Speaker 1: What's going on? Jets fans? Welcome to another edition of
Speaker 1: the Official Jets Podcast, presented by Amazon Web Services. Dan
Speaker 1: Grass and Greg Buttle hanging out with you this afternoon
Speaker 1: and Greg always good to recoin ourselves. How are you, Oh,
Speaker 1: Danny boy the pipes. I'm learning how to sing. Dan,
Speaker 1: there's nothing else better to do. To sit around in
Speaker 1: your own house with nothing else better to do. You
Speaker 1: can't sing in the shower all day because your your
Speaker 1: your skin gets messed up. Quarantine life two thousand twenty.
Speaker 1: That's what we're living right now. But I mean, people
Speaker 1: should know you have a singing background. We've talked about
Speaker 1: it on our pre and post game shows. This was
Speaker 1: something that was part of your histories and not Yes,
Speaker 1: barbershop quartet was a big part of my history. And
Speaker 1: I was in musicals throughout high school, so I had
Speaker 1: a blast that was in the choir and all that stuff,
Speaker 1: But the real fun was singing in a barbershop quartet.
Speaker 1: And there was not one person I ever met in
Speaker 1: the society, uh that was not a good person. And
Speaker 1: he is not kidding folks. He has being honest. That's
Speaker 1: what he did during his days at Penn State and
Speaker 1: you would think that, you know, this big, fierce, intimidating
Speaker 1: linebacker who went out to have a great career in
Speaker 1: the NFL All American in college, but no, he does
Speaker 1: have the Barbershop Quartet on the resume. And you know,
Speaker 1: I heard that you were one of the guy the captains,
Speaker 1: the driving force behind that group. Have you stayed in
Speaker 1: touch with any of those guys today? Actually, uh, just
Speaker 1: one of them. Uh my college roommate, Jim Rosecranz. Uh
Speaker 1: he and I. You and I really got into it
Speaker 1: because he liked to sing and I liked to sing.
Speaker 1: But really what put us over the edge to say
Speaker 1: we should join is that when we got there, we
Speaker 1: met the guy that owned the beer distributorship and we
Speaker 1: got free beer. So that was the best thing when
Speaker 1: you're eighteen years older in college, free beer, the perks
Speaker 1: of being in the barbershop quartet, and you played it
Speaker 1: to your advantage certainly. But we continue quarantine life, of course,
Speaker 1: with everything that we're going on around the world, the pandemic,
Speaker 1: the coronavirus. So first off, I just want to see
Speaker 1: how you're doing. You in the family, everybody holding up
Speaker 1: well at the Buddle Estate, Well, there's always good and
Speaker 1: bad when it comes to the quarantine. And uh, like
Speaker 1: I get to know my wife better, she gets to
Speaker 1: know me better, and that's the bad part. Anyway, You
Speaker 1: you'll you'll learn how to get out of everybody's way
Speaker 1: because you're on top of each other. You How big
Speaker 1: can your house be if you're if you're a zillionaire
Speaker 1: like the Grassive family is, there's a plenty of rooms
Speaker 1: so you can hide in. But me, I'm in a
Speaker 1: small I'm a fixed income now, so it's a hard thing. Well,
Speaker 1: the funny thing about it is, and I was just
Speaker 1: thinking about this. Not too long ago, you moved, you know,
Speaker 1: you downsized a little bit because the kids were a
Speaker 1: little bit older, you know, they left the nest and
Speaker 1: that sort of thing. Now, if you were known then
Speaker 1: that you would be in this lockdown situation for a
Speaker 1: period of time, do you think you still would have
Speaker 1: went ahead with a move? Absolutely, the best thing I've
Speaker 1: ever done. I don't need you don't need a lot
Speaker 1: of house. You just need a bedroom at kitchen and
Speaker 1: a bathroom and a TV is very important. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: that's that's most imagination. Think about this though, Can you
Speaker 1: imagine a quarantine back in pre two thousand when there
Speaker 1: was no internet. You're not allowed to go golf, you
Speaker 1: can't go to church, you can't do anything, and you
Speaker 1: have no internet. Oh my god, what would happen? I
Speaker 1: couldn't imagine it. You know, it's like the dumb might
Speaker 1: as well be the dark ages compared to what we
Speaker 1: have at our disposal right now. So yeah, you know,
Speaker 1: things could be worse. And you know, on a serious note,
Speaker 1: the funny thing at it is, it's like we sit
Speaker 1: here and look, everybody wishes we could resume our normal
Speaker 1: lives and go out and do the things that we're
Speaker 1: accustomed to doing, whether it's work, just going out to dinner,
Speaker 1: anything that, you know, going to the park, anything there.
Speaker 1: But you know, the curve does seem to be flattening
Speaker 1: at least if we follow along with the reports from
Speaker 1: our health officials and so on and so forth, that
Speaker 1: you know, things are starting to look up. And you know,
Speaker 1: the cool thing about it, Greg is that we, you know,
Speaker 1: all have a hand in this thing. If we do
Speaker 1: our part, if we stay home, you do the social
Speaker 1: distancing and whatnot, that we're all gonna have a hand
Speaker 1: in beating this thing. As fast as possible, and we
Speaker 1: can go back to doing what we're all accustomed to doing,
Speaker 1: and that is, you know, sports, and in our case
Speaker 1: here football, and that's hopefully the direction that we're gonna
Speaker 1: be heading in soon. Well, direction that the NFL is
Speaker 1: going soon, of course, is the annual NFL Draft, which
Speaker 1: thankfully we have despite everything we have going on in
Speaker 1: our world right now, and that is gonna be next week,
Speaker 1: and it's going to be a draft unlike ones we've
Speaker 1: ever seen before. Everything is gonna be done virtual, much
Speaker 1: like the world that we live in right now. And Greg,
Speaker 1: I think it's no secret that when you think about
Speaker 1: the NFL Draft and significance that it has in terms
Speaker 1: of building that winner, building that sustained success. You know,
Speaker 1: free agency is nice and it gets a lot of
Speaker 1: attention and a lot of money's flying around, but the
Speaker 1: foundation of any good football team is through the draft.
Speaker 1: And I think that all Jet fans are a little
Speaker 1: bit excited and eager to see what Joe Douglas has
Speaker 1: in store, given that this is gonna be the first
Speaker 1: draft that he runs as the man in charge of
Speaker 1: the Jets football operations. Well, if the all season is
Speaker 1: any indication I mean last year at the season, he
Speaker 1: was behind the gun. Now he's in front of the gun.
Speaker 1: So I think the opportunity for Joe Douglas to uh
Speaker 1: really put his stamp on what's going on with the
Speaker 1: New York Jets and their talent acquisition was pretty good
Speaker 1: so far in the off season. Taking care of the
Speaker 1: offense the line the way he did um uh, not
Speaker 1: disrupting the apple cart in certain areas and totally changing
Speaker 1: in others. So what remains to be seen is what
Speaker 1: are the pickings going to be for Joe Douglas in
Speaker 1: the draft. I think, in my personal opinion, what he
Speaker 1: did was is he really has set the Jets up
Speaker 1: where they don't have to grab an offensive lineman. They
Speaker 1: don't have to chase an app an offensive lineman. They
Speaker 1: can get somebody that's available, as opposed to I'm going
Speaker 1: to move up and get that guy. I think that
Speaker 1: he solidified the offensive line enough that they don't need
Speaker 1: to do that. Yet if one of those guys is available,
Speaker 1: he can always take them, right. I think it's a
Speaker 1: case of where you don't necessarily have to reach or
Speaker 1: maybe draft for need per se, because as you said,
Speaker 1: the Jets were active in free agency and bringing him
Speaker 1: some new pieces to that offensive line, the Connor McGovern's,
Speaker 1: George Fans, Greg Van Roten bringing back at Alex Louis.
Speaker 1: So you have some guys they're ready on that line.
Speaker 1: But I think any good football talent executive is going
Speaker 1: to tell you that, you know, you believe in your board,
Speaker 1: You trust what you're scouting department has done. You know,
Speaker 1: you look to your board and see how you have
Speaker 1: these guys slotted regardless of position, and you're gonna take
Speaker 1: the best player available here. And if that just so
Speaker 1: happens to be an offensive lineman when the Jets around
Speaker 1: the clock at number eleven, then they're gonna take that guy.
Speaker 1: But as you said, I don't think that they're necessarily
Speaker 1: you know, you have to take that offensive linement. It
Speaker 1: could be wide receiver, could be corner, who knows. I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna take the best player available. And Jets
Speaker 1: are gonna have eight picks to work with here. You
Speaker 1: have four in the top eighty, which I think is
Speaker 1: pretty exciting. So it gives you some flexibility as to
Speaker 1: what you can do. But let's start by talking about
Speaker 1: that first round selection and look, trades could happen. They
Speaker 1: can move up, you can move down. You never know
Speaker 1: what's going to transpire here over the next few days
Speaker 1: or even on draft night itself. But right now the
Speaker 1: Jets are slotted to pick number eleven. Offensive tackle certainly
Speaker 1: is a position that the Jets are maybe going to key.
Speaker 1: Uh could be a wide receiver as well. This is
Speaker 1: a very very deep class when you talk about the
Speaker 1: wide receiver position, as deep as it's been in years.
Speaker 1: As you hear all the so called experts tell us.
Speaker 1: But you know, one thing I keep coming back to Greg,
Speaker 1: and I want to get your take on this. You know,
Speaker 1: you think about the comments that Joe Douglas made on
Speaker 1: that conference call not too long ago that you know,
Speaker 1: he talked about Sam Donald and with Sam being the
Speaker 1: franchise quarterback now heading into year number three, and he
Speaker 1: said that when he first met Sam's parents that he
Speaker 1: made a promise to them, I'm gonna do everything I
Speaker 1: can to protect your son, make sure he's as successful
Speaker 1: as possible. So there are a couple of ways that
Speaker 1: you could go about doing that. You already so all
Speaker 1: the reinforcements to the offensive line. Maybe it could be
Speaker 1: a skill position player, but I think that offense would
Speaker 1: probably be the side of the ball that we're all
Speaker 1: expecting the Jets to go at number eleven. I would
Speaker 1: think so if if you if you take a look
Speaker 1: at what the Jets don't need. Okay, don't need a
Speaker 1: running back, don't need a quarterback, don't need a tight
Speaker 1: end at least offensive lineman or wide receiver. Don't really
Speaker 1: need an offensive lineman because I've gotten a lot of
Speaker 1: stuff in the off season. But if Tristan Worse was available,
Speaker 1: I think I'd take. So my thing is is that
Speaker 1: you take a look at some of the guys that
Speaker 1: are there, and then you you you try to validate
Speaker 1: the worth. Is it worth it for me to go
Speaker 1: up and take that offensive lineman that's available, or do
Speaker 1: I take uh, I don't know, Ceedee Lamb from Oklahoma
Speaker 1: because he's available. That then you look at it and
Speaker 1: you go, well, I've got enough off the offensive lineman.
Speaker 1: I can make do with this, but I need an
Speaker 1: offensive wide receiver. Those are the good options that you have.
Speaker 1: You can always obviously trade up if you want to,
Speaker 1: or trade down. Uh, but now you can you can
Speaker 1: really uh. You don't have to under reach. You don't
Speaker 1: have to under reach, and you don't have to overreach.
Speaker 1: You can make a decision that's sound and and it
Speaker 1: only makes your team better. It's not a reach to
Speaker 1: make your team better. Well, when you look at the
Speaker 1: offensive tackles, Okay, Jedrick Wills from Alabama worfs, as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: Greg from Iowa, McKay becked In from Louisville, and Andrew
Speaker 1: Thomas from Georgia, those are the consensus four top guys
Speaker 1: and then after those four there's a little bit of
Speaker 1: a drop off. So the question you have to ask yourself,
Speaker 1: and I'm sure that you know, look every team in
Speaker 1: the NFL, all thirty two teams when they have their board,
Speaker 1: I'm sure that you can probably find as many different
Speaker 1: combinations to how each team ranks those four tackles. Like
Speaker 1: one team might have Andrew Thomas ranked number one, in
Speaker 1: Tristan Worfs fourth, Some team might have mackay Beckton ranked
Speaker 1: number one and Will's fourth. There's something like that. But
Speaker 1: you know, we don't know how the Jets raft board
Speaker 1: looks right now, and I think that the question that
Speaker 1: they're gonna be faced with, Let's just say for argument's sake,
Speaker 1: when the Jets are on the clock at number eleven.
Speaker 1: If three of those four tackles are already off the
Speaker 1: board and there's one guy who's still there, you know
Speaker 1: where is he rated on the Jets board. That's what
Speaker 1: I think the question is gonna come down to. So
Speaker 1: if they have one offensive tackle to choose from, or
Speaker 1: potentially you can have any of those top three wide
Speaker 1: receivers you mentioned, Ceedee Lamb, Jerry Judy from Alabama, Henry
Speaker 1: Ruggs from Alabama. So are you then faced with a
Speaker 1: decision of do we take the potentially fourth ranked offensive
Speaker 1: tackle or maybe the number one wide receiver in this
Speaker 1: draft in and I'll repeat myself again a wide receiver
Speaker 1: class which is as deep as any we've seen in
Speaker 1: so many years. And then you could potentially Greg and
Speaker 1: we'll talk about this in a little bit, get a
Speaker 1: first round caliber wide receiver, maybe even in the second round.
Speaker 1: That's I think the tricky dilemma here if you're the Jets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but here's here's the uh. Here, here's here's the way
Speaker 1: that you you manipulate the trick. I'm taking the best
Speaker 1: wide receiver I can get if he's available. That's the
Speaker 1: trick And saying that guy's gonna I'm plugging him in.
Speaker 1: That's that's the That's the thing about the first round.
Speaker 1: You cannot draft somebody that you can't plug in and
Speaker 1: make him play. And you can't make a guy play
Speaker 1: that's not capable. The Jets have done that in the past,
Speaker 1: where they've drafted people that all of a sudden they
Speaker 1: just didn't pan out the way they wanted him to
Speaker 1: pan out. And you can go back to Ohio State University,
Speaker 1: uh for for one of them, but as recent as
Speaker 1: in the two thousands. But my thing is is that, look,
Speaker 1: you know me, they they've weaponized the wide receiver position,
Speaker 1: and so I want the best fastest wide receiver that
Speaker 1: catches the ball with his hands that that's on the
Speaker 1: draft board. That would be me. Now again, if Tristan
Speaker 1: Worths was available, because I think that guy's that that
Speaker 1: guy's number one on the offensive lineman athletic balance, He's
Speaker 1: played many sports. Uh, he's fast, He's got a thirty
Speaker 1: six inch vertical jump. That's that's ridiculous, getting three pounds
Speaker 1: off the off the ground three ft What are you nuts?
Speaker 1: That guy is pretty good to me. Uh, that guy
Speaker 1: I would take if he was if he was available,
Speaker 1: and if I really needed that offensive tackle, maybe I
Speaker 1: trade up for him. But I don't think that's gonna
Speaker 1: be he's gonna be available. I don't think that's what
Speaker 1: the Jets are gonna do. So I always look back
Speaker 1: at two things wide receivers. You said it, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of him in there. But now I can get
Speaker 1: my guy. I can get him, uh with with the eleven.
Speaker 1: I believe you can get that guy with number eleven. Uh,
Speaker 1: don't forget Jets are in need of a cornerback now
Speaker 1: that Jets drafted Darrell Reevus and got an all time player.
Speaker 1: And I don't think anyone believed Darrell Reevus was an
Speaker 1: all time player when they drafted him. I think they believed, boy,
Speaker 1: this guy's got really sound athletic abilities. He can play.
Speaker 1: But boy, i'll tell you what in the NFL. He
Speaker 1: shined in the NFL, and he made it. He made
Speaker 1: the cornerback position different and UH a lot different than
Speaker 1: uh Sanders or even a Mel Blunt. The guy was
Speaker 1: just spectacular. So when you take a look at it,
Speaker 1: there are some cornerbacks that, hey, you don't have to
Speaker 1: reach for him, but they're gonna be there. Jeff Okuda
Speaker 1: from Ohio state. You got Henderson from Florida. Those are
Speaker 1: the two guys who probably have separated themselves from the
Speaker 1: bunch of the cornerback position. And you're right, I think
Speaker 1: that's another area that the Jets could look to address here.
Speaker 1: I mean, they brought in Pierre to see her here
Speaker 1: in free agency, but maybe still a little thin as
Speaker 1: a whole when you look at that depth, and certainly
Speaker 1: that's going to be another area that maybe they look
Speaker 1: to beef up. Here net week during the draft, you're
Speaker 1: listening to the Official Jets podcast presented by Amazon Web Services.
Speaker 1: Dan Grass and Greg Buttle spending some time with you here.
Speaker 1: So the two thousand twenty draft is going to take
Speaker 1: place here in just a few days. But Greg, you
Speaker 1: came into the league in the nineteen seventy six NFL Draft.
Speaker 1: I'm sure you have some pretty cool stories to share.
Speaker 1: In a little tidbit for all the fans out there,
Speaker 1: nine seventy six was actually the last year that the
Speaker 1: draft featured seventeen rounds. Following season, the draft had moved
Speaker 1: to twelve rounds. Now, we know, of course, we only
Speaker 1: have seven, but things were a bit different back then
Speaker 1: when he came into the league. What do you remember
Speaker 1: about that day? Well, uh, I'll start it like this.
Speaker 1: First of all, as you know, I played at Penn
Speaker 1: State and I was a huge Pittsburgh Steeler fan at
Speaker 1: the time. And of course, uh, my Penn State one
Speaker 1: hero was Jack Ham, pretty good football player out of
Speaker 1: Penn State. Went on to play with the Steelers, and
Speaker 1: you know, did what he did. I would say, as
Speaker 1: good a linebackers you could ever get. And I wanted
Speaker 1: to be drafted by the Pittsburgh Steelers. So draft they
Speaker 1: comes around, and uh, all the teams will will call you,
Speaker 1: they send you letters, they talked to you, their scouts
Speaker 1: and everything else. So Steelers are one of them. And
Speaker 1: uh it comes to pass that I'm sitting there and
Speaker 1: I'm and I'm watching and as the Jets select me,
Speaker 1: and I'm and I'm very depressed. I'm depressed that I
Speaker 1: can't believe it. I'm not going to the Steelers. I
Speaker 1: could play opposite Jack Ham at outside linebacker and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, and go on to play for a team
Speaker 1: that is already in the playoffs. And now I'm going
Speaker 1: to play for the Jets, who really are terrible. I
Speaker 1: mean terrible. I hate Nameth because I was a Baltimore
Speaker 1: Colt fan when I was a kid, and so I'm
Speaker 1: going to probably the worst place that you could possibly
Speaker 1: go if you if you had a choice, the Jets
Speaker 1: would have been the last team I wanted to choose.
Speaker 1: So I'm so depressed, and it's all the way up
Speaker 1: to Mini camp and they bring me in, they give
Speaker 1: me a physical, I don't meet anybody but the doctors.
Speaker 1: And then I go back to Mini camp and and
Speaker 1: that's where the so called stuff hit the fan. And
Speaker 1: I met a guy by the name of Walt Michaels.
Speaker 1: And little did I know that Walt Michaels could coach.
Speaker 1: And he taught me how to play linebacker in the NFL.
Speaker 1: And to this day I credited him with me even
Speaker 1: bm but play nine years in the NFL. The guy
Speaker 1: was that good someone that can tell you and show
Speaker 1: you the correct way to do it and not just
Speaker 1: spit it out. But he played the game for the Browns.
Speaker 1: He's All Pro linebacker for the For the Browns, he
Speaker 1: unders stood that the linebackers what they had to do.
Speaker 1: He was more about getting the job done than doing it.
Speaker 1: A certain way. And uh, I think that was the
Speaker 1: best part about it. I had Dan Radio, which became
Speaker 1: the Jets linebacker coach in my final year. He was
Speaker 1: very good, a little different way he was coaching. Uh,
Speaker 1: he was more technique in that type of stuff. Walt
Speaker 1: Michaels was more about results and he could show you
Speaker 1: how to get results. And to this day, if it
Speaker 1: wasn't for Walt Michaels, I wouldn't have played that long
Speaker 1: in the NFL. So what I was really depressed about
Speaker 1: became the thing I was most happy about. I had
Speaker 1: the best advantage to play in the NFL because I
Speaker 1: I thought I had the best coach who taught me
Speaker 1: more about the game in sitting with him in one
Speaker 1: week than I had ever learned before. And who would
Speaker 1: have thought, see Wave all those years ago, if you
Speaker 1: had only known if you were taken by the Pittsburgh Steelers,
Speaker 1: then you and I probably are not sitting here right
Speaker 1: now doing this podcast. You and I wouldn't get to
Speaker 1: work together on Sundays doing the games, and you know,
Speaker 1: our friendship never would have gotten off the ground. So
Speaker 1: things happened, I think for a reason, and things happened
Speaker 1: for the better. Greg, and I think you're proof positive
Speaker 1: of that. You were a third round pick overall. Now,
Speaker 1: interestingly enough, if you look at that Jet draft class
Speaker 1: your comrades in ninety six, Richard Todd was the first
Speaker 1: round pick that year, who, of course was the Jet
Speaker 1: quarterback for a number of years. You guys went to
Speaker 1: the championship game. Of course they're in eighty two. You
Speaker 1: had to due Salam who was taken in the seventh round.
Speaker 1: He became part of the New York stackic sack exchange.
Speaker 1: And I don't know how many fans know this, but
Speaker 1: do you remember, Greg, in the twelfth round, the Jets
Speaker 1: selected a pair of twins, one pick apart from another,
Speaker 1: Don and Dave Bucky, both from North Carolina State. Did
Speaker 1: you remember that? No? Yeah, the BUCkies. I played against them,
Speaker 1: and they were they were select because Lou Holtz was
Speaker 1: the head coach and he liked those two guys to
Speaker 1: play with them. And the Holtz had some vision of
Speaker 1: running the veer option in the NFL, which you know
Speaker 1: you couldn't run the veer option with Joe Namath. You
Speaker 1: might be able to run it with some of the
Speaker 1: quarterbacks they have now, uh, And you can see how
Speaker 1: the the the R P O s are all run today,
Speaker 1: But in those days, you didn't have that type of
Speaker 1: quarterback to run that. It wasn't about the back, one
Speaker 1: about the lineman. It was about your quarterback and the
Speaker 1: ability for them to do that. And certainly Joe Nameth
Speaker 1: in his twelfth year at the Jets at the time,
Speaker 1: or his tenth year at the Jets, uh with no
Speaker 1: offensive line, nobody around him to help him, he wasn't
Speaker 1: running any type of veer. But yes, I played against
Speaker 1: them in college for three years. Dave was actually cut
Speaker 1: by Lou Holtz, who was the coach in seventy six,
Speaker 1: so he never made it here. But Don had a
Speaker 1: few games as your teammate there with the New York Jets.
Speaker 1: So we'll see which new members are gonna be added
Speaker 1: to the Jets family, of course, in the two thousand
Speaker 1: twenty draft that's coming up in just a few days here,
Speaker 1: and you know the interestingly enough, if you think about
Speaker 1: you know what's gonna happen after the NFL Draft. Normally
Speaker 1: you get into the off season program and you have
Speaker 1: O T A S. Then of course Mini camp and
Speaker 1: that takes into the summer. But because of everything going
Speaker 1: on with the coronavirus, and we're not going to have
Speaker 1: the in person on field activities. So the NFL has
Speaker 1: put out a memo in conjunction with the Players Association
Speaker 1: to where essentially this is gonna be a virtual off
Speaker 1: season where everything is going to have to be conducted
Speaker 1: kind of you know, via the skypes and zooms and
Speaker 1: everything from home, pretty much like we've been doing right now.
Speaker 1: And I think Greg that if you look at a
Speaker 1: team like the New York Jets, I think that they
Speaker 1: do have an edge heading into this whole process. Why
Speaker 1: because they have a coaching staff which is returning, They
Speaker 1: have a system already in place, which is coming back
Speaker 1: from another year. I think that the teams that have
Speaker 1: new head coaches that are trying to install new systems
Speaker 1: both offensively and defensively, and they don't get that in
Speaker 1: per and teaching, I think they're the ones that are
Speaker 1: hamstrung a little bit here as we enter this uncharted territory. Well,
Speaker 1: you make a good point that it's hard enough with
Speaker 1: a new coaching staff to come in there and uh
Speaker 1: elicit the best play out of all the players that
Speaker 1: you could possibly have when you don't even know about them.
Speaker 1: So at least the Jets and all the coaching staffs
Speaker 1: that have been around for years have that advantage going
Speaker 1: into the thing. Not that no one could coach, but
Speaker 1: it's there. Really is a is a lot to be
Speaker 1: said about who the people are that you have playing
Speaker 1: for you and working for you. Remember a lot of
Speaker 1: new coaches don't even know their coaches. They just they're
Speaker 1: grabbing the guy because someone told him you should grab
Speaker 1: that guy. He's looking for a job. They don't know
Speaker 1: who they are. There are coaches they do know who
Speaker 1: they are, and then it's an easy transition. But imagine
Speaker 1: a coach coming in and not knowing the type of
Speaker 1: personnelity to your character that are is in your locker room.
Speaker 1: Now you got to build that whole locker room. Do
Speaker 1: you hope to the way that you think it could be?
Speaker 1: Uh So, Again, it's it's what people look at is
Speaker 1: they look at the locker room as a little piece,
Speaker 1: but it's not. It's a huge piece and and and
Speaker 1: how teams can win. It may not be a huge
Speaker 1: piece on on on always winning, but it's a huge
Speaker 1: piece on becoming a winner. I think that's a good
Speaker 1: point you make too. And it's not so much necessarily
Speaker 1: the difficulty in doing installs with the xs and o's
Speaker 1: if you can't be on the field. But as you said,
Speaker 1: you know, the the off the field element, the locker room,
Speaker 1: the chemistry, trying to build that cohesive unit, that's something
Speaker 1: that you're gonna have a harder time doing if you're
Speaker 1: not going to be in there being able to get
Speaker 1: that one on one experience. But from the player's side
Speaker 1: of things, and look, I understand that the off seasons
Speaker 1: have changed, you know, versus when you played. But put
Speaker 1: yourself in their shoes. Now, if you had a regiment,
Speaker 1: if you had a routine that you stuck to in
Speaker 1: the off season to get yourself ready for the season,
Speaker 1: how do you think that would have been complicated if
Speaker 1: you can't be there in person to be with your teammates, coaches, etcetera. Well,
Speaker 1: I would, I would say, in the off season, I
Speaker 1: wouldn't think it is that uh, it would be bad
Speaker 1: other than the fact that you would be new, you're
Speaker 1: a rookie or you have a new coaching staff. Other
Speaker 1: than that, you do what you do in the off
Speaker 1: season and you already know how to play the game.
Speaker 1: You already know what you've done bad. You you have
Speaker 1: those experiences that you can take into a virtual uh
Speaker 1: playbook or virtual conversation. Remember virtual as a tool, it's
Speaker 1: just another tool for them to use it. It has,
Speaker 1: it has merit, but it's still just a tool. The
Speaker 1: reality of it is that you've got to sit and
Speaker 1: talk and practice and work out with the guys, knowing
Speaker 1: everything that coaches get used to. The coaches sit and
Speaker 1: talk with the coaches. Look him in the eye, see
Speaker 1: how the guys talk continue. Does he really respect what
Speaker 1: he's talking about? Is he guessing as he grasped and
Speaker 1: it's straws? Does he understand how I feel what my
Speaker 1: family is doing. There's a lot of these things that
Speaker 1: pull on people in the off season that virtual can't
Speaker 1: tell you. But it's a tool, and it's a tool
Speaker 1: that when you can't do anything together, you've got to
Speaker 1: improvise and adjust well. As far as tools are concerned,
Speaker 1: Adam Gates, the head coach of the Jets, is gonna
Speaker 1: have some more tools in the toolbox after the NFL
Speaker 1: Draft finishes up, and that'll be from April to April.
Speaker 1: Once again, the Jets with eight picks total and four
Speaker 1: of them take place in the top eighties. So we'll
Speaker 1: see what direction Joe Douglas his staff go here to
Speaker 1: try to add some new helpers for this New York
Speaker 1: Jets football team in two thousand twenty and beyond, Greg,
Speaker 1: this was fun as always. Let's do it again soon,
Speaker 1: my friend. Alright, so listen, I'm just gonna hold your
Speaker 1: feet to the fire before we get off. Yeah, who
Speaker 1: do you want? Not the player, but what type of
Speaker 1: player do you want? The Jets draft in the first round.
Speaker 1: I know it's cliche, and I don't want to come
Speaker 1: off as if I'm trying to sound too cliche, but
Speaker 1: I am a big believer in honor your board best
Speaker 1: player available. So when the Jets are there are a
Speaker 1: number eleven, and when they had the players ranked one
Speaker 1: through eleven, regardless of position, whatever that guy is, I say,
Speaker 1: that's who you take, because in my opinion, you can
Speaker 1: never have enough good football players, regardless of what position
Speaker 1: they play. And that's what I think Joe Douglas and
Speaker 1: his staff should do. When will do I might agree
Speaker 1: with you, but I disagree with you. I know you
Speaker 1: want your wide receiver. You want the wide receive. I
Speaker 1: want that guy. I want that wide receiver. Man, let
Speaker 1: me tell you something. You you can you want the
Speaker 1: best wide receiver you can get. But me, that's what
Speaker 1: I want. I mean, I can, I can build best
Speaker 1: athletes behind the number one draft pick. But that number
Speaker 1: one guy, he's got to produce for me. He's got
Speaker 1: to produce points, he's got to produce playing time, he's
Speaker 1: got to produce a lot, and he's got to have
Speaker 1: great upside. That's all I'm saying. Last pro ball player
Speaker 1: that the Jets drafted at the wide receiver position, you
Speaker 1: got to go all the way back to Keishawn Johnson,
Speaker 1: who was taken first overall. Back in Greg. Stay safe.
Speaker 1: We'll do this again soon, my friend, and enjoy the draft.
Speaker 1: Yehah buddy for Greg Buttle. This is Dan Grassa. Thanks
Speaker 1: for joining us on another installment of the Official Jets Podcast,
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