Speaker 1: All right, partner, let's bring in just quarterback Ryan Fitzpatrick.
Speaker 1: We just heard the call of your touchdown run against
Speaker 1: your former team, the Houston Texans, And people ask me
Speaker 1: this all the time, and I know you get asked
Speaker 1: this all the time. Does the guy know how to slide?
Speaker 1: I know yesterday you were sniffing the ad zone, so
Speaker 1: nothing was gonna prevent you from getting in. Yeah, And
Speaker 1: it's always a dilemma for me just in terms of uh,
Speaker 1: you know something like that, or picking up a third
Speaker 1: down on a run. You know, those are ones where
Speaker 1: I'll I'll never slide, but uh, it's the other place
Speaker 1: where I've I've got to try to be a little
Speaker 1: bit smarter. But it's it's always been a hard thing
Speaker 1: for me in my career, just out there, you know,
Speaker 1: fighting for yards, trying to be competitive and you know,
Speaker 1: knock on wood. Even though I've got a bump thumb
Speaker 1: and broke my leg last year, I've been pretty healthy.
Speaker 1: So if that hasn't changed your mind at all, now,
Speaker 1: still going at it, Ryan, when you look at this
Speaker 1: team and you go back and looking video from the
Speaker 1: games whatnot, is there one thing that just sticks out
Speaker 1: in your mind is to that that one thing. We've
Speaker 1: talked about execution. I know coaches talked about execution all
Speaker 1: the time. Is there one thing that's common when you
Speaker 1: look at things that could be just one thing that
Speaker 1: could change everything around No. I mean it's the frustrating part,
Speaker 1: you know, for us, especially offensively, is you need eleven
Speaker 1: guys on the same page. Uh, you know, doing it right.
Speaker 1: And we we've had a lot of instances where you know,
Speaker 1: we're we're one guy off for we're we're just not
Speaker 1: all moving in the same direction. Um, you know, and
Speaker 1: it's it's one mistake here or there and the end
Speaker 1: up being big moments and big plays in the game.
Speaker 1: And so we've just got a you know, it's something
Speaker 1: I said today in the conference call. We had just
Speaker 1: get back to the basics, the fundamentals, and make sure
Speaker 1: everybody's on the same page and we're we're executing. Because
Speaker 1: you know, we've shown we can be a very very
Speaker 1: good offense. We've got great weapons. We've just got to
Speaker 1: get back to um the Jets brand of football that
Speaker 1: we're playing at the beginning of the year. It fits
Speaker 1: something that struck me today on that conference call. You said,
Speaker 1: we have to ignore the noise. What do you mean
Speaker 1: by that? Yeah, you know we're sitting here right now,
Speaker 1: We've we've got six games left, you know, we're we're
Speaker 1: at a disappointing five and five, which there are a
Speaker 1: lot of other teams that are the same way. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody got there differently. Either teams have won
Speaker 1: three or four in a row, teams have lost four
Speaker 1: or five. You know that everybody's sitting at five and
Speaker 1: five has gotten there differently. But we've we've got to
Speaker 1: forget about what's being said, you know outside, We've got
Speaker 1: to forget about all that and just focus on us,
Speaker 1: focus on getting our confidence up and going out there
Speaker 1: and finishing strong. And that's that's something that's so important
Speaker 1: in the NFL. Even you've got all these great athletes
Speaker 1: and great players, but confidence really does play a lot
Speaker 1: into it. Your veteran, some of these young kids don't
Speaker 1: understand the ups and downs up in the NFL season.
Speaker 1: It's a grind, it's you know, it's opposite turns and
Speaker 1: everything like that. How do you keep these guys level?
Speaker 1: The young guys who don't understand, they're just like may
Speaker 1: have five games maybe wing they've lost in their whole career. Well,
Speaker 1: I think, you know, you try to set the example
Speaker 1: of being level headed, whether it's a big win or
Speaker 1: a or a you know, crushing defeat. Uh, you've got
Speaker 1: to be the same guy every day. And that's kind
Speaker 1: of what I pride myself on, as just being the
Speaker 1: same guy every day, whether it's in my preparation, in
Speaker 1: my attitude, um, you know, just the way that I
Speaker 1: approach it. And it's it's tough. You know, it's sixteen
Speaker 1: seventeen weeks. It's just a grind, it really is. But
Speaker 1: this is when we need to start playing our best
Speaker 1: football and kind of put aside, you know, the things
Speaker 1: that have happened the last month or so and and
Speaker 1: just get back on track. And you know, I think
Speaker 1: we've got the guys to do it. I know we do.
Speaker 1: And uh, we just got to continue to work hard
Speaker 1: in practice and hope it comes fits. How much have
Speaker 1: you enjoyed this season? Obviously right now you guys are
Speaker 1: trying to get out of a little bit of a rut.
Speaker 1: But with that being said, you got traded from Houston
Speaker 1: to the Jets in March. As late as August, you
Speaker 1: didn't know where you be even pet the backup quarterback
Speaker 1: this year, then you can, uh, come on, you take
Speaker 1: over your starting signal caller, and you've been in charge.
Speaker 1: You've been in command, and you're gonna make your loving
Speaker 1: start for this team this week. Yeah. You know, I
Speaker 1: love playing this game and so um you know, the
Speaker 1: reason I'm still in it and still doing is not
Speaker 1: to pack anybody up. It's to be out there competing
Speaker 1: and playing. And I think we've got such a great
Speaker 1: group of guys, especially on offense, just in terms of
Speaker 1: the experience, the guys that have played a lot of football. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, We've we've got a great group, and so
Speaker 1: I've had a lot of fun this year. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: the guy's up front. You've always got to have a
Speaker 1: good relationship with the offensive line as a quarterback, and
Speaker 1: we've we've got some good ones up there, some real
Speaker 1: pranksters and uh you know Deck and and Brandon on
Speaker 1: the outside and the talent we have at running back.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a good group and it's been a
Speaker 1: lot of fun for me this year. Who is the
Speaker 1: best prankster up front? Uh? I mean, man Gold is
Speaker 1: always he's always got his hand in something, but usually
Speaker 1: will we'll team up on somebody. So he's a pretty
Speaker 1: good partner in crime. How much fun does it been
Speaker 1: for you to bilchie chemistry and start throwing with with
Speaker 1: Brandy Marshall and there deca this season? Yeah, it's awesome.
Speaker 1: I mean, you want to talk about and intimidating guy
Speaker 1: you go out on the field with, you know, Brandon,
Speaker 1: He's got his visor on and he's all yoked up,
Speaker 1: and you know, it gives you a lot of confidence
Speaker 1: to look out there and say, hey, I get to
Speaker 1: throw this guy at the ball. Uh. But but it
Speaker 1: has been fun. It's fun to throw the receivers that
Speaker 1: have played a lot of football, you know, guys that
Speaker 1: have been around, that have been in a few different
Speaker 1: systems and really understand the game. And so that's that's
Speaker 1: been a really refreshing part about this year with some
Speaker 1: of the targets that we have. I like your approach.
Speaker 1: You're always even killed, or at least it seems that way.
Speaker 1: What do you say is a veteran and it's eleventh
Speaker 1: season in this fourth year in the system. When you
Speaker 1: throw a perfect pass to Devin Smith, who's trying to
Speaker 1: make plays out there, he's a rookie just coming out
Speaker 1: of the National Football League. What do you say to him, Well,
Speaker 1: the game of football, I mean, you make They're gonna
Speaker 1: make mistakes no matter what. Nobody's perfect out there. But
Speaker 1: it's it really is in a sickening way. My favorite
Speaker 1: part about the game. It's just the adversity that you face,
Speaker 1: whether it's individually or as a team, and just being
Speaker 1: able to overcome that. And Devon is gonna be a
Speaker 1: really good football player. You know, no one's out there, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, trying to drop passes or anything. He's trying
Speaker 1: to make players. I know that, and we just got
Speaker 1: to continue to put the work in in practice. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm in my eleven season. I still can't figure this
Speaker 1: thing out, you know, throwing a couple of picks in
Speaker 1: the game and uh, you know, it's it's a difficult game.
Speaker 1: It's not easy. If it was easy, everybody be able
Speaker 1: to do it. And you know, Devin, it was a
Speaker 1: great example in the game of just a guy that, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, we don't come up with that completion, but
Speaker 1: he's gonna get more opportunities and keep throwing the ball
Speaker 1: and allowing him to make plays. Ryan, what's the challenge
Speaker 1: in facing a team the second time around. You've already
Speaker 1: played Miami, you played them overseas, but now you played
Speaker 1: them against Sunday. What do you do is can you
Speaker 1: can you? I'll think yourself sometimes to say, you know what,
Speaker 1: they're expecting us to do this, so let's do something else. Well,
Speaker 1: there's always some extra wrinkles with the division opponents. Uh,
Speaker 1: you know, this one will be interesting because when we
Speaker 1: played them last time, Um, they had a different defensive coordinator. Um,
Speaker 1: you know after our game in London is when they
Speaker 1: let some of their staff go, and so you know, well,
Speaker 1: I'm interested in the next few days to kind of
Speaker 1: get into the film and see how much it's changed, Uh,
Speaker 1: if at all. But I'm sure they they've changed a
Speaker 1: little bit and what they're doing schematically, and um, you
Speaker 1: know they've had some injuries. We've had some injuries. So
Speaker 1: you've got to look at kind of what's happened over
Speaker 1: the last few games and go from there. But yeah,
Speaker 1: you definitely at times try you outsmart yourself a little bit,
Speaker 1: trying to you know, trying to think of ways to
Speaker 1: break tendencies and things versus these teams. But you always
Speaker 1: give them a little bit of a different wrinkle. You're
Speaker 1: a tough critic, and you said today that you don't
Speaker 1: think you've been playing well the less couple of games.
Speaker 1: What are some specific areas where you think you gotta
Speaker 1: take a couple of steps in improvement here down the stretch. Well,
Speaker 1: I mean we've been getting off to real slow starts.
Speaker 1: But you know the two things is a quarterback that
Speaker 1: are extremely important, Uh, third down efficiency and red zone efficiency.
Speaker 1: You know, those are two things that are very telling stats.
Speaker 1: Four quarterback really important things, and we just we have
Speaker 1: been very good on third down the last few games.
Speaker 1: And you know, some of that we've got to getting
Speaker 1: better manageable third downs, you know, So it's it's not
Speaker 1: necessarily all about third down. It's being a little more
Speaker 1: efficient on first and second down. But uh, we got
Speaker 1: to score touchdowns in the red zone and a lot
Speaker 1: of that falls on me, whether it's getting us in
Speaker 1: the right play a run or a pass and making
Speaker 1: the right read and making the right throw. So those
Speaker 1: are two things, uh, you know that I really need
Speaker 1: to improve on that they have have been done well
Speaker 1: in the last few games, and uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: I've got a lot of confidence in myself you know,
Speaker 1: it's it's been eleven years. I've had a lot of
Speaker 1: up and downs, ups and downs in my career, but
Speaker 1: I wouldn't still be sitting here talking about ball, if
Speaker 1: you know, if I didn't have that confidence in myself.
Speaker 1: So how do you keep that beard so good? Why?
Speaker 1: As I was leaving, I didn't get a chance to
Speaker 1: brush it down or anything. Um, And I asked my wife,
Speaker 1: I said, oh, does it look okay? And she just
Speaker 1: started laughing at me because there's not really a not
Speaker 1: really a good response to that one. Uh, but he
Speaker 1: didn't just kind of go with the the caveman look,
Speaker 1: you know, just let it go. So the reason we
Speaker 1: asked just because we were talking with Nick Man about
Speaker 1: that and he said that you and him share are
Speaker 1: eight beer comb and everything. So well, yeah, so we've
Speaker 1: we've got two different combs, but yeah, hopefully don't share it.
Speaker 1: But yeah, it's this the same same brand. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: was nice enough to order me a few of the
Speaker 1: combs that he uses, and uh, yeah, he's been good
Speaker 1: to bounce grooming tips off of. Uh, you know, he
Speaker 1: hasn't really gotten any from me, but uh, he does
Speaker 1: a good job, not only with the beard, but the
Speaker 1: hair too. He's got great flowing locks. Oh you like
Speaker 1: the hair Huh, yeah, I love it's it's his signature. Look,
Speaker 1: would you let your hair grow now? My mine just
Speaker 1: froze out. Mine doesn't do that. Okay, you're gonna keep it, sure,
Speaker 1: but the beard's gonna grow. Yeah, probably. Yeah. You could
Speaker 1: diet and beat Santa Claus. Yeah, I don't want to
Speaker 1: scare the kids. Speaking of the kids, awesome experience for
Speaker 1: your oldest son yesterday. Can you talk about that a
Speaker 1: little bit? Yeah, so we My oldest son is eight. Um,
Speaker 1: his name is Brady and no relation or reason with
Speaker 1: any quarterbacks in the NFL. I always get that question.
Speaker 1: But I was in St. Louis when we had him.
Speaker 1: But Brady was able to get on a plane by
Speaker 1: himself and fly to Houston for the game. Uh. Stayed
Speaker 1: with a few of our neighbors that we had last year,
Speaker 1: and um, so it was a neat experience for him
Speaker 1: to to get on the plane, to be able to
Speaker 1: hang out with his buddies to go to the game,
Speaker 1: and then he flew back in last night. Uh, but
Speaker 1: you know it was a cool deal. I mean, kids
Speaker 1: these days, you know, I didn't get out my first
Speaker 1: flight solo until who knows when it's probably twenty or something.
Speaker 1: But uh, he had his iPad, he had he had
Speaker 1: one of his books, and you know he always gets
Speaker 1: on the plane, crosses his leg. Yeah, he's real worried
Speaker 1: about the uh you know, ten thousand feet, you know,
Speaker 1: until he can turn on his device. But now that's
Speaker 1: that's gone away with. So he's he's a rule follower.
Speaker 1: He's not gonna break any rules. But he Uh, he
Speaker 1: did a good job, and you're a popular guy in Houston.
Speaker 1: He said that the number of year old friends are
Speaker 1: enough for the ballgame. Uh. Yeah, we you know, we
Speaker 1: had a great neighborhood. Uh, and so it was a
Speaker 1: lot of fun postgame. Uh. Unfortunately a lot of them
Speaker 1: are Texans fans, so they were fired up and happy.
Speaker 1: But uh, you know, there's a number of kids and
Speaker 1: you know it, twenty plus people just in terms of
Speaker 1: the parents and the kids that we were able to
Speaker 1: become close with last year. So Ran, what are you
Speaker 1: looking to do now Thanksgiving week in New York? What
Speaker 1: do you want the family go doing Thanksgiving Day? Are
Speaker 1: you cooking and give me some recipes we're finding? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: we'll see if the croc pods in use. Uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we will be at We'll be at work until noon,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think we're able to go home
Speaker 1: after after that. And so we're gonna deep fry turkey
Speaker 1: this year. One or two, we'll see. But I witnessed
Speaker 1: it last year in Houston. I've got some tips. I
Speaker 1: know not to put it in frozen. Uh, And so
Speaker 1: we're going to give that a shot this year. That's
Speaker 1: kind of the new thing on the agenda. Okay, good,
Speaker 1: you have to do anything other than that, just cooking.
Speaker 1: Now we've got we've got a lot of family coming in. Uh,
Speaker 1: so it'll be a nice little feast for us. And
Speaker 1: hopefully you guys get off to a start this similar
Speaker 1: to the one you did in London against this team,
Speaker 1: where that's the one thing that to Bold's talking about today.
Speaker 1: We gotta get off, get off the faster starts. And
Speaker 1: my ammy, you guys came out from the get first
Speaker 1: offensive play. You go up top to Brandon Marshall who
Speaker 1: had one on one coverage Grimes Brent Grimes and coverage,
Speaker 1: and and you set the tone early. Yeah, and that
Speaker 1: you know that was the emphasis that week the whole time.
Speaker 1: And you know when when Chan came up to me
Speaker 1: and told me what the first play was gonna be,
Speaker 1: it was pretty fired up. We got the right coverage
Speaker 1: and Brandon goes it makes a great play. So it
Speaker 1: would be great to get off to a to a
Speaker 1: similar start. Um. I don't think it'll be the same play,
Speaker 1: but you never know. Listen, have a great holiday. Thanks.
Speaker 1: What's talking about today? All right? Thank you guys. All right,
Speaker 1: let's bring in Jets punter Ryan Quigley, who Larry. If
Speaker 1: you need a field goal kicker or need somebody uh
Speaker 1: to connect on a few extra points, this guy can
Speaker 1: do that as well. Ryan, what was that experience like
Speaker 1: a couple of weeks ago when Nick Folk gets hurt
Speaker 1: in pregame and they turned to you and say, hey, Quigs,
Speaker 1: you're not just handling plunny tonight. You're gonna be a kick.
Speaker 1: I you know, I think I think it was a
Speaker 1: nightmare I had one time, but you know it wasn't
Speaker 1: It wasn't bad. Uh. It's one of the things that
Speaker 1: we we've prepared for. And you know, if I go down,
Speaker 1: folks gotta go in. If he goes down, I would
Speaker 1: have been and you just gotta be ready to go.
Speaker 1: You know, I've have a little bit of an experience
Speaker 1: in the past, you know, doing field goals. Um, but
Speaker 1: I also had a nice little block in high school
Speaker 1: that I used to kick off of us a little easier,
Speaker 1: but we got the job done. It definitely wasn't pretty
Speaker 1: at times. But uh, like you said, they went through.
Speaker 1: They counted for for four AFC Special Teams Player of
Speaker 1: the Week a couple of weeks ago. Okay, now, you
Speaker 1: can't make this up because we already spoke to Nick
Speaker 1: Folk and he gave us the one person. So I'm
Speaker 1: gonna ask you. Nick walks over to you and he says,
Speaker 1: come on, he didn't tell you this. I can't go.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna do? What I need? You got?
Speaker 1: You gotta kick field goals? I can't. All right, all right,
Speaker 1: what went through your mind? What you say? Um? I
Speaker 1: think I I think I had a joke for him
Speaker 1: or something like. I said something that made him made
Speaker 1: him really upset because I wasn't taking them seriously. But
Speaker 1: and then you know, it was just I was I
Speaker 1: didn't really even think about it. I was like, alright, sticks.
Speaker 1: Uh went out to the middle of the field. I
Speaker 1: think we're getting ready going to the tunnel, and uh,
Speaker 1: I'm I'm putting down the balls. I'm I'm kicking them
Speaker 1: and I think I hit one to the right into
Speaker 1: the bleachers. And then I was like, okay, I got
Speaker 1: that first one out of the way. The next one
Speaker 1: I put up, I hit to the left end of
Speaker 1: the bleachers. You didn't even hit the net. I was saying,
Speaker 1: the bleachers, and I was all right, this time, I
Speaker 1: want to put it right to the middle. And uh,
Speaker 1: I think I missed that one. Two. So I was like,
Speaker 1: all right, I'm done with that and I'll just save
Speaker 1: it for the game. All right. We were taste of
Speaker 1: the Jets at four World Trade last week and the
Speaker 1: Jets head their annual fashion show and then you got
Speaker 1: good good stuff here and this guy got rave reviews
Speaker 1: before his spot on the runway. Uh, what were you
Speaker 1: were wearing, quigs and and what do you think about
Speaker 1: because you were part of the sports portion you didn't
Speaker 1: have a suit on. Yeah, yeah, I'm I'm surprised with
Speaker 1: the reviews I got. I heard a lot of a
Speaker 1: lot of different mixed reviews. Teammates given you a hard
Speaker 1: time that we're talking about the people. The people, but
Speaker 1: the people, okay, yeah, I appreciate it. Um, I couldn't
Speaker 1: tell you exactly what I was wearing, but yeah, I
Speaker 1: was in the casual wear and uh had some jeans
Speaker 1: that you know, I had never really seen before. But
Speaker 1: they're called running jeans, and uh, I guess that it's
Speaker 1: the style now in the city. But uh, fits doesn't
Speaker 1: know what run into. Yeah, yeah, I don't think anybody
Speaker 1: we don't know what they are. But no, yeah, it
Speaker 1: was fun. We just had fun with it. Definitely, Uh
Speaker 1: something new for me. And uh, you know, glad it's
Speaker 1: over now. I will say I saw you there. I
Speaker 1: would have liked to have seen you. Just take a
Speaker 1: little more, just come here. This is why they got on, Okay, right,
Speaker 1: I didn't know. I was talking to somebody and said
Speaker 1: it was a race like the first one that goes
Speaker 1: on at the stage and gets off. You know. They
Speaker 1: went a prize, but I didn't get the prize. I
Speaker 1: know it was the fastest though. I was. Yeah, Ryan,
Speaker 1: assess your season the date. I believe you got nineteen
Speaker 1: punts down inside the opponent's twenty yearline. Uh yeah, those
Speaker 1: are always good. Those are the biggest ones. You know,
Speaker 1: you you really help out the defense when you put
Speaker 1: him in there close. Uh, you know, our punt teams
Speaker 1: head in the right direction. Uh. You know, we we
Speaker 1: started off and you know myself, you know, start off slow.
Speaker 1: You know, some punts that you want back and but luckily,
Speaker 1: you know, we have a great unit, great covers team.
Speaker 1: Tanner has been money all season and uh, like I said,
Speaker 1: we're heading the right direction with the defensive unit we have.
Speaker 1: You know, we can really help this team out. And uh,
Speaker 1: you know that's our goal each and every week. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we gotta continue to improve, continue a better help this team.
Speaker 1: What's the type of stadium to play it at? Top
Speaker 1: of stadium? Oh, man, I don't want to say met Life.
Speaker 1: Uh you know you you know, you go up to Buffalo,
Speaker 1: you know, it doesn't get much worse that I'm you know,
Speaker 1: we have that in the last game of the season.
Speaker 1: You know what it's gonna be. You know, go up
Speaker 1: to New England, you know what it's gonna be. Um,
Speaker 1: anytime we get to this part of the year and
Speaker 1: in November and December, you're gonna get some you know, tough, windy,
Speaker 1: cold conditions. But you know I've been this my third
Speaker 1: season here I played at BC. We know what's coming
Speaker 1: and you know, as a specialist, you know you you
Speaker 1: you embrace those opportunities, to embrace those windy games, and
Speaker 1: those are times where you can get to prove yourself
Speaker 1: without giving away the game plan this week, how do
Speaker 1: you approach a guy like Jarvis Landry who we saw
Speaker 1: over in London. Obviously he's a dangerous returner. He's to me,
Speaker 1: he's one of the better returns in the National Football League. No, definitely, definitely.
Speaker 1: He he ate us up last time too in London. Uh.
Speaker 1: Kind of have a sour taste in my mouth after
Speaker 1: after that game in London. But yeah, I mean each week,
Speaker 1: you know those guys back there, everybody's good, you know
Speaker 1: you really you really, I mean it gets tougher and tougher.
Speaker 1: You gotta put the ball in the right place. You
Speaker 1: gotta have the right hang time, distance, everything, so uh,
Speaker 1: you know, very little room for air. I'm looking forward
Speaker 1: to the test though this week. Jervis is a great,
Speaker 1: great player and uh, I can't wait to get out there.
Speaker 1: Do you think you guys have I don't want to
Speaker 1: say something to prove, but just like you said, you
Speaker 1: feel a little a little bad taste in your mouth
Speaker 1: from that, and then and then that's just that's the
Speaker 1: way I am, and that's the way our unit is. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, we're going out there. We want to help
Speaker 1: the football team. We don't hurt the football team. And
Speaker 1: I think in in London we we did hurt the
Speaker 1: football team. And you know a few of those punts
Speaker 1: and um, you know, I'll be the first one to say,
Speaker 1: you know, we just can't let that happen. I can't
Speaker 1: let that happen. And uh, you gotta be better right quickly.
Speaker 1: So I guess Ryan, just your mindset every week and
Speaker 1: just trying to make sure that you follow everything through.
Speaker 1: It's it's kind of like a like a golf swing
Speaker 1: that you want to make sure that everything is is
Speaker 1: fluid and everything is right and and how much pressure
Speaker 1: is it now with I think for me now that
Speaker 1: you don't feel returning off kicks, it's like done now, punny,
Speaker 1: It's just like everybody's just really into it's even more
Speaker 1: pressure on the puney to try to get better field
Speaker 1: positioned because of the way they moved back for kicking.
Speaker 1: And it's right right, it's yes, definitely put a you know,
Speaker 1: bigger emphasis on that portion. Um. You know, you guys
Speaker 1: were talking about it earlier. You know, just you know,
Speaker 1: there's just execution, like the the smallest things and um,
Speaker 1: every yard. And you know Bobby April does a great
Speaker 1: job of emphasizing that to us. Is that you know,
Speaker 1: we're these are first downs that were you know, we're
Speaker 1: taking away from teams and uh and you know that's
Speaker 1: the way we approach it. Um. Yeah, no, for me,
Speaker 1: you know, it's just we're just we're really focused on,
Speaker 1: you know, pushing the team back as far as we
Speaker 1: can and just helping our defense. What's the most important
Speaker 1: stat for punter? Because I know people at home sometime
Speaker 1: here hang time and said what does that mean? And
Speaker 1: then the other thing is you have your averages and
Speaker 1: you also have your net average. You finished with it
Speaker 1: in that average, you know where where's the team starting. Yeah,
Speaker 1: So I mean that gross can you know, can be
Speaker 1: whatever it needs to be. You know, that's it's gonna
Speaker 1: you know, that's gonna be what's gonna be. But at
Speaker 1: the end of the day, I'm looking at the net
Speaker 1: and that's something that we've you know, we started out
Speaker 1: slow and you know, like I said, we're heading the
Speaker 1: right direction, but we gotta get better. We gotta do
Speaker 1: fool goalkicker man. We got new fooder. Ye what's that?
Speaker 1: What's that like in in communication? Does he want the
Speaker 1: ball the same spots? All that stuff? Yeah. So you know,
Speaker 1: it's been great getting to know Randy. Two games and
Speaker 1: he's been he's been money for us. Uh but yeah,
Speaker 1: it's different. It's something that you know, Tanner and I
Speaker 1: we had to you know, we really we had to
Speaker 1: take time and you know, learn his rhythm, learn how
Speaker 1: you know, how he wants the ball. Uh, you know
Speaker 1: where he just Oh, there's so many little things that
Speaker 1: goes into kicking and punting and uh, you know we've
Speaker 1: we've taken the time. We're still learning. Um, but you know, Randy,
Speaker 1: Randy's a great kicker. He's a great guy too, and
Speaker 1: you know, glad to have him. He seems like he's
Speaker 1: got a pretty strong leg. Yes he does. I give
Speaker 1: him a hard time he got fresh legs, but no,
Speaker 1: he's he's always had a strong leg. We came out
Speaker 1: the same year, um, and you know I remember hearing
Speaker 1: about him and it's been it's been fun playing with him. Uh,
Speaker 1: you're alma mater. Boston College played Notre Dame over the
Speaker 1: weekend at Fenway Park. Were you jealous of then? So jealous?
Speaker 1: So jealous? Yeah? Yeah, I mean I think my one
Speaker 1: body he played for the Giants, he got to he
Speaker 1: got to go up there and watch it. Uh, but yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, I got to see a lot of pictures
Speaker 1: and of course watching on TV. Just playing a place
Speaker 1: like that, it's it's pretty special. Yeah, that was pretty
Speaker 1: amazing scene. And I'll tell you what. Boston College, Ye
Speaker 1: a hack of a chance win in nineteen sixty that's
Speaker 1: you know, they got a good squad up there. Uh. Defensively,
Speaker 1: you know, we're one of the best. But you know,
Speaker 1: coach of Dodgers has done a great job. Hopefully, Uh
Speaker 1: you know, we can build off that and we're finished,
Speaker 1: finished season, right, and then working the next year. Ryan, listen,
Speaker 1: thanks for coming by, Thanks for a couple of minutes.
Speaker 1: Best the rest of the season, and keep that leg warm,
Speaker 1: Ryan quickly, guys, Jomp