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Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets Podcast powered

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Speaker 1: by Amazon Web Services. Ethan Greenberg, Eric Allen here in

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Speaker 1: the bed MGM studios and today we're joined by none

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Speaker 1: other than Queen's native Bless Austin. I just saw across

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Speaker 1: the all the lights are going down, but we are

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Speaker 1: still powered by a WUS and the podcast goes on here.

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Speaker 1: Chris Hogan was a great guest last week. And I'll

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Speaker 1: tell you what I think fans are really gonna like

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Speaker 1: this spot with Bless Austin. I like that you referred

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Speaker 1: to him as the King of Queens, not in the interview,

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Speaker 1: but Bless Austin, for those who don't know, is from Queens.

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Speaker 1: And then he goes to Rutgers. He's a local guy, right, Like,

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Speaker 1: how do you not love a local guy, especially with

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Speaker 1: the story of two A c l tears six round

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Speaker 1: pick starts on the physically unable to Perform list as

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Speaker 1: rookie has a halful of starts. Last season Flashed gets

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Speaker 1: benched and now the starter for the Jets. New York Kid.

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Speaker 1: He went to high school campus Magnet that used to

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Speaker 1: be Andrew Jackson of course in Queens, and he played

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Speaker 1: a lot of positions there at Rutgers. NFL. Folks were

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Speaker 1: talking about him early in his career, but you mentioned

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Speaker 1: he had a couple of knee injuries, worked so hard

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Speaker 1: to overcome, uh that, and then he gets drafted in

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Speaker 1: the sixth round. And then he comes in his rookie season.

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Speaker 1: He starts a number of ball games, flashes, experiences a

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Speaker 1: couple of lows, but he is a different player this year.

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Speaker 1: I think he brings a New York mentality to the edge.

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Speaker 1: He's tough, he's in your face. He's also supremely intelligent,

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Speaker 1: and he's a gifted ballplayer who's gonna take advantage of

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Speaker 1: his talent and his opportunities. And he was responsible for

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Speaker 1: one of two force fumbles on Josh Allen on Sunday.

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Speaker 1: I think it was pretty nice tackle up ends him.

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Speaker 1: Then we've talked about this with him, but I don't

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Speaker 1: know if you see it, but on the broadcast for you,

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Speaker 1: you start to see Bless Austin like crawl upfield on

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Speaker 1: all fours. So I think he's pretty physical cornerback. And

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Speaker 1: he had that hit on Hunter Renfro last year against

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Speaker 1: the Raiders. Oh my god, we were watching that hit

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Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna be able to get up

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Speaker 1: and to have that kind of physicality and outside you

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Speaker 1: like it because he's rangy, he's fast, he's physical, and

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Speaker 1: he's tenacious. He just gets after and he loves to play.

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Speaker 1: So blessed Austin could start for him, and also great

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Speaker 1: start for Marcus may I thought he played his best

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Speaker 1: professional game against the Buffalo Bills. They're gonna need those

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Speaker 1: that is coordinated by Kyle Shanahan, and he throws a

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Speaker 1: and be on point this weekend against a Frisco team

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Speaker 1: that's going to be coming in here with an adject

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Speaker 1: they're losing their opener real quick. On the forty Niners,

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Speaker 1: did you see Trent Williams absolutely demolished a middle linebacker.

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Speaker 1: That doesn't surprise me I didn't see the man. I

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Speaker 1: I gotta show you to play. Let's let's just say

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Speaker 1: I saw Raheem. Most of you can get in the

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Speaker 1: So the good news for the Jets secondary and Bless

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Speaker 1: at receiver right now. Samuel on I are their first

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Speaker 1: round pick. Brandon I, you did not play. So those

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Speaker 1: and you can make the argument at this point in

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Speaker 1: especially after one week. We'll see what happens. It feel

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Speaker 1: bad for Pierre to see her because he's a guy

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Speaker 1: who's had success in the national football He was but

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Speaker 1: But Bless Austin is a guy who's progression. We're going

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Speaker 1: here from number thirty one, now joined by the Pride

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Speaker 1: of Queen's Jets quarterback Bless Austin. Blessed. Thanks a lot

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Speaker 1: I spoke to fellow Queen's native Fullronzo Fatakasi about this

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Speaker 1: to you. Well, how do you rock out when you

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Speaker 1: it like? What is the reaction when Blacks Austin goes home?

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not gonna sit here and say it's

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Speaker 1: So I love going home. I love being the Queen's.

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Speaker 1: So who was your team growing up? I'm not gonna

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Speaker 1: who were your favorite players? I was a big fan

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Speaker 1: Bless from where you're from in Queens, is there like

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Speaker 1: Like it's it's crazy. It's so weird because you know,

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Speaker 1: when I did it, that's what I think. How much

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Speaker 1: mean for some reason, man, at QB, you you take

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Speaker 1: the craziest shots. Man. I mean when I played any

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Speaker 1: I'm not gonna disrespect that position at all. But um,

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Speaker 1: I definitely do having physical component to my game, no

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Speaker 1: you crawling up the field on all four. Yeah. Man,

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Speaker 1: I just when I'm out there, I'm a different person. Man.

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Speaker 1: I really invite vite violence, man, to be really honest

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Speaker 1: Are you a talker on the field, I gotta imagine

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Speaker 1: and you know a lot of one on one and

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Speaker 1: week one Josh Allen, he doesn't mind talking and blesses

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Speaker 1: He he's one of those guys that he rapped about

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Speaker 1: when you feel like being motivated. Bless, when did your

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Speaker 1: love of like the arts come into play? Because not

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Speaker 1: only are you big music guy, but we had talked

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Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just like, I love aesthetics, I love

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Speaker 1: But did you do any of that in high school? Maybe?

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Speaker 1: a little bit and you can get it a little

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Speaker 1: package of hey, so you can maybe play some quarterback.

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Speaker 1: I'm not a fan. I'm not a fan of getting

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Speaker 1: at tackled. I love doing it hitting, but I don't

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Speaker 1: like it. All right, fair enough, Less, we appreciate the time.

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Speaker 1: Thanks a lout man. Thanks appreciate it. Great to hear

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Speaker 1: from Bless Austin. What do you think about this? We

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Speaker 1: talked him about his acting aspiration post football. So last

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Speaker 1: year on the forty yard Stroll, I said, if you

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Speaker 1: could have an actor play you in your own biography

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Speaker 1: in a movie, who would you choose? And he chose

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Speaker 1: Michael B. Jordan's What do you think about that? You

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Speaker 1: think it's a good fit? Oh? Like it. I think

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Speaker 1: you should be able to choose who's gonna play you

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Speaker 1: in a movie. So what do you think it? Don't

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Speaker 1: listen to you asked me a question. The bottom line is, hey,

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Speaker 1: if you ask somebody who should play you, they should

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Speaker 1: know it better than anybody else. Yes, that is the

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Speaker 1: perfect thing. Okay, So yeah, going back to football though

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Speaker 1: for a minute, I do think that the arrow is

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Speaker 1: pointing up for bless Austin like you said, And I

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Speaker 1: think that a lot of fans are hoping he can

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Speaker 1: almost out play where you get drafted, like, not a

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Speaker 1: lot of six round picks end up being second or

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Speaker 1: starting corner their second season. I think that's a pretty

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Speaker 1: big feat for somebody like bless Austin coming off of

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Speaker 1: his dual surgery. Yeah, what do you think about his

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Speaker 1: scouting report back in high school with him playing quarterback?

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Speaker 1: He said he said he's got a game like Lamar Jackson.

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Speaker 1: So the thing with Blesses that he's long. He's like you,

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Speaker 1: I can see it. I mean, I can definitely see it.

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Speaker 1: And you know, I didn't want to say this, but

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Speaker 1: it's not like Queen's High schools. You're not chugging out

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Speaker 1: football team. Hey, take it easy. I'm a New Yorker.

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Speaker 1: I can say this thing. Manhattan guy, I am. They're

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Speaker 1: definitely no Manhattan can tell you. There's a couple of schools.

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Speaker 1: But Rutgers is representing the National Football League by like

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Speaker 1: six or seven players, and I think four of them

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Speaker 1: are defensive backs. Do you think about the quarteries? I was, yeah,

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Speaker 1: I was gonna say them Logan Ryan uh On, Harmon

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Speaker 1: too as well. Right, we're just talking about all Patriots

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Speaker 1: or former Patriots. Former Patriots, no doubt about that. And

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Speaker 1: we didn't ask him about them, accordies. But I'm sure

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Speaker 1: blessed we'll exchange pleasantries with those guys when he's on

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Speaker 1: the field with them. But uh, first things first for

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Speaker 1: the Jets, after a tough game in Buffalo to open

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Speaker 1: the season, let's see if they can take a step forward.

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Speaker 1: I like the mentality of this kid. He's resilient, and

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Speaker 1: that's what you need in the locker room. You need

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Speaker 1: a bunch of less Austin's after what happened in Buffalo.

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Speaker 1: And I also really enjoyed what he said about having

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Speaker 1: no fans in stands. He said, I I couldn't even tell.

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Speaker 1: I'm so jacked up. I'm so into the game itself

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Speaker 1: that I just tune everything else out. I am so

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Speaker 1: focused and ready to roll, it doesn't matter me. You

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Speaker 1: know this is gonna sound kind of strange. Josh Allen

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Speaker 1: threw for over three hundred yards for like the first

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Speaker 1: time since high school against the Jets team in Week one.

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Speaker 1: He didn do that? Why only? I don't believe so.

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Speaker 1: But is it fair to say that Blessed Austin had

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Speaker 1: a good game? Definitely like I think he did. He

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Speaker 1: definitely had a good game. You look at where some

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Speaker 1: of those yards were being picked up. They were across

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Speaker 1: the way from him. Um. Again, he brought a physical

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Speaker 1: mentality and he was out there and knocking people around. Um, yeah,

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Speaker 1: he had a good game. Again, if you were getting

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Speaker 1: game balls out and you don't do that after you

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Speaker 1: lose by double digits on the road against the divisional opponent.

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Speaker 1: But we can, because we're sitting here a far apart

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Speaker 1: from the locker room. The two game balls I give out.

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Speaker 1: The number one would be to Marcus May and the

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Speaker 1: second one would be to bless Austin, and then I

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Speaker 1: give one to Jamison. Sorry, Jameson. I you know how

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Speaker 1: anytime you go for seven receptions over a hundred yards

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Speaker 1: and have a sixty nine yards score, yeah you get

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Speaker 1: one to Okay, we're giving a game ball to Jamison anyway.

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Speaker 1: But I do think you're run. I think Blessed Austin

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Speaker 1: had a good game, and I think that one that

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Speaker 1: hit was awesome. The the upend over Josh Allen with

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Speaker 1: the force and remember last season he had the Hunter

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Speaker 1: Renfroe hit too, So I mean bless Austin likes lay

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Speaker 1: the thunder on the outside a little bit. He's got

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Speaker 1: good qualities for a cornerback that you want to have.

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Speaker 1: Is that he's big, he's long, he can press the

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Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. I also think you can find the

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Speaker 1: football and is of football acumen continues to increase. You

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Speaker 1: know where you come in as a rookie. And McKay

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Speaker 1: Backton said it after week one. The speed of the game,

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Speaker 1: everything is just coming so fast right now. I think

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Speaker 1: for a guy like bless Austin. What we're watching is

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Speaker 1: it's all slowing down for him. Yeah, it's funny because

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Speaker 1: in the NFL, playing fast is really slowing down. It's

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Speaker 1: kind of an oxy moron. And for Bless, you definitely

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Speaker 1: saw that progression in the first game, and Jets fans

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Speaker 1: and Bless hoping to see more of that over weeks

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Speaker 1: two to seventeen. And another thing that I liked during

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Speaker 1: camp was Denard Wilson. He wacks poetically about him and

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Speaker 1: oftentimes you won't see a coach talk about a player

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Speaker 1: like that. But the way he talked about a bless

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Speaker 1: and the way he's taken to coaching and just his

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Speaker 1: professional approach, that really stood out to me. Yeah, I

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Speaker 1: agree with that. And you saw the progression from last

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Speaker 1: season week sixteen not being situationally aware to making a

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Speaker 1: playing training camp and picking off Sam Donald, So that

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Speaker 1: shows the progression that Blessed Austin made. And maybe you

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Speaker 1: can get Jimmy Garoppolo this week, huh, and that I

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Speaker 1: would be real nice. So we'll see what happens with

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Speaker 1: Blessed Austin over the course of the two thousand twenty

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Speaker 1: regular season. But that's all we have here for this

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Speaker 1: episode of the Official Jets Podcast powered by Amazon Web Services,

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Speaker 1: Eric Allen, Ethan Greenberg, and we'll see you next week

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Speaker 1: on a proper