WEBVTT - A Conversation with Jets CB Michael Carter II (11/22) 0:00:00.280 --> 0:00:08.000 Um, Welcome to the Official Jets Podcast. We were presented 0:00:08.000 --> 0:00:10.400 by Wind Bett betting the team sport but together at 0:00:10.440 --> 0:00:13.680 Win Bett Eric you my co host Bart Scott. We 0:00:13.760 --> 0:00:18.840 are joint in studio by Jets defensive back Michael Carter 0:00:19.280 --> 0:00:25.520 or m C two. Michael, how tough of an outcome 0:00:25.840 --> 0:00:30.160 was that yesterday against New England Patriots. You guys defensively 0:00:30.600 --> 0:00:34.600 gave up three points over sixty minutes, but you'll lose 0:00:34.880 --> 0:00:37.760 an eight four yard punt return of five seconds remaining. 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:43.720 Uh yeah, I think the the the outcome was definitely, um, 0:00:43.760 --> 0:00:50.080 it was tough. Like I was definitely upset because I 0:00:50.159 --> 0:00:53.800 feel like are you know, are was taken away like 0:00:53.920 --> 0:00:56.920 on defense and that was like more so upset me 0:00:57.040 --> 0:00:59.920 is like as I feel like as a defense, we 0:01:00.040 --> 0:01:02.880 wanted the opportunity to win the game too, just like 0:01:03.000 --> 0:01:06.160 you know, like obviously, like the our offense would have 0:01:06.160 --> 0:01:08.399 liked the opportunity to win the game, or or like 0:01:08.520 --> 0:01:11.760 the New England's special teams obviously won the game. So 0:01:11.840 --> 0:01:14.080 I feel that's what kind of upset me the most, 0:01:14.120 --> 0:01:16.920 is like we lost our opportunity to go and win 0:01:16.959 --> 0:01:20.560 the game for our team. You know, football, you're supposed 0:01:20.560 --> 0:01:23.800 to move quickly but not being a rush. How do 0:01:23.880 --> 0:01:27.560 you guys try not to panic but also move with 0:01:27.600 --> 0:01:29.679 a sense of urgency. I understanding where you are in 0:01:29.680 --> 0:01:34.319 this season? Yeah, I feel like as far as like 0:01:34.360 --> 0:01:37.160 not panicking, we know who we are in in the 0:01:37.200 --> 0:01:40.319 style of football and that that we play, um. And 0:01:40.319 --> 0:01:42.800 how good we can be when we just fix those 0:01:42.840 --> 0:01:47.440 little minute things UM and get on our details. Um. 0:01:47.520 --> 0:01:49.800 And so you know that's what we we harped on 0:01:49.840 --> 0:01:53.960 the day UM, in the meetings and watching the film UM. 0:01:54.040 --> 0:01:57.880 And everything is fixable UM. And so we know we 0:01:57.920 --> 0:02:01.200 gotta get done when we show up on Wednesday. UM. 0:02:01.320 --> 0:02:03.240 We just gotta be able to to to put it 0:02:03.280 --> 0:02:06.000 into motion and you know, be on our details and execute. 0:02:06.320 --> 0:02:08.960 How high of a standard do you guys have because 0:02:09.680 --> 0:02:14.399 when bart was playing, I'm having memories back in two 0:02:14.400 --> 0:02:18.359 thousand nine, two thousand and ten where you're dominant. Over 0:02:18.400 --> 0:02:21.760 the course of sixty minutes, you had six sacks of 0:02:21.800 --> 0:02:26.000 Mac Jones first second consecutive game. Uh. One thing that 0:02:26.600 --> 0:02:30.160 Carl Lawson just said is that we can correct some things. 0:02:30.240 --> 0:02:32.960 We didn't play a perfect game. We gotta get some takeaways. 0:02:33.000 --> 0:02:35.160 Can you talk about the standard that you guys are 0:02:35.200 --> 0:02:38.960 holding yourself to right now, Yeah, man, like Carl is right, 0:02:39.040 --> 0:02:41.200 like there are some things that you know, we left 0:02:41.280 --> 0:02:44.480 some plays out there, um inches in the game that 0:02:45.040 --> 0:02:47.760 we could have taken advantage of. We could have you know, 0:02:47.800 --> 0:02:52.640 put the game away ourselves on defense. Um And so 0:02:52.880 --> 0:02:54.880 that you know, that's that's the standard. We feel like 0:02:55.840 --> 0:02:58.880 we gotta get the ball, um and when we get 0:02:58.919 --> 0:03:01.359 the ball, we're out to score. Um And and that's 0:03:02.280 --> 0:03:05.160 that's a standard. That's what we gotta do. Um And 0:03:05.280 --> 0:03:08.800 just like if we were if we were down, you know, 0:03:08.840 --> 0:03:12.120 our offense will pick us up. UM. We feel like 0:03:12.200 --> 0:03:14.680 it's our job to help them in any aspect that 0:03:14.720 --> 0:03:17.480 we can, and they always help us. Um. You know, 0:03:17.520 --> 0:03:19.680 if the team goes down there and drives on us, 0:03:19.720 --> 0:03:22.079 you know they they got on their answer right back 0:03:22.120 --> 0:03:24.880 like that, um And And that's the you know, that's 0:03:24.880 --> 0:03:28.520 how you know great teams are. I mean, you guys 0:03:28.560 --> 0:03:33.959 are a young team, and sometimes not everybody's gonna have 0:03:34.040 --> 0:03:37.240 the same perspective of some of the veteran players. How 0:03:37.280 --> 0:03:40.920 do you keep this unit and group together understanding that 0:03:41.000 --> 0:03:46.120 you don't want the media, you don't want maybe things 0:03:46.160 --> 0:03:49.360 to bubble over in the locker room. How do you 0:03:49.840 --> 0:03:53.040 keep this unit together and just focus on farm of 0:03:53.080 --> 0:03:56.040 your own land and not have the frustration because it 0:03:56.160 --> 0:03:59.280 is frustrating to have that type of performers. No performers 0:03:59.320 --> 0:04:02.200 has ever perfect it. But when you're playing you hold 0:04:02.200 --> 0:04:04.680 a team to basically three points and you lose, that 0:04:04.720 --> 0:04:08.160 has to be gut ritching. Yeah. I think it's just 0:04:08.240 --> 0:04:11.200 the belief we have in each other. UM. You know, 0:04:11.200 --> 0:04:14.200 we always preach it all about us, and it's always 0:04:14.240 --> 0:04:16.240 still gonna be about us and the everybody in the 0:04:16.279 --> 0:04:18.120 building because we're the ones who put in the time 0:04:18.839 --> 0:04:21.280 and the work, um to put out a good product 0:04:21.320 --> 0:04:24.600 on Sunday. And we believe in each other, UM, So 0:04:24.640 --> 0:04:29.080 we can have those conversations, uh with each other and 0:04:29.400 --> 0:04:32.279 the hard ones were you know, you gotta talk about 0:04:32.320 --> 0:04:34.559 some things, but it's because you know, we have faith 0:04:34.600 --> 0:04:39.040 and we respect each other in that way, UM. And 0:04:39.080 --> 0:04:44.479 so you know there's no diversion or anything that's that's 0:04:44.520 --> 0:04:46.359 going on because you know, we have that belief in 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:48.440 each other that you know, we can get the job 0:04:48.480 --> 0:04:52.160 done on any giving Sunday versus you know, any team, UM, 0:04:52.160 --> 0:04:53.640 and everybody's going to be out there and do their 0:04:53.720 --> 0:04:56.520 job to the best of their ability. How hard are 0:04:56.560 --> 0:05:01.320 you guys making it? And opponents once they moved the 0:05:01.360 --> 0:05:04.320 ball past the fifty yard line, like it felt like 0:05:04.400 --> 0:05:06.320 there are times where we have bent a little bit 0:05:06.440 --> 0:05:10.520 yesterday and Bark can talk about this, But when you 0:05:10.520 --> 0:05:13.719 guys needed a play, you moved them back, so instead 0:05:13.760 --> 0:05:16.080 of hey, they're in the red zone, it's like they're 0:05:16.160 --> 0:05:19.520 kicking along field goal. Nick Folk went one of three yesterday. 0:05:19.600 --> 0:05:23.839 So when you guys needed a play, when you needed momentum, 0:05:23.880 --> 0:05:26.960 I know you didn't get to take away, but he 0:05:27.080 --> 0:05:30.080 kept on moving them back where they weren't able to 0:05:30.120 --> 0:05:32.320 penetrate the ten yard line to five yard line and 0:05:32.320 --> 0:05:37.240 get into that zone. Yeah, and just there were some 0:05:37.279 --> 0:05:41.200 plays that you know, they turned into explosives. UM. And 0:05:41.279 --> 0:05:45.240 that kind of sustained some of those drives, UM, and 0:05:45.240 --> 0:05:48.159 and all those things like like I was saying, you know, 0:05:48.360 --> 0:05:51.359 fixable things, UM, just being in the right spots and 0:05:51.400 --> 0:05:56.560 being detailed and in our approach. UM. But you know, 0:05:56.600 --> 0:05:59.000 if they don't score, you know they can't win. Uh 0:05:59.160 --> 0:06:01.960 So then but don't break, you know, give us an 0:06:01.960 --> 0:06:05.280 inch and we'll defended. That's a mentality, UM. And when 0:06:05.279 --> 0:06:07.360 it's trying to lock in, like you know, all right, 0:06:07.360 --> 0:06:10.279 they gotta play it's lock in right here, and you know, 0:06:10.320 --> 0:06:13.040 make sure we get off the field, we get the 0:06:13.080 --> 0:06:16.280 ball back to the offense and you know we keep 0:06:16.279 --> 0:06:20.560 points off the board. You guys went from first place 0:06:20.600 --> 0:06:23.360 to last place and you guys still have above five 0:06:23.440 --> 0:06:26.719 hundred record. But how much pressure does that put on 0:06:26.839 --> 0:06:29.400 this week to make sure that you're able to get 0:06:29.440 --> 0:06:33.560 on the right start? Like, how do you approach this week? Intensity? 0:06:33.600 --> 0:06:38.839 Wratsing it up, attention to detail and understanding that it's 0:06:39.000 --> 0:06:41.960 levels to the months in football, the fact that you're 0:06:41.960 --> 0:06:46.279 inn in the championship months. What is the mood like 0:06:46.480 --> 0:06:49.960 and what's the anticipation for practice and being able to 0:06:50.000 --> 0:06:52.520 practice the way that you're going to have to play 0:06:52.640 --> 0:06:56.880 to be able to get in the tournament. Um. I 0:06:56.920 --> 0:07:00.039 think that there's always since urgency when we guard it 0:07:00.080 --> 0:07:05.680 and we practice because we practice hard, um every day, UM, 0:07:05.800 --> 0:07:09.840 running to the football and whatever week, this is still 0:07:09.920 --> 0:07:13.640 running to the football. UM, you know, showing effort at 0:07:13.680 --> 0:07:17.080 practice and making sure you know, we're holding each other 0:07:17.080 --> 0:07:20.600 accountable on that field. UM. And so it's always been 0:07:20.640 --> 0:07:25.239 like that. The standard doesn't change. UM, We're not important 0:07:25.280 --> 0:07:29.840 the game. This game is because it's the next game. UM. 0:07:29.920 --> 0:07:32.560 And so we plan to go out there and execute 0:07:32.600 --> 0:07:36.800 and win. UM. You know obviously that starts on Wednesday 0:07:37.080 --> 0:07:40.560 and starts it can start actually today and just getting 0:07:40.600 --> 0:07:45.160 those um little things that we can get correctly corrected today. UM, 0:07:45.240 --> 0:07:47.640 so we know what to take in the Wednesday and 0:07:48.080 --> 0:07:52.280 make sure we're straight on um. And so yeah, how 0:07:52.280 --> 0:07:54.560 are you five guys working as the unit? You get 0:07:54.800 --> 0:07:57.920 new cornerbacks this year and Sauce Gardener and DJ Read 0:07:58.480 --> 0:08:03.640 and then LaMarcus Winner healthy and then obviously you bring 0:08:03.640 --> 0:08:05.960 in Jordan White had early on in the year. I 0:08:06.040 --> 0:08:09.000 know you guys were talking about communication. It seems like 0:08:09.280 --> 0:08:11.920 everybody's on the same page each and every week, and 0:08:11.960 --> 0:08:15.080 you guys expect to dominate. Yeah, And I think like 0:08:16.560 --> 0:08:19.800 it was a challenge at the beginning because you know, 0:08:19.840 --> 0:08:24.040 you didn't really know each other. UM. Like I think 0:08:24.320 --> 0:08:27.320 out of the our secondary from last year, I'm like 0:08:28.200 --> 0:08:31.080 maybe the only one who's like out there. So like 0:08:32.400 --> 0:08:34.080 it took a while. We had to spend the time 0:08:34.120 --> 0:08:35.680 with each other and get to know each other and 0:08:35.679 --> 0:08:38.600 how each other thinks, How how this guy next to 0:08:38.600 --> 0:08:42.440 me processes information, how fast you can process information because 0:08:42.840 --> 0:08:47.080 somebody's motioning over and we got to make a checkout fast, 0:08:47.160 --> 0:08:50.480 Like I'll just do the simplest thing to help him out. 0:08:51.000 --> 0:08:53.400 Um whoever that guy is. It's just stuff like that. 0:08:54.040 --> 0:08:56.760 Uh So, just just taking an extra time, you know, 0:08:56.800 --> 0:08:58.480 after they say we're done for the day, and just 0:08:58.480 --> 0:09:01.520 getting into film room each other and just going through 0:09:01.640 --> 0:09:05.280 that communication, going through how we see things, going through 0:09:05.320 --> 0:09:08.439 how we're gonna you know, this is how we're gonna 0:09:08.440 --> 0:09:11.280 do it. If if you have a a different way 0:09:11.280 --> 0:09:12.800 you want to do it, let's talk through it, like 0:09:12.840 --> 0:09:16.760 all that stuff. Like we really I think put the 0:09:16.840 --> 0:09:19.640 time in to each other and gave it back to 0:09:19.720 --> 0:09:22.480 one another to be able to to be able to 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.439 play at a high level. Do you think it's beneficial 0:09:26.600 --> 0:09:29.679 for all the guys that have been in the playoffs? 0:09:30.080 --> 0:09:32.760 They kind of pulled you young guys together to explain 0:09:32.800 --> 0:09:36.439 because early on and may you may think that it's 0:09:36.480 --> 0:09:40.680 business as usual, but playoffs is a told you don't 0:09:40.760 --> 0:09:43.160 until you've been in it, you have no idea, and 0:09:43.240 --> 0:09:45.880 until you've been into in those games leading up to 0:09:46.000 --> 0:09:49.360 trying to secure a playoffs spot, it's a totally different level. 0:09:49.400 --> 0:09:52.319 So have you got guys considered maybe getting into Duwayne 0:09:52.400 --> 0:09:56.480 Brown's getting you know, white Head, getting c J. Moseley 0:09:56.559 --> 0:09:58.680 to kind of explain to some of the young guys 0:09:58.720 --> 0:10:01.320 that may not be thinking about it because the next 0:10:01.360 --> 0:10:04.080 game isn't just the next game. It's a the end 0:10:04.120 --> 0:10:06.840 of the season and still having something to play for. 0:10:06.920 --> 0:10:10.520 It's a totally different level than intensity, level of attention 0:10:10.600 --> 0:10:13.280 to detail, and everybody has to take their play to 0:10:13.320 --> 0:10:15.880 a totally different level and that has to be done 0:10:15.880 --> 0:10:19.040 and taking it, you know, to account when you practice. 0:10:19.720 --> 0:10:25.760 Yeah yeah, um yeah, that makes sense. Um. And obviously 0:10:25.800 --> 0:10:29.440 I don't have any experience yet uh in that, but 0:10:29.840 --> 0:10:32.240 you know, I know I can go to the Wayne 0:10:32.320 --> 0:10:35.679 or go to Jordan's and ask them, you know what 0:10:35.720 --> 0:10:37.719 I need to do, what we need to do, and 0:10:38.080 --> 0:10:42.760 they can explain, um, you know how the steps we 0:10:42.800 --> 0:10:44.840 need to take to be able to to to play 0:10:44.880 --> 0:10:49.840 at a playoff level. Um. And and that's that those 0:10:49.880 --> 0:10:52.160 type of guys, you know, these good guys who can 0:10:53.679 --> 0:10:56.440 who are willing to reach back out reach back into 0:10:56.480 --> 0:10:59.439 the youth and and put us along with them. Um. 0:10:59.480 --> 0:11:00.920 You know, we got those type of guys in the 0:11:01.120 --> 0:11:03.840 in the building who are willing to do that. What 0:11:03.880 --> 0:11:06.880 do you like most about playing the nickel position and 0:11:07.080 --> 0:11:13.040 also what's the most significant challenges that come along with 0:11:13.120 --> 0:11:18.280 playing inside? What I like most, I would say is 0:11:18.360 --> 0:11:22.640 just um, you know, I like the attackle. I like 0:11:22.679 --> 0:11:24.120 to be in the run fits and like be around 0:11:24.160 --> 0:11:29.440 the action. Um. And so it's it's it's cool, like 0:11:29.480 --> 0:11:33.040 I enjoyed you know, games the most when I can 0:11:33.120 --> 0:11:35.360 when they allowed me to to you know, be a 0:11:35.760 --> 0:11:41.920 what they call a baby backer. Yeah, I enjoyed those games. Um. 0:11:41.960 --> 0:11:45.640 And then you know, just to the trust that everybody 0:11:45.640 --> 0:11:49.960 has in me to communicate and carry that communication you 0:11:49.960 --> 0:11:54.319 know when I'm even when I'm moving or when there's movement. UM. 0:11:54.600 --> 0:11:56.800 I enjoyed that a lot because I feel like I 0:11:56.840 --> 0:12:01.520 can handle it. Um. And and so yeah, I guess 0:12:01.559 --> 0:12:04.640 there's some pressure that comes with that because if you're wrong, 0:12:04.880 --> 0:12:07.840 you know, some people be out of the their spots. 0:12:07.880 --> 0:12:10.560 But you know, I feel you know, I feel good 0:12:10.600 --> 0:12:14.000 that that everybody trust me to be able to do that. UM. 0:12:14.080 --> 0:12:17.960 And then you know challenges is obviously all the space. 0:12:18.240 --> 0:12:21.600 It's a lot of space, um. But you know it 0:12:21.679 --> 0:12:23.199 is what it is. You know, you got a man 0:12:23.320 --> 0:12:26.920 up in there. Um. And so you know I take 0:12:26.960 --> 0:12:29.679 your head on. Um, you know, I'm back down from 0:12:29.720 --> 0:12:32.959 from any challenge. So, yeah, I saw you shooting gaps 0:12:33.040 --> 0:12:38.520 last game a little bit playing cut back. But how 0:12:38.600 --> 0:12:41.559 much time do you actually maybe spend during nine O 0:12:41.720 --> 0:12:44.640 seven or run fits with the run with the linebackers 0:12:45.000 --> 0:12:47.199 to be able to maybe ask some tools to your 0:12:47.200 --> 0:12:49.520 tool belt as far as maybe being able to knife 0:12:49.600 --> 0:12:52.160 that in if you feel like it's a big gap there, 0:12:52.200 --> 0:12:53.400 you want to switch it up and you want to 0:12:53.440 --> 0:12:56.240 be able to scrape outside are you may be considering 0:12:56.320 --> 0:12:58.680 going over and and doing some Nino seven so you 0:12:58.679 --> 0:13:01.080 can learn some of the tools that nibaggers have to 0:13:01.120 --> 0:13:04.400 be able to control your defensive alignment. When you feel like, hey, 0:13:04.520 --> 0:13:06.319 you know, we're in a big flex front and we 0:13:06.440 --> 0:13:09.120 got a lot of gaps here. I'm feeling like I 0:13:09.160 --> 0:13:11.160 want to scrape these guys or knife my d N 0:13:12.200 --> 0:13:17.120 or half my nose card. Yeah that's that. Yeah, that's actually, um, 0:13:17.160 --> 0:13:20.040 you know a really good idea. I know, uh, you 0:13:20.080 --> 0:13:24.040 know those linebackers, they showed me a lot of love. Um, 0:13:24.080 --> 0:13:27.320 just in the in the communication and when I'm coming, 0:13:27.440 --> 0:13:29.960 when they know I'm in the fit, Um, just making 0:13:30.000 --> 0:13:33.000 sure I'm straight um on where I'm at. You know, 0:13:33.200 --> 0:13:37.120 if if things start moving pullers and and you know, 0:13:37.200 --> 0:13:40.400 all those things happened, they know where I was supposed 0:13:40.400 --> 0:13:41.680 to be, and make sure I know what I'm supposed 0:13:41.679 --> 0:13:45.199 to be Coach white Cotton. Um, you know when I'm 0:13:45.240 --> 0:13:47.439 in the run fits too, when we do those team 0:13:47.480 --> 0:13:50.520 periods where we're just walking through those run fits. Um, 0:13:51.000 --> 0:13:53.679 he's making sure that, Okay, I know what the d 0:13:53.960 --> 0:13:57.360 defensive linement is supposed to be doing on this play, um, 0:13:57.400 --> 0:13:59.120 And so I know where my fits supposed to be. 0:13:59.280 --> 0:14:02.200 And then if he does something else, you know, I 0:14:02.280 --> 0:14:06.240 just fit off of him in that instance. But uh, 0:14:06.320 --> 0:14:08.680 you know they definitely, you know, give me a lot 0:14:09.640 --> 0:14:12.640 of a feedback and and and being when I'm in 0:14:12.679 --> 0:14:15.960 those in those run fits. You were a rookie last year, 0:14:17.040 --> 0:14:20.040 How impressed are you by what Sauce is doing out here? 0:14:20.200 --> 0:14:23.080 Tank games into his NFL career, leads the National Football 0:14:23.160 --> 0:14:28.440 League before tempds man. That dude is special, Um, Like 0:14:31.000 --> 0:14:37.080 it's unreal, Like he's probably like a a whole a 0:14:37.240 --> 0:14:40.280 real deal, like good vibe to like the back end, 0:14:40.400 --> 0:14:44.400 and uh, everybody knows he's gonna handle his business. Um, 0:14:46.200 --> 0:14:50.320 But he's also like cool and chill and can have fun. Um. 0:14:51.920 --> 0:14:53.760 And you know being that, you know he was taking 0:14:53.800 --> 0:14:57.480 in the draft where he was like super cool, approachable, 0:14:57.640 --> 0:15:00.960 like so you know, the utmost respect for for him 0:15:01.280 --> 0:15:04.200 as a person. And then just what he's doing in 0:15:04.320 --> 0:15:09.840 the league already, um is special. Um, and he's gonna 0:15:09.840 --> 0:15:11.720 be doing it for a long time. Like that dude 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:16.520 is real. He's a real deal for sure. DJ reid 0:15:17.160 --> 0:15:20.080 Bart says on this podcast almost every week that he 0:15:20.240 --> 0:15:24.120 thinks that he's playing at all pro level. Obviously came 0:15:24.200 --> 0:15:27.160 over from Seattle. What do you think about what he's 0:15:27.200 --> 0:15:32.080 doing on the outside because typically a guy with his 0:15:32.200 --> 0:15:35.760 body type, we'll be playing inside like yourself, but DJ 0:15:36.280 --> 0:15:40.880 going outside and uh, he brings that dog in every Sunday. Yeah, 0:15:41.000 --> 0:15:43.600 Like like you said, he brings that dog and you 0:15:43.680 --> 0:15:48.360 could see it like like if y'all here are the 0:15:49.520 --> 0:15:52.640 speech before we come out for the pregame or when 0:15:52.640 --> 0:15:55.880 we're in the pregame, hurtel Um, that's a different DJ 0:15:56.080 --> 0:15:59.560 than you see like in the meeting room, and like 0:16:01.040 --> 0:16:05.120 that's that just like breathes life into you because you're like, dang, 0:16:05.440 --> 0:16:09.000 I need to match this dude, or I'm gonna get left. 0:16:09.440 --> 0:16:11.280 Like in the same with Sauce because also get in 0:16:11.320 --> 0:16:13.280 there and speak to and like even as a rookie, 0:16:13.320 --> 0:16:16.360 he's not scared to speak and and and so me 0:16:16.560 --> 0:16:19.800 like on the more like laid back, chill person. But 0:16:19.840 --> 0:16:21.680 I feed off that. I feed off those guys and 0:16:22.040 --> 0:16:25.080 and uh so I appreciate them. Like It's like as 0:16:25.120 --> 0:16:28.880 soon as DJ came in, like that was super exciting 0:16:28.920 --> 0:16:32.080 for me too, because like I was super happy to 0:16:32.200 --> 0:16:35.000 get somebody like him because you know, I had a 0:16:35.120 --> 0:16:38.360 vet that I could, like now to ask some questions 0:16:38.440 --> 0:16:42.080 and just get his experience on things and how he 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:46.760 plays the game, and um, you know, it's just it's 0:16:46.800 --> 0:16:50.840 just been awesome having though seven games left. What's the 0:16:50.960 --> 0:16:54.640 goal as a defensive unit? Where are you trying to 0:16:54.760 --> 0:16:57.280 take this thing? What's the goals? As you know you're 0:16:57.320 --> 0:16:59.640 past the midway point, is time and say, okay, this 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:01.560 is what we are right now, this is what we 0:17:01.640 --> 0:17:05.360 want to be, and how do you guys get there? Yeah, 0:17:05.400 --> 0:17:08.800 I think the goal is the goal is to get 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:12.879 more takeaways and to actually score with those takeaways. Um, 0:17:14.040 --> 0:17:16.040 you know, we had a lot of balls on the 0:17:16.160 --> 0:17:20.640 ground that we haven't been able to get. Um, when 0:17:20.640 --> 0:17:23.640 we feel like now the time, like we gotta get 0:17:23.680 --> 0:17:30.080 those We gotta get those opportunities, those fumbles, those tip balls, UM, 0:17:31.320 --> 0:17:34.119 those sideline adjustments when we make them, we gotta be 0:17:34.200 --> 0:17:38.879 able to adjust and make the play. UM. And so 0:17:39.680 --> 0:17:42.880 the goal really is just to keep being the takeaways, UM, 0:17:43.000 --> 0:17:47.560 and just keep being keep dominating UM. You know, get 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:50.600 back to the fundamentals and in the way we tackle. 0:17:51.320 --> 0:17:55.440 UM and be because you know when it's gonna get colder. UM. 0:17:56.359 --> 0:18:00.000 So just be the best takeaway defense in the league 0:18:00.200 --> 0:18:03.160 and then be the best tackling defense in the league. UM. 0:18:03.920 --> 0:18:06.720 I mean we do, those two will dominate. I love 0:18:06.840 --> 0:18:09.560 what I'm hearing from him, because Bart, when you were 0:18:09.600 --> 0:18:13.119 in Baltimore, you guys weren't just looking to take the 0:18:13.200 --> 0:18:16.960 ball away, but you were looking to score. And that 0:18:17.240 --> 0:18:19.920 came You brought that attitude here with the Jets as well. 0:18:20.200 --> 0:18:23.159 So when Bart was in Baltimore, you gotta get the 0:18:23.200 --> 0:18:26.800 ball to at Read, right, who who's after a takeaway? Now? 0:18:26.840 --> 0:18:28.960 Who's got no? No, no no what wo no no 0:18:29.080 --> 0:18:33.720 no no no no. We didn't just give it to Read. Yeah, 0:18:34.160 --> 0:18:37.720 but we know we we we actually practiced pitching the 0:18:37.800 --> 0:18:41.919 ball and we practice who gets who gets you. Whenever 0:18:41.920 --> 0:18:44.520 you get intercept, you you somebody has to block the 0:18:44.640 --> 0:18:47.280 initial intended receiver so he can't come from the back, 0:18:47.680 --> 0:18:49.760 and then you set up a perimeter that somebody has 0:18:49.800 --> 0:18:51.639 to get back, and you set up the fence like 0:18:51.760 --> 0:18:55.520 punt return. But we actually practiced it. We actually have 0:18:55.760 --> 0:18:58.960 touchdowns where we've pitched it multiple times and we weren't 0:18:58.960 --> 0:19:02.080 afraid to pitch it um while we're running the back, 0:19:02.119 --> 0:19:04.520 but understanding that it's not where you let it go at, 0:19:04.560 --> 0:19:06.600 it's where he catches it, so you actually have to 0:19:06.760 --> 0:19:09.760 pitch it back, no doubt. But but that read was 0:19:09.840 --> 0:19:13.159 a dynamic returner. Bro Well a lot of times he 0:19:13.280 --> 0:19:16.240 was the one who got the interception. But Chris McAlister 0:19:16.359 --> 0:19:18.920 and samari Roll was like, yo, I got sauce to 0:19:19.160 --> 0:19:21.720 you know what I mean, who do you think would 0:19:21.720 --> 0:19:24.120 be the best returner as far as you guys are 0:19:24.160 --> 0:19:28.280 concerned getting the ball in their hands. Pitch back to me, yeah, 0:19:28.680 --> 0:19:32.840 pitch back to me. Now you don't Now you don't 0:19:32.840 --> 0:19:36.000 want Quinn and talking about go block for me. You've 0:19:36.000 --> 0:19:38.720 done your job, big fella. It's okay. You know he 0:19:38.800 --> 0:19:41.040 could move some people out of the way too. Well 0:19:41.119 --> 0:19:44.720 we saw was on face mask tyreek, but you know 0:19:44.760 --> 0:19:46.680 what I'm saying, he only he only went two more yards. 0:19:46.800 --> 0:19:48.919 It's all good. We want to send a message by 0:19:48.960 --> 0:19:51.600 opening smacking. Somebody will give it to Quinning. But if 0:19:51.640 --> 0:19:53.760 you want to get get them, get them six points, 0:19:53.760 --> 0:19:55.359 you gotta go ahead pitch to somebody with a little 0:19:55.400 --> 0:19:58.160 bit more RPMs on a on a on a speed. 0:19:58.840 --> 0:20:03.080 Yeah me, uh, Sauce really to hold back in you 0:20:03.200 --> 0:20:04.920 can picture to hold back and we'll get we'll get 0:20:04.960 --> 0:20:07.280 busy with it. Hey, what do you think about this 0:20:07.400 --> 0:20:10.000 rookie class? You guys had to find rookie class in 0:20:10.040 --> 0:20:12.720 two thousand twenty one, and what do you think about 0:20:12.840 --> 0:20:16.000 what this group is doing specifically? Maybe you can talk 0:20:16.040 --> 0:20:18.520 about a pair of those and we talked about Sauce, 0:20:19.080 --> 0:20:22.960 but you're really getting good production from Jermaine Johnson and 0:20:23.080 --> 0:20:25.960 Michael Clemens. Michael Clemens keeps on popping off the screen. 0:20:26.080 --> 0:20:29.200 Like this class. It's not only talented, but it's deep. 0:20:29.240 --> 0:20:31.800 You can talk about each of the guys selected. Yeah, 0:20:31.840 --> 0:20:35.359 they just came in with that young energy like like 0:20:36.080 --> 0:20:38.560 like sort of how we feel like we had to 0:20:38.600 --> 0:20:42.719 come into last year, like we don't care what happens before. 0:20:43.280 --> 0:20:45.920 Like they brought us here to to do something good 0:20:46.480 --> 0:20:48.960 and change the thing around, and and they came in 0:20:49.520 --> 0:20:53.080 with that same that same monset, that same energy, and 0:20:54.320 --> 0:20:58.200 UM kind of just rejuvenated everybody. I feel like, UM, 0:20:58.560 --> 0:21:02.479 we guys saw us in the corner room, Uh, Garrett 0:21:02.520 --> 0:21:09.879 in the receiver room, Breeze, Jermaine mc even maxing and 0:21:10.040 --> 0:21:12.680 rugged like like all those guys that just came in 0:21:12.840 --> 0:21:17.399 and with the the present tense mindset and the future 0:21:18.240 --> 0:21:22.919 oriented type mindset like we're here in and now, Uh, 0:21:23.000 --> 0:21:24.840 this is what we can do. Now, this is where 0:21:24.840 --> 0:21:30.000 we want to be. UM. And you know they've been excelling. Yeah, 0:21:30.040 --> 0:21:31.920 you can hear that passion out of Garrett Wilson in 0:21:31.960 --> 0:21:35.440 the locker room yesterday that how much this game means 0:21:35.520 --> 0:21:37.720 to him and the collective as far as the outcomes. 0:21:38.320 --> 0:21:41.560 Even at practice, like he's like going to compete, like 0:21:41.600 --> 0:21:44.880 when we have those competition periods, and like he wants 0:21:44.960 --> 0:21:48.520 to win like every rep and like when he like 0:21:48.680 --> 0:21:52.800 even when he does lose, like he's upset, like because 0:21:53.400 --> 0:21:56.359 like he feels like he can win every rep and 0:21:56.400 --> 0:21:58.960 that's how it should be. UM, And he's like you 0:21:59.040 --> 0:22:01.680 can tell that he really loves the game and he 0:22:01.800 --> 0:22:04.440 wants to be his best, and I feel like that's 0:22:04.440 --> 0:22:07.680 how everybody is. I got some advice for you guys 0:22:07.720 --> 0:22:09.719 in defense. I want you to go get you an 0:22:09.840 --> 0:22:16.120 Adrian Wilson fat head or or Rod Woodson white head, 0:22:16.440 --> 0:22:19.480 um fat head, and I want everybody that's in the 0:22:19.600 --> 0:22:22.600 defensive backfield to stand next to it. And if you're 0:22:22.640 --> 0:22:26.760 not bigger than those guys, no more flippers. You gotta 0:22:26.840 --> 0:22:29.680 wrap up because it's getting it's getting cold out here. 0:22:30.040 --> 0:22:31.680 You trying some of these fat boys with it with 0:22:31.800 --> 0:22:34.320 them flippers, you actually bounce them into where they're going. 0:22:34.600 --> 0:22:37.480 So unless you like Adrian Wilson's size with six to 0:22:38.240 --> 0:22:41.040 tw at safety, no more flippers, you gotta go ahead 0:22:41.080 --> 0:22:43.920 and wrap it up. Man. Yeah, yeah, yeah. And that's 0:22:45.359 --> 0:22:47.200 part of, you know, kind of what we talked about 0:22:47.200 --> 0:22:52.800 today too, just tackling um and kind of you know, 0:22:52.880 --> 0:22:55.159 as it's getting colder, like I was talking about earlier, 0:22:55.800 --> 0:22:58.879