Speaker 1: Um, Welcome to the Official Jets Podcast. We were presented
Speaker 1: by Wind Bett betting the team sport but together at
Speaker 1: Win Bett Eric you my co host Bart Scott. We
Speaker 1: are joint in studio by Jets defensive back Michael Carter
Speaker 1: or m C two. Michael, how tough of an outcome
Speaker 1: was that yesterday against New England Patriots. You guys defensively
Speaker 1: gave up three points over sixty minutes, but you'll lose
Speaker 1: an eight four yard punt return of five seconds remaining.
Speaker 1: Uh yeah, I think the the the outcome was definitely, um,
Speaker 1: it was tough. Like I was definitely upset because I
Speaker 1: feel like are you know, are was taken away like
Speaker 1: on defense and that was like more so upset me
Speaker 1: is like as I feel like as a defense, we
Speaker 1: wanted the opportunity to win the game too, just like
Speaker 1: you know, like obviously, like the our offense would have
Speaker 1: liked the opportunity to win the game, or or like
Speaker 1: the New England's special teams obviously won the game. So
Speaker 1: I feel that's what kind of upset me the most,
Speaker 1: is like we lost our opportunity to go and win
Speaker 1: the game for our team. You know, football, you're supposed
Speaker 1: to move quickly but not being a rush. How do
Speaker 1: you guys try not to panic but also move with
Speaker 1: a sense of urgency. I understanding where you are in
Speaker 1: this season? Yeah, I feel like as far as like
Speaker 1: not panicking, we know who we are in in the
Speaker 1: style of football and that that we play, um. And
Speaker 1: how good we can be when we just fix those
Speaker 1: little minute things UM and get on our details. Um.
Speaker 1: And so you know that's what we we harped on
Speaker 1: the day UM, in the meetings and watching the film UM.
Speaker 1: And everything is fixable UM. And so we know we
Speaker 1: gotta get done when we show up on Wednesday. UM.
Speaker 1: We just gotta be able to to to put it
Speaker 1: into motion and you know, be on our details and execute.
Speaker 1: How high of a standard do you guys have because
Speaker 1: when bart was playing, I'm having memories back in two
Speaker 1: thousand nine, two thousand and ten where you're dominant. Over
Speaker 1: the course of sixty minutes, you had six sacks of
Speaker 1: Mac Jones first second consecutive game. Uh. One thing that
Speaker 1: Carl Lawson just said is that we can correct some things.
Speaker 1: We didn't play a perfect game. We gotta get some takeaways.
Speaker 1: Can you talk about the standard that you guys are
Speaker 1: holding yourself to right now, Yeah, man, like Carl is right,
Speaker 1: like there are some things that you know, we left
Speaker 1: some plays out there, um inches in the game that
Speaker 1: we could have taken advantage of. We could have you know,
Speaker 1: put the game away ourselves on defense. Um And so
Speaker 1: that you know, that's that's the standard. We feel like
Speaker 1: we gotta get the ball, um and when we get
Speaker 1: the ball, we're out to score. Um And and that's
Speaker 1: that's a standard. That's what we gotta do. Um And
Speaker 1: just like if we were if we were down, you know,
Speaker 1: our offense will pick us up. UM. We feel like
Speaker 1: it's our job to help them in any aspect that
Speaker 1: we can, and they always help us. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: if the team goes down there and drives on us,
Speaker 1: you know they they got on their answer right back
Speaker 1: like that, um And And that's the you know, that's
Speaker 1: how you know great teams are. I mean, you guys
Speaker 1: are a young team, and sometimes not everybody's gonna have
Speaker 1: the same perspective of some of the veteran players. How
Speaker 1: do you keep this unit and group together understanding that
Speaker 1: you don't want the media, you don't want maybe things
Speaker 1: to bubble over in the locker room. How do you
Speaker 1: keep this unit together and just focus on farm of
Speaker 1: your own land and not have the frustration because it
Speaker 1: is frustrating to have that type of performers. No performers
Speaker 1: has ever perfect it. But when you're playing you hold
Speaker 1: a team to basically three points and you lose, that
Speaker 1: has to be gut ritching. Yeah. I think it's just
Speaker 1: the belief we have in each other. UM. You know,
Speaker 1: we always preach it all about us, and it's always
Speaker 1: still gonna be about us and the everybody in the
Speaker 1: building because we're the ones who put in the time
Speaker 1: and the work, um to put out a good product
Speaker 1: on Sunday. And we believe in each other, UM, So
Speaker 1: we can have those conversations, uh with each other and
Speaker 1: the hard ones were you know, you gotta talk about
Speaker 1: some things, but it's because you know, we have faith
Speaker 1: and we respect each other in that way, UM. And
Speaker 1: so you know there's no diversion or anything that's that's
Speaker 1: going on because you know, we have that belief in
Speaker 1: each other that you know, we can get the job
Speaker 1: done on any giving Sunday versus you know, any team, UM,
Speaker 1: and everybody's going to be out there and do their
Speaker 1: job to the best of their ability. How hard are
Speaker 1: you guys making it? And opponents once they moved the
Speaker 1: ball past the fifty yard line, like it felt like
Speaker 1: there are times where we have bent a little bit
Speaker 1: yesterday and Bark can talk about this, But when you
Speaker 1: guys needed a play, you moved them back, so instead
Speaker 1: of hey, they're in the red zone, it's like they're
Speaker 1: kicking along field goal. Nick Folk went one of three yesterday.
Speaker 1: So when you guys needed a play, when you needed momentum,
Speaker 1: I know you didn't get to take away, but he
Speaker 1: kept on moving them back where they weren't able to
Speaker 1: penetrate the ten yard line to five yard line and
Speaker 1: get into that zone. Yeah, and just there were some
Speaker 1: plays that you know, they turned into explosives. UM. And
Speaker 1: that kind of sustained some of those drives, UM, and
Speaker 1: and all those things like like I was saying, you know,
Speaker 1: fixable things, UM, just being in the right spots and
Speaker 1: being detailed and in our approach. UM. But you know,
Speaker 1: if they don't score, you know they can't win. Uh
Speaker 1: So then but don't break, you know, give us an
Speaker 1: inch and we'll defended. That's a mentality, UM. And when
Speaker 1: it's trying to lock in, like you know, all right,
Speaker 1: they gotta play it's lock in right here, and you know,
Speaker 1: make sure we get off the field, we get the
Speaker 1: ball back to the offense and you know we keep
Speaker 1: points off the board. You guys went from first place
Speaker 1: to last place and you guys still have above five
Speaker 1: hundred record. But how much pressure does that put on
Speaker 1: this week to make sure that you're able to get
Speaker 1: on the right start? Like, how do you approach this week? Intensity?
Speaker 1: Wratsing it up, attention to detail and understanding that it's
Speaker 1: levels to the months in football, the fact that you're
Speaker 1: inn in the championship months. What is the mood like
Speaker 1: and what's the anticipation for practice and being able to
Speaker 1: practice the way that you're going to have to play
Speaker 1: to be able to get in the tournament. Um. I
Speaker 1: think that there's always since urgency when we guard it
Speaker 1: and we practice because we practice hard, um every day, UM,
Speaker 1: running to the football and whatever week, this is still
Speaker 1: running to the football. UM, you know, showing effort at
Speaker 1: practice and making sure you know, we're holding each other
Speaker 1: accountable on that field. UM. And so it's always been
Speaker 1: like that. The standard doesn't change. UM, We're not important
Speaker 1: the game. This game is because it's the next game. UM.
Speaker 1: And so we plan to go out there and execute
Speaker 1: and win. UM. You know obviously that starts on Wednesday
Speaker 1: and starts it can start actually today and just getting
Speaker 1: those um little things that we can get correctly corrected today. UM,
Speaker 1: so we know what to take in the Wednesday and
Speaker 1: make sure we're straight on um. And so yeah, how
Speaker 1: are you five guys working as the unit? You get
Speaker 1: new cornerbacks this year and Sauce Gardener and DJ Read
Speaker 1: and then LaMarcus Winner healthy and then obviously you bring
Speaker 1: in Jordan White had early on in the year. I
Speaker 1: know you guys were talking about communication. It seems like
Speaker 1: everybody's on the same page each and every week, and
Speaker 1: you guys expect to dominate. Yeah, And I think like
Speaker 1: it was a challenge at the beginning because you know,
Speaker 1: you didn't really know each other. UM. Like I think
Speaker 1: out of the our secondary from last year, I'm like
Speaker 1: maybe the only one who's like out there. So like
Speaker 1: it took a while. We had to spend the time
Speaker 1: with each other and get to know each other and
Speaker 1: how each other thinks, How how this guy next to
Speaker 1: me processes information, how fast you can process information because
Speaker 1: somebody's motioning over and we got to make a checkout fast,
Speaker 1: Like I'll just do the simplest thing to help him out.
Speaker 1: Um whoever that guy is. It's just stuff like that.
Speaker 1: Uh So, just just taking an extra time, you know,
Speaker 1: after they say we're done for the day, and just
Speaker 1: getting into film room each other and just going through
Speaker 1: that communication, going through how we see things, going through
Speaker 1: how we're gonna you know, this is how we're gonna
Speaker 1: do it. If if you have a a different way
Speaker 1: you want to do it, let's talk through it, like
Speaker 1: all that stuff. Like we really I think put the
Speaker 1: time in to each other and gave it back to
Speaker 1: one another to be able to to be able to
Speaker 1: play at a high level. Do you think it's beneficial
Speaker 1: for all the guys that have been in the playoffs?
Speaker 1: They kind of pulled you young guys together to explain
Speaker 1: because early on and may you may think that it's
Speaker 1: business as usual, but playoffs is a told you don't
Speaker 1: until you've been in it, you have no idea, and
Speaker 1: until you've been into in those games leading up to
Speaker 1: trying to secure a playoffs spot, it's a totally different level.
Speaker 1: So have you got guys considered maybe getting into Duwayne
Speaker 1: Brown's getting you know, white Head, getting c J. Moseley
Speaker 1: to kind of explain to some of the young guys
Speaker 1: that may not be thinking about it because the next
Speaker 1: game isn't just the next game. It's a the end
Speaker 1: of the season and still having something to play for.
Speaker 1: It's a totally different level than intensity, level of attention
Speaker 1: to detail, and everybody has to take their play to
Speaker 1: a totally different level and that has to be done
Speaker 1: and taking it, you know, to account when you practice.
Speaker 1: Yeah yeah, um yeah, that makes sense. Um. And obviously
Speaker 1: I don't have any experience yet uh in that, but
Speaker 1: you know, I know I can go to the Wayne
Speaker 1: or go to Jordan's and ask them, you know what
Speaker 1: I need to do, what we need to do, and
Speaker 1: they can explain, um, you know how the steps we
Speaker 1: need to take to be able to to to play
Speaker 1: at a playoff level. Um. And and that's that those
Speaker 1: type of guys, you know, these good guys who can
Speaker 1: who are willing to reach back out reach back into
Speaker 1: the youth and and put us along with them. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, we got those type of guys in the
Speaker 1: in the building who are willing to do that. What
Speaker 1: do you like most about playing the nickel position and
Speaker 1: also what's the most significant challenges that come along with
Speaker 1: playing inside? What I like most, I would say is
Speaker 1: just um, you know, I like the attackle. I like
Speaker 1: to be in the run fits and like be around
Speaker 1: the action. Um. And so it's it's it's cool, like
Speaker 1: I enjoyed you know, games the most when I can
Speaker 1: when they allowed me to to you know, be a
Speaker 1: what they call a baby backer. Yeah, I enjoyed those games. Um.
Speaker 1: And then you know, just to the trust that everybody
Speaker 1: has in me to communicate and carry that communication you
Speaker 1: know when I'm even when I'm moving or when there's movement. UM.
Speaker 1: I enjoyed that a lot because I feel like I
Speaker 1: can handle it. Um. And and so yeah, I guess
Speaker 1: there's some pressure that comes with that because if you're wrong,
Speaker 1: you know, some people be out of the their spots.
Speaker 1: But you know, I feel you know, I feel good
Speaker 1: that that everybody trust me to be able to do that. UM.
Speaker 1: And then you know challenges is obviously all the space.
Speaker 1: It's a lot of space, um. But you know it
Speaker 1: is what it is. You know, you got a man
Speaker 1: up in there. Um. And so you know I take
Speaker 1: your head on. Um, you know, I'm back down from
Speaker 1: from any challenge. So, yeah, I saw you shooting gaps
Speaker 1: last game a little bit playing cut back. But how
Speaker 1: much time do you actually maybe spend during nine O
Speaker 1: seven or run fits with the run with the linebackers
Speaker 1: to be able to maybe ask some tools to your
Speaker 1: tool belt as far as maybe being able to knife
Speaker 1: that in if you feel like it's a big gap there,
Speaker 1: you want to switch it up and you want to
Speaker 1: be able to scrape outside are you may be considering
Speaker 1: going over and and doing some Nino seven so you
Speaker 1: can learn some of the tools that nibaggers have to
Speaker 1: be able to control your defensive alignment. When you feel like, hey,
Speaker 1: you know, we're in a big flex front and we
Speaker 1: got a lot of gaps here. I'm feeling like I
Speaker 1: want to scrape these guys or knife my d N
Speaker 1: or half my nose card. Yeah that's that. Yeah, that's actually, um,
Speaker 1: you know a really good idea. I know, uh, you
Speaker 1: know those linebackers, they showed me a lot of love. Um,
Speaker 1: just in the in the communication and when I'm coming,
Speaker 1: when they know I'm in the fit, Um, just making
Speaker 1: sure I'm straight um on where I'm at. You know,
Speaker 1: if if things start moving pullers and and you know,
Speaker 1: all those things happened, they know where I was supposed
Speaker 1: to be, and make sure I know what I'm supposed
Speaker 1: to be Coach white Cotton. Um, you know when I'm
Speaker 1: in the run fits too, when we do those team
Speaker 1: periods where we're just walking through those run fits. Um,
Speaker 1: he's making sure that, Okay, I know what the d
Speaker 1: defensive linement is supposed to be doing on this play, um,
Speaker 1: And so I know where my fits supposed to be.
Speaker 1: And then if he does something else, you know, I
Speaker 1: just fit off of him in that instance. But uh,
Speaker 1: you know they definitely, you know, give me a lot
Speaker 1: of a feedback and and and being when I'm in
Speaker 1: those in those run fits. You were a rookie last year,
Speaker 1: How impressed are you by what Sauce is doing out here?
Speaker 1: Tank games into his NFL career, leads the National Football
Speaker 1: League before tempds man. That dude is special, Um, Like
Speaker 1: it's unreal, Like he's probably like a a whole a
Speaker 1: real deal, like good vibe to like the back end,
Speaker 1: and uh, everybody knows he's gonna handle his business. Um,
Speaker 1: But he's also like cool and chill and can have fun. Um.
Speaker 1: And you know being that, you know he was taking
Speaker 1: in the draft where he was like super cool, approachable,
Speaker 1: like so you know, the utmost respect for for him
Speaker 1: as a person. And then just what he's doing in
Speaker 1: the league already, um is special. Um, and he's gonna
Speaker 1: be doing it for a long time. Like that dude
Speaker 1: is real. He's a real deal for sure. DJ reid
Speaker 1: Bart says on this podcast almost every week that he
Speaker 1: thinks that he's playing at all pro level. Obviously came
Speaker 1: over from Seattle. What do you think about what he's
Speaker 1: doing on the outside because typically a guy with his
Speaker 1: body type, we'll be playing inside like yourself, but DJ
Speaker 1: going outside and uh, he brings that dog in every Sunday. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Like like you said, he brings that dog and you
Speaker 1: could see it like like if y'all here are the
Speaker 1: speech before we come out for the pregame or when
Speaker 1: we're in the pregame, hurtel Um, that's a different DJ
Speaker 1: than you see like in the meeting room, and like
Speaker 1: that's that just like breathes life into you because you're like, dang,
Speaker 1: I need to match this dude, or I'm gonna get left.
Speaker 1: Like in the same with Sauce because also get in
Speaker 1: there and speak to and like even as a rookie,
Speaker 1: he's not scared to speak and and and so me
Speaker 1: like on the more like laid back, chill person. But
Speaker 1: I feed off that. I feed off those guys and
Speaker 1: and uh so I appreciate them. Like It's like as
Speaker 1: soon as DJ came in, like that was super exciting
Speaker 1: for me too, because like I was super happy to
Speaker 1: get somebody like him because you know, I had a
Speaker 1: vet that I could, like now to ask some questions
Speaker 1: and just get his experience on things and how he
Speaker 1: plays the game, and um, you know, it's just it's
Speaker 1: just been awesome having though seven games left. What's the
Speaker 1: goal as a defensive unit? Where are you trying to
Speaker 1: take this thing? What's the goals? As you know you're
Speaker 1: past the midway point, is time and say, okay, this
Speaker 1: is what we are right now, this is what we
Speaker 1: want to be, and how do you guys get there? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think the goal is the goal is to get
Speaker 1: more takeaways and to actually score with those takeaways. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, we had a lot of balls on the
Speaker 1: ground that we haven't been able to get. Um, when
Speaker 1: we feel like now the time, like we gotta get
Speaker 1: those We gotta get those opportunities, those fumbles, those tip balls, UM,
Speaker 1: those sideline adjustments when we make them, we gotta be
Speaker 1: able to adjust and make the play. UM. And so
Speaker 1: the goal really is just to keep being the takeaways, UM,
Speaker 1: and just keep being keep dominating UM. You know, get
Speaker 1: back to the fundamentals and in the way we tackle.
Speaker 1: UM and be because you know when it's gonna get colder. UM.
Speaker 1: So just be the best takeaway defense in the league
Speaker 1: and then be the best tackling defense in the league. UM.
Speaker 1: I mean we do, those two will dominate. I love
Speaker 1: what I'm hearing from him, because Bart, when you were
Speaker 1: in Baltimore, you guys weren't just looking to take the
Speaker 1: ball away, but you were looking to score. And that
Speaker 1: came You brought that attitude here with the Jets as well.
Speaker 1: So when Bart was in Baltimore, you gotta get the
Speaker 1: ball to at Read, right, who who's after a takeaway? Now?
Speaker 1: Who's got no? No, no no what wo no no
Speaker 1: no no no no. We didn't just give it to Read. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we know we we we actually practiced pitching the
Speaker 1: ball and we practice who gets who gets you. Whenever
Speaker 1: you get intercept, you you somebody has to block the
Speaker 1: initial intended receiver so he can't come from the back,
Speaker 1: and then you set up a perimeter that somebody has
Speaker 1: to get back, and you set up the fence like
Speaker 1: punt return. But we actually practiced it. We actually have
Speaker 1: touchdowns where we've pitched it multiple times and we weren't
Speaker 1: afraid to pitch it um while we're running the back,
Speaker 1: but understanding that it's not where you let it go at,
Speaker 1: it's where he catches it, so you actually have to
Speaker 1: pitch it back, no doubt. But but that read was
Speaker 1: a dynamic returner. Bro Well a lot of times he
Speaker 1: was the one who got the interception. But Chris McAlister
Speaker 1: and samari Roll was like, yo, I got sauce to
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, who do you think would
Speaker 1: be the best returner as far as you guys are
Speaker 1: concerned getting the ball in their hands. Pitch back to me, yeah,
Speaker 1: pitch back to me. Now you don't Now you don't
Speaker 1: want Quinn and talking about go block for me. You've
Speaker 1: done your job, big fella. It's okay. You know he
Speaker 1: could move some people out of the way too. Well
Speaker 1: we saw was on face mask tyreek, but you know
Speaker 1: what I'm saying, he only he only went two more yards.
Speaker 1: It's all good. We want to send a message by
Speaker 1: opening smacking. Somebody will give it to Quinning. But if
Speaker 1: you want to get get them, get them six points,
Speaker 1: you gotta go ahead pitch to somebody with a little
Speaker 1: bit more RPMs on a on a on a speed.
Speaker 1: Yeah me, uh, Sauce really to hold back in you
Speaker 1: can picture to hold back and we'll get we'll get
Speaker 1: busy with it. Hey, what do you think about this
Speaker 1: rookie class? You guys had to find rookie class in
Speaker 1: two thousand twenty one, and what do you think about
Speaker 1: what this group is doing specifically? Maybe you can talk
Speaker 1: about a pair of those and we talked about Sauce,
Speaker 1: but you're really getting good production from Jermaine Johnson and
Speaker 1: Michael Clemens. Michael Clemens keeps on popping off the screen.
Speaker 1: Like this class. It's not only talented, but it's deep.
Speaker 1: You can talk about each of the guys selected. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they just came in with that young energy like like
Speaker 1: like sort of how we feel like we had to
Speaker 1: come into last year, like we don't care what happens before.
Speaker 1: Like they brought us here to to do something good
Speaker 1: and change the thing around, and and they came in
Speaker 1: with that same that same monset, that same energy, and
Speaker 1: UM kind of just rejuvenated everybody. I feel like, UM,
Speaker 1: we guys saw us in the corner room, Uh, Garrett
Speaker 1: in the receiver room, Breeze, Jermaine mc even maxing and
Speaker 1: rugged like like all those guys that just came in
Speaker 1: and with the the present tense mindset and the future
Speaker 1: oriented type mindset like we're here in and now, Uh,
Speaker 1: this is what we can do. Now, this is where
Speaker 1: we want to be. UM. And you know they've been excelling. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you can hear that passion out of Garrett Wilson in
Speaker 1: the locker room yesterday that how much this game means
Speaker 1: to him and the collective as far as the outcomes.
Speaker 1: Even at practice, like he's like going to compete, like
Speaker 1: when we have those competition periods, and like he wants
Speaker 1: to win like every rep and like when he like
Speaker 1: even when he does lose, like he's upset, like because
Speaker 1: like he feels like he can win every rep and
Speaker 1: that's how it should be. UM, And he's like you
Speaker 1: can tell that he really loves the game and he
Speaker 1: wants to be his best, and I feel like that's
Speaker 1: how everybody is. I got some advice for you guys
Speaker 1: in defense. I want you to go get you an
Speaker 1: Adrian Wilson fat head or or Rod Woodson white head,
Speaker 1: um fat head, and I want everybody that's in the
Speaker 1: defensive backfield to stand next to it. And if you're
Speaker 1: not bigger than those guys, no more flippers. You gotta
Speaker 1: wrap up because it's getting it's getting cold out here.
Speaker 1: You trying some of these fat boys with it with
Speaker 1: them flippers, you actually bounce them into where they're going.
Speaker 1: So unless you like Adrian Wilson's size with six to
Speaker 1: tw at safety, no more flippers, you gotta go ahead
Speaker 1: and wrap it up. Man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's
Speaker 1: part of, you know, kind of what we talked about
Speaker 1: today too, just tackling um and kind of you know,
Speaker 1: as it's getting colder, like I was talking about earlier,
Speaker 1: has got to be a point of emphasis um because
Speaker 1: these backs are good and so we gotta be able
Speaker 1: to get him on the ground. All right, go ahead, No, no,
Speaker 1: I say, you've got a lot of guys that have
Speaker 1: not played this late in the season. Um, you know,
Speaker 1: especially like the young guys that you guys depend on
Speaker 1: so much. What if ice are you giving the guys
Speaker 1: that are rookies this year about their rookie wall and
Speaker 1: making sure, Hey, we gotta get our body fresh and
Speaker 1: we gotta take care of our body. Because I remember
Speaker 1: when I was a young guy, like I used to
Speaker 1: sit in a hot tub. I never did the treatment
Speaker 1: that I needed to and all the old guys look
Speaker 1: at me like I was crazy because I would never
Speaker 1: do all the little things. What are you telling these
Speaker 1: guys that may because of college season's gonna end this
Speaker 1: this week, so that's about what their bodies are used
Speaker 1: to going. But you guys still have a regular season,
Speaker 1: hopefully a postseason, and really it's about of attrition. Who
Speaker 1: can stay healthier longer hang out the hot top? Yeah yeah,
Speaker 1: I obvious say just you know, investing investing yourself, um,
Speaker 1: because you have to like embodies your money, um, and
Speaker 1: we need everybody. Uh, so you got to invest in
Speaker 1: yourself invested tom Uh you know, get up a little
Speaker 1: bit earlier if you have to stay a little bit later. Um,
Speaker 1: but but get it in because you know you'll you'll
Speaker 1: feel a lot better on Sunday, you know, especially when
Speaker 1: it's colder and it's later. You know, get a little
Speaker 1: tighter and all that stuff. But you know you'll feel
Speaker 1: a lot better and and and everybody else will be
Speaker 1: moving a little bit slower than you are. So just
Speaker 1: investing yourself. What's your plans for Thanksgiving? You'll be here
Speaker 1: for a little bit. Yeah, I'm gonna be here. Uh
Speaker 1: my FAM's coming up Friday, I think, or so something
Speaker 1: like that, so you might eat a little eat a
Speaker 1: little bit. What to man when I'm at home, I
Speaker 1: gotta give me a little fried turkey. Uh yeah, you
Speaker 1: gotta fried to turkey. Man. I can't do nothing else
Speaker 1: ever since I started doing that. Um, you know the
Speaker 1: mac and cheese. Uh Kyla Green's corn bread sweet potato
Speaker 1: cast role. Yeah. So basically what you're saying, weigh in
Speaker 1: for you on Friday when I wig in, I will
Speaker 1: still be the same way. Is caling the cast Because
Speaker 1: of the holiday, You're gonna be game something. Yeah, Hey,
Speaker 1: thanks for joining us today. I appreciate you. Enjoy your
Speaker 1: week with your family. Let's see if you guys can
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Speaker 1: Bet together when Bet Eric Allen Bart Scott, I'm glad
Speaker 1: we had Michael Carter on the pod part because I
Speaker 1: think he's one of the most underrated players on this roster.
Speaker 1: We always whenever you don't hear his name, and you know,
Speaker 1: you know I talked about it. That's a good thing,
Speaker 1: right And when they know your name, they're they're paying
Speaker 1: attention and everybody know who you are is because you're
Speaker 1: giving up plays, you know, because we don't talk about
Speaker 1: that means he's been doing a job at a high
Speaker 1: level and that's a tough spot too. And what he does,
Speaker 1: he brings an element of physicality that you don't always
Speaker 1: see from the nickel position. Reminds me a lot of
Speaker 1: Donald Strickland right when healthy. He was one of those
Speaker 1: guys that brought a lot of bit tangibles to our defense.
Speaker 1: He was strong and he was fearless within the box.
Speaker 1: But he was a guy that had a knack because
Speaker 1: it's so hard you have to play basic in the
Speaker 1: phone booth where you don't have the leverage that you
Speaker 1: have by being able to use the sideline if you're
Speaker 1: outside cornerback when you're inside. It's two way goals either
Speaker 1: way they want because they're off the ball and they're
Speaker 1: usually coming in motions, so you have to kind of
Speaker 1: respect the cushion because you have to read and react
Speaker 1: a lot more than kind of being a cornerback who
Speaker 1: can press and make somebody, you know, go outside and
Speaker 1: you get your hands on early. Do you like where
Speaker 1: his head's at. Here's a kid who sixty minutes. They
Speaker 1: he's always been mature. Right when we talked to him
Speaker 1: last share, he's maturing. Wife, You be honest. Years. He's
Speaker 1: a guy that has an old soul and that's perfect
Speaker 1: for that position because you have to really have a
Speaker 1: lot of experience and a lot of patients to be
Speaker 1: in there. And that's all those the virtues and traits
Speaker 1: of an older gentleman. If you're Robert Sala, how are
Speaker 1: you addressed in the team early this week? Is you
Speaker 1: try to put New England behind you, correct the mistakes
Speaker 1: and then look it had in to Chicago because you
Speaker 1: do have seven games remaining. The external world is going
Speaker 1: to write the Jets off again, but you're still right
Speaker 1: there in the mix. I don't think anybody's writing the
Speaker 1: Jets all, but I think you have to address the
Speaker 1: elephant in the room, everything that's bothering the team. You
Speaker 1: gotta have an air in it out session because what
Speaker 1: you don't want is you want you don't want to
Speaker 1: divide the units, right, because that's what the media, that's
Speaker 1: what a lot of people want to do because some
Speaker 1: of the postgame comments. So you're gonna have to make
Speaker 1: sure that you unify each other. But you have to
Speaker 1: address it and say we've covered that, and you have
Speaker 1: to actually cover it. If somebody has something to say,
Speaker 1: you have to allow them the opportunity to be able
Speaker 1: to say that because you don't want anybody harboring any
Speaker 1: feelings or any emotions that can be detrimental to the
Speaker 1: chemistry of the team. But you have to address it
Speaker 1: because if you don't, then people you know you will
Speaker 1: address it and units will address it by themselves. You
Speaker 1: don't want that. You want an environment where you can
Speaker 1: monitor the air and out session. You know, all football
Speaker 1: teams are big families, and all families need therapy. So
Speaker 1: that's what you think what that arena is all about.
Speaker 1: Because it's gonna be highs and lows, but as those
Speaker 1: who can be able to navigate through the lows that
Speaker 1: be able to have the chance of having the most
Speaker 1: successful season. Because it's about standing together and getting answers,
Speaker 1: not pointing fingers. What do you see from this matchup?
Speaker 1: The Bears have lost four consecutive games, but yeah, you've
Speaker 1: said it all along. They've been in it every week.
Speaker 1: The last three games. I'm losing about like a point
Speaker 1: and they're dangerous, right. They finally adopted So everything that
Speaker 1: you saw, you're going to see at a higher level
Speaker 1: than what you saw week one against the Baltimore Ravens
Speaker 1: because the Ravens were at the beginning of the season.
Speaker 1: They've been playing at a high level using this you know,
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson style offense that really benefits and favors the
Speaker 1: skill set of fields. So you're gonna have to make
Speaker 1: sure that you really study the film. But they're gonna
Speaker 1: force you to play a level on the leven and
Speaker 1: it's tough when you have a mobile quarterback because you
Speaker 1: almost have to have two spies on them. Because this
Speaker 1: guy in five games where had over five yards rushing,
Speaker 1: something that had never been done from that position, including
Speaker 1: Michael Vick and Lamar Jackson. That tells you the talent
Speaker 1: that he had. And he was not known for running
Speaker 1: the football when he was in college. He was known
Speaker 1: for being able to throw from the pocket. So this
Speaker 1: is something the element that he's showing us. This isn't
Speaker 1: a running quarterback that's continuing to run. This is a
Speaker 1: thrown quarterback that has learned how to run. No. On Sunday,
Speaker 1: gots Atlanta. He got banged up a little bit. It
Speaker 1: was the non throwing shoulder, the left shoulder. Will have
Speaker 1: to find out where he is as the week progresses.
Speaker 1: With that being said, what do you think of Fields
Speaker 1: as a prospect? Now here a couple of years in
Speaker 1: the National Football League where to your point, looks like
Speaker 1: he's just continuing to ascend and Chicago is gonna gradually
Speaker 1: get some more pieces around him as they move forward. Yeah,
Speaker 1: a hundred million dollars in salary cap space. Um, new
Speaker 1: culture resume. Um, they've actually taking a step back because
Speaker 1: they started over. Got rid of a lot of good players,
Speaker 1: got rid of Khalil Mack, got rid of ray Kwon Smith,
Speaker 1: got rid of Robert Quinn. But that that's going to
Speaker 1: free up a lot of salary cap space for them
Speaker 1: in the future to build around his young talent player.
Speaker 1: And he's making an argument to be the best quarterback
Speaker 1: selected in that draft. I mean I think he's really
Speaker 1: figuring it out and they found the offense that suits him.
Speaker 1: You know, I think the league should really play coach
Speaker 1: attention and be put on high alert once they're able
Speaker 1: to get better players around him and be able to
Speaker 1: spend some of that hundred million dollars in salary cap
Speaker 1: spaces they are reportedly gonna have next year, and also
Speaker 1: the draft capital that they've able to grab from the
Speaker 1: Ravens and other trades that they've made, plus their own. Well,
Speaker 1: it's a defensive game plan against the guy. Like fields,
Speaker 1: you have to make sure that you flush them two
Speaker 1: waves where you know he's gonna run. You want him
Speaker 1: to be able to run, and flush him to his
Speaker 1: left side because that means he has to stow across
Speaker 1: his body. Quarterback won't be as accurate. Uh if you
Speaker 1: if you really scrambles to his right, he still can
Speaker 1: throw the ball on the run. Is gonna put defenders
Speaker 1: in tough positions. You want to rarely ever play cover
Speaker 1: one because if everybody backs his turn and he breaks
Speaker 1: the first wave of defense, which the defensive line, he
Speaker 1: can put your your your defensive backs, and your defensive
Speaker 1: players in a very very tough position. And trying to
Speaker 1: tackle this guy in space. He's strong, he's fast, he's elusive,
Speaker 1: and he's um, he's motivated. You think this is a
Speaker 1: game where we're gonna see a lot of Michael Carter
Speaker 1: and James Robinson, the bearers. Statistically, they're giving up about
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty yards a game on the ground, and
Speaker 1: you know, the Jets right now, as they try to
Speaker 1: establish an offensive identity, will probably look to lean to
Speaker 1: the run. I imagine. I mean, no, Ray cron Smith,
Speaker 1: that guy was, you know, one of the best in
Speaker 1: the game with the Baltimore um. You want to try
Speaker 1: and exploit that, and you have to be consistent with it.
Speaker 1: I thought, you know, maybe they got away from the
Speaker 1: run a little bit. It's you gotta inspection this weather.
Speaker 1: It's about wearing guys down. I think guys like James,
Speaker 1: James Robinson and Ty Johnson to these big backs have
Speaker 1: to get in a rhythment of flow and you got
Speaker 1: allow of them to dish out some punishment to these
Speaker 1: defenders early in the game so that when you get
Speaker 1: to the third and fourth quarter, much like when you
Speaker 1: see with Derrick Henry every week, those guys that were
Speaker 1: very bold to make tackles before, aren't as enthusiastics to
Speaker 1: step up in the third and fourth quarter. With where
Speaker 1: the Jets are current a FC landscape, everybody in the
Speaker 1: FC East now is at least two games north of
Speaker 1: five hundred uh and on the horizon after this game,
Speaker 1: bart you're going to Minnesota and then Buffalo. How big
Speaker 1: of a game is this for this team? Some months
Speaker 1: win right, because you didn't take care of business the
Speaker 1: week before, you find yourself in last place, even though
Speaker 1: you do have a very good red her. You know
Speaker 1: you have to try and get to ten and you
Speaker 1: have to start trying to get to tend right now.
Speaker 1: And you know Chicago will help you, but they won't
Speaker 1: help you as much as winning against AFC opponents, which
Speaker 1: at this point you have no margin for era because
Speaker 1: other teams are starting to trend in in a in
Speaker 1: a good direction as well. You know, you look at
Speaker 1: teams like Cincinnati, who's starting to figure it out, and
Speaker 1: you know they won the head to head. So now
Speaker 1: when you don't take care of business and win the division,
Speaker 1: now you're worrying about scenarios and you don't want to
Speaker 1: be playing that game when it gets to to selection Sunday,
Speaker 1: so to speak, when you have to worry about did
Speaker 1: you win enough a f C games because tiebreakers and
Speaker 1: head to heads, you know, you don't want to get
Speaker 1: into that geometry. Happy Thanksgiving to you in your family. Uh,
Speaker 1: we will be watching on Thursday. The Buffalo bill is
Speaker 1: going to your hometown facing the Detroit Lines. Then you
Speaker 1: got a night game, an interesting one that the Jets
Speaker 1: fans will be watching because the Patriots are playing at
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings. What's your favorite Thanksgiving tradition or food? Fabruite?
Speaker 1: Food is on my mother's banana putting homemade about not
Speaker 1: none of that jello putting stuff, you know what I'm saying.
Speaker 1: That's made from flour and vanilla abstracts from scratch homemade.
Speaker 1: What about tradition? Tradition? We used to do the old
Speaker 1: school Turkey Bowl where we used to go out and
Speaker 1: when I was younger, it was always a lot of snow. Uh.
Speaker 1: So we will go out there and play a football
Speaker 1: game before the football games come on because the Lions
Speaker 1: were always playing on Sunday. It is written in a
Speaker 1: contract with the NFL. It is we we watching what
Speaker 1: happens in the Motor City on Thursday, Happy Thanksgiving. We
Speaker 1: will see you all next week.