --> 00:34:05,959
Speaker 1: and day in terms of what they have talent wise,

670
00:34:06,320 --> 00:34:09,239
Speaker 1: in terms of explosive people who can do damage with

671
00:34:09,239 --> 00:34:11,759
Speaker 1: the ball in their hands. No, absolutely, you know, I

672
00:34:11,760 --> 00:34:14,239
Speaker 1: mean I think, you know, they've done a great job

673
00:34:14,280 --> 00:34:16,760
Speaker 1: of getting you know, people that are talented in different things,

674
00:34:17,400 --> 00:34:19,880
Speaker 1: um and and that can hurt teams and opponents in

675
00:34:19,920 --> 00:34:22,680
Speaker 1: different ways. Yeah. I love the one two punch of

676
00:34:22,680 --> 00:34:26,279
Speaker 1: of Carter and in the hall. But you know, we

677
00:34:26,360 --> 00:34:28,319
Speaker 1: gotta take the next step, right, We gotta figure out

678
00:34:28,320 --> 00:34:30,439
Speaker 1: ways how to score in the red zone. You gotta

679
00:34:30,440 --> 00:34:33,440
Speaker 1: figure out ways. You know, you know, Conkland had a

680
00:34:33,480 --> 00:34:36,680
Speaker 1: tremendous game, you know, eighty five yards receiving. You know,

681
00:34:36,880 --> 00:34:39,279
Speaker 1: everybody has to come to the party because teams are

682
00:34:39,280 --> 00:34:41,719
Speaker 1: gonna try and take you know, you know, the best

683
00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:44,399
Speaker 1: players away, and that's where their supplemental players are gonna

684
00:34:44,440 --> 00:34:46,319
Speaker 1: have to step up and say, hey, you better pay

685
00:34:46,320 --> 00:34:49,440
Speaker 1: attention to me too, because I can do damage. All right,

686
00:34:49,560 --> 00:34:51,880
Speaker 1: So let's flip the defensive side of the ball. Motion

687
00:34:51,920 --> 00:34:55,360
Speaker 1: is part of the game. You know that better than anybody. Uh,

688
00:34:55,480 --> 00:34:59,800
Speaker 1: from what you saw quinnin Williams Aaron Whitecotton talking on

689
00:34:59,880 --> 00:35:03,839
Speaker 1: the sidelines. Obviously a difference in opinion there. Uh, you'll

690
00:35:03,840 --> 00:35:06,279
Speaker 1: love to see the fire, but your thought process is

691
00:35:06,360 --> 00:35:10,080
Speaker 1: more schematically about Quinn. It's telling the coaching staff I

692
00:35:10,120 --> 00:35:14,000
Speaker 1: just want to rush for as opposed to sending numbers. Yeah,

693
00:35:14,080 --> 00:35:16,640
Speaker 1: because I mean, part of part of my pregame was

694
00:35:16,719 --> 00:35:18,719
Speaker 1: that you really don't want to do that against Joe

695
00:35:18,719 --> 00:35:21,640
Speaker 1: Burrow because he's he's made a living. You know, just

696
00:35:21,680 --> 00:35:25,080
Speaker 1: asked the Baltimore Ravens who he torches routinely. Who decides

697
00:35:25,120 --> 00:35:27,719
Speaker 1: to blitz some you know, really, this team was struggling,

698
00:35:28,080 --> 00:35:30,480
Speaker 1: really in a cover to shell. That's what they were

699
00:35:30,480 --> 00:35:33,160
Speaker 1: really struggling with. They talked about trying to figure out

700
00:35:33,239 --> 00:35:35,680
Speaker 1: how to how to solve that puzzle. And then when

701
00:35:35,719 --> 00:35:38,320
Speaker 1: you you give Joe Burrow the ability to have the

702
00:35:38,360 --> 00:35:40,840
Speaker 1: answers to the test once he senses that is some

703
00:35:40,920 --> 00:35:43,480
Speaker 1: type of blitzing you know going on, and you know

704
00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:45,600
Speaker 1: you want to try with you know, they have three

705
00:35:45,600 --> 00:35:48,279
Speaker 1: tremendous receivers. You know, mixing is good coming out of

706
00:35:48,320 --> 00:35:50,719
Speaker 1: the backfield and also hating hurts. You want, you know,

707
00:35:51,120 --> 00:35:53,399
Speaker 1: him to really hold onto the ball. I think at

708
00:35:53,440 --> 00:35:57,480
Speaker 1: times they were undisciplined on the edges and loss contained.

709
00:35:57,560 --> 00:35:59,279
Speaker 1: If they would have just stayed whatever was supposed to

710
00:35:59,280 --> 00:36:02,359
Speaker 1: stay and duck their heads in, you know, they would

711
00:36:02,360 --> 00:36:05,120
Speaker 1: have fell into a sack because that's where he ends up,

712
00:36:05,160 --> 00:36:09,720
Speaker 1: you know, escaping. How can the communication issues be fixed,

713
00:36:09,920 --> 00:36:13,680
Speaker 1: especially in the defensive backfield, Well, oddly enough, you know,

714
00:36:14,080 --> 00:36:16,520
Speaker 1: if it's you multiple times, then you have to take

715
00:36:16,760 --> 00:36:18,920
Speaker 1: a big look in the mirror. I mean, you know

716
00:36:19,120 --> 00:36:23,080
Speaker 1: you talk about pre snap communication alignment and assignment is

717
00:36:23,120 --> 00:36:25,640
Speaker 1: what you have to have and you can't have you know,

718
00:36:26,040 --> 00:36:28,360
Speaker 1: you know, people running around trying to act where you

719
00:36:28,520 --> 00:36:30,880
Speaker 1: go or line up in their own place. It seems

720
00:36:30,920 --> 00:36:33,319
Speaker 1: like everybody had it together. And you know, Sauce had

721
00:36:33,320 --> 00:36:36,799
Speaker 1: a communication inside noledge the Mark chase and because not

722
00:36:36,920 --> 00:36:41,799
Speaker 1: because of skill and talent, but because of execution. You know,

723
00:36:41,920 --> 00:36:44,279
Speaker 1: they get a walk in touchdown that was pivot when

724
00:36:44,280 --> 00:36:46,359
Speaker 1: you had an opportunity maybe to force them to kick

725
00:36:46,400 --> 00:36:51,239
Speaker 1: a field. Go with with that being said, you as

726
00:36:51,280 --> 00:36:54,360
Speaker 1: a player, what do you do when that happens? You

727
00:36:54,400 --> 00:36:58,040
Speaker 1: get back on Monday and your hammer at home because

728
00:36:58,040 --> 00:36:59,960
Speaker 1: this is week four and I know these guys don't

729
00:37:00,040 --> 00:37:02,319
Speaker 1: want this to happen, even though there are four new

730
00:37:02,360 --> 00:37:05,080
Speaker 1: starters and Jets aren't gonna sit there and say, hey, listen,

731
00:37:05,080 --> 00:37:08,440
Speaker 1: we're all doing the defensive backfield. Yeah listen, No that

732
00:37:08,480 --> 00:37:10,960
Speaker 1: nobody's gonna feel sorry for you. And the issue is,

733
00:37:11,000 --> 00:37:14,280
Speaker 1: you know that for the most part, it's it's veteran

734
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:16,839
Speaker 1: players and that's what you don't expect. And sometimes as

735
00:37:16,840 --> 00:37:19,800
Speaker 1: a veteran player, you can, you know, you can believe

736
00:37:19,880 --> 00:37:22,880
Speaker 1: that you know that you know and you and sometimes

737
00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,239
Speaker 1: you can get nonchalant and complacent because you feel like

738
00:37:25,239 --> 00:37:28,439
Speaker 1: you know where Sometimes young players you know, are all

739
00:37:28,480 --> 00:37:30,160
Speaker 1: in because it's new to them, so they have to

740
00:37:30,200 --> 00:37:32,680
Speaker 1: really lock in and hold in. You know, that's that

741
00:37:32,760 --> 00:37:35,200
Speaker 1: comes down to attention to detail. That comes down to

742
00:37:35,239 --> 00:37:38,320
Speaker 1: the weak of preparation. That comes down to really really

743
00:37:38,320 --> 00:37:41,600
Speaker 1: getting into your playbook and really learning it like the

744
00:37:41,600 --> 00:37:43,799
Speaker 1: back of your hand, so well that you can teach

745
00:37:43,840 --> 00:37:45,840
Speaker 1: it to others and so that you can help and

746
00:37:45,920 --> 00:37:48,920
Speaker 1: be a be a asset to everybody out there, because

747
00:37:49,080 --> 00:37:50,719
Speaker 1: if you don't know how to rear the line up

748
00:37:50,760 --> 00:37:53,120
Speaker 1: and people are trying to, then your eyes aren't right.

749
00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:55,320
Speaker 1: So then you know, the ball snap, you're trying to

750
00:37:55,320 --> 00:37:57,440
Speaker 1: figure out where you're going. You haven't looked at the formation,

751
00:37:57,719 --> 00:37:59,880
Speaker 1: you haven't got the pre snap intel that you're used to.

752
00:38:00,000 --> 00:38:03,520
Speaker 1: Inning in your step slow or you bust and you know,

753
00:38:03,840 --> 00:38:06,320
Speaker 1: unfortunately we've seen that a couple of times from the

754
00:38:06,440 --> 00:38:09,560
Speaker 1: secondary and giving up explosive place. Do you expect the

755
00:38:09,600 --> 00:38:12,520
Speaker 1: best version of what other? Whatever? The two thousand twenty

756
00:38:12,520 --> 00:38:16,640
Speaker 1: two Pittsburgh Steelers this week, considering they've had ten days

757
00:38:16,719 --> 00:38:21,000
Speaker 1: now to prepare for the Jets, I know, no, T J. Watt,

758
00:38:21,120 --> 00:38:24,040
Speaker 1: who you can make the argument he's the best defensive

759
00:38:24,040 --> 00:38:26,040
Speaker 1: player in football. You can make the argument that he's

760
00:38:26,040 --> 00:38:28,759
Speaker 1: the best player in football. Yeah, I mean you talk

761
00:38:28,800 --> 00:38:30,640
Speaker 1: about the Randy Defensive Player of the Year, you talked

762
00:38:30,640 --> 00:38:33,239
Speaker 1: about coming close to breaking the sacks record, you know,

763
00:38:33,320 --> 00:38:34,880
Speaker 1: but you know, I think he sets the table for

764
00:38:34,920 --> 00:38:37,640
Speaker 1: everybody else because when he's able to get loose and

765
00:38:37,680 --> 00:38:39,680
Speaker 1: he's on the field, and that allows high Tower, who

766
00:38:39,680 --> 00:38:42,120
Speaker 1: had three sacks, is first the first week to be

767
00:38:42,200 --> 00:38:43,880
Speaker 1: able to eat because he's gonna get the one on

768
00:38:43,880 --> 00:38:46,799
Speaker 1: one matchups. Everybody's gonna be sliding away from, you know,

769
00:38:47,000 --> 00:38:50,080
Speaker 1: to t J. Watt, Meeking Fitzpatrick is a special player

770
00:38:50,080 --> 00:38:52,399
Speaker 1: and this this this defense is it's gonna be rough

771
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,719
Speaker 1: and rugged. You know, the Steelers are who they always are.

772
00:38:54,760 --> 00:38:58,160
Speaker 1: They're they're disciplined private for organization that have one, you know,

773
00:38:58,280 --> 00:39:01,239
Speaker 1: six Super Bowls that you know, have a standard, and

774
00:39:01,280 --> 00:39:03,719
Speaker 1: like Mike Thomlins says, the standard as the standard doesn't

775
00:39:03,719 --> 00:39:06,759
Speaker 1: matter who's playing defense, whether it's Joey Porter rather than

776
00:39:06,840 --> 00:39:11,200
Speaker 1: Jason Guild and Kevin Green, James Harrison, Lamar Woodley or

777
00:39:11,239 --> 00:39:13,320
Speaker 1: now t J. Watt. You know, they expect if you

778
00:39:13,360 --> 00:39:15,439
Speaker 1: put that uniform on, you're gonna play a certain type

779
00:39:15,480 --> 00:39:17,840
Speaker 1: of way, and more times than not, they're going to

780
00:39:17,920 --> 00:39:19,680
Speaker 1: do that. So you have to be ready for a

781
00:39:19,719 --> 00:39:22,400
Speaker 1: physical matchup and understand that it's gonna go four rounds

782
00:39:22,719 --> 00:39:24,920
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to battle because it's gonna be

783
00:39:24,960 --> 00:39:27,000
Speaker 1: tough sledding. But if you continue to stay the course

784
00:39:27,280 --> 00:39:29,719
Speaker 1: and believe, you know, if that you can break that

785
00:39:29,760 --> 00:39:33,080
Speaker 1: wall down. Do you think it's possible and we see

786
00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:35,160
Speaker 1: Connie Pickett in this game, or do you think Tomlin

787
00:39:35,280 --> 00:39:39,800
Speaker 1: sticks to his guns with Mitch Drabinski. Tomlin is usually

788
00:39:39,800 --> 00:39:41,520
Speaker 1: a man of his word, and if he says that

789
00:39:41,520 --> 00:39:43,960
Speaker 1: that the plan is to make sure that they stick with,

790
00:39:45,120 --> 00:39:47,600
Speaker 1: you know, Travisky the entire year, then they're gonna stick

791
00:39:47,640 --> 00:39:50,480
Speaker 1: with Trabisky the entire year. But you know what can't

792
00:39:50,520 --> 00:39:55,800
Speaker 1: be um overlooked is the fact that the Pittsburgh Stillers

793
00:39:55,840 --> 00:39:58,160
Speaker 1: have three of the best skills players on the outside.

794
00:39:58,160 --> 00:40:00,680
Speaker 1: Are you're gonna talk about Dean J. Johnson, you want

795
00:40:00,680 --> 00:40:03,360
Speaker 1: to talk about you know, the young the young rookie

796
00:40:03,400 --> 00:40:06,520
Speaker 1: from Georgia, Or you want to talk about yeah, Paul,

797
00:40:06,640 --> 00:40:08,719
Speaker 1: you want to talk about Claypool and then fare move.

798
00:40:08,840 --> 00:40:11,400
Speaker 1: It's like a second coming to Heath Miller. So I

799
00:40:11,440 --> 00:40:13,880
Speaker 1: know that they may not have the best offensive line

800
00:40:14,200 --> 00:40:16,640
Speaker 1: and Najie Harrison to struggle, so far early in this

801
00:40:16,760 --> 00:40:19,600
Speaker 1: season to get going. But it's not because they don't

802
00:40:19,640 --> 00:40:23,840
Speaker 1: have capable explosive receivers on the outside. They have good players,

803
00:40:24,200 --> 00:40:26,719
Speaker 1: you know, they just have an inexperienced quarterback. So you

804
00:40:26,760 --> 00:40:29,080
Speaker 1: hope that Joe quarterback can now play their quarterback. But

805
00:40:29,160 --> 00:40:32,560
Speaker 1: to do that, that means that the defense, the opposing defenses,

806
00:40:32,880 --> 00:40:36,000
Speaker 1: is more responsible about that than actually exactly. They got

807
00:40:36,040 --> 00:40:38,120
Speaker 1: a very good running back in Naji Harris. Is you know,

808
00:40:38,280 --> 00:40:42,360
Speaker 1: do you expect this to be another low scoring fourth quarter,

809
00:40:42,680 --> 00:40:45,640
Speaker 1: fourth fourth quarter affair where it's gonna be decided late?

810
00:40:45,760 --> 00:40:47,239
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean it doesn't have to be. But

811
00:40:47,320 --> 00:40:49,759
Speaker 1: when you look at it right, every game, you know

812
00:40:49,800 --> 00:40:53,400
Speaker 1: in NFL probably about come down to the one last

813
00:40:53,400 --> 00:40:56,840
Speaker 1: possession and either stopping for from one or you converting

814
00:40:56,880 --> 00:40:59,520
Speaker 1: for front one. And you know that's that's the NFL.

815
00:40:59,560 --> 00:41:01,640
Speaker 1: It's always is gonna be. It's a lot of parakey. Now.

816
00:41:01,840 --> 00:41:04,920
Speaker 1: Everybody has good players, and if you don't bring your energy,

817
00:41:05,160 --> 00:41:07,120
Speaker 1: you don't bring your focus, you can get embarrassing this

818
00:41:07,200 --> 00:41:11,200
Speaker 1: league really quickly. Robert Sala, well, what would your messaging be?

819
00:41:11,480 --> 00:41:14,640
Speaker 1: Two troops this week? I mean he he told him

820
00:41:14,719 --> 00:41:17,839
Speaker 1: last week after Cleveland, it's time to move on. They

821
00:41:17,840 --> 00:41:21,080
Speaker 1: have that same kind of message following uh the game

822
00:41:21,120 --> 00:41:24,000
Speaker 1: against the Cincinnati Bengals. We're just funding an FC champion

823
00:41:24,280 --> 00:41:27,319
Speaker 1: who were a wounded tiger came in and you knew

824
00:41:27,360 --> 00:41:29,640
Speaker 1: they were gonna take your bus. You know you're gonna

825
00:41:29,680 --> 00:41:32,239
Speaker 1: take their by shot. You got there, but shot now?

826
00:41:32,280 --> 00:41:34,799
Speaker 1: How quickly do you gotta turn the page? But you're

827
00:41:34,800 --> 00:41:37,319
Speaker 1: gonna get Pittsburgh's best shot too, because they're coming off

828
00:41:37,360 --> 00:41:40,040
Speaker 1: of a loss to divisional foe and they're gonna be

829
00:41:40,120 --> 00:41:42,120
Speaker 1: upset and angry thinking that this is a must win

830
00:41:42,239 --> 00:41:44,160
Speaker 1: for them as well. So that's what this league is

831
00:41:44,160 --> 00:41:46,320
Speaker 1: all about. But if you reject, you should be angry

832
00:41:46,440 --> 00:41:48,600
Speaker 1: that you just lost the game in front of your

833
00:41:48,600 --> 00:41:50,799
Speaker 1: home crowd. You're owing two at home. You gotta try

834
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,120
Speaker 1: and get right and beat two and old on the

835
00:41:53,200 --> 00:41:55,880
Speaker 1: road to be able to turn and flip flop it

836
00:41:55,920 --> 00:41:57,919
Speaker 1: and say, okay, well I can be on and too.

837
00:41:57,960 --> 00:42:00,000
Speaker 1: I'll settle for on two at home if I'm too

838
00:42:00,000 --> 00:42:02,239
Speaker 1: went on the road and hope that you can, you know,

839
00:42:02,280 --> 00:42:04,320
Speaker 1: play better when you're in front of your home crowd again.

840
00:42:04,680 --> 00:42:06,399
Speaker 1: But you gotta have to say the course and It's

841
00:42:06,440 --> 00:42:09,080
Speaker 1: one of those things you know, measure twice, cut once,

842
00:42:09,400 --> 00:42:10,960
Speaker 1: and you gotta you gotta make sure that your pre

843
00:42:11,040 --> 00:42:14,640
Speaker 1: STNA communication is on part because if you're not all

844
00:42:14,760 --> 00:42:18,040
Speaker 1: pulling the pulling the rope in the same direction and communicating,

845
00:42:18,400 --> 00:42:20,479
Speaker 1: then you can't help each other when you get into

846
00:42:20,520 --> 00:42:23,279
Speaker 1: these formations in which they forced you to communicate. Whether

847
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Speaker 1: there's shifts, motions over routes, you know, preestna read bunch route.

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Speaker 1: That's all about communication. If it doesn't matter how you

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Speaker 1: play it, as long as you guys are playing it

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Speaker 1: both the same way. Do you get bad feelings personally

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Speaker 1: when you hear the word Pittsburgh Steelers, considering a great

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Speaker 1: rival with the Baltimore Ravens, and then they provided you

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Speaker 1: from going to the super Bowl in two thousand and ten,

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Speaker 1: of course, well twice. You know they in two thousand

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Speaker 1: nine as well. But you know I would also like

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Speaker 1: to you know, you know I worked with Willie Cologne.

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Speaker 1: I know you guys remember him as a jet. A

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00:42:57,680 --> 00:42:59,120
Speaker 1: lot of people to him as a jet, but I

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Speaker 1: know him as a still. And when it gets about Pittsburgh,

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Speaker 1: even though we're a teammates now, I don't really like

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Speaker 1: him too much because I know, you know what, he

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Speaker 1: was a part of it, and and he's basically a sip

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Speaker 1: lord behind closed doors. You heard James Earl Jones is

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Speaker 1: retiring the voice now Darth Vader. You know what I mean.

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Speaker 1: Listen the man. The man has been you know, outstanding

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Speaker 1: actor for years. You talk about the voiceable staff. I mean,

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Speaker 1: it's time for him to smell the roses and enjoy himself,

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Speaker 1: you know what I mean. As he's in the later

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Speaker 1: stages of his life, he needs to go enjoy We

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Speaker 1: we thank him for all that he's meant, you know,

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Speaker 1: not only to the to the you know, Star wars

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Speaker 1: Um enterprise, but what he's meant to cinema and the standard,

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Speaker 1: the gold standard that he said, dude's a legend. Uh,

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Speaker 1: let's leave it here. You don't like the Steelers, But

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Speaker 1: with that being said, how great of an environment are

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Speaker 1: the Jets about to walk into? In terms of home fields,

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Speaker 1: it's one of the greatest places to play in football.

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Speaker 1: I mean, we all know third quarter when they needed

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Speaker 1: you know what track they're gonna play, and it's going

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Speaker 1: to amplify the crowd because they know over the years

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Speaker 1: when they play that track renegade from sticks that it

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Speaker 1: has caused havoc and fear in their opponent. You got

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Speaker 1: to embrace it, You got to sit face its head

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Speaker 1: on and come out on the other side of it.

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Speaker 1: But you know what you talked about, Still City, you know,

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Speaker 1: Still is fortified and forged and fire. So bring it on,

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Speaker 1: Bring it on, brother, Thanks man, my pleasure.