WEBVTT - Wednesday Huddle with Kevin Mawae (9/27) 0:00:00.240 --> 0:00:06.120 Like on the world you played to win the game 0:00:07.040 --> 0:00:17.880 as a Jet touchdown, can't win your Listen to the 0:00:17.920 --> 0:00:24.799 Official Jets podcast Jets three sixty Production. Welcome inside the 0:00:24.800 --> 0:00:29.040 Wednesday Huddle on the Official Jet Podcast. Ethan Reamur here 0:00:29.040 --> 0:00:31.639 with olivialand and bringing you another hot edition of the 0:00:31.640 --> 0:00:36.920 Wednesday Huddle. Jets Tokoa win this weekend gets revibing on 0:00:37.000 --> 0:00:40.360 the field, positive vibes of the locker room, gotta win, 0:00:41.159 --> 0:00:45.200 good good Sunday, beautiful out, a little too hot though 0:00:45.360 --> 0:00:47.520 always a good Sunday when you get when you snag 0:00:47.560 --> 0:00:50.199 a win, and it was extremely hot, you know, but 0:00:50.560 --> 0:00:53.040 you have to give credit to the fans for sticking 0:00:53.040 --> 0:00:56.520 it out from most of the games and and also 0:00:56.760 --> 0:01:02.800 ironic it was fall on Sunday. Yeah. Quote, I'll put 0:01:02.800 --> 0:01:07.200 an air quote here. I'll put an air quote. Yeah, 0:01:07.200 --> 0:01:10.160 I'm waiting for fall. Fall is my favorite season. So 0:01:10.720 --> 0:01:15.039 I'm I'm not no, I'm not a pumpkin spice latte 0:01:15.160 --> 0:01:19.160 kind of guy, but I will say I do indulge 0:01:19.440 --> 0:01:22.360 in when it gets a little colder in a mint 0:01:22.400 --> 0:01:26.679 hot chocolate, mint hot chocolate come wintertime. Dude, I just 0:01:26.720 --> 0:01:31.600 can't with you. What are your weird weird candy sweet ops. Okay, 0:01:31.600 --> 0:01:33.440 we're gonna go there this early in the wednes I 0:01:33.520 --> 0:01:38.240 had also please subscribe. We're on your phone, We're on 0:01:38.280 --> 0:01:41.840 your internet machines, New York Jets dot com and soundclaud 0:01:41.880 --> 0:01:44.080 You can check us out there subscribe in your podcast 0:01:44.120 --> 0:01:48.280 after your phone. But let's backtrack two weeks ago where 0:01:48.720 --> 0:01:50.840 Olivia and I had a little bit of a candy 0:01:50.920 --> 0:01:56.840 debate where Marshawn Lynch Oakland Raiders running Back obviously sponsored 0:01:56.840 --> 0:01:59.360 by Skittles or he eats the skittles whatever. We asked 0:01:59.560 --> 0:02:03.080 each other what candy we'd want to be sponsored by. 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:07.360 You went with You went off the map, guy, You 0:02:07.400 --> 0:02:09.560 went with strawberry. You know, I'm sorry. You went with 0:02:09.639 --> 0:02:14.840 Mentos flavored flavored fruit flavored Mentos, and I went with 0:02:14.880 --> 0:02:18.760 sour patch kids. So we took to Twitter to figure 0:02:18.800 --> 0:02:22.640 out who was right and who was wrong. And the 0:02:22.800 --> 0:02:26.639 people agree with your boy, Ethan Greenberg. I gotta give 0:02:26.680 --> 0:02:29.520 you this one that people have officially spoken, and the 0:02:29.600 --> 0:02:32.840 people's champ as e A and many others say give 0:02:32.919 --> 0:02:38.880 the belt, and I swept the floor in favor of e. G. Oh, well, 0:02:39.160 --> 0:02:42.280 you know you can't you can't spell Landis or Olivia 0:02:42.360 --> 0:02:47.520 without and al on the candy call. But we got 0:02:47.560 --> 0:02:51.040 bigger fish to fry here and obviously the Jets one. 0:02:51.120 --> 0:02:53.240 It was great. But something that was really cool was 0:02:53.400 --> 0:02:57.800 pregame national anthem. The Jets linked arms with each other 0:02:58.000 --> 0:03:02.240 with CEO and chairman Christopher Johnson and general manager Mike 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:04.600 The Kagnet Todd Bowl is one of the coolest things 0:03:04.639 --> 0:03:07.880 that you can see in sports, is when sports, you know, 0:03:08.120 --> 0:03:10.440 people haven't say sports and a microcosm of life, and 0:03:10.480 --> 0:03:12.680 now it was just really special to see on Sunday. 0:03:12.680 --> 0:03:15.000 I thought, yeah, I thought so too, And I spoke 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:20.640 to Josh McCown earlier this week and he mentioned how 0:03:21.320 --> 0:03:24.440 that was just one of the most special things to 0:03:24.520 --> 0:03:26.480 him because he was able to come together with his 0:03:26.520 --> 0:03:30.440 teammates and he led he led a huddle actually after 0:03:30.480 --> 0:03:32.960 the game, which we saw, which we saw a video 0:03:32.919 --> 0:03:35.400 of which was really cool. So to see people come 0:03:35.440 --> 0:03:39.360 together and really stand together to try and make a 0:03:39.400 --> 0:03:41.840 difference is is an awesome thing to see. All right, 0:03:41.880 --> 0:03:45.800 So moving on now, the Jets welcome the Jaguars Week four. 0:03:46.800 --> 0:03:50.240 Just the Jags, the second home game for the Jets 0:03:50.240 --> 0:03:53.560 in as many weeks, and something that's kind of interesting. 0:03:53.600 --> 0:03:56.000 That I'd like to touch on is the Jaguars coming 0:03:56.040 --> 0:03:58.880 back from London this past weekend where they dominated the 0:03:58.960 --> 0:04:02.320 Ravens in a forty four to seven victory. But traveling 0:04:02.360 --> 0:04:05.440 to London and then traveling on a road game to 0:04:05.480 --> 0:04:10.120 New York must be really difficult because the Dolphins, even 0:04:10.160 --> 0:04:13.040 I feel I feel bad for the players because obviously 0:04:13.080 --> 0:04:15.680 Week one they didn't play because of Hurricane Evermo, so 0:04:15.720 --> 0:04:18.240 that was their bye week, right, So sixteen straight weeks 0:04:18.279 --> 0:04:21.080 of football, and on top of that, they traveled to 0:04:21.480 --> 0:04:24.200 l A to play the Chargers in week two, played 0:04:24.320 --> 0:04:27.800 US in week three in UH at matt Life, then 0:04:27.839 --> 0:04:31.200 they travel all the way to London in Week four, 0:04:31.360 --> 0:04:34.960 and then finally they play in South Florida in Week five, 0:04:35.839 --> 0:04:38.520 which is and then you get no rest. And for 0:04:38.560 --> 0:04:40.920 the Jags a little different because their bye week wasn't 0:04:40.960 --> 0:04:45.920 Week one, but still you even though the Jaguars were home, 0:04:46.120 --> 0:04:50.159 technically in London, that was their home game. It's a 0:04:50.240 --> 0:04:54.440 neutral site, it's across the pond, five hour time difference, 0:04:54.480 --> 0:04:56.680 You go for the majority of the week, you come back, 0:04:56.720 --> 0:04:59.039 you get adjusted, and then you go on the road. Yeah, 0:04:59.279 --> 0:05:02.360 that's not I mean listen. We've talked about this earlier 0:05:02.440 --> 0:05:05.159 and some of our earlier podcasts, and travel is a 0:05:05.279 --> 0:05:08.000 huge deal. I think it takes a big toll on 0:05:08.040 --> 0:05:11.560 the players, especially flying cross country. I mean, the US 0:05:11.640 --> 0:05:14.000 isn't small, okay, people. So when you're going to l 0:05:14.080 --> 0:05:17.599 A one week and then New York west to East coast, 0:05:17.640 --> 0:05:21.480 that's crazy right there. But then to go across you know, 0:05:21.520 --> 0:05:23.200 like you said, across the pond all the way over 0:05:23.200 --> 0:05:26.039 to Europe, that's a huge trip. And I've taken that 0:05:26.040 --> 0:05:28.560 trip multiple times. Let me tell you, oh, oh, we 0:05:28.640 --> 0:05:31.080 got a world traveler. We got a world traveler here 0:05:31.400 --> 0:05:35.160 that you've studied abroad in Italy. But what's your favorite 0:05:35.240 --> 0:05:38.599 place that you've been to, not in the US, that 0:05:38.680 --> 0:05:40.960 you'd like to go back to, or somewhere that you 0:05:41.000 --> 0:05:44.520 haven't been. I think one of the places I'd like 0:05:44.560 --> 0:05:49.760 to go back to would probably be Germany, Munich and 0:05:49.800 --> 0:05:57.160 go to October Fest. It is just okay, October is 0:05:57.200 --> 0:06:00.600 coming up. People wishing I was in Germ October Sunday. 0:06:00.640 --> 0:06:03.440 Can you believe that? No? I can't. That's the start 0:06:03.480 --> 0:06:07.320 of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. In the NFL September flew by, 0:06:07.480 --> 0:06:09.960 you went to Oakland, you came back. I'm sure, how 0:06:09.960 --> 0:06:12.240 did you feel afterwards? I mean, you're not putting on 0:06:12.320 --> 0:06:14.760 pads every day like these guys, but still you do 0:06:14.800 --> 0:06:17.760 the travel with the travel. For me, for a person 0:06:17.839 --> 0:06:19.880 that's like you said, not putting on the pads, not 0:06:19.920 --> 0:06:22.400 out there every single day grinding, it's still hard. You know, 0:06:22.680 --> 0:06:24.600 the time difference is what messes you up the most, 0:06:24.640 --> 0:06:27.400 because you know you could travel on a plane. You 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:29.400 get to relax, you get to sleep as much as 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:32.120 you can. But the time difference is what really screws 0:06:32.160 --> 0:06:34.680 people up. I think jumping back and forth. Something that 0:06:34.720 --> 0:06:37.880 I've heard is that it also messes up your eating schedule. 0:06:38.279 --> 0:06:40.159 I don't know if that really affected you, but I've 0:06:40.160 --> 0:06:46.640 heard that October Fest doesn't mess up the eating schedule. Okay, no, 0:06:47.000 --> 0:06:50.080 but I've heard from Bart Scott, who's does Inside the 0:06:50.120 --> 0:06:52.040 Jets with Eric Allen on Monday nights, and that is 0:06:52.080 --> 0:06:55.000 repurposed as a podcast here on the Official Jets podcast 0:06:55.400 --> 0:06:57.080 every Monday night. So will make sure to tune in 0:06:57.120 --> 0:07:01.240 the ESPN or go over to Anderbilt Sports and Spirits 0:07:01.320 --> 0:07:04.000 right across here from One Jets Drive. But something that 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:06.479 he said is that when you travel to Oakland or 0:07:06.560 --> 0:07:10.000 anywhere across the country that sometimes as football players, you know, 0:07:10.400 --> 0:07:13.440 a big part of being a player is your health 0:07:13.520 --> 0:07:16.200 and your nutrition, and it kind of screws up your 0:07:16.200 --> 0:07:18.520 eating schedule, especially on game day when you have to 0:07:18.560 --> 0:07:21.120 make sure to have a pregame meal of breakfast and whatever. 0:07:21.160 --> 0:07:22.840 So I was just wondering if that affected you. I 0:07:22.840 --> 0:07:28.040 guess it didn't. It didn't, alright, facts And anyway, So 0:07:28.200 --> 0:07:31.160 Sunday Jets Jacks, one PMT Life Stadium, something that I'm 0:07:31.200 --> 0:07:35.880 looking forward to. Jamal Adams lining up against his former 0:07:35.920 --> 0:07:39.080 teammate and friend Leonard for NET. Both of them top 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.760 six picks in the draft. For NET went fourth. Jamal 0:07:41.760 --> 0:07:46.239 obviously went six to the Jets, So he's probably really 0:07:46.280 --> 0:07:48.160 looking forward to this game, not only because it's the 0:07:48.200 --> 0:07:50.800 next on the schedule, but this is the potential jersey 0:07:50.880 --> 0:07:56.720 swap Okay, jersey swappler after the game calendar. Again, this 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:58.960 is gonna be cool to see these two guys, like 0:07:59.000 --> 0:08:02.600 you said, who literally wind just a couple of picks apart. 0:08:02.920 --> 0:08:05.280 They were friends, went to play together at l s U. 0:08:05.480 --> 0:08:07.720 It's gonna be cool to see these two kind of 0:08:07.720 --> 0:08:10.800 match up together. But can you imagine playing against one 0:08:10.800 --> 0:08:12.880 of your buddies. Are you into high school with like 0:08:13.400 --> 0:08:17.400 professional like tackling him, like tackling the hell out of him, 0:08:17.880 --> 0:08:19.800 Like I mean, yeah, I mean it would be one 0:08:19.800 --> 0:08:22.680 thing if they're both defensive players. But this is gonna 0:08:22.720 --> 0:08:24.920 be It's gonna be cool to see. But I'm sure 0:08:24.960 --> 0:08:27.520 they both love it. I'm sure that that after that, 0:08:27.680 --> 0:08:30.680 Like if Jamal comes up and tackles him and and 0:08:30.920 --> 0:08:33.360 lays a hard hit, I'm sure he's gonna get a 0:08:33.360 --> 0:08:35.440 little smile out of Leonard for that. Just as the 0:08:35.520 --> 0:08:38.920 other way, if for Net rolled over a question for you, 0:08:39.200 --> 0:08:42.280 if you were Jamal and you know you were playing 0:08:42.280 --> 0:08:45.440 against Leonard for Nett, would you take it easy? Would 0:08:45.480 --> 0:08:48.080 you take it easy? Or would you go as hard 0:08:48.120 --> 0:08:52.000 as you can but tackle the crap? All right? I 0:08:52.040 --> 0:08:54.160 try to keep the level head because emotions, you know, 0:08:54.240 --> 0:08:57.000 that's where that's where you gets steered wrong when emotions 0:08:57.040 --> 0:08:59.760 take over. But I would definitely give a little extra 0:08:59.800 --> 0:09:02.360 chure afterwards, you know what I mean, because you know, 0:09:02.360 --> 0:09:05.080 if that's your buddy, you know that it's not going 0:09:05.120 --> 0:09:06.600 to get in his head, and you know that if 0:09:06.640 --> 0:09:08.120 you give him a little a little bit of lip 0:09:08.160 --> 0:09:09.960 after the play that he think it's funny too. And 0:09:09.960 --> 0:09:13.480 that's one of those memorable moments where, let's say, uh, 0:09:13.720 --> 0:09:16.480 even twenty years down the line, they could be you know, 0:09:16.559 --> 0:09:18.440 they're sitting down on each other's couch and be like, hey, 0:09:18.440 --> 0:09:20.720 I remember that one time a rookie year when we 0:09:20.840 --> 0:09:22.600 played each other the first time, and I told you 0:09:22.760 --> 0:09:24.600 x y Z, I think that I'd have to go 0:09:24.720 --> 0:09:27.160 just as hard, wouldn't you? I think so? I don't. 0:09:27.360 --> 0:09:31.319 Personally me, I'm just such a competitive person. Uh example, 0:09:31.440 --> 0:09:35.080 how me and Ethan keep comparing, how you keep losing? 0:09:36.000 --> 0:09:40.559 Whoa whoa? Watch yourself. I've taken one l and I'm 0:09:40.880 --> 0:09:45.679 that's that will be the last. Anyways, we're gonna have 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.520 a Twitter fool here. Anyways, if it were me, I 0:09:49.559 --> 0:09:52.760 would I'm with you, I'd probably go harder. You gotta 0:09:52.800 --> 0:09:54.599 be you gotta have the upper hand. You want to 0:09:54.640 --> 0:09:56.240 be a friend that comes out on top, and like 0:09:56.480 --> 0:10:00.120 if you yeah, exactly exactly my friend were all the 0:10:00.200 --> 0:10:03.040 other side, Like if it was Ethan Greenberg versus you know, 0:10:03.080 --> 0:10:05.440 one of my friends, I'd want I'd want to shut 0:10:05.520 --> 0:10:07.800 him down, Like I don't want to see him succeed 0:10:08.120 --> 0:10:10.520 against me. Against the rest of the league. Yeah, that 0:10:10.520 --> 0:10:14.240 would be cool, not against me. Okay, bragging rights when 0:10:14.280 --> 0:10:18.800 you're older too. You are absolutely right. Any any other 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:21.360 questions for me? I do have another question for you. Actually, 0:10:22.360 --> 0:10:26.240 so you have interviewed our Darry Stewart, I have as well. 0:10:26.960 --> 0:10:30.760 He's given us the stoopop the lowdown on his famous 0:10:30.920 --> 0:10:33.240 touchdown swag. Oh you know you got to hit him 0:10:33.240 --> 0:10:39.559 with the stoop up. What would your trademark dance movie 0:10:39.559 --> 0:10:42.040 be if one maybe said you were a defensive player, 0:10:42.080 --> 0:10:46.120 you got a sack or a p D or your 0:10:46.120 --> 0:10:48.600 receiver or whatever running back and you score a touchdown. 0:10:48.640 --> 0:10:51.520 You know, this requires a lot of thought because to me, 0:10:51.559 --> 0:10:54.520 it's like it's like dunks in the NBA contest, right 0:10:54.559 --> 0:10:58.800 in the NBA dunk competition every February, which is I'd 0:10:58.840 --> 0:11:01.480 want to think of one per week, you know, I 0:11:01.520 --> 0:11:02.959 want to change it up a little bit. I don't 0:11:02.960 --> 0:11:05.800 know if I would have one for sure. But here's 0:11:05.840 --> 0:11:08.000 my question is, well, first of all, I have to 0:11:08.000 --> 0:11:10.120 get the team involved the group celebrations, which is now 0:11:10.200 --> 0:11:13.480 legal in the NFL. I think is awesome, right, and 0:11:13.920 --> 0:11:15.840 you saw a couple of weeks ago, you've seen it 0:11:15.840 --> 0:11:18.760 throughout like Juju Smith Schuster on the Steelers and the 0:11:18.760 --> 0:11:21.760 rest of the receiving corps. Think lady On Bell was 0:11:21.800 --> 0:11:23.920 in there too. Who Oh, by the way, Lawrence Thomas, 0:11:23.960 --> 0:11:26.439 defensive line and slash fullback for the Jets, blocked for 0:11:26.520 --> 0:11:29.920 him in college at Michigan State. They were they were playing. 0:11:30.040 --> 0:11:32.120 They were playing dice. You know, they were rolling the dice. 0:11:32.120 --> 0:11:35.439 So I thought that was funny. Um my question to 0:11:35.480 --> 0:11:39.920 you is am I my current height? Because that's like 0:11:39.960 --> 0:11:43.920 a serious question. Um. I mean, we'll give you an advantage. 0:11:44.000 --> 0:11:47.199 You can pick any okay, Can I just have HOPSA 0:11:47.280 --> 0:11:50.120 you can have hops because your heights have serious hops? 0:11:50.240 --> 0:11:52.560 All right? Because I think like the dunk, you know 0:11:52.600 --> 0:11:54.199 what I mean on the goal post, I think that's 0:11:54.200 --> 0:11:59.120 sweet and that that had gotten discouraged. Honestly, I think 0:11:59.679 --> 0:12:02.880 it the pends on the play because, for example, I'm 0:12:02.880 --> 0:12:05.000 gonna paint a picture for you, right, you want me 0:12:05.040 --> 0:12:06.960 to do my Bob with shoes and play by PLAYBOYE 0:12:07.120 --> 0:12:12.480 do it. I can't do the big game Bob litening. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.080 I know I can't do play by play, but basically, 0:12:16.080 --> 0:12:18.920 this is what would happen. I catch I do an 0:12:18.920 --> 0:12:21.640 out route, right or and the ball would be thrown 0:12:21.640 --> 0:12:23.520 to me. I make a couple of guys missed because 0:12:23.800 --> 0:12:28.240 I'm by My natural state of athletic ability involves agility 0:12:28.280 --> 0:12:31.040 and quickness. If you ever want your ankles broken, hit 0:12:31.120 --> 0:12:34.840 me up anyway. So then I'd be running up the 0:12:34.840 --> 0:12:37.240 sideline and be like a big touchdown play. But then 0:12:37.240 --> 0:12:39.520 I'd slide in the end zone, pop up and give 0:12:39.640 --> 0:12:42.480 like the safe mark like in baseball. Okay, so you're 0:12:42.520 --> 0:12:44.960 integrating other sports into it. I like that. Yeah, So 0:12:45.160 --> 0:12:47.240 I mean I'd like to get creative, like on that play, 0:12:47.480 --> 0:12:50.079 you know you're hustling and then because there's no one around, 0:12:50.120 --> 0:12:53.200 you beat the throw home. As a metaphor, you pop up, 0:12:53.640 --> 0:12:58.840 You're safe, baby, that sits on the board. What about you? Well, 0:12:59.040 --> 0:13:01.040 I mean I think, and i'd like to dance. I'm 0:13:01.080 --> 0:13:04.040 not a good dancer, so but this isn't like Okay, 0:13:04.040 --> 0:13:05.840 I agree with you, but it's it's a it's an 0:13:05.960 --> 0:13:08.920 art because it's not like you're out dancing is not 0:13:08.960 --> 0:13:11.440 like a specific you can't like swing dance, and you can't. 0:13:11.440 --> 0:13:13.880 It just wouldn't be a funny celebration exactly. I'd like 0:13:13.920 --> 0:13:16.679 to think I'm funny, but sometimes people, you know, they 0:13:16.679 --> 0:13:18.600 just don't have a great sense of so I would 0:13:18.600 --> 0:13:21.800 try for maybe a funny celebration. Okay, I gotta pump 0:13:21.840 --> 0:13:24.880 up the crowd like Jamal, Like Jamal on Sunday. That 0:13:24.960 --> 0:13:28.240 was dude. That was incredible. The way you could feel 0:13:28.880 --> 0:13:31.640 you could feel the whole stadium, the defense, and the 0:13:31.679 --> 0:13:35.040 defense was dancing as the Miami Dolphins were in the 0:13:35.080 --> 0:13:37.920 huddle calling a play. It was pretty cool to see. 0:13:38.160 --> 0:13:41.360 It was phenomenal. And also, you know, I'm sure it'll 0:13:41.360 --> 0:13:44.360 be cool this weekend because if you don't know, Kevin 0:13:44.400 --> 0:13:46.480 May is going to be inducted into the Ring of 0:13:46.480 --> 0:13:48.959 Honor at halftime, which is gonna be phenomenal. I think 0:13:49.000 --> 0:13:52.240 it's time to bring in former Jet center Kevin. Kevin, 0:13:52.280 --> 0:13:54.600 thank you so much for joining us today. I'm glad, 0:13:56.240 --> 0:13:59.040 of course, and so obviously it was announced at the 0:13:59.120 --> 0:14:01.480 kickoff lunch and that you would be joining the Ring 0:14:01.520 --> 0:14:06.760 of Honor, so on the stage when you delivered your speech. 0:14:07.280 --> 0:14:08.800 As a player in the NFL, I used to go 0:14:08.800 --> 0:14:10.720 out there's a stadium four or five hours for a 0:14:10.760 --> 0:14:15.560 game and just sitting the stands and enjoy the moment um, 0:14:15.800 --> 0:14:18.760 the smell of the grass when they cut the field. Um, 0:14:18.800 --> 0:14:20.520 they're painting the field, And I would sit there and 0:14:20.560 --> 0:14:22.560 read all the names of the grace that ever played 0:14:22.600 --> 0:14:26.400 the game, UM, and every one of the stadiums. And 0:14:26.440 --> 0:14:28.240 I remember that guy when I played when I was 0:14:28.280 --> 0:14:30.120 eight years old. I remember that guy that's on the 0:14:30.160 --> 0:14:32.120 Ring of Honor when I was in high school, and 0:14:32.160 --> 0:14:36.400 I remember that guy. Never once wanting to be one 0:14:36.440 --> 0:14:37.800 of those guys. I just wanted to be a good 0:14:37.800 --> 0:14:40.800 football player. And I stand before you today and for 0:14:40.880 --> 0:14:43.640 you young players, I get to be one of those 0:14:43.640 --> 0:14:50.280 guys there. Thank you. You got a little emotional before 0:14:50.520 --> 0:14:53.680 during so I just kind of wanted to know what 0:14:53.720 --> 0:14:57.480 was going through your mind when you initially heard that 0:14:57.600 --> 0:15:01.080 you were going to be part of the Ring of Honor. Well, 0:15:01.120 --> 0:15:03.480 I just you know, I think the first thing is 0:15:03.560 --> 0:15:07.120 kind of surprised, and then the next reaction, Wow, this 0:15:07.280 --> 0:15:09.920 is pretty cool. And you know what I mean. Leading 0:15:10.040 --> 0:15:12.040 up to that, coming up to New York and kind 0:15:12.080 --> 0:15:14.240 of the circumstances that I was told I was coming 0:15:14.240 --> 0:15:17.320 there for it just kind of was a little fishy. 0:15:17.640 --> 0:15:20.400 UM and asked during your first more than that you're 0:15:20.400 --> 0:15:23.880 gonna be there for luncheon? He said no, congratulations, though 0:15:23.960 --> 0:15:25.880 I had no clue he's talking about this is like 0:15:25.960 --> 0:15:30.280 a week beforehand. And then the day before they announced it, 0:15:31.240 --> 0:15:34.600 I said picture accepting the picture with any touch dibority 0:15:34.720 --> 0:15:38.000 of one of the images on the walls the facility, 0:15:38.360 --> 0:15:40.480 and to hey, it wanted to show you a picture 0:15:40.480 --> 0:15:43.360 of my favorite quarterback in the town. And he called 0:15:43.440 --> 0:15:46.640 me and said, hey, congratulations. I'm like, I had no 0:15:46.720 --> 0:15:50.040 idea what you're talking about, and so it was kind 0:15:50.040 --> 0:15:51.880 of then that kind of well, maybe this is a 0:15:51.920 --> 0:15:54.600 little bit different than just coming here for a luncheon. 0:15:55.480 --> 0:15:58.400 And then the next day at the luncheon and they 0:15:58.440 --> 0:16:00.280 just kind of played it off. All of you guys 0:16:00.440 --> 0:16:03.240 with the Jettice was non salant about it, and I'm like, Okay, 0:16:03.320 --> 0:16:06.120 maybe they're wrong. And then they announced it, and that's 0:16:06.160 --> 0:16:09.600 what I'm like, Wow, and it really is happening, and 0:16:09.800 --> 0:16:12.480 it's pretty cool and it's special, and just spend so 0:16:12.560 --> 0:16:15.080 much in my career there, over half my career with 0:16:15.160 --> 0:16:18.720 the Jets and had some successful runs and I had 0:16:18.800 --> 0:16:21.560 individually had a great career while I was there, and 0:16:21.600 --> 0:16:24.880 it's just, uh, yeah, all those emotions just kind of 0:16:24.880 --> 0:16:27.680 came flooding back to me. You weren't expecting it. You're 0:16:27.680 --> 0:16:30.320 talking about how you know they kind of played this off, 0:16:30.480 --> 0:16:34.120 But what was your immediate feelings, especially when you heard 0:16:34.680 --> 0:16:37.160 your name and you heard what they actually had you 0:16:37.200 --> 0:16:41.280 coming out here for. Well, when when uh I was 0:16:41.360 --> 0:16:45.400 Houston called Joe Cleco, Joe Naman, then Wayne could bet 0:16:45.600 --> 0:16:47.600 up to the stage, That's when it hit me. That's 0:16:47.640 --> 0:16:50.040 what I knew what it was. And I looked at 0:16:50.080 --> 0:16:55.200 Wayne and and uh I said, well, I said, something 0:16:55.280 --> 0:16:57.960 going on, and he goes, yeah, he goes, He looked 0:16:57.960 --> 0:17:00.560 at me, say it's a good thing. And and that's 0:17:00.560 --> 0:17:02.680 what I knew, and and you know, and it was 0:17:02.720 --> 0:17:05.359 just it was neat because they brought back so many 0:17:05.359 --> 0:17:08.800 memories of you know, what we did while I was 0:17:08.840 --> 0:17:11.080 there with the teams, the guys that did it with 0:17:11.359 --> 0:17:14.000 and you know Wayne, and I suppose about have Wayne 0:17:14.400 --> 0:17:16.680 told Wayne before and he's one of my favorite teammates, 0:17:16.720 --> 0:17:19.600 as well as Benny and Curtis and and so just 0:17:19.640 --> 0:17:21.760 as all of a sudden, like your roller decks while 0:17:21.840 --> 0:17:24.240 your teammates that you played with a specipients of your head, 0:17:24.320 --> 0:17:26.840 and then you're forced to remember some of the great 0:17:26.880 --> 0:17:30.119 moments that you had with the jets and and so 0:17:30.200 --> 0:17:32.000 those are the things that just kind of started going 0:17:32.000 --> 0:17:34.680 through the head in my head, and it really it's 0:17:34.680 --> 0:17:36.760 a wild factor. It's one of those things that you're like, 0:17:37.400 --> 0:17:39.760 there's a personal kind of sense, the pride of you know, 0:17:39.800 --> 0:17:41.359 like I was one of the best ever put the 0:17:41.359 --> 0:17:45.040 Green and White on and and people recognize that. Kevin 0:17:45.119 --> 0:17:48.679 just backtracking here for a second, did Vinny kind of 0:17:48.760 --> 0:17:52.720 ruin the surprise? But you didn't really understand what was 0:17:52.760 --> 0:17:55.600 going on because you got you got caught off guard 0:17:55.600 --> 0:17:57.600 because you're just haunding even friendly text. And then all 0:17:57.640 --> 0:18:00.879 of a sudden he's saying congratulations, You're you're You're like, 0:18:00.920 --> 0:18:03.600 what is this for? And then it just comes together 0:18:03.640 --> 0:18:05.800 on stage when Wayne says, this is a good thing. 0:18:05.880 --> 0:18:08.639 Is that how it went down? Yeah, I kind of 0:18:08.760 --> 0:18:12.680 did time, but one thing you did off the line, 0:18:12.760 --> 0:18:15.960 you never saw your quarterback under the buff. So then 0:18:16.000 --> 0:18:18.680 he did a great job of backtracking and playing it off. 0:18:18.760 --> 0:18:21.480 And then because I mean that's that was backstage and 0:18:21.520 --> 0:18:22.879 they're like we'll just go up. There was off the 0:18:22.960 --> 0:18:28.359 lineman beginning and then and off the lines led by uh, 0:18:28.440 --> 0:18:31.879 you know New York's had great and then he was 0:18:32.040 --> 0:18:37.600 Brickshaw Ferguson, I like, really and so and he's a 0:18:37.600 --> 0:18:40.640 great player at alright, and I'm like, you got him 0:18:40.800 --> 0:18:43.440 and then you know I'm the third guy behind him, 0:18:43.840 --> 0:18:45.479 and so there's kind a little bit of that going on. 0:18:45.600 --> 0:18:48.280 And uh so they they said they did a great 0:18:48.359 --> 0:18:50.920 job and playing it off and and but then he 0:18:51.000 --> 0:18:53.199 didn't ruin it. He just kind of added to the 0:18:53.240 --> 0:18:56.800 suspicion of it. And then uh he goes, well, whatever happened, 0:18:56.840 --> 0:19:00.720 small and jury, you know, congratulations and he hearnything from me. 0:19:00.960 --> 0:19:03.879 So um, that's why I kind of knew. But again, 0:19:04.200 --> 0:19:05.840 like I said, they did. You know, all the people 0:19:05.840 --> 0:19:08.200 with the Jets organizations did a great job kind of 0:19:08.720 --> 0:19:10.879 until the office cent the day at the front of 0:19:11.000 --> 0:19:13.840 the luncheon and it was special what I knew the 0:19:13.920 --> 0:19:16.040 day before now and it was still a special moment 0:19:16.720 --> 0:19:18.680 and one that I'm gonna remember for a long long time. 0:19:19.080 --> 0:19:21.239 You are going to officially be in the Jets Ring 0:19:21.320 --> 0:19:24.679 of Honor, and that comes with a lot of talent 0:19:24.720 --> 0:19:27.080 and a lot of time with the Jets. So with 0:19:27.200 --> 0:19:30.280 your time, take us back to some of your top 0:19:30.440 --> 0:19:33.959 memories playing for the Jets and kind of walk us 0:19:33.960 --> 0:19:35.840 through what are some of the things that really stick 0:19:35.880 --> 0:19:38.960 out to you. It all started back in the free 0:19:39.000 --> 0:19:42.760 during free agency, and when I met with Bill Parcels. 0:19:43.080 --> 0:19:45.560 You know, he showed me that he knew what it 0:19:45.640 --> 0:19:48.479 took to win, and it maybe it felt like I 0:19:48.520 --> 0:19:50.719 was a priority for him and for the Jets. And 0:19:50.760 --> 0:19:53.760 so the day that I was told I agree the terns, 0:19:53.800 --> 0:19:55.760 that we agree the terms of the Jets was pretty 0:19:55.840 --> 0:19:58.040 a pretty special moment. And then that's why I met 0:19:58.080 --> 0:19:59.920 Rick Lyle, who was with the Jets at the time 0:20:00.040 --> 0:20:02.320 him and over the course of my career there, we 0:20:02.480 --> 0:20:05.359 developed a really close relationship and so a lot of 0:20:05.400 --> 0:20:08.399 the memories include him as just being a friend on 0:20:08.480 --> 0:20:11.240 the field, but off the fields as well. And then 0:20:11.240 --> 0:20:13.720 we go into the ninety eight season and we end 0:20:13.800 --> 0:20:16.000 up signing Brian Cox and Benny Tests three in that 0:20:16.119 --> 0:20:20.119 free agency period. You know, they secured Curse Martin and 0:20:20.280 --> 0:20:22.840 Cambi arguably one of the best re agent classes that 0:20:22.920 --> 0:20:26.240 the Jets have ever had, and um, we're going to win, 0:20:26.600 --> 0:20:29.520 you know, twelve twelve games that year, and you know, 0:20:29.520 --> 0:20:32.000 win Division in the first round by and we go 0:20:32.080 --> 0:20:35.359 to the NFC Championship game. And in that season, we 0:20:35.520 --> 0:20:38.200 had some really some good games. In one game that 0:20:38.280 --> 0:20:40.760 really sticks out is where the home in the Jets 0:20:40.840 --> 0:20:43.000 cheer at the end of the game started when we 0:20:43.040 --> 0:20:46.280 played Kansas City. In Kansas City haven't played the NFC 0:20:46.400 --> 0:20:49.600 West for my first four years. I knew that their 0:20:49.600 --> 0:20:51.960 tradition was the senior national anthem at the very end, 0:20:52.000 --> 0:20:54.280 it was the and the home of the Chiefs. So 0:20:54.440 --> 0:20:57.359 we beat them on a John Hall field goal late 0:20:57.440 --> 0:20:59.639 at the end of the game, and we broke it 0:20:59.680 --> 0:21:02.320