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Speaker 1: the bye week Thanksgiving Alpis. It's almost like a like
Speaker 1: a double by in a way, because you have the
Speaker 1: bye week and then you have a couple of days
Speaker 1: off and a spotty schedule from Thanksgiving. It's kind of nice.
Speaker 1: Are you getting some days off this week? I don't
Speaker 1: know yet. Well Thanksgiving I feel I figured we're all
Speaker 1: getting off. Yeah, but it's more of a relaxed time,
Speaker 1: and any time that there's less traffic on the road,
Speaker 1: it's like a day off for me. I totally understand that,
Speaker 1: being someone who used to commute back and forth from
Speaker 1: Long Island every day, but this league from to clarify,
Speaker 1: from Jersey to Long Island. Yeah, one know, from Long
Speaker 1: Island to Jersey back. Yes, okay. So I would like
Speaker 1: to ask this question, is the players they came in
Speaker 1: on Thursday. I know there's no media availability that they
Speaker 1: probably have an early day on Thursday. Yeah, I believe that.
Speaker 1: I believe they do, because there's a pool reporter, okay,
Speaker 1: coming in and who is it? That would be New
Speaker 1: York Post Brian Costello. I was just gonna ask if
Speaker 1: it was. I feel like it's a yearly. It's an
Speaker 1: annual tradition for him coming in on Thanksgiving, the Turkey
Speaker 1: Day tradition. Man, maybe maybe he doesn't wanna, Maybe he
Speaker 1: has some Turkey duties that he wants to get out of.
Speaker 1: I feel like Thanksgiving us earlier this year and the
Speaker 1: Jets by was late. So now you have back to
Speaker 1: back consecutive weeks that are a little bit atypical for
Speaker 1: the regular season. And are you in Jersey for Thanksgiving?
Speaker 1: How about you? You're gonna be in the city. No,
Speaker 1: I'm going to Westchester where my grandma is, Okay, and
Speaker 1: she's a Jets fan. She is a Jets fan, Yeah
Speaker 1: she is. But what's been her take on the season
Speaker 1: or she just takes it on? She just takes it
Speaker 1: in every year every year she goes, We're going to
Speaker 1: the super Bowl. And I've heard that every every year
Speaker 1: since I've been alive, and every time baseball season comes around,
Speaker 1: Mets are going to the World Series. Yeah, well she
Speaker 1: she doesn't follow hockey. She's an internal optimist. We need
Speaker 1: more of those. Yeah, no doubt about it. She uh.
Speaker 1: Sometimes she asks me which which ones the Jets are
Speaker 1: on the TV. But maybe Dino Babers could have asked
Speaker 1: her for a pep talk after Racuse played Notre Dame
Speaker 1: at Yankee Stadium. Yeah, Syracuse did not have a good
Speaker 1: New York weekend. No, that's okay, and it's unfortunate because
Speaker 1: they're Brandon New York's college team. I think St. John's
Speaker 1: New York's college. Yeah, you said that. I don't know,
Speaker 1: specially from a college basketball perspective. They can't get more
Speaker 1: city than I don't know where the term New York's
Speaker 1: college team comes from. I'll tell you what happened. Some
Speaker 1: marketing think tank got in a room and said, let's
Speaker 1: spring us this way. That's how it usually works. Well,
Speaker 1: when you're driving up eighty one, you see it on
Speaker 1: on a billboard, and the first time I saw it
Speaker 1: was just kind of like, what the heck is that thing? Well, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: we know the Jets are New York team and New
Speaker 1: Jersey's team, and so are the Giants. You know a
Speaker 1: lot of the Bills. Well yeah, well there's a lot
Speaker 1: of people, especially in Western New York, would say that
Speaker 1: the Bills are the only National Football League team in
Speaker 1: New York. But listen that that's not fair because this
Speaker 1: this Jets fan base, a lot of people is you
Speaker 1: well know Greens growing up in Manhattan. Um, it extends
Speaker 1: obviously into New York, and it made its base on
Speaker 1: Long Island at Awstra for decades before coming for here
Speaker 1: to Jersey full time, no doubt about it. And I
Speaker 1: always got confused. I mean, I'm gonna bring this up
Speaker 1: because this weekend Jets Patriots Week twelve, both teams coming
Speaker 1: off of bye week. There's a lot of debate is
Speaker 1: which states fall to New England and where does the
Speaker 1: line of New England stop, because it seems to have
Speaker 1: bled a little larger ones the Patriots and the Celtics
Speaker 1: and started to win a little more. Yeah, they've been
Speaker 1: over the last two decades. If you're from the Boston area,
Speaker 1: you're pretty asthetic by what your sports seems have been doing.
Speaker 1: But I would say New England is Massachusetts, Rhode Island
Speaker 1: in parts of Connecticut, not Vermont or New Hampshire. What
Speaker 1: about Maine, well that that yeah, yeah, you can throw
Speaker 1: all those states in there. But like New Hampshire, lived
Speaker 1: free or die, I don't think you're telling anybody in
Speaker 1: New Hampshire who the hell they're rooting for. Yeah to
Speaker 1: Claire five, that's uh, that's on their license plates. Yes
Speaker 1: it is. But that is their motto. That is the man.
Speaker 1: That is something that I lived by. So I'm not
Speaker 1: telling yeah, all right, well, but yeah, don't don't get
Speaker 1: in don't get in their way. New England, the Patriots.
Speaker 1: This is a precedent and run a success. Um. Hopefully
Speaker 1: we'll never see anything like it again, unless it's for
Speaker 1: a team like the Jets. But the Patriots right now
Speaker 1: with seven to three record, two game lead over the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins, and then FC East the Bills and the
Speaker 1: Jets three and seven records, and New England's beat Miami
Speaker 1: already this year once, they are well on their way
Speaker 1: to securing their tenth consecutive division championship and six out
Speaker 1: of eighteen years. And for a Jets fan, it makes
Speaker 1: your skin crawl. So with all that being said, what
Speaker 1: do you think about this weekend's Matt jep Because these
Speaker 1: two teams every they see each other twice a year.
Speaker 1: They play each other tough, they know each other, and
Speaker 1: head coach child Bull said it a couple of weeks
Speaker 1: ago that a f C East games are typically blood baths.
Speaker 1: I think there are a lot of question marks surrounding
Speaker 1: the Jets because you don't know what you're gonna get
Speaker 1: on Sunday afternoon. Because I think a lot of guys
Speaker 1: Greens and I would ask you the same question when
Speaker 1: we're in the locker room after a game. Last that
Speaker 1: happened to be in Week ten when they lost forty
Speaker 1: one a ten of the Bills at Mylife Stadium, and
Speaker 1: I was surprised, but a number of players in the
Speaker 1: room was said, we had a great week of practice.
Speaker 1: I think they were shell shocked by what happened out there. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think that the Jets weren't shell shocked a little bit,
Speaker 1: and they didn't have answers. Yeah, and they got in
Speaker 1: the whole early. And you've seen it that fast starts
Speaker 1: are imperative for the Jets. And you told me the
Speaker 1: other day after we looked it up that the Jets
Speaker 1: are thirty first in the NFL in first quarter point. Well,
Speaker 1: they only got twenty four points in the first quarter
Speaker 1: in the year. I think they scored against Detroit to
Speaker 1: even things up, but I know they scored ten points
Speaker 1: against the Colts. Actually looking back, but during this four
Speaker 1: game losing streak, they have not scored any points in
Speaker 1: the first quarter. No. Actually, like Christine corrected, Chris Hernon
Speaker 1: had a touchdown against the Minnesota Vikings and that game
Speaker 1: that even things up in the first quarter. But the
Speaker 1: last three games, the Jets haven't been on the scoreboard.
Speaker 1: I wrote just wrote about this right now. Actually, interesting
Speaker 1: that you just brought this up, is that I think
Speaker 1: they need something to happen good early and you tweeted it,
Speaker 1: and it's something we want back and forth about here
Speaker 1: throughout the week. Is that Ah, historically, in a very
Speaker 1: recent past, the Jets that played the Patriots tough at home.
Speaker 1: There's nothing to celebrate about that there. But the stats
Speaker 1: just tell you, strictly numbers will tell you that the
Speaker 1: Jets traditionally played Patriots. They give him a battle. But
Speaker 1: I mean, you're not looking for uh, there's no moral
Speaker 1: victories here, and Jets got to find and win, win
Speaker 1: and win a football game last year in particular, just
Speaker 1: to zero in on that game. It was seventeen final
Speaker 1: with the Jets are on top fourteen nothing, and I
Speaker 1: don't know, there's a very specific play, so I don't
Speaker 1: know if you remember it, but Buster Screen had an
Speaker 1: interception on a deep ball and then he almost had
Speaker 1: a second interception to where Brady was looking for Rob
Speaker 1: Gronkowski on the sideline and it went through Busters hands.
Speaker 1: But Buster could have been looking at another six right there.
Speaker 1: And it's a very specific play. But I remember us
Speaker 1: thinking in the press box that left the door open
Speaker 1: a little bit. And sure enough, the Patriots came back
Speaker 1: and they do what they did. But this is New England.
Speaker 1: Simply just doesn't beat themselves. Yeah, they're the least pedalized
Speaker 1: team in the NFL. Right now, Here's what I will
Speaker 1: tell you. That's a great stat Here's what I'll tell
Speaker 1: you about the Patriots is that I don't see a
Speaker 1: team that is is dominant as they have been in
Speaker 1: the past, especially offensively. When you're watching the Rams and
Speaker 1: the Chiefs and the Saints. As I got an opportunity
Speaker 1: to over the weekend, and I think most of America
Speaker 1: watch Monday night football, I would say those offenses are
Speaker 1: a high of a lot more explosive than the Patriots.
Speaker 1: The Patriots still get the job done. I think they're
Speaker 1: averaging eight points a game, and Brady is still a
Speaker 1: very good quarterback. But there are certainly kinks in this armor.
Speaker 1: Rob Gronkowski is beat up from so many surgeries. He
Speaker 1: doesn't even have thirty receptions this year because he's been
Speaker 1: missing a lot of ball games. They think he's gonna
Speaker 1: be back in the lineup. Sony Michelle has been getting
Speaker 1: going on the ground. I think he's averaging a little
Speaker 1: bit over four yards to carry, and and their leading
Speaker 1: receiver is a guy by the name of James White,
Speaker 1: was a running back in his fifth year. He's got
Speaker 1: sixty six receptions. The next closest guy on that at
Speaker 1: chart is I don'lman, who missed the first fourty games.
Speaker 1: Julian I don't want he's got forty receptions. This this
Speaker 1: is not a team that goes as much downfield as
Speaker 1: you've seen him in the past. Well, I'm glad you
Speaker 1: mentioned that, because when you watch the Chiefs and the
Speaker 1: Rams on Monday Night football, yes, you see the exotic
Speaker 1: offenses and explosive offensive players whatever. But I think the
Speaker 1: Patriots are different in the fact that they're a little
Speaker 1: more surgical than the Chiefs and Rams, who seem to
Speaker 1: be continuously pushing the ball downfield. Until your point is,
Speaker 1: James White, the Patriots running back, leads to the team
Speaker 1: in receptions and yards, I believe touchdowns as well, and
Speaker 1: he's been a real, I think underrated threat for the Patriots. Yeah.
Speaker 1: I think people will lead on things underrated, but I
Speaker 1: get what you're saying. It's not I don't think he
Speaker 1: gets a whole lot of credit when you're talking about
Speaker 1: a guy who's got six touchdowns receiving. Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: listen to the Patriots offense. So Chess has to tackle
Speaker 1: well this week. Number One is they got to take
Speaker 1: away the run, and that went away against the Buffalo Bills,
Speaker 1: and and all those guys were really annoyed about that.
Speaker 1: They got to get back defensively, got to get back
Speaker 1: to taking away the run. You can't see Sony Michelle
Speaker 1: getting the edge this week, otherwise you're gonna be in trouble.
Speaker 1: Second part of this is you have to take care
Speaker 1: of the screen game because the Patriots are gonna try
Speaker 1: to throw the ball to the backs out of the backfield.
Speaker 1: Set those screens up um, left and right, and then
Speaker 1: it's the option routes. And option routes mean you have
Speaker 1: to tackle well in the secondary. I think the Jets
Speaker 1: will come up with a good game plan. Interesting stat too,
Speaker 1: and again there are different people. There's no uh stat
Speaker 1: that we live by in terms of blitzes against quarterbacks
Speaker 1: and things like that. But people in New England have
Speaker 1: said this year that Brady has struggled mightily against the
Speaker 1: blitz and if the Jets can somehow win on early
Speaker 1: downs where you're putting Brady in third and six, unleash
Speaker 1: the dogs, unleash the hounds get after. I know the
Speaker 1: Jets did not beat the New England Patriots last year,
Speaker 1: but two of Tom Brady's three worst performances from a
Speaker 1: completion percentage standpoint came against the Jets. One in Week
Speaker 1: six at MetLife Stadium, completed fifty four percent of his passes,
Speaker 1: and then Week seventeen, when the Jets lost in Foxborough,
Speaker 1: he only completed right and then in the total of
Speaker 1: those two games, Well, I mean that's a good number.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, YOU'RENNA, You're you're gonna sign up for that
Speaker 1: every week, I would say that he did have four
Speaker 1: touchdowns in the two games, and just Um rob Brokowski
Speaker 1: had two of those at MetLife. But then you gotta
Speaker 1: give Jamal Adams a lot of credit because he helped
Speaker 1: keep Gronk off the stat sheet in that six to
Speaker 1: six game at Gilette Stadium. Those were if you're looking
Speaker 1: for something where you saw improvement from a player last
Speaker 1: year in his rookie season, and we've seen him jump
Speaker 1: off in this year. Two was he came out after
Speaker 1: Grog really got the better of him at Motlife Stadium,
Speaker 1: and they did a great job on him and that
Speaker 1: second game. But again, no moral victories. You wrote about it,
Speaker 1: I've written about it. Everybody's talking about morales high uh
Speaker 1: tod Bol said that Josh McCown echoed those sentiments and
Speaker 1: then both said we're gonna fight. Everybody on the team
Speaker 1: is going to fight, the players and the staff, and
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams said, fight, fight, fight. How about how about
Speaker 1: last time these two teams met, Jamal Adams was shirtless
Speaker 1: in Foxborough on perhaps ridiculous day. We talked to Bart
Speaker 1: Scott about this too. Man, No, not about Jamal coming
Speaker 1: out against the Patriots, but Northwestern when they played Minnesota
Speaker 1: twenty two degrees in Minnesota last week and all every
Speaker 1: all the kids came out with their and I can
Speaker 1: call him kids now because I'm a lot older than
Speaker 1: they are. They all come out with their shirts off
Speaker 1: twenty two degrees weather. By the way, if it's twenty
Speaker 1: two degrees, I'm gonna have thirty layers on the makeup
Speaker 1: off as harsh. But do less, Northwestern? Do less? Why? Why?
Speaker 1: It seemed a little try hard to me? Yeah, what
Speaker 1: what's the point? But did you do you take that
Speaker 1: same tone with the president of all last year? I
Speaker 1: it was an individual, I think it would be a
Speaker 1: little different, and the whole team thing struck me. Oh
Speaker 1: the team thing was a little bit over the top.
Speaker 1: Four you Yeah, yeah, it seemed a little a little
Speaker 1: more calculated that way, you know what I mean, like
Speaker 1: a little more thought into it where Jamal is probably
Speaker 1: you know. Can I tell you that it took me
Speaker 1: like a couple of weeks when we came back from
Speaker 1: New Year's eive at Gillette Stadium in that game for
Speaker 1: my bones to actually heat up, because I got a
Speaker 1: feeled the old ice on my bones for days. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that was there was that the coldest game you've ever
Speaker 1: been to. I think that was the coldest game I've
Speaker 1: ever been to. Yeah, that's a period. I don't think
Speaker 1: the weather it's gonna be that bad this week. I
Speaker 1: really hope the Jets fans I get into this game.
Speaker 1: Like I said, you gotta get them going early. Man,
Speaker 1: you know it better than anybody's that these people are
Speaker 1: starving for a win. They're frustrated right now, rightfully so.
Speaker 1: But I was encouraged by the locker room. I'm not
Speaker 1: saying it's going to transcend uh to the football field,
Speaker 1: but I do think that the guys had the proper
Speaker 1: mindset and probably even though everybody is you're continuing to
Speaker 1: learn here in Green's, everybody's always going to tell you
Speaker 1: it's a great time for bye. But for the Jets,
Speaker 1: after what happened against the Bills and that shell lacking,
Speaker 1: they really had to get the hell out of here.
Speaker 1: I think it was good for him. I think it
Speaker 1: was good for him. Listen, No, I'm not ripping on
Speaker 1: anybody else. That happens. Sometimes you never want to see
Speaker 1: that happened. But I really think it was positive for
Speaker 1: everybody to say, Okay, let's get away and resent you know,
Speaker 1: I was thinking about this and it's non football related.
Speaker 1: Sam Donald talked about a little bit about his commute
Speaker 1: on Thursday, trying to get into city. If we had
Speaker 1: worked that Thursday, I would have stayed out in Flora
Speaker 1: Park because there was no way I was going from
Speaker 1: here to Hoboken. I heard. I heard stories where it
Speaker 1: took what a fifteen minute drive was supposed to be
Speaker 1: ended up being three hours. Yeah. I heard a bunch
Speaker 1: of horse stories. And the New Jersey Transit buses were
Speaker 1: letting passengers off at the top at the front of
Speaker 1: the GW Bridge on the top level so they could
Speaker 1: walk across into the city because there was no cars
Speaker 1: allowed on the top level of the GW. Yeah, but
Speaker 1: what did they do once they get to the city.
Speaker 1: They walked all the way home. No, you probably then
Speaker 1: catch a subway right there or where the subways running. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I believe so, I mean, if you're not a little
Speaker 1: bit delayed. But I had. I was in the city
Speaker 1: when it started to snow and I had just gotten
Speaker 1: I had just got my haircut, and I had to
Speaker 1: walk like twenty blocks south to meet up with my
Speaker 1: friend before going to Syracuse, Yukon. At the garden, which
Speaker 1: you know when it ranged pores and that was the
Speaker 1: beginning of a bad weekend. But but the wh put
Speaker 1: it on you guys, Oh grain, this is gonna have
Speaker 1: a tough weekend. But the subway line was so long
Speaker 1: that it was it was much easier just to walk
Speaker 1: and much faster. So the whole thing was a mess.
Speaker 1: So you can put in the weather in there. Well,
Speaker 1: fortunately the weather has been okay lately, so um, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the weather will not be a factor Sunday.
Speaker 1: Uh at MetLife there's calling for I think temperatures in
Speaker 1: the fifties, is that right, Uh, it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: rather warm. I think okay, But well, you know, and
Speaker 1: the fans I know that. Like I said, you know, everybody,
Speaker 1: they're overdue for a win. And I think the players,
Speaker 1: you know, there was a lot of professional pride, individual pride.
Speaker 1: And Jamal also put it eloquently, I thought when he said,
Speaker 1: you have a number of different motivations, including everybody has
Speaker 1: a different y um, but in it's you're the name
Speaker 1: on the back of your jersey, the name on the
Speaker 1: front of your jersey, and I think it matters to
Speaker 1: those guys. I think they will come out and have
Speaker 1: a much better offer than they did two weeks ago.
Speaker 1: I want to know, with six games remaining, who are
Speaker 1: some players that you're excited to see their performance down
Speaker 1: the home stretch after the bye week, and not just
Speaker 1: against New England, but when you look in totality of
Speaker 1: these finals, six weeks of regular season. Well, I'll let
Speaker 1: you handle Donald. I'm not gonna take everything, so I'll
Speaker 1: take offensively, Eli McGuire, a guy's got a couple of
Speaker 1: games under his belt and he's he's proved continues to
Speaker 1: prove to be an elusive runner, and he's adopt out
Speaker 1: of the backfield catching football. He's got the low pad level.
Speaker 1: I really like what I've seen on him. Chris Herndon
Speaker 1: continues to be an emerging tight on for this team.
Speaker 1: Trent and Cannon has been outstanding special teams player. What
Speaker 1: let's see if he can continues, UH, continue to get
Speaker 1: some subpackages offensively and use them in different ways like
Speaker 1: they did against the Bills that use them on the underground. Uh.
Speaker 1: And then defensively, for me, it's the secondary um because
Speaker 1: Trumaine Johnson, this is in the year I'm sure that
Speaker 1: he envisioned after he came over from the Rams and
Speaker 1: signed the big deal in the off season. Unfortunately, that
Speaker 1: quad injury hampered him early and then he give up
Speaker 1: a big play to start the game against the Bills.
Speaker 1: But he's still He's still a good cornerback Greens and
Speaker 1: at the end of the day, you're gonna be counting
Speaker 1: on Trewemaine Johnson and those two safeties for a long time,
Speaker 1: no matter what personnel changes around those guys. So I'm
Speaker 1: really looking at the secondary, and like I told you,
Speaker 1: I'm letting you handle Donald, but here's your quarterbacks. You're
Speaker 1: facing Tom Brady twice, Aaron Rodgers possibly wants well to
Speaker 1: see what happens with Green Bay Deshaun Watson. A lot
Speaker 1: of people think he is one of the finer uh
Speaker 1: young quarterbacks in the game. Uh, Marcus Mariotta's a former
Speaker 1: top five pick. And then you're probably gonna see Josh
Speaker 1: Allen for the first time. So I'm gonna I'm gonna
Speaker 1: say the second year. Okay, you listing off those quarterbacks
Speaker 1: reminds me of last year when the Jets had Breeze,
Speaker 1: Rivers and Brady to close out the year. I remember
Speaker 1: talking about that, but Donald particular if he plays right now,
Speaker 1: it's unknown as we record the podcast because he's has
Speaker 1: a strained right foot and he didn't practice Monday, but
Speaker 1: no injury report came out on Monday, because Wednesday's when
Speaker 1: the injury report comes out. And I think what we
Speaker 1: talked about this before to Tony Romo said this to
Speaker 1: Olivia Landis at the Bears game, that fans should look
Speaker 1: to see maybe Donald perhaps turn a page towards the
Speaker 1: end of this season as he begins to learn more
Speaker 1: and more and taking things more and more. And he really,
Speaker 1: like you mentioned and on our show Practice Today presented
Speaker 1: by Serious Sex, m that he really was referring to
Speaker 1: next year when Donald comes back and O t s
Speaker 1: and how things will really slow down for him then.
Speaker 1: But he made it seem he meaning Rome Mo, made
Speaker 1: it seemed like that some of that could still happen
Speaker 1: towards the end of this season. And I'm really looking
Speaker 1: forward to seeing what may or may not happen, assuming
Speaker 1: he starts, And just branching off of that, I'm you
Speaker 1: mentioned Eli McGuire, I'm kind of excited to see what
Speaker 1: Zakrol can do because he's flashed no doubt against the
Speaker 1: lines in week one against the Broncos in Week five.
Speaker 1: But other than that, I think he he hasn't had
Speaker 1: a great season, and he's had great moments, but I'm
Speaker 1: very interested to seeing what happens with him. And he
Speaker 1: was bothered with an ankle injury after Week five, and
Speaker 1: I think that kind of slowed him up a little bit.
Speaker 1: And I'm very excited to see what this offensive line
Speaker 1: can do because Spencer Long was hurt. James Carpenter didn't
Speaker 1: practice Monday, so we'll see the status on him. But
Speaker 1: I wonder what how that unit in particular will spot,
Speaker 1: because you know, the Jets want to run the ball,
Speaker 1: and that's how they're going to have success the season,
Speaker 1: especially when you have a rookie back there when you
Speaker 1: can take some of the pressure off of him. So
Speaker 1: I'm very excited to see what what they're gonna do.
Speaker 1: And defensively, I'm I'm agreeing with you and Tremaine Johnson.
Speaker 1: I don't think that the start of his first year
Speaker 1: as a Jet went the way he wanted it to.
Speaker 1: But you know, six games may not seem like a
Speaker 1: whole lot, but it is a There's a lot of
Speaker 1: ball left to be played, and I think that the
Speaker 1: NFL in general, whatever happens that week that moment, the
Speaker 1: world's on fire if you lose, and everything's fine when
Speaker 1: you win. But I'm I'm very excited to see what
Speaker 1: happens with a lot of players, but those guys in particular,
Speaker 1: it's a week to week league. Um, don't tell the
Speaker 1: guys in the locker room that these games don't matter,
Speaker 1: because even if they have an expiring contract and they
Speaker 1: don't even think that, hey, maybe the Jets aren't gonna
Speaker 1: resign me. I'm putting this film out there for thirty
Speaker 1: one on their teams. Okay, don't say it doesn't matter
Speaker 1: to those guys and all. By the way, I know
Speaker 1: what the fans are looking at. I know I've been here,
Speaker 1: number four overall pick in the draft at the season
Speaker 1: end of today. I get it. The players don't care
Speaker 1: about that. The coaching staff doesn't care about that. Your
Speaker 1: coaches in your college, I mean, you're a college scouts
Speaker 1: and your personnel department, they're gonna be scouting up everybody
Speaker 1: like that they have to. But that's an every day
Speaker 1: of the year kind of thing. So I know fans
Speaker 1: are I and add up and things like yeah, I
Speaker 1: love the tanking arguments. Oh do you think that people?
Speaker 1: How do you think that players are taking? No, they're
Speaker 1: not tanking, like no team in the NFL. Thanks, It's
Speaker 1: just it's just not a thing. So no table the conversation.
Speaker 1: This isn't the n b A because I think they
Speaker 1: they've had it happened a couple of times, I think
Speaker 1: in but this podcast not really for the MBA. But
Speaker 1: I would say that maybe the only year where you
Speaker 1: can be like, wow, they might really set themselves up
Speaker 1: here down the stretch that I really can remember is
Speaker 1: that the Indianapolis luckier when Manning was out, and I
Speaker 1: think they played they played hard, but I'm sure those
Speaker 1: last two or three games maybe everybody in the organization
Speaker 1: was gonna not the players, not the coaches, but I'm
Speaker 1: sure there a couple of a couple of people in
Speaker 1: they're probably had a couple of crusted fingers and toes
Speaker 1: and things like that. Yeah, I mean, when you think
Speaker 1: about it, it couldn't have played out any better for
Speaker 1: the Colts than that aspect, going from Peyton Manning to
Speaker 1: Andrew Luck who has had a phenomenal year well, and
Speaker 1: and just thinking about that a lot of people were
Speaker 1: thinking that win was worth anything. The Jets beating the
Speaker 1: Colts and how much uh the rebuilding and they're struggling
Speaker 1: team and they don't have many pieces around Andrew, whoa,
Speaker 1: that look like a pretty good team right now, and
Speaker 1: the Jets hammered them. And yeah, I was the week
Speaker 1: Lee week to weekly. So you don't know, we might
Speaker 1: look back at that and say, well, Detroit was nice,
Speaker 1: but Indianapolis right now. So the Jets have three ones
Speaker 1: right now, so it's Detroit Indianapolis right now, you would
Speaker 1: easily say it. I would. I would say Indianapolis is
Speaker 1: definitely the best team out of those three. Yeah, that's
Speaker 1: their offense is really cooking, but their defense is playing
Speaker 1: pretty well too. Yeah. You know, I'm actually coming into
Speaker 1: this season I don't think I don't think a lot
Speaker 1: of people did, but I definitely didn't think the Colts
Speaker 1: were going to perform this way. But but the thing
Speaker 1: that I take away out of this Colts team, and
Speaker 1: I'm not trying to divert from the subject here because
Speaker 1: this is the official Jets podcast, but when you look
Speaker 1: at what the Colts did in the draft and drafting
Speaker 1: Quentin Nelson and Brandon Smith in particular those two guys
Speaker 1: to solidify an offensive line around Andrew Luck and then
Speaker 1: you draft someone like Naheim Hines and just add p
Speaker 1: Is here and there. I mean, I think what the
Speaker 1: Colts did in the draft is paying off immediately for
Speaker 1: that team. And I think that frankly, moving forward, I
Speaker 1: think that the Jets. You could see the Jets follow
Speaker 1: a similar blueprint in the off season. But away, No,
Speaker 1: but I think it's fair. I think that's fair to say.
Speaker 1: And you know, if you're a fan, you just stop
Speaker 1: looking at Sunday. You can't. If you're a player and
Speaker 1: your coach, that's what you do. But if you're a fan,
Speaker 1: you gotta look beyond. And yes, they do have financial flexibility.
Speaker 1: Uh they also have their first round pick this year,
Speaker 1: and they have two threes because they sent Teddy Bridgewater
Speaker 1: to New Orleans. No two's at this time, but yeah,
Speaker 1: building from the inside out and also getting some piece
Speaker 1: more pieces around Sam Donald, I'm sure that is part
Speaker 1: of the plan. There is a This offseason is obviously
Speaker 1: going to be a very important one because of what
Speaker 1: I mentioned, the financial flexibility. You have the quarterback. Let's
Speaker 1: see what happens around building around so is this. So, Greens,
Speaker 1: let me put you on a spot here. So is
Speaker 1: this one of the last few times we will see
Speaker 1: Tom Brady at my Life stadium? It's forty one years old.
Speaker 1: Pel I know that you believe so I do, I do,
Speaker 1: I don't. I don't. I think Brady is hold on
Speaker 1: one of the final times or the final time, because
Speaker 1: the other day you said that you thought that this
Speaker 1: was the final time. This is the ate hot take. No, no, again.
Speaker 1: I don't want people running with this. My my point
Speaker 1: is is said he's forty one. We all age believe me, Greens,
Speaker 1: we all age. He's had an outstanding career, five super Bowls,
Speaker 1: four time Super Bowl MVP, three time NFL MVP, perhaps
Speaker 1: the greatest who's ever played the game. And I do
Speaker 1: think Brady's body is not what it wants was. And
Speaker 1: oh yeah, I get it. This is either is Drew Brees,
Speaker 1: but I think Drew Brees got more pieces around him
Speaker 1: in New Orleans. And I love Grenkowski as a player,
Speaker 1: not as a as a Jet employee. I'm saying as
Speaker 1: a player, he's a great player, but he's been ravaged
Speaker 1: by injuries over the years, and that offense is just
Speaker 1: not as is explosive. They're not going down the field
Speaker 1: as much. And listen, No, I don't think Brady is
Speaker 1: gonna be at month Life Stadium too many more times
Speaker 1: in the future. Here's a trivia question for you if
Speaker 1: you're listening to the Official Jets Podcast and comment with
Speaker 1: your answers. And Sam Donald's twenty one by the way,
Speaker 1: and Josh Allens how however old he is, and uh
Speaker 1: Armando si Garros he doesn't think Ryan Dannehill is gonna
Speaker 1: be the guy in Miami. We don't know he's gonna
Speaker 1: be the guy in my So so here's a trivial
Speaker 1: question that you can comment your answers and leave, leave
Speaker 1: a review, leave a rating. Tom Brady said this, Tom
Speaker 1: Brady super Bowl MVP four out of five rings? Who
Speaker 1: is the fifth guy? Who is the guy that want
Speaker 1: the VP? Not named Tom Brady? And before we close
Speaker 1: up here on the Official Jets Podcast, yea, what it's
Speaker 1: your favorite side dish for Thanksgiving? And your favorite dessert.
Speaker 1: I don't really have a favorite side dish. I used
Speaker 1: to be a big bread guy. When when I grew up,
Speaker 1: they didn't tell you her about hydras was awful for you.
Speaker 1: Now now we live in a world where it's proteins
Speaker 1: and vegetables all the time, things like that. So i'd
Speaker 1: say my favorite side dishes probably uh um, salad or
Speaker 1: something like that. Is that plain Jane for you a
Speaker 1: little bit? You just said, like, no, first of all,
Speaker 1: no details all the salad. I love. Listen, I'm a
Speaker 1: big baked potato guy, but nobody grows some baked potatoes.
Speaker 1: I like baked potato. Yeah, like what I would do
Speaker 1: with baked potatoes. You put it on a lunar foil
Speaker 1: and you put it in the back of the grill.
Speaker 1: You have put butter on that, baby, you know, pull
Speaker 1: whatever fixings you want on that, and then you bake it.
Speaker 1: You put it on the grill, you grow it up,
Speaker 1: and you have that grilled potato. You have that skin.
Speaker 1: Yeah that's blackened. Oh okay, yeah that's a good stuff now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: because the skin is very good for you. My mom
Speaker 1: taught me that early on. Because I'm not a big
Speaker 1: mashed potatoes. Fine, I'll eat them, but I like the
Speaker 1: skin on a potato. So um, I'm a big, big
Speaker 1: potato guy. You could twice baked potato if you want to. So,
Speaker 1: but I don't like cranberry one tranberry sauce. Get it
Speaker 1: away from me. I don't want it either. I like it,
Speaker 1: but I don't love it. I don't love it. I'd
Speaker 1: rather have my baked potato. And I gotta be honest
Speaker 1: with you. Turkey. You know it's funny because I I
Speaker 1: totally agree, and I have this conversation every year. It
Speaker 1: is turkeys. Okay, how often outside of Thanksgiving do you
Speaker 1: eat thick cut turkey? Like not deli meat turkey, thick
Speaker 1: cut turkey never? Okay, so there you go, never for me.
Speaker 1: For for me, Thanksgiving is appetizers, like the little snacky thing.
Speaker 1: I don't like cheese though you don't like cheese, Okay,
Speaker 1: Well that what happens is every year at Thanksgiving we serve.
Speaker 1: I'm not the host, but the host serves pigs in
Speaker 1: a blanket. So the pigs and a blanket are are
Speaker 1: are hot? Are like hot cakes? They're they're hot options.
Speaker 1: Yet so those go and then I usually fill up
Speaker 1: on appetizers, have a little bit of salad or turkey whatever,
Speaker 1: and then the host makes this beautiful ice cream cake
Speaker 1: and I have a slice crew cake. So if you're
Speaker 1: going desserts, I mean I'm a pumpkin probably guy, I
Speaker 1: love it. Well, yeah, you like the pumpkin spice. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: pumpkin spice. Love those. That's how weas starting my day.
Speaker 1: Little pumpkin spice in my coffee. But cheesecake I like
Speaker 1: it too, but uh, I like it a little pumpkin flavor.
Speaker 1: Maybe ice cream cake is good. All that stuff is good.
Speaker 1: I almost said a profanity here on the podcast. I'm
Speaker 1: sure you can, but I will like not to. All right,
Speaker 1: all that stuff is good. And that's how we close
Speaker 1: out the Official Jet Podcast again, Jets Patriots this Sunday.
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening to everybody throughout the year. Throughout the year,
Speaker 1: Thanks for listening, Thanks for staying loyal. The podcast does
Speaker 1: not stop. It will not stop in the off season,
Speaker 1: so be sure to stay tuned and have a wonderful Thanksgiving.