WEBVTT - Jets-Patriots Game Preview (11/22) 0:00:00.120 --> 0:00:05.280 The game is over, New York. You plate to win 0:00:05.559 --> 0:00:18.079 the game. He's got a Jet tousdown, can't. You're listening 0:00:18.120 --> 0:00:21.320 to the Official New York Jets podcast, A Jets three 0:00:21.400 --> 0:00:27.360 sixty production. What's up, everybody? Thanks for tuning into the 0:00:27.360 --> 0:00:31.040 Official Jets podcast. E A and I are back from 0:00:31.120 --> 0:00:35.120 the bye week Thanksgiving Alpis. It's almost like a like 0:00:35.159 --> 0:00:37.560 a double by in a way, because you have the 0:00:37.600 --> 0:00:39.240 bye week and then you have a couple of days 0:00:39.320 --> 0:00:43.000 off and a spotty schedule from Thanksgiving. It's kind of nice. 0:00:43.040 --> 0:00:45.080 Are you getting some days off this week? I don't 0:00:45.080 --> 0:00:47.440 know yet. Well Thanksgiving I feel I figured we're all 0:00:47.479 --> 0:00:51.120 getting off. Yeah, but it's more of a relaxed time, 0:00:51.120 --> 0:00:53.239 and any time that there's less traffic on the road, 0:00:53.280 --> 0:00:56.040 it's like a day off for me. I totally understand that, 0:00:56.560 --> 0:00:59.480 being someone who used to commute back and forth from 0:00:59.480 --> 0:01:03.240 Long Island every day, but this league from to clarify, 0:01:03.280 --> 0:01:05.720 from Jersey to Long Island. Yeah, one know, from Long 0:01:05.720 --> 0:01:10.680 Island to Jersey back. Yes, okay. So I would like 0:01:10.760 --> 0:01:14.560 to ask this question, is the players they came in 0:01:14.600 --> 0:01:17.200 on Thursday. I know there's no media availability that they 0:01:17.200 --> 0:01:19.800 probably have an early day on Thursday. Yeah, I believe that. 0:01:19.920 --> 0:01:22.800 I believe they do, because there's a pool reporter, okay, 0:01:22.920 --> 0:01:24.759 coming in and who is it? That would be New 0:01:24.800 --> 0:01:27.520 York Post Brian Costello. I was just gonna ask if 0:01:27.520 --> 0:01:29.720 it was. I feel like it's a yearly. It's an 0:01:29.720 --> 0:01:32.279 annual tradition for him coming in on Thanksgiving, the Turkey 0:01:32.319 --> 0:01:35.800 Day tradition. Man, maybe maybe he doesn't wanna, Maybe he 0:01:35.840 --> 0:01:38.200 has some Turkey duties that he wants to get out of. 0:01:38.640 --> 0:01:42.080 I feel like Thanksgiving us earlier this year and the 0:01:42.160 --> 0:01:44.840 Jets by was late. So now you have back to 0:01:44.959 --> 0:01:49.240 back consecutive weeks that are a little bit atypical for 0:01:49.280 --> 0:01:53.160 the regular season. And are you in Jersey for Thanksgiving? 0:01:54.320 --> 0:01:55.960 How about you? You're gonna be in the city. No, 0:01:56.120 --> 0:02:00.480 I'm going to Westchester where my grandma is, Okay, and 0:02:00.560 --> 0:02:02.720 she's a Jets fan. She is a Jets fan, Yeah 0:02:02.760 --> 0:02:05.200 she is. But what's been her take on the season 0:02:05.280 --> 0:02:07.320 or she just takes it on? She just takes it 0:02:07.360 --> 0:02:11.000 in every year every year she goes, We're going to 0:02:11.000 --> 0:02:14.519 the super Bowl. And I've heard that every every year 0:02:14.600 --> 0:02:18.200 since I've been alive, and every time baseball season comes around, 0:02:18.680 --> 0:02:21.320 Mets are going to the World Series. Yeah, well she 0:02:21.360 --> 0:02:25.360 she doesn't follow hockey. She's an internal optimist. We need 0:02:25.400 --> 0:02:28.120 more of those. Yeah, no doubt about it. She uh. 0:02:28.360 --> 0:02:31.919 Sometimes she asks me which which ones the Jets are 0:02:31.960 --> 0:02:34.960 on the TV. But maybe Dino Babers could have asked 0:02:34.960 --> 0:02:39.560 her for a pep talk after Racuse played Notre Dame 0:02:39.600 --> 0:02:42.320 at Yankee Stadium. Yeah, Syracuse did not have a good 0:02:42.840 --> 0:02:46.520 New York weekend. No, that's okay, and it's unfortunate because 0:02:46.560 --> 0:02:49.800 they're Brandon New York's college team. I think St. John's 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:52.200 New York's college. Yeah, you said that. I don't know, 0:02:52.240 --> 0:02:55.959 specially from a college basketball perspective. They can't get more 0:02:56.120 --> 0:03:00.000 city than I don't know where the term New York's 0:03:00.080 --> 0:03:03.520 college team comes from. I'll tell you what happened. Some 0:03:03.680 --> 0:03:08.040 marketing think tank got in a room and said, let's 0:03:08.040 --> 0:03:12.400 spring us this way. That's how it usually works. Well, 0:03:12.400 --> 0:03:16.320 when you're driving up eighty one, you see it on 0:03:16.320 --> 0:03:18.560 on a billboard, and the first time I saw it 0:03:18.639 --> 0:03:22.320 was just kind of like, what the heck is that thing? Well, hey, listen, 0:03:22.600 --> 0:03:25.160 we know the Jets are New York team and New 0:03:25.240 --> 0:03:28.240 Jersey's team, and so are the Giants. You know a 0:03:28.280 --> 0:03:31.720 lot of the Bills. Well yeah, well there's a lot 0:03:31.760 --> 0:03:34.440 of people, especially in Western New York, would say that 0:03:34.520 --> 0:03:38.840 the Bills are the only National Football League team in 0:03:38.880 --> 0:03:43.440 New York. But listen that that's not fair because this 0:03:43.440 --> 0:03:46.000 this Jets fan base, a lot of people is you 0:03:46.040 --> 0:03:50.760 well know Greens growing up in Manhattan. Um, it extends 0:03:50.760 --> 0:03:55.640 obviously into New York, and it made its base on 0:03:55.800 --> 0:04:00.280 Long Island at Awstra for decades before coming for here 0:04:00.280 --> 0:04:05.200 to Jersey full time, no doubt about it. And I 0:04:05.200 --> 0:04:07.280 always got confused. I mean, I'm gonna bring this up 0:04:07.320 --> 0:04:10.720 because this weekend Jets Patriots Week twelve, both teams coming 0:04:10.720 --> 0:04:13.480 off of bye week. There's a lot of debate is 0:04:13.880 --> 0:04:17.440 which states fall to New England and where does the 0:04:17.600 --> 0:04:20.520 line of New England stop, because it seems to have 0:04:21.080 --> 0:04:24.760 bled a little larger ones the Patriots and the Celtics 0:04:24.760 --> 0:04:27.560 and started to win a little more. Yeah, they've been 0:04:28.080 --> 0:04:31.680 over the last two decades. If you're from the Boston area, 0:04:32.560 --> 0:04:35.240 you're pretty asthetic by what your sports seems have been doing. 0:04:35.360 --> 0:04:41.599 But I would say New England is Massachusetts, Rhode Island 0:04:42.400 --> 0:04:46.160 in parts of Connecticut, not Vermont or New Hampshire. What 0:04:46.240 --> 0:04:50.400 about Maine, well that that yeah, yeah, you can throw 0:04:50.440 --> 0:04:53.120 all those states in there. But like New Hampshire, lived 0:04:53.160 --> 0:04:55.120 free or die, I don't think you're telling anybody in 0:04:55.120 --> 0:04:59.520 New Hampshire who the hell they're rooting for. Yeah to 0:04:59.640 --> 0:05:03.039 Claire five, that's uh, that's on their license plates. Yes 0:05:03.080 --> 0:05:05.240 it is. But that is their motto. That is the man. 0:05:05.600 --> 0:05:07.280 That is something that I lived by. So I'm not 0:05:07.279 --> 0:05:11.560 telling yeah, all right, well, but yeah, don't don't get 0:05:11.560 --> 0:05:14.799 in don't get in their way. New England, the Patriots. 0:05:14.880 --> 0:05:18.599 This is a precedent and run a success. Um. Hopefully 0:05:18.720 --> 0:05:23.159 we'll never see anything like it again, unless it's for 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:25.960 a team like the Jets. But the Patriots right now 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:29.480 with seven to three record, two game lead over the 0:05:29.560 --> 0:05:32.120 Miami Dolphins, and then FC East the Bills and the 0:05:32.240 --> 0:05:36.480 Jets three and seven records, and New England's beat Miami 0:05:36.560 --> 0:05:40.680 already this year once, they are well on their way 0:05:40.680 --> 0:05:47.440 to securing their tenth consecutive division championship and six out 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:53.200 of eighteen years. And for a Jets fan, it makes 0:05:53.200 --> 0:05:58.120 your skin crawl. So with all that being said, what 0:05:58.200 --> 0:06:01.440 do you think about this weekend's Matt jep Because these 0:06:01.440 --> 0:06:03.840 two teams every they see each other twice a year. 0:06:03.880 --> 0:06:06.400 They play each other tough, they know each other, and 0:06:06.800 --> 0:06:08.599 head coach child Bull said it a couple of weeks 0:06:08.600 --> 0:06:11.360 ago that a f C East games are typically blood baths. 0:06:12.120 --> 0:06:14.840 I think there are a lot of question marks surrounding 0:06:14.880 --> 0:06:18.120 the Jets because you don't know what you're gonna get 0:06:18.120 --> 0:06:21.080 on Sunday afternoon. Because I think a lot of guys 0:06:21.160 --> 0:06:24.520 Greens and I would ask you the same question when 0:06:24.520 --> 0:06:27.760 we're in the locker room after a game. Last that 0:06:27.839 --> 0:06:31.039 happened to be in Week ten when they lost forty 0:06:31.040 --> 0:06:34.080 one a ten of the Bills at Mylife Stadium, and 0:06:34.120 --> 0:06:36.520 I was surprised, but a number of players in the 0:06:36.640 --> 0:06:39.760 room was said, we had a great week of practice. 0:06:39.960 --> 0:06:43.560 I think they were shell shocked by what happened out there. Yeah, 0:06:43.640 --> 0:06:46.039 I think that the Jets weren't shell shocked a little bit, 0:06:46.200 --> 0:06:48.920 and they didn't have answers. Yeah, and they got in 0:06:48.960 --> 0:06:51.680 the whole early. And you've seen it that fast starts 0:06:51.680 --> 0:06:53.960 are imperative for the Jets. And you told me the 0:06:54.000 --> 0:06:56.359 other day after we looked it up that the Jets 0:06:56.400 --> 0:07:00.400 are thirty first in the NFL in first quarter point. Well, 0:07:00.440 --> 0:07:02.559 they only got twenty four points in the first quarter 0:07:02.600 --> 0:07:06.680 in the year. I think they scored against Detroit to 0:07:06.760 --> 0:07:08.960 even things up, but I know they scored ten points 0:07:08.960 --> 0:07:12.280 against the Colts. Actually looking back, but during this four 0:07:12.440 --> 0:07:16.320 game losing streak, they have not scored any points in 0:07:16.360 --> 0:07:20.000 the first quarter. No. Actually, like Christine corrected, Chris Hernon 0:07:20.040 --> 0:07:23.160 had a touchdown against the Minnesota Vikings and that game 0:07:23.200 --> 0:07:24.960 that even things up in the first quarter. But the 0:07:25.040 --> 0:07:27.920 last three games, the Jets haven't been on the scoreboard. 0:07:28.040 --> 0:07:31.160 I wrote just wrote about this right now. Actually, interesting 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:33.840 that you just brought this up, is that I think 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:37.680 they need something to happen good early and you tweeted it, 0:07:37.760 --> 0:07:40.680 and it's something we want back and forth about here 0:07:40.800 --> 0:07:46.680 throughout the week. Is that Ah, historically, in a very 0:07:46.720 --> 0:07:50.120 recent past, the Jets that played the Patriots tough at home. 0:07:50.480 --> 0:07:54.560 There's nothing to celebrate about that there. But the stats 0:07:54.640 --> 0:07:57.720 just tell you, strictly numbers will tell you that the 0:07:57.840 --> 0:08:02.480 Jets traditionally played Patriots. They give him a battle. But 0:08:02.600 --> 0:08:06.119 I mean, you're not looking for uh, there's no moral 0:08:06.200 --> 0:08:09.200 victories here, and Jets got to find and win, win 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:13.120 and win a football game last year in particular, just 0:08:13.200 --> 0:08:17.640 to zero in on that game. It was seventeen final 0:08:18.000 --> 0:08:21.880 with the Jets are on top fourteen nothing, and I 0:08:21.920 --> 0:08:23.880 don't know, there's a very specific play, so I don't 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.160 know if you remember it, but Buster Screen had an 0:08:26.200 --> 0:08:29.040 interception on a deep ball and then he almost had 0:08:29.040 --> 0:08:32.800 a second interception to where Brady was looking for Rob 0:08:32.800 --> 0:08:36.160 Gronkowski on the sideline and it went through Busters hands. 0:08:36.200 --> 0:08:39.280 But Buster could have been looking at another six right there. 0:08:39.760 --> 0:08:43.040 And it's a very specific play. But I remember us 0:08:43.080 --> 0:08:45.800 thinking in the press box that left the door open 0:08:45.920 --> 0:08:47.920 a little bit. And sure enough, the Patriots came back 0:08:47.960 --> 0:08:50.040 and they do what they did. But this is New England. 0:08:50.080 --> 0:08:53.480 Simply just doesn't beat themselves. Yeah, they're the least pedalized 0:08:53.480 --> 0:08:55.400 team in the NFL. Right now, Here's what I will 0:08:55.480 --> 0:08:57.520 tell you. That's a great stat Here's what I'll tell 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:00.480 you about the Patriots is that I don't see a 0:09:00.520 --> 0:09:04.680 team that is is dominant as they have been in 0:09:04.720 --> 0:09:09.280 the past, especially offensively. When you're watching the Rams and 0:09:09.320 --> 0:09:12.920 the Chiefs and the Saints. As I got an opportunity 0:09:13.240 --> 0:09:15.440 to over the weekend, and I think most of America 0:09:15.520 --> 0:09:19.839 watch Monday night football, I would say those offenses are 0:09:20.080 --> 0:09:22.400 a high of a lot more explosive than the Patriots. 0:09:23.040 --> 0:09:25.680 The Patriots still get the job done. I think they're 0:09:25.720 --> 0:09:30.400 averaging eight points a game, and Brady is still a 0:09:30.520 --> 0:09:34.520 very good quarterback. But there are certainly kinks in this armor. 0:09:35.080 --> 0:09:39.160 Rob Gronkowski is beat up from so many surgeries. He 0:09:39.200 --> 0:09:41.839 doesn't even have thirty receptions this year because he's been 0:09:41.840 --> 0:09:43.920 missing a lot of ball games. They think he's gonna 0:09:43.920 --> 0:09:46.720 be back in the lineup. Sony Michelle has been getting 0:09:46.800 --> 0:09:48.920 going on the ground. I think he's averaging a little 0:09:48.920 --> 0:09:51.960 bit over four yards to carry, and and their leading 0:09:51.960 --> 0:09:53.760 receiver is a guy by the name of James White, 0:09:53.920 --> 0:09:56.000 was a running back in his fifth year. He's got 0:09:56.040 --> 0:10:00.120 sixty six receptions. The next closest guy on that at 0:10:00.240 --> 0:10:02.560 chart is I don'lman, who missed the first fourty games. 0:10:02.640 --> 0:10:05.199 Julian I don't want he's got forty receptions. This this 0:10:05.280 --> 0:10:10.240 is not a team that goes as much downfield as 0:10:10.280 --> 0:10:12.480 you've seen him in the past. Well, I'm glad you 0:10:12.520 --> 0:10:16.360 mentioned that, because when you watch the Chiefs and the 0:10:16.440 --> 0:10:19.200 Rams on Monday Night football, yes, you see the exotic 0:10:19.320 --> 0:10:23.600 offenses and explosive offensive players whatever. But I think the 0:10:23.640 --> 0:10:26.199 Patriots are different in the fact that they're a little 0:10:26.200 --> 0:10:29.760 more surgical than the Chiefs and Rams, who seem to 0:10:29.800 --> 0:10:32.839 be continuously pushing the ball downfield. Until your point is, 0:10:33.160 --> 0:10:36.720 James White, the Patriots running back, leads to the team 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.760 in receptions and yards, I believe touchdowns as well, and 0:10:40.800 --> 0:10:46.280 he's been a real, I think underrated threat for the Patriots. Yeah. 0:10:46.320 --> 0:10:48.839 I think people will lead on things underrated, but I 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.040 get what you're saying. It's not I don't think he 0:10:51.080 --> 0:10:53.360 gets a whole lot of credit when you're talking about 0:10:53.360 --> 0:10:57.280 a guy who's got six touchdowns receiving. Yeah, I mean, 0:10:57.720 --> 0:10:59.959 listen to the Patriots offense. So Chess has to tackle 0:11:00.000 --> 0:11:02.120 well this week. Number One is they got to take 0:11:02.160 --> 0:11:05.200 away the run, and that went away against the Buffalo Bills, 0:11:05.240 --> 0:11:07.120 and and all those guys were really annoyed about that. 0:11:07.160 --> 0:11:09.480 They got to get back defensively, got to get back 0:11:09.520 --> 0:11:12.199 to taking away the run. You can't see Sony Michelle 0:11:12.200 --> 0:11:14.400 getting the edge this week, otherwise you're gonna be in trouble. 0:11:14.960 --> 0:11:18.199 Second part of this is you have to take care 0:11:18.240 --> 0:11:20.400 of the screen game because the Patriots are gonna try 0:11:20.440 --> 0:11:23.119 to throw the ball to the backs out of the backfield. 0:11:23.160 --> 0:11:26.840 Set those screens up um, left and right, and then 0:11:26.880 --> 0:11:30.000 it's the option routes. And option routes mean you have 0:11:30.120 --> 0:11:33.080 to tackle well in the secondary. I think the Jets 0:11:33.080 --> 0:11:36.280 will come up with a good game plan. Interesting stat too, 0:11:37.440 --> 0:11:41.160 and again there are different people. There's no uh stat 0:11:41.320 --> 0:11:45.239 that we live by in terms of blitzes against quarterbacks 0:11:45.280 --> 0:11:47.000 and things like that. But people in New England have 0:11:47.040 --> 0:11:50.960 said this year that Brady has struggled mightily against the 0:11:50.960 --> 0:11:54.720 blitz and if the Jets can somehow win on early 0:11:54.760 --> 0:11:58.200 downs where you're putting Brady in third and six, unleash 0:11:58.200 --> 0:12:00.839 the dogs, unleash the hounds get after. I know the 0:12:00.920 --> 0:12:04.200 Jets did not beat the New England Patriots last year, 0:12:04.640 --> 0:12:08.480 but two of Tom Brady's three worst performances from a 0:12:08.480 --> 0:12:12.960 completion percentage standpoint came against the Jets. One in Week 0:12:13.040 --> 0:12:17.160 six at MetLife Stadium, completed fifty four percent of his passes, 0:12:17.600 --> 0:12:20.800 and then Week seventeen, when the Jets lost in Foxborough, 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.920 he only completed right and then in the total of 0:12:23.960 --> 0:12:27.280 those two games, Well, I mean that's a good number. 0:12:28.120 --> 0:12:30.240 Oh yeah, YOU'RENNA, You're you're gonna sign up for that 0:12:30.280 --> 0:12:32.280 every week, I would say that he did have four 0:12:32.320 --> 0:12:36.680 touchdowns in the two games, and just Um rob Brokowski 0:12:36.760 --> 0:12:40.120 had two of those at MetLife. But then you gotta 0:12:40.160 --> 0:12:43.320 give Jamal Adams a lot of credit because he helped 0:12:43.800 --> 0:12:47.360 keep Gronk off the stat sheet in that six to 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.840 six game at Gilette Stadium. Those were if you're looking 0:12:50.920 --> 0:12:54.560 for something where you saw improvement from a player last 0:12:54.640 --> 0:12:56.760 year in his rookie season, and we've seen him jump 0:12:56.800 --> 0:13:00.280 off in this year. Two was he came out after 0:13:00.480 --> 0:13:03.200 Grog really got the better of him at Motlife Stadium, 0:13:03.240 --> 0:13:05.839 and they did a great job on him and that 0:13:06.040 --> 0:13:09.800 second game. But again, no moral victories. You wrote about it, 0:13:10.080 --> 0:13:14.439 I've written about it. Everybody's talking about morales high uh 0:13:14.600 --> 0:13:17.640 tod Bol said that Josh McCown echoed those sentiments and 0:13:17.679 --> 0:13:20.920 then both said we're gonna fight. Everybody on the team 0:13:21.000 --> 0:13:23.480 is going to fight, the players and the staff, and 0:13:23.600 --> 0:13:27.360 Jamal Adams said, fight, fight, fight. How about how about 0:13:27.480 --> 0:13:30.880 last time these two teams met, Jamal Adams was shirtless 0:13:31.440 --> 0:13:35.720 in Foxborough on perhaps ridiculous day. We talked to Bart 0:13:35.720 --> 0:13:39.440 Scott about this too. Man, No, not about Jamal coming 0:13:39.440 --> 0:13:43.679 out against the Patriots, but Northwestern when they played Minnesota 0:13:44.120 --> 0:13:47.400 twenty two degrees in Minnesota last week and all every 0:13:47.520 --> 0:13:49.439 all the kids came out with their and I can 0:13:49.480 --> 0:13:51.280 call him kids now because I'm a lot older than 0:13:51.320 --> 0:13:53.800 they are. They all come out with their shirts off 0:13:53.920 --> 0:13:56.880 twenty two degrees weather. By the way, if it's twenty 0:13:56.880 --> 0:13:59.920 two degrees, I'm gonna have thirty layers on the makeup 0:14:00.000 --> 0:14:04.440 off as harsh. But do less, Northwestern? Do less? Why? Why? 0:14:04.760 --> 0:14:07.720 It seemed a little try hard to me? Yeah, what 0:14:07.720 --> 0:14:10.120 what's the point? But did you do you take that 0:14:10.200 --> 0:14:13.960 same tone with the president of all last year? I 0:14:14.160 --> 0:14:16.079 it was an individual, I think it would be a 0:14:16.120 --> 0:14:18.240 little different, and the whole team thing struck me. Oh 0:14:18.320 --> 0:14:19.920 the team thing was a little bit over the top. 0:14:19.960 --> 0:14:22.640 Four you Yeah, yeah, it seemed a little a little 0:14:22.760 --> 0:14:25.080 more calculated that way, you know what I mean, like 0:14:25.120 --> 0:14:27.520 a little more thought into it where Jamal is probably 0:14:27.560 --> 0:14:29.240 you know. Can I tell you that it took me 0:14:29.400 --> 0:14:32.640 like a couple of weeks when we came back from 0:14:32.640 --> 0:14:35.640 New Year's eive at Gillette Stadium in that game for 0:14:35.760 --> 0:14:38.560 my bones to actually heat up, because I got a 0:14:38.600 --> 0:14:44.760 feeled the old ice on my bones for days. Yeah, 0:14:44.920 --> 0:14:46.720 that was there was that the coldest game you've ever 0:14:46.720 --> 0:14:48.240 been to. I think that was the coldest game I've 0:14:48.280 --> 0:14:50.720 ever been to. Yeah, that's a period. I don't think 0:14:50.720 --> 0:14:52.440 the weather it's gonna be that bad this week. I 0:14:52.480 --> 0:14:54.760 really hope the Jets fans I get into this game. 0:14:54.840 --> 0:14:56.680 Like I said, you gotta get them going early. Man, 0:14:57.160 --> 0:15:00.680 you know it better than anybody's that these people are 0:15:00.680 --> 0:15:03.280 starving for a win. They're frustrated right now, rightfully so. 0:15:03.880 --> 0:15:06.400 But I was encouraged by the locker room. I'm not 0:15:06.440 --> 0:15:10.040 saying it's going to transcend uh to the football field, 0:15:10.080 --> 0:15:12.600 but I do think that the guys had the proper 0:15:12.680 --> 0:15:17.240 mindset and probably even though everybody is you're continuing to 0:15:17.360 --> 0:15:20.000 learn here in Green's, everybody's always going to tell you 0:15:20.040 --> 0:15:22.000 it's a great time for bye. But for the Jets, 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:25.200 after what happened against the Bills and that shell lacking, 0:15:25.760 --> 0:15:27.200 they really had to get the hell out of here. 0:15:28.440 --> 0:15:29.960 I think it was good for him. I think it 0:15:30.000 --> 0:15:32.000 was good for him. Listen, No, I'm not ripping on 0:15:32.040 --> 0:15:35.240 anybody else. That happens. Sometimes you never want to see 0:15:35.280 --> 0:15:37.520 that happened. But I really think it was positive for 0:15:37.560 --> 0:15:41.200 everybody to say, Okay, let's get away and resent you know, 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.200 I was thinking about this and it's non football related. 0:15:45.440 --> 0:15:49.160 Sam Donald talked about a little bit about his commute 0:15:49.200 --> 0:15:52.360 on Thursday, trying to get into city. If we had 0:15:52.440 --> 0:15:55.320 worked that Thursday, I would have stayed out in Flora 0:15:55.360 --> 0:15:59.760 Park because there was no way I was going from 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:03.480 here to Hoboken. I heard. I heard stories where it 0:16:03.560 --> 0:16:07.120 took what a fifteen minute drive was supposed to be 0:16:07.600 --> 0:16:10.520 ended up being three hours. Yeah. I heard a bunch 0:16:10.520 --> 0:16:14.600 of horse stories. And the New Jersey Transit buses were 0:16:14.680 --> 0:16:19.120 letting passengers off at the top at the front of 0:16:19.200 --> 0:16:22.040 the GW Bridge on the top level so they could 0:16:22.080 --> 0:16:25.160 walk across into the city because there was no cars 0:16:25.160 --> 0:16:27.800 allowed on the top level of the GW. Yeah, but 0:16:27.880 --> 0:16:29.600 what did they do once they get to the city. 0:16:29.600 --> 0:16:31.880 They walked all the way home. No, you probably then 0:16:31.960 --> 0:16:35.640 catch a subway right there or where the subways running. Yeah, 0:16:35.640 --> 0:16:37.480 I believe so, I mean, if you're not a little 0:16:37.480 --> 0:16:39.880 bit delayed. But I had. I was in the city 0:16:39.880 --> 0:16:42.160 when it started to snow and I had just gotten 0:16:42.680 --> 0:16:45.600 I had just got my haircut, and I had to 0:16:45.680 --> 0:16:48.400 walk like twenty blocks south to meet up with my 0:16:48.440 --> 0:16:51.520 friend before going to Syracuse, Yukon. At the garden, which 0:16:52.320 --> 0:16:54.920 you know when it ranged pores and that was the 0:16:54.920 --> 0:16:59.120 beginning of a bad weekend. But but the wh put 0:16:59.120 --> 0:17:01.800 it on you guys, Oh grain, this is gonna have 0:17:01.840 --> 0:17:07.960 a tough weekend. But the subway line was so long 0:17:08.200 --> 0:17:10.879 that it was it was much easier just to walk 0:17:10.920 --> 0:17:14.760 and much faster. So the whole thing was a mess. 0:17:15.359 --> 0:17:17.240 So you can put in the weather in there. Well, 0:17:17.280 --> 0:17:21.160 fortunately the weather has been okay lately, so um, yeah, 0:17:21.280 --> 0:17:24.720 I think the weather will not be a factor Sunday. 0:17:25.320 --> 0:17:28.840 Uh at MetLife there's calling for I think temperatures in 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.159 the fifties, is that right, Uh, it's supposed to be 0:17:31.280 --> 0:17:34.040 rather warm. I think okay, But well, you know, and 0:17:34.119 --> 0:17:38.399 the fans I know that. Like I said, you know, everybody, 0:17:38.560 --> 0:17:42.440 they're overdue for a win. And I think the players, 0:17:43.040 --> 0:17:47.160 you know, there was a lot of professional pride, individual pride. 0:17:47.400 --> 0:17:51.400 And Jamal also put it eloquently, I thought when he said, 0:17:52.320 --> 0:17:57.000 you have a number of different motivations, including everybody has 0:17:57.000 --> 0:18:01.560 a different y um, but in it's you're the name 0:18:01.600 --> 0:18:03.159 on the back of your jersey, the name on the 0:18:03.240 --> 0:18:04.919 front of your jersey, and I think it matters to 0:18:04.960 --> 0:18:08.199 those guys. I think they will come out and have 0:18:08.320 --> 0:18:10.280 a much better offer than they did two weeks ago. 0:18:11.000 --> 0:18:14.640 I want to know, with six games remaining, who are 0:18:14.680 --> 0:18:19.200 some players that you're excited to see their performance down 0:18:19.359 --> 0:18:22.680 the home stretch after the bye week, and not just 0:18:23.280 --> 0:18:26.080 against New England, but when you look in totality of 0:18:26.160 --> 0:18:29.199 these finals, six weeks of regular season. Well, I'll let 0:18:29.200 --> 0:18:31.800 you handle Donald. I'm not gonna take everything, so I'll 0:18:31.840 --> 0:18:36.720 take offensively, Eli McGuire, a guy's got a couple of 0:18:36.720 --> 0:18:41.080 games under his belt and he's he's proved continues to 0:18:41.119 --> 0:18:43.719 prove to be an elusive runner, and he's adopt out 0:18:43.760 --> 0:18:47.000 of the backfield catching football. He's got the low pad level. 0:18:47.119 --> 0:18:50.119 I really like what I've seen on him. Chris Herndon 0:18:50.200 --> 0:18:52.320 continues to be an emerging tight on for this team. 0:18:52.359 --> 0:18:57.159 Trent and Cannon has been outstanding special teams player. What 0:18:57.359 --> 0:19:00.880 let's see if he can continues, UH, continue to get 0:19:01.000 --> 0:19:04.879 some subpackages offensively and use them in different ways like 0:19:04.920 --> 0:19:08.640 they did against the Bills that use them on the underground. Uh. 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:12.320 And then defensively, for me, it's the secondary um because 0:19:12.359 --> 0:19:16.280 Trumaine Johnson, this is in the year I'm sure that 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.879 he envisioned after he came over from the Rams and 0:19:19.240 --> 0:19:22.199 signed the big deal in the off season. Unfortunately, that 0:19:22.280 --> 0:19:25.239 quad injury hampered him early and then he give up 0:19:25.440 --> 0:19:27.439 a big play to start the game against the Bills. 0:19:27.480 --> 0:19:30.040 But he's still He's still a good cornerback Greens and 0:19:30.640 --> 0:19:32.320 at the end of the day, you're gonna be counting 0:19:32.320 --> 0:19:35.440 on Trewemaine Johnson and those two safeties for a long time, 0:19:35.520 --> 0:19:39.360 no matter what personnel changes around those guys. So I'm 0:19:39.359 --> 0:19:42.479 really looking at the secondary, and like I told you, 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:46.240 I'm letting you handle Donald, but here's your quarterbacks. You're 0:19:46.240 --> 0:19:50.399 facing Tom Brady twice, Aaron Rodgers possibly wants well to 0:19:50.440 --> 0:19:52.800 see what happens with Green Bay Deshaun Watson. A lot 0:19:52.840 --> 0:19:55.520 of people think he is one of the finer uh 0:19:55.720 --> 0:19:59.879 young quarterbacks in the game. Uh, Marcus Mariotta's a former 0:20:00.080 --> 0:20:02.400 top five pick. And then you're probably gonna see Josh 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:04.680 Allen for the first time. So I'm gonna I'm gonna 0:20:04.720 --> 0:20:09.000 say the second year. Okay, you listing off those quarterbacks 0:20:09.000 --> 0:20:11.359 reminds me of last year when the Jets had Breeze, 0:20:11.480 --> 0:20:14.280 Rivers and Brady to close out the year. I remember 0:20:14.320 --> 0:20:19.680 talking about that, but Donald particular if he plays right now, 0:20:19.720 --> 0:20:23.240 it's unknown as we record the podcast because he's has 0:20:23.280 --> 0:20:27.679 a strained right foot and he didn't practice Monday, but 0:20:27.920 --> 0:20:31.080 no injury report came out on Monday, because Wednesday's when 0:20:31.080 --> 0:20:34.760 the injury report comes out. And I think what we 0:20:34.880 --> 0:20:37.840 talked about this before to Tony Romo said this to 0:20:38.040 --> 0:20:44.000 Olivia Landis at the Bears game, that fans should look 0:20:44.440 --> 0:20:47.560 to see maybe Donald perhaps turn a page towards the 0:20:47.680 --> 0:20:50.800 end of this season as he begins to learn more 0:20:50.880 --> 0:20:54.000 and more and taking things more and more. And he really, 0:20:54.040 --> 0:20:58.560 like you mentioned and on our show Practice Today presented 0:20:58.600 --> 0:21:01.159 by Serious Sex, m that he really was referring to 0:21:01.240 --> 0:21:03.679 next year when Donald comes back and O t s 0:21:03.760 --> 0:21:05.920 and how things will really slow down for him then. 0:21:06.200 --> 0:21:09.680 But he made it seem he meaning Rome Mo, made 0:21:09.720 --> 0:21:11.919 it seemed like that some of that could still happen 0:21:12.320 --> 0:21:14.560 towards the end of this season. And I'm really looking 0:21:14.560 --> 0:21:17.600 forward to seeing what may or may not happen, assuming 0:21:17.640 --> 0:21:21.280 he starts, And just branching off of that, I'm you 0:21:21.359 --> 0:21:23.520 mentioned Eli McGuire, I'm kind of excited to see what 0:21:23.680 --> 0:21:27.600 Zakrol can do because he's flashed no doubt against the 0:21:27.640 --> 0:21:30.119 lines in week one against the Broncos in Week five. 0:21:30.600 --> 0:21:33.800 But other than that, I think he he hasn't had 0:21:33.840 --> 0:21:37.160 a great season, and he's had great moments, but I'm 0:21:37.240 --> 0:21:40.760 very interested to seeing what happens with him. And he 0:21:40.840 --> 0:21:43.320 was bothered with an ankle injury after Week five, and 0:21:43.359 --> 0:21:45.960 I think that kind of slowed him up a little bit. 0:21:46.440 --> 0:21:49.240 And I'm very excited to see what this offensive line 0:21:49.240 --> 0:21:53.920 can do because Spencer Long was hurt. James Carpenter didn't 0:21:53.920 --> 0:21:56.080 practice Monday, so we'll see the status on him. But 0:21:56.320 --> 0:22:00.320 I wonder what how that unit in particular will spot, 0:22:00.400 --> 0:22:02.200 because you know, the Jets want to run the ball, 0:22:03.000 --> 0:22:05.360 and that's how they're going to have success the season, 0:22:05.760 --> 0:22:08.639 especially when you have a rookie back there when you 0:22:08.680 --> 0:22:11.000 can take some of the pressure off of him. So 0:22:11.080 --> 0:22:13.080