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Speaker 1: Wednesday Huddle on the Official Jet Podcast. Ethan Reamur here
Speaker 1: with olivialand and bringing you another hot edition of the
Speaker 1: Wednesday Huddle. Jets Tokoa win this weekend gets revibing on
Speaker 1: the field, positive vibes of the locker room, gotta win,
Speaker 1: good good Sunday, beautiful out, a little too hot though
Speaker 1: always a good Sunday when you get when you snag
Speaker 1: a win, and it was extremely hot, you know, but
Speaker 1: you have to give credit to the fans for sticking
Speaker 1: it out from most of the games and and also
Speaker 1: ironic it was fall on Sunday. Yeah. Quote, I'll put
Speaker 1: an air quote here. I'll put an air quote. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm waiting for fall. Fall is my favorite season. So
Speaker 1: I'm I'm not no, I'm not a pumpkin spice latte
Speaker 1: kind of guy, but I will say I do indulge
Speaker 1: in when it gets a little colder in a mint
Speaker 1: hot chocolate, mint hot chocolate come wintertime. Dude, I just
Speaker 1: can't with you. What are your weird weird candy sweet ops. Okay,
Speaker 1: we're gonna go there this early in the wednes I
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Speaker 1: after your phone. But let's backtrack two weeks ago where
Speaker 1: Olivia and I had a little bit of a candy
Speaker 1: debate where Marshawn Lynch Oakland Raiders running Back obviously sponsored
Speaker 1: by Skittles or he eats the skittles whatever. We asked
Speaker 1: each other what candy we'd want to be sponsored by.
Speaker 1: You went with You went off the map, guy, You
Speaker 1: went with strawberry. You know, I'm sorry. You went with
Speaker 1: Mentos flavored flavored fruit flavored Mentos, and I went with
Speaker 1: sour patch kids. So we took to Twitter to figure
Speaker 1: out who was right and who was wrong. And the
Speaker 1: people agree with your boy, Ethan Greenberg. I gotta give
Speaker 1: you this one that people have officially spoken, and the
Speaker 1: people's champ as e A and many others say give
Speaker 1: the belt, and I swept the floor in favor of e. G. Oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know you can't you can't spell Landis or Olivia
Speaker 1: without and al on the candy call. But we got
Speaker 1: bigger fish to fry here and obviously the Jets one.
Speaker 1: It was great. But something that was really cool was
Speaker 1: pregame national anthem. The Jets linked arms with each other
Speaker 1: with CEO and chairman Christopher Johnson and general manager Mike
Speaker 1: The Kagnet Todd Bowl is one of the coolest things
Speaker 1: that you can see in sports, is when sports, you know,
Speaker 1: people haven't say sports and a microcosm of life, and
Speaker 1: now it was just really special to see on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I thought, yeah, I thought so too, And I spoke
Speaker 1: to Josh McCown earlier this week and he mentioned how
Speaker 1: that was just one of the most special things to
Speaker 1: him because he was able to come together with his
Speaker 1: teammates and he led he led a huddle actually after
Speaker 1: the game, which we saw, which we saw a video
Speaker 1: of which was really cool. So to see people come
Speaker 1: together and really stand together to try and make a
Speaker 1: difference is is an awesome thing to see. All right,
Speaker 1: So moving on now, the Jets welcome the Jaguars Week four.
Speaker 1: Just the Jags, the second home game for the Jets
Speaker 1: in as many weeks, and something that's kind of interesting.
Speaker 1: That I'd like to touch on is the Jaguars coming
Speaker 1: back from London this past weekend where they dominated the
Speaker 1: Ravens in a forty four to seven victory. But traveling
Speaker 1: to London and then traveling on a road game to
Speaker 1: New York must be really difficult because the Dolphins, even
Speaker 1: I feel I feel bad for the players because obviously
Speaker 1: Week one they didn't play because of Hurricane Evermo, so
Speaker 1: that was their bye week, right, So sixteen straight weeks
Speaker 1: of football, and on top of that, they traveled to
Speaker 1: l A to play the Chargers in week two, played
Speaker 1: US in week three in UH at matt Life, then
Speaker 1: they travel all the way to London in Week four,
Speaker 1: and then finally they play in South Florida in Week five,
Speaker 1: which is and then you get no rest. And for
Speaker 1: the Jags a little different because their bye week wasn't
Speaker 1: Week one, but still you even though the Jaguars were home,
Speaker 1: technically in London, that was their home game. It's a
Speaker 1: neutral site, it's across the pond, five hour time difference,
Speaker 1: You go for the majority of the week, you come back,
Speaker 1: you get adjusted, and then you go on the road. Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's not I mean listen. We've talked about this earlier
Speaker 1: and some of our earlier podcasts, and travel is a
Speaker 1: huge deal. I think it takes a big toll on
Speaker 1: the players, especially flying cross country. I mean, the US
Speaker 1: isn't small, okay, people. So when you're going to l
Speaker 1: A one week and then New York west to East coast,
Speaker 1: that's crazy right there. But then to go across you know,
Speaker 1: like you said, across the pond all the way over
Speaker 1: to Europe, that's a huge trip. And I've taken that
Speaker 1: trip multiple times. Let me tell you, oh, oh, we
Speaker 1: got a world traveler. We got a world traveler here
Speaker 1: that you've studied abroad in Italy. But what's your favorite
Speaker 1: place that you've been to, not in the US, that
Speaker 1: you'd like to go back to, or somewhere that you
Speaker 1: haven't been. I think one of the places I'd like
Speaker 1: to go back to would probably be Germany, Munich and
Speaker 1: go to October Fest. It is just okay, October is
Speaker 1: coming up. People wishing I was in Germ October Sunday.
Speaker 1: Can you believe that? No? I can't. That's the start
Speaker 1: of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In the NFL September flew by,
Speaker 1: you went to Oakland, you came back. I'm sure, how
Speaker 1: did you feel afterwards? I mean, you're not putting on
Speaker 1: pads every day like these guys, but still you do
Speaker 1: the travel with the travel. For me, for a person
Speaker 1: that's like you said, not putting on the pads, not
Speaker 1: out there every single day grinding, it's still hard. You know,
Speaker 1: the time difference is what messes you up the most,
Speaker 1: because you know you could travel on a plane. You
Speaker 1: get to relax, you get to sleep as much as
Speaker 1: you can. But the time difference is what really screws
Speaker 1: people up. I think jumping back and forth. Something that
Speaker 1: I've heard is that it also messes up your eating schedule.
Speaker 1: I don't know if that really affected you, but I've
Speaker 1: heard that October Fest doesn't mess up the eating schedule. Okay, no,
Speaker 1: but I've heard from Bart Scott, who's does Inside the
Speaker 1: Jets with Eric Allen on Monday nights, and that is
Speaker 1: repurposed as a podcast here on the Official Jets podcast
Speaker 1: every Monday night. So will make sure to tune in
Speaker 1: the ESPN or go over to Anderbilt Sports and Spirits
Speaker 1: right across here from One Jets Drive. But something that
Speaker 1: he said is that when you travel to Oakland or
Speaker 1: anywhere across the country that sometimes as football players, you know,
Speaker 1: a big part of being a player is your health
Speaker 1: and your nutrition, and it kind of screws up your
Speaker 1: eating schedule, especially on game day when you have to
Speaker 1: make sure to have a pregame meal of breakfast and whatever.
Speaker 1: So I was just wondering if that affected you. I
Speaker 1: guess it didn't. It didn't, alright, facts And anyway, So
Speaker 1: Sunday Jets Jacks, one PMT Life Stadium, something that I'm
Speaker 1: looking forward to. Jamal Adams lining up against his former
Speaker 1: teammate and friend Leonard for NET. Both of them top
Speaker 1: six picks in the draft. For NET went fourth. Jamal
Speaker 1: obviously went six to the Jets, So he's probably really
Speaker 1: looking forward to this game, not only because it's the
Speaker 1: next on the schedule, but this is the potential jersey
Speaker 1: swap Okay, jersey swappler after the game calendar. Again, this
Speaker 1: is gonna be cool to see these two guys, like
Speaker 1: you said, who literally wind just a couple of picks apart.
Speaker 1: They were friends, went to play together at l s U.
Speaker 1: It's gonna be cool to see these two kind of
Speaker 1: match up together. But can you imagine playing against one
Speaker 1: of your buddies. Are you into high school with like
Speaker 1: professional like tackling him, like tackling the hell out of him,
Speaker 1: Like I mean, yeah, I mean it would be one
Speaker 1: thing if they're both defensive players. But this is gonna
Speaker 1: be It's gonna be cool to see. But I'm sure
Speaker 1: they both love it. I'm sure that that after that,
Speaker 1: Like if Jamal comes up and tackles him and and
Speaker 1: lays a hard hit, I'm sure he's gonna get a
Speaker 1: little smile out of Leonard for that. Just as the
Speaker 1: other way, if for Net rolled over a question for you,
Speaker 1: if you were Jamal and you know you were playing
Speaker 1: against Leonard for Nett, would you take it easy? Would
Speaker 1: you take it easy? Or would you go as hard
Speaker 1: as you can but tackle the crap? All right? I
Speaker 1: try to keep the level head because emotions, you know,
Speaker 1: that's where that's where you gets steered wrong when emotions
Speaker 1: take over. But I would definitely give a little extra
Speaker 1: chure afterwards, you know what I mean, because you know,
Speaker 1: if that's your buddy, you know that it's not going
Speaker 1: to get in his head, and you know that if
Speaker 1: you give him a little a little bit of lip
Speaker 1: after the play that he think it's funny too. And
Speaker 1: that's one of those memorable moments where, let's say, uh,
Speaker 1: even twenty years down the line, they could be you know,
Speaker 1: they're sitting down on each other's couch and be like, hey,
Speaker 1: I remember that one time a rookie year when we
Speaker 1: played each other the first time, and I told you
Speaker 1: x y Z, I think that I'd have to go
Speaker 1: just as hard, wouldn't you? I think so? I don't.
Speaker 1: Personally me, I'm just such a competitive person. Uh example,
Speaker 1: how me and Ethan keep comparing, how you keep losing?
Speaker 1: Whoa whoa? Watch yourself. I've taken one l and I'm
Speaker 1: that's that will be the last. Anyways, we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a Twitter fool here. Anyways, if it were me, I
Speaker 1: would I'm with you, I'd probably go harder. You gotta
Speaker 1: be you gotta have the upper hand. You want to
Speaker 1: be a friend that comes out on top, and like
Speaker 1: if you yeah, exactly exactly my friend were all the
Speaker 1: other side, Like if it was Ethan Greenberg versus you know,
Speaker 1: one of my friends, I'd want I'd want to shut
Speaker 1: him down, Like I don't want to see him succeed
Speaker 1: against me. Against the rest of the league. Yeah, that
Speaker 1: would be cool, not against me. Okay, bragging rights when
Speaker 1: you're older too. You are absolutely right. Any any other
Speaker 1: questions for me? I do have another question for you. Actually,
Speaker 1: so you have interviewed our Darry Stewart, I have as well.
Speaker 1: He's given us the stoopop the lowdown on his famous
Speaker 1: touchdown swag. Oh you know you got to hit him
Speaker 1: with the stoop up. What would your trademark dance movie
Speaker 1: be if one maybe said you were a defensive player,
Speaker 1: you got a sack or a p D or your
Speaker 1: receiver or whatever running back and you score a touchdown.
Speaker 1: You know, this requires a lot of thought because to me,
Speaker 1: it's like it's like dunks in the NBA contest, right
Speaker 1: in the NBA dunk competition every February, which is I'd
Speaker 1: want to think of one per week, you know, I
Speaker 1: want to change it up a little bit. I don't
Speaker 1: know if I would have one for sure. But here's
Speaker 1: my question is, well, first of all, I have to
Speaker 1: get the team involved the group celebrations, which is now
Speaker 1: legal in the NFL. I think is awesome, right, and
Speaker 1: you saw a couple of weeks ago, you've seen it
Speaker 1: throughout like Juju Smith Schuster on the Steelers and the
Speaker 1: rest of the receiving corps. Think lady On Bell was
Speaker 1: in there too. Who Oh, by the way, Lawrence Thomas,
Speaker 1: defensive line and slash fullback for the Jets, blocked for
Speaker 1: him in college at Michigan State. They were they were playing.
Speaker 1: They were playing dice. You know, they were rolling the dice.
Speaker 1: So I thought that was funny. Um my question to
Speaker 1: you is am I my current height? Because that's like
Speaker 1: a serious question. Um. I mean, we'll give you an advantage.
Speaker 1: You can pick any okay, Can I just have HOPSA
Speaker 1: you can have hops because your heights have serious hops?
Speaker 1: All right? Because I think like the dunk, you know
Speaker 1: what I mean on the goal post, I think that's
Speaker 1: sweet and that that had gotten discouraged. Honestly, I think
Speaker 1: it the pends on the play because, for example, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna paint a picture for you, right, you want me
Speaker 1: to do my Bob with shoes and play by PLAYBOYE
Speaker 1: do it. I can't do the big game Bob litening.
Speaker 1: I know I can't do play by play, but basically,
Speaker 1: this is what would happen. I catch I do an
Speaker 1: out route, right or and the ball would be thrown
Speaker 1: to me. I make a couple of guys missed because
Speaker 1: I'm by My natural state of athletic ability involves agility
Speaker 1: and quickness. If you ever want your ankles broken, hit
Speaker 1: me up anyway. So then I'd be running up the
Speaker 1: sideline and be like a big touchdown play. But then
Speaker 1: I'd slide in the end zone, pop up and give
Speaker 1: like the safe mark like in baseball. Okay, so you're
Speaker 1: integrating other sports into it. I like that. Yeah, So
Speaker 1: I mean I'd like to get creative, like on that play,
Speaker 1: you know you're hustling and then because there's no one around,
Speaker 1: you beat the throw home. As a metaphor, you pop up,
Speaker 1: You're safe, baby, that sits on the board. What about you? Well,
Speaker 1: I mean I think, and i'd like to dance. I'm
Speaker 1: not a good dancer, so but this isn't like Okay,
Speaker 1: I agree with you, but it's it's a it's an
Speaker 1: art because it's not like you're out dancing is not
Speaker 1: like a specific you can't like swing dance, and you can't.
Speaker 1: It just wouldn't be a funny celebration exactly. I'd like
Speaker 1: to think I'm funny, but sometimes people, you know, they
Speaker 1: just don't have a great sense of so I would
Speaker 1: try for maybe a funny celebration. Okay, I gotta pump
Speaker 1: up the crowd like Jamal, Like Jamal on Sunday. That
Speaker 1: was dude. That was incredible. The way you could feel
Speaker 1: you could feel the whole stadium, the defense, and the
Speaker 1: defense was dancing as the Miami Dolphins were in the
Speaker 1: huddle calling a play. It was pretty cool to see.
Speaker 1: It was phenomenal. And also, you know, I'm sure it'll
Speaker 1: be cool this weekend because if you don't know, Kevin
Speaker 1: May is going to be inducted into the Ring of
Speaker 1: Honor at halftime, which is gonna be phenomenal. I think
Speaker 1: it's time to bring in former Jet center Kevin. Kevin,
Speaker 1: thank you so much for joining us today. I'm glad,
Speaker 1: of course, and so obviously it was announced at the
Speaker 1: kickoff lunch and that you would be joining the Ring
Speaker 1: of Honor, so on the stage when you delivered your speech.
Speaker 1: As a player in the NFL, I used to go
Speaker 1: out there's a stadium four or five hours for a
Speaker 1: game and just sitting the stands and enjoy the moment um,
Speaker 1: the smell of the grass when they cut the field. Um,
Speaker 1: they're painting the field, And I would sit there and
Speaker 1: read all the names of the grace that ever played
Speaker 1: the game, UM, and every one of the stadiums. And
Speaker 1: I remember that guy when I played when I was
Speaker 1: eight years old. I remember that guy that's on the
Speaker 1: Ring of Honor when I was in high school, and
Speaker 1: I remember that guy. Never once wanting to be one
Speaker 1: of those guys. I just wanted to be a good
Speaker 1: football player. And I stand before you today and for
Speaker 1: you young players, I get to be one of those
Speaker 1: guys there. Thank you. You got a little emotional before
Speaker 1: during so I just kind of wanted to know what
Speaker 1: was going through your mind when you initially heard that
Speaker 1: you were going to be part of the Ring of Honor. Well,
Speaker 1: I just you know, I think the first thing is
Speaker 1: kind of surprised, and then the next reaction, Wow, this
Speaker 1: is pretty cool. And you know what I mean. Leading
Speaker 1: up to that, coming up to New York and kind
Speaker 1: of the circumstances that I was told I was coming
Speaker 1: there for it just kind of was a little fishy.
Speaker 1: UM and asked during your first more than that you're
Speaker 1: gonna be there for luncheon? He said no, congratulations, though
Speaker 1: I had no clue he's talking about this is like
Speaker 1: a week beforehand. And then the day before they announced it,
Speaker 1: I said picture accepting the picture with any touch dibority
Speaker 1: of one of the images on the walls the facility,
Speaker 1: and to hey, it wanted to show you a picture
Speaker 1: of my favorite quarterback in the town. And he called
Speaker 1: me and said, hey, congratulations. I'm like, I had no
Speaker 1: idea what you're talking about, and so it was kind
Speaker 1: of then that kind of well, maybe this is a
Speaker 1: little bit different than just coming here for a luncheon.
Speaker 1: And then the next day at the luncheon and they
Speaker 1: just kind of played it off. All of you guys
Speaker 1: with the Jettice was non salant about it, and I'm like, Okay,
Speaker 1: maybe they're wrong. And then they announced it, and that's
Speaker 1: what I'm like, Wow, and it really is happening, and
Speaker 1: it's pretty cool and it's special, and just spend so
Speaker 1: much in my career there, over half my career with
Speaker 1: the Jets and had some successful runs and I had
Speaker 1: individually had a great career while I was there, and
Speaker 1: it's just, uh, yeah, all those emotions just kind of
Speaker 1: came flooding back to me. You weren't expecting it. You're
Speaker 1: talking about how you know they kind of played this off,
Speaker 1: But what was your immediate feelings, especially when you heard
Speaker 1: your name and you heard what they actually had you
Speaker 1: coming out here for. Well, when when uh I was
Speaker 1: Houston called Joe Cleco, Joe Naman, then Wayne could bet
Speaker 1: up to the stage, That's when it hit me. That's
Speaker 1: what I knew what it was. And I looked at
Speaker 1: Wayne and and uh I said, well, I said, something
Speaker 1: going on, and he goes, yeah, he goes, He looked
Speaker 1: at me, say it's a good thing. And and that's
Speaker 1: what I knew, and and you know, and it was
Speaker 1: just it was neat because they brought back so many
Speaker 1: memories of you know, what we did while I was
Speaker 1: there with the teams, the guys that did it with
Speaker 1: and you know Wayne, and I suppose about have Wayne
Speaker 1: told Wayne before and he's one of my favorite teammates,
Speaker 1: as well as Benny and Curtis and and so just
Speaker 1: as all of a sudden, like your roller decks while
Speaker 1: your teammates that you played with a specipients of your head,
Speaker 1: and then you're forced to remember some of the great
Speaker 1: moments that you had with the jets and and so
Speaker 1: those are the things that just kind of started going
Speaker 1: through the head in my head, and it really it's
Speaker 1: a wild factor. It's one of those things that you're like,
Speaker 1: there's a personal kind of sense, the pride of you know,
Speaker 1: like I was one of the best ever put the
Speaker 1: Green and White on and and people recognize that. Kevin
Speaker 1: just backtracking here for a second, did Vinny kind of
Speaker 1: ruin the surprise? But you didn't really understand what was
Speaker 1: going on because you got you got caught off guard
Speaker 1: because you're just haunding even friendly text. And then all
Speaker 1: of a sudden he's saying congratulations, You're you're You're like,
Speaker 1: what is this for? And then it just comes together
Speaker 1: on stage when Wayne says, this is a good thing.
Speaker 1: Is that how it went down? Yeah, I kind of
Speaker 1: did time, but one thing you did off the line,
Speaker 1: you never saw your quarterback under the buff. So then
Speaker 1: he did a great job of backtracking and playing it off.
Speaker 1: And then because I mean that's that was backstage and
Speaker 1: they're like we'll just go up. There was off the
Speaker 1: lineman beginning and then and off the lines led by uh,
Speaker 1: you know New York's had great and then he was
Speaker 1: Brickshaw Ferguson, I like, really and so and he's a
Speaker 1: great player at alright, and I'm like, you got him
Speaker 1: and then you know I'm the third guy behind him,
Speaker 1: and so there's kind a little bit of that going on.
Speaker 1: And uh so they they said they did a great
Speaker 1: job and playing it off and and but then he
Speaker 1: didn't ruin it. He just kind of added to the
Speaker 1: suspicion of it. And then uh he goes, well, whatever happened,
Speaker 1: small and jury, you know, congratulations and he hearnything from me.
Speaker 1: So um, that's why I kind of knew. But again,
Speaker 1: like I said, they did. You know, all the people
Speaker 1: with the Jets organizations did a great job kind of
Speaker 1: until the office cent the day at the front of
Speaker 1: the luncheon and it was special what I knew the
Speaker 1: day before now and it was still a special moment
Speaker 1: and one that I'm gonna remember for a long long time.
Speaker 1: You are going to officially be in the Jets Ring
Speaker 1: of Honor, and that comes with a lot of talent
Speaker 1: and a lot of time with the Jets. So with
Speaker 1: your time, take us back to some of your top
Speaker 1: memories playing for the Jets and kind of walk us
Speaker 1: through what are some of the things that really stick
Speaker 1: out to you. It all started back in the free
Speaker 1: during free agency, and when I met with Bill Parcels.
Speaker 1: You know, he showed me that he knew what it
Speaker 1: took to win, and it maybe it felt like I
Speaker 1: was a priority for him and for the Jets. And
Speaker 1: so the day that I was told I agree the terns,
Speaker 1: that we agree the terms of the Jets was pretty
Speaker 1: a pretty special moment. And then that's why I met
Speaker 1: Rick Lyle, who was with the Jets at the time
Speaker 1: him and over the course of my career there, we
Speaker 1: developed a really close relationship and so a lot of
Speaker 1: the memories include him as just being a friend on
Speaker 1: the field, but off the fields as well. And then
Speaker 1: we go into the ninety eight season and we end
Speaker 1: up signing Brian Cox and Benny Tests three in that
Speaker 1: free agency period. You know, they secured Curse Martin and
Speaker 1: Cambi arguably one of the best re agent classes that
Speaker 1: the Jets have ever had, and um, we're going to win,
Speaker 1: you know, twelve twelve games that year, and you know,
Speaker 1: win Division in the first round by and we go
Speaker 1: to the NFC Championship game. And in that season, we
Speaker 1: had some really some good games. In one game that
Speaker 1: really sticks out is where the home in the Jets
Speaker 1: cheer at the end of the game started when we
Speaker 1: played Kansas City. In Kansas City haven't played the NFC
Speaker 1: West for my first four years. I knew that their
Speaker 1: tradition was the senior national anthem at the very end,
Speaker 1: it was the and the home of the Chiefs. So
Speaker 1: we beat them on a John Hall field goal late
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, and we broke it
Speaker 1: down on and somebody told me that I was the
Speaker 1: one who started it, and it doesn't matter who did.
Speaker 1: They became a tradition in the Jets locker room that
Speaker 1: when you win, you know, you break it down in
Speaker 1: the home of the Jets. And so that's where that started,
Speaker 1: and I was part of that. And so that was
Speaker 1: the game that really stuck out in my mind. You know,
Speaker 1: I think one of all the time favorite of the
Speaker 1: money in that miracle game, which is always and voted
Speaker 1: as the best money in that game. And he shouldn't
Speaker 1: lead down by thirty points in the fourth quarter. We
Speaker 1: come back and making into overtime when we win the
Speaker 1: game on a John Haffield goal. Um, that's pretty special.
Speaker 1: And one that every time they replay that game, I
Speaker 1: ended up watching it on TV like I've never seen
Speaker 1: it before, And that was part of it. And so
Speaker 1: you know, it's more that I staid of just one
Speaker 1: or two ten point moments. It's a collection of all
Speaker 1: those moments and the guys that made a special for me. So, Kevin,
Speaker 1: you you mentioned Vinny, you mentioned Wayne. Someone that I
Speaker 1: want to talk about is Curtis Martin, one of the
Speaker 1: one of the top running backs in NFL history. Just
Speaker 1: what was it like for you to block for someone
Speaker 1: that's made it to Canton And obviously you're someone that
Speaker 1: fingers crossed will be in there with Curtis one day,
Speaker 1: So what would it like to block for him? And
Speaker 1: do you have a particular story that sticks out to
Speaker 1: you about Curtis Martin the player or the person? Well,
Speaker 1: Curtis just you know, Parcels used to say that when
Speaker 1: your best player in the locker room is the best
Speaker 1: person in the locker room, then you're gonna have something special.
Speaker 1: And that's what Curtis is and that's what he was,
Speaker 1: and he embodied everything that you would hope a player
Speaker 1: would be. He was phenomenally talented, but incredibly humble about it.
Speaker 1: And you know, his friends with everybody, got along with
Speaker 1: everybody in the locker room and um, and so he
Speaker 1: was a special person, not just a special teammate. And
Speaker 1: you know, and I think an interesting name like Curtnis is.
Speaker 1: Though he has over ten thousands on the yards of
Speaker 1: Russian he never had a run over forty yards or
Speaker 1: thirty yards or whatever it was. And so he did
Speaker 1: it the hard way. He chipped away. You know, there
Speaker 1: are games where he carried the ball thirty some times
Speaker 1: and it's like five yards here, five yards there, and
Speaker 1: and he was a wolf course running back. And you know,
Speaker 1: he never celebrated in the locker. In the end zone.
Speaker 1: He scored touchdown Toronto right to his Officeive linemen, anything
Speaker 1: I Curtis, since you never said anything in the huddle,
Speaker 1: but there are time to he'd get mad and yelling
Speaker 1: the huddle at one of us or the group, and
Speaker 1: then the next play he'd come back in the hell,
Speaker 1: hey guys, I'm sorry, I didn't mean. He always yes
Speaker 1: done that, and you know, and you're in the end
Speaker 1: of the game and you got curse apologizing because he
Speaker 1: got lit up five yards in the backfield and and
Speaker 1: but again it goes to speak to who he was
Speaker 1: as a person over how he was as a player. Kevin,
Speaker 1: I'll tell you what. I'll make you a promise right
Speaker 1: here on the Jets Official Podcast that first off, I
Speaker 1: was one of those kids growing up that watch you playing.
Speaker 1: I will guarantee you that as a as a father
Speaker 1: down the road, I will pass on the legacy that
Speaker 1: you wish to be bestowed. That man, Thank you, mean
Speaker 1: that really does mean a lot and I appreciate it,
Speaker 1: no problem, Kevin, Thank you so much for joining us.
Speaker 1: Could not be more deserving of having your name and
Speaker 1: number up in the rafters. And looking forward to seeing
Speaker 1: you later in the weekend and safe travels, and thanks
Speaker 1: again for hopping on the Jets Official podcast. Congratulations absolutely
Speaker 1: thank you guys for having me. I appreciate it. Thanks Kevin,
Speaker 1: all right, that was Kevin. Why great guy. Couldn't be
Speaker 1: more deserving of having his name and number up in
Speaker 1: the rafters like we talked about. And I'm really excited
Speaker 1: to hear what he has to say and what he
Speaker 1: will say when he addresses the Jets crowd because we
Speaker 1: saw him at the kickoff lunch and last month and
Speaker 1: he he was His emotions were raw, they were pure,
Speaker 1: they were genuine. One of my talked about we talked
Speaker 1: about bucket list. Talked about bucket list a couple of
Speaker 1: weeks ago. One of my bucket list items is to
Speaker 1: deliver a big speech to I don't know what it is,
Speaker 1: like a ring of honor speech, something along that, whether
Speaker 1: it's a commencement speech. I love speeches. I don't know why.
Speaker 1: Learning more about fun fact. I killed my bar mits
Speaker 1: with speech. I drop, I dropped the mic afterwards was great.
Speaker 1: I had this place I had to place, rocking, rocking
Speaker 1: you you couldn't believe it. What what do you go
Speaker 1: with as your opening line? When you do when you
Speaker 1: do a speech, you go comedic, you go serious? What
Speaker 1: do you do? I usually tend to lighten the mood,
Speaker 1: but like, I come in serious, but then I like,
Speaker 1: it's like again another baseball analogy. You're coming in with
Speaker 1: the fastballs, and then you just drop a curve in there, auting,
Speaker 1: son't know what happens, start laughing. Now you got them
Speaker 1: in the palm of your hand. Now it's my show.
Speaker 1: It's not their show, it's my show. And then they're
Speaker 1: happy to be there. I like that. That's that's a
Speaker 1: good way of looking at it. I appreciate that. Okay.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward to, By the way, one day we're
Speaker 1: going to give one of these speeches. Because you're talking
Speaker 1: about pretty I expect a lot. I have high expectations. Okay,
Speaker 1: all right, Well for you it might be like uh,
Speaker 1: it might be and advice thing because you keep losing
Speaker 1: in these poles. I'm about to walk out of her people.
Speaker 1: It'sberg on the Wednesday huddle you're about. Olivia is dancing solo.
Speaker 1: She's making me do the pod solo. I see how
Speaker 1: it goes, all right? All right, no, no, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe one day, maybe one day, if if, if the
Speaker 1: streets aligned, I don't know what that means, but the
Speaker 1: streets a line, I'm gonna start using that. I don't
Speaker 1: know what it means, So please tell me when, like
Speaker 1: like a Cosby hat, if the stars aligned, our our
Speaker 1: lovely producer just rang in our ears and the stars align, Olivia,
Speaker 1: I'll let you know what. I'll give you a speech, okay. Perfect,
Speaker 1: And if the streets aligned too, that would be good too,
Speaker 1: because maybe the stars will you can if both happen. Perfect,
Speaker 1: there we go. Nothing can go wrong, right, nothing, I
Speaker 1: don't think so. I don't personally no, but if the
Speaker 1: stars aligned, then all shall be fine. We look at
Speaker 1: that rhyme. Yeah, I speech, That's what I do. I
Speaker 1: give speeches. This guys too much. This guy is too much.
Speaker 1: And that's what we got on the Wednesday Huddle on
Speaker 1: the Official Jet podcast again Jets and Jaguars, this Sunday
Speaker 1: Jet looking to go two and two on the year
Speaker 1: in Kevin Malai is gonna be there. Okay, you gotta go.
Speaker 1: You gotta see what he has to say, because this
Speaker 1: guy is one of the greats to ever wear green
Speaker 1: and white, and you should honor him the same way
Speaker 1: he wants to honor you. And honestly, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: beautiful day. I don't think it's quite fall weather it
Speaker 1: it'll be a nice day. It'll be a great weather.
Speaker 1: We're gonna be there so like a squad is gonna
Speaker 1: be there, so you're gonna want to be there again.
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