Speaker 1: Welcome to another edition of the Official Jets Podcast powered
Speaker 1: by Amazon Web Services. Ethan Greenberg, Eric Allen here in
Speaker 1: the bed MGM studios and today we're joined by none
Speaker 1: other than Queen's native Bless Austin. I just saw across
Speaker 1: the all the lights are going down, but we are
Speaker 1: still powered by a WUS and the podcast goes on here.
Speaker 1: Chris Hogan was a great guest last week. And I'll
Speaker 1: tell you what I think fans are really gonna like
Speaker 1: this spot with Bless Austin. I like that you referred
Speaker 1: to him as the King of Queens, not in the interview,
Speaker 1: but Bless Austin, for those who don't know, is from Queens.
Speaker 1: And then he goes to Rutgers. He's a local guy, right, Like,
Speaker 1: how do you not love a local guy, especially with
Speaker 1: the story of two A c l tears six round
Speaker 1: pick starts on the physically unable to Perform list as
Speaker 1: rookie has a halful of starts. Last season Flashed gets
Speaker 1: benched and now the starter for the Jets. New York Kid.
Speaker 1: He went to high school campus Magnet that used to
Speaker 1: be Andrew Jackson of course in Queens, and he played
Speaker 1: a lot of positions there at Rutgers. NFL. Folks were
Speaker 1: talking about him early in his career, but you mentioned
Speaker 1: he had a couple of knee injuries, worked so hard
Speaker 1: to overcome, uh that, and then he gets drafted in
Speaker 1: the sixth round. And then he comes in his rookie season.
Speaker 1: He starts a number of ball games, flashes, experiences a
Speaker 1: couple of lows, but he is a different player this year.
Speaker 1: I think he brings a New York mentality to the edge.
Speaker 1: He's tough, he's in your face. He's also supremely intelligent,
Speaker 1: and he's a gifted ballplayer who's gonna take advantage of
Speaker 1: his talent and his opportunities. And he was responsible for
Speaker 1: one of two force fumbles on Josh Allen on Sunday.
Speaker 1: I think it was pretty nice tackle up ends him.
Speaker 1: Then we've talked about this with him, but I don't
Speaker 1: know if you see it, but on the broadcast for you,
Speaker 1: you start to see Bless Austin like crawl upfield on
Speaker 1: all fours. So I think he's pretty physical cornerback. And
Speaker 1: he had that hit on Hunter Renfro last year against
Speaker 1: the Raiders. Oh my god, we were watching that hit
Speaker 1: against the Raiders Renfro. I was worried about him. A
Speaker 1: monstrous shot, a body shot, and like, oh man, I
Speaker 1: don't know if he's gonna be able to get up
Speaker 1: from that, but hey, that's what you want from anybody,
Speaker 1: and to have that kind of physicality and outside you
Speaker 1: like it because he's rangy, he's fast, he's physical, and
Speaker 1: he's tenacious. He just gets after and he loves to play.
Speaker 1: So blessed Austin could start for him, and also great
Speaker 1: start for Marcus may I thought he played his best
Speaker 1: professional game against the Buffalo Bills. They're gonna need those
Speaker 1: guys this weekend against a San Francisco forty Niners team
Speaker 1: that is coordinated by Kyle Shanahan, and he throws a
Speaker 1: lot of different things at you, a lot of more
Speaker 1: ships and formations, and he loves his athletic lineman and
Speaker 1: his fast running backs. So the Jets have to tackle
Speaker 1: and be on point this weekend against a Frisco team
Speaker 1: that's going to be coming in here with an adject
Speaker 1: they're losing their opener real quick. On the forty Niners,
Speaker 1: did you see Trent Williams absolutely demolished a middle linebacker.
Speaker 1: That doesn't surprise me I didn't see the man. I
Speaker 1: I gotta show you to play. Let's let's just say
Speaker 1: I saw Raheem. Most of you can get in the
Speaker 1: open field on a pass route, and he got into
Speaker 1: the end zone in about three seconds seventy six yards. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So the good news for the Jets secondary and Bless
Speaker 1: Austin is that the forty Niners are pretty banged up
Speaker 1: at receiver right now. Samuel on I are their first
Speaker 1: round pick. Brandon I, you did not play. So those
Speaker 1: guys kind of similar to the Jets, maybe more banged
Speaker 1: up at receiver than the Jets are right now. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and you can make the argument at this point in
Speaker 1: time that Bless Austin is the Jets top outside cornerback,
Speaker 1: especially after one week. We'll see what happens. It feel
Speaker 1: bad for Pierre to see her because he's a guy
Speaker 1: who's had success in the national football He was but
Speaker 1: was battling that hamstring injury for most of training camp
Speaker 1: and came back against the Bills. He was replaced in
Speaker 1: the lineup by Nate Harriston. So some movie pieces back there.
Speaker 1: But Bless Austin is a guy who's progression. We're going
Speaker 1: to continue to track here in year two, and I
Speaker 1: think the arrow has really pointed up, and like you said,
Speaker 1: I think he's gonna become a fan favorite. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: definitely think so. And enough talking about Bless Austin. That's
Speaker 1: here from number thirty one, now joined by the Pride
Speaker 1: of Queen's Jets quarterback Bless Austin. Blessed. Thanks a lot
Speaker 1: for joining us here on the podcast. So I just
Speaker 1: want to start off with a kind of a lighthearted question.
Speaker 1: I spoke to fellow Queen's native Fullronzo Fatakasi about this
Speaker 1: last season. What do you say to people that don't
Speaker 1: fold their pizza? As a native New Yorker, I mean,
Speaker 1: don't I don't place people in boxes. I'm a pretty
Speaker 1: open dude, So I don't say much of them rock
Speaker 1: out how they want to rock out. That's pretty nice
Speaker 1: to you. Well, how do you rock out when you
Speaker 1: go back to Queens and maybe you see people you
Speaker 1: want to school with? It campus magnet? Uh, what is
Speaker 1: it like? What is the reaction when Blacks Austin goes home?
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm not gonna sit here and say it's
Speaker 1: like a whole big parade, you know. You know, I'm
Speaker 1: pretty normal to the guys I went to school with.
Speaker 1: They don't kind of put me on the pedal school.
Speaker 1: So it feels real good going home just because of
Speaker 1: that alone. You know, it feels like home as it should.
Speaker 1: So I love going home. I love being the Queen's.
Speaker 1: So who was your team growing up? I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: lie it with the Giants, Like I went to the
Speaker 1: Giants parade when they want the Super Bowl and I
Speaker 1: was younger and everything, so that was a squad. And
Speaker 1: who were your favorite players? I was a big fan
Speaker 1: of my Brashel and I like Antonio piss Man. He
Speaker 1: was such a dog on the field and his r
Speaker 1: Q was amazing. So I just love, you know, watching
Speaker 1: him buill out too. You know, I know I'm a DV,
Speaker 1: but I like watching all the other positions as well.
Speaker 1: Bless from where you're from in Queens, is there like
Speaker 1: a split Jet Giants or is it just random? Because
Speaker 1: obviously certain parts of the five boroughs are split, but
Speaker 1: Queens is what, Like, I know, it's Mats, but it's
Speaker 1: a football split. I mean it's so it's so yeah,
Speaker 1: it is exactly splits me. And it's so diverse. Man.
Speaker 1: You've got people that moved from all over the place
Speaker 1: and moved to New York City. So I'm telling my
Speaker 1: I've seen Philly fans watching some redskin fans. I've seen
Speaker 1: chards of fans in New York City. I mean it's weirds.
Speaker 1: Like it's it's crazy. It's so weird because you know,
Speaker 1: everybody just comes from all over the place in New
Speaker 1: York City. Bless, you played some core her back in
Speaker 1: high school. What were you like as a QB A
Speaker 1: signal caller say. I like to say, like I was
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson before he really burst, Like I really believe
Speaker 1: I was like that. You know, I was able to
Speaker 1: really drop back, let it go, and then screamble out
Speaker 1: the pocket whenever it was necessary. So I mean that's
Speaker 1: how I like to think of myself. I'm not gonna
Speaker 1: say that's the case, but when I think of myself
Speaker 1: when I did it, that's what I think. How much
Speaker 1: did you love having the ball in your hand? I
Speaker 1: mean sometimes I love this, sometimes I disliked it. I
Speaker 1: mean for some reason, man, at QB, you you take
Speaker 1: the craziest shots. Man. I mean when I played any
Speaker 1: of the positional offense, I didn't take as bad as
Speaker 1: hits as I did when I played quarterback, So that
Speaker 1: was fun while I lasted. You seem like a guy though,
Speaker 1: who definitely loves the physicality of the game. That's interesting
Speaker 1: that the guy you looked up to growing up was
Speaker 1: a linebacker, Antonio appears. Do you think you play like
Speaker 1: a linebacker on the outside. I mean, Lin'm back, that's
Speaker 1: a that's a different type of beasts right there. So
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna disrespect that position at all. But um,
Speaker 1: I definitely do having physical component to my game, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. That's something we brought ourselves in, brought
Speaker 1: ourselves on in the dB room. I mean, just going
Speaker 1: off of that though. Last season against the Raiders you
Speaker 1: had that hit on Hunter renfro and then even against
Speaker 1: the Bill you up end Josh Allen and then I
Speaker 1: think you liked it a little bit because I saw
Speaker 1: you crawling up the field on all four. Yeah. Man,
Speaker 1: I just when I'm out there, I'm a different person. Man.
Speaker 1: I really invite vite violence, man, to be really honest
Speaker 1: with you. So when I'm out there, I'm a different person.
Speaker 1: I can't really explain it, but some things when I
Speaker 1: get out there on the in between the white lines.
Speaker 1: Are you a talker on the field, I gotta imagine
Speaker 1: you have to be if you're playing the cornerback position
Speaker 1: and you know a lot of one on one and
Speaker 1: that quarterback you were playing early in the season a
Speaker 1: week one Josh Allen, he doesn't mind talking and blesses
Speaker 1: from queens, so he definitely knows how to talk on
Speaker 1: the field. I'm not gonna lie, man, he kinda uh.
Speaker 1: I loved it. I love the fact that he was talking.
Speaker 1: Man gave me a little he gave me a little
Speaker 1: rock star bob to him. He was talking trash back
Speaker 1: to me. So it was like, well respect when he
Speaker 1: started talking to trash back. I loved it. Bless Um
Speaker 1: and high school, though didn't fifty Cent and LLL cool
Speaker 1: J both go to your high school but back in
Speaker 1: the day, yeah, they definitely do. And are you a
Speaker 1: fifty guy or you an LLL guy? Or do you
Speaker 1: more so when to go to somebody else that I
Speaker 1: don't even know when to your high school? I mean
Speaker 1: that that's two different errors of music and two different sounds.
Speaker 1: So I love both. But I feel like it's a
Speaker 1: time and place for both of them, you know, to
Speaker 1: fit in. So I can't really side with one or
Speaker 1: the other. It's just a different vibe with both of
Speaker 1: those guys. What about jay Z? Where does he fit
Speaker 1: in the equation jay Z? Jay Z is from when
Speaker 1: you really want to, you know, sit back and get
Speaker 1: get legs it and get taught something. When you want
Speaker 1: to get educated. That's what jay Z for, you know.
Speaker 1: He he's one of those guys that he rapped about
Speaker 1: every different phase in his life, even though to now
Speaker 1: is it's just successful entrepreneurs. So he's definitely one of
Speaker 1: those guys you want to listen to when you're feeling,
Speaker 1: when you feel like being motivated. Bless, when did your
Speaker 1: love of like the arts come into play? Because not
Speaker 1: only are you big music guy, but we had talked
Speaker 1: before last season about your post football career acting aspirations. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I'm just like, I love aesthetics, I love
Speaker 1: I love the artists of everything, the beauty of everything.
Speaker 1: So you know, acting, I feel like that's something that
Speaker 1: everybody has a natural skill of. They just don't want
Speaker 1: to admit to themselves that they do. Because at every
Speaker 1: point of somebody live their life, they live before and
Speaker 1: they sold the whole act and nobody wants to, you know,
Speaker 1: admit that they have the ability to act. But I
Speaker 1: feel like we are doing something that we should tap into.
Speaker 1: But did you do any of that in high school? Maybe?
Speaker 1: It was definitely, um, not high school. High school. I
Speaker 1: didn't go to the high school that specified and like arts,
Speaker 1: so you know, I went to a business entrepreneurship you know,
Speaker 1: high school, so we we just learned more about entrepreneurship
Speaker 1: and in the business realm of things, which I loved.
Speaker 1: But I didn't go to high school that categorized in that.
Speaker 1: But in like junior high and elementary, I did act
Speaker 1: in some plays what place. Yeah, we got to know detail.
Speaker 1: The issue is it was so long ago and I
Speaker 1: was young. I can't really remember the content, like the
Speaker 1: context of those plays, like what it was about and
Speaker 1: who I was supposed to be, Like, I can't remember it.
Speaker 1: So I just don't want to go throwing out things
Speaker 1: that's you know, inaccurate. Okay, all right, that's fair. Um
Speaker 1: what about what about a deal like though? And if
Speaker 1: you or somebody that likes the arts, do you have
Speaker 1: a couple of favorite movies? Um? I like Wolf of
Speaker 1: Wall Street. I love Wolf of Wall Street. I mean
Speaker 1: I love to act in in there. I love the scenery,
Speaker 1: I love the you know, you feel like you're in
Speaker 1: the movie when you're watching it, you know. Um, So
Speaker 1: that's definitely one of my favorite movies. And the then
Speaker 1: motivates you too somehow, some way, you know, just the
Speaker 1: fact that you see guys really trying to, you know,
Speaker 1: do whatever they can to make it to the top.
Speaker 1: It's like, you know, they got a little hit and motivation,
Speaker 1: and then you kind of got a scene in a
Speaker 1: positive way though, don't do what they did, of course,
Speaker 1: but yeah, yeah, let's keep it, Let's keep it clean.
Speaker 1: What is he just talked about it? You're such a
Speaker 1: positive guy. What was your favorite scene in The Wolf
Speaker 1: of Wall Street? Uh? I love when he um when
Speaker 1: he told the business he was leaving and he decided
Speaker 1: to stay. I love that part because like he wasn't
Speaker 1: he didn't decide to stay out of his own interest.
Speaker 1: It's because how much love he actually had for the
Speaker 1: works who was working for him. So it's kind of
Speaker 1: cool to see him like make that sacrifice, even it
Speaker 1: was for even though it was for a bad reason,
Speaker 1: it was kind of cool to make. It was kind
Speaker 1: of cool to see him see the bullets make that
Speaker 1: sacrifice working. You know in the uh, in the unfiltered
Speaker 1: version of this podcast, E A and I are gonna
Speaker 1: need your rendition of that scene that maybe after or
Speaker 1: done recording here you can give us a rendition. But
Speaker 1: moving on to the football field, you know, and you
Speaker 1: mentioned jay z as like a form or a music
Speaker 1: to listen to when you want to be educated. And
Speaker 1: so much has been made, uh that Steelers game in
Speaker 1: your career about that teaching moment. Can you tell us
Speaker 1: just more in detail what was going through your mind
Speaker 1: at that time and then now how you look upon
Speaker 1: that moment. Yeah, so basically you know your rookie. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know sometimes when you when you study the game playing,
Speaker 1: you can become a robot if you don't be critical
Speaker 1: and um aware of certain situations. So you know, within
Speaker 1: that play, you know what I was thinking was, you know,
Speaker 1: you had split rules, you know what the receivers lined
Speaker 1: up and based off the formation where rowdies running. But
Speaker 1: what I didn't think of was the situation in the
Speaker 1: game in which they needed to score. So you know
Speaker 1: that's something that as a rookie, you know, you're not
Speaker 1: thinking of You're not thinking of situation in the game,
Speaker 1: You're just like, I gotta make sure I don't make
Speaker 1: this mistake, you know, and I'm trying to make this play,
Speaker 1: but you're not thinking of I gotta make make sure
Speaker 1: that this play don't happen to stop myself from putting
Speaker 1: my team in a bad position. So that's the certain
Speaker 1: things that that I don't go through your mind as
Speaker 1: a rookie, and that got exposed that play. So you
Speaker 1: know that was a learn unless it no doubt I
Speaker 1: didn't see it as that then, of course, you know,
Speaker 1: but you know, reflecting on it shortly after I saw
Speaker 1: it is then and took advantage of that moment and
Speaker 1: learn from it. You put the word in you were
Speaker 1: one of the jets of best players in the season
Speaker 1: opener against the Buffalo Bills. There's no doubt about that.
Speaker 1: But what was that moment like in training camp the
Speaker 1: big boy fade during the high red zone and they
Speaker 1: eight line the offense lines upper shot Perriman inside and
Speaker 1: you're all over it and you get the interception. Was
Speaker 1: that a play that occurred for you in slow motion? Um,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. You know from the split, you
Speaker 1: know where he was lined up. You know and and
Speaker 1: the receiver and received. You know, he was lined up
Speaker 1: at three. You know, that's not somewhere way. He traditionally
Speaker 1: lines up as an X. So just knowing that to
Speaker 1: understanding the situation where he was that on the field,
Speaker 1: I kind of felt the play coming. So I was
Speaker 1: able to already determine how I was gonna look for
Speaker 1: the ball based on how you ran the route in
Speaker 1: a position I was gonna be, and so it kind
Speaker 1: of put me a step ahead and make the play.
Speaker 1: E A just said that you were one of the
Speaker 1: best Jets on Sunday against the Bills. How would you
Speaker 1: evaluate your season opener and what was it like for
Speaker 1: you to go from a six round pick to start
Speaker 1: on the physically unable to perform list your rookie year
Speaker 1: to starting week one for the New York Jets in
Speaker 1: your second year. Um, I kind of don't get I
Speaker 1: don't honestly when I say boxes, I keep it moving.
Speaker 1: I don't really get too settled on it. So, you know,
Speaker 1: even after when I was drafted, pretty much was all right, next,
Speaker 1: like you know, next, and then after no getting back
Speaker 1: and practicing, it was, you know, practice, make the roster.
Speaker 1: The next you know next move, so I don't get
Speaker 1: too you know, soaking on the on the moment. I
Speaker 1: just you know, check the box and move on, because
Speaker 1: it's just so much more than I'm trying to do. Hey, blast,
Speaker 1: I think a lot of people might have said, hey,
Speaker 1: football is not for me, this is not bound that
Speaker 1: happened for me after those two knee injuries at Ruckers.
Speaker 1: But what kept you going and how did that path
Speaker 1: help you actually to where you are today? So I
Speaker 1: mean on the first one definitely was kind of catastrophic
Speaker 1: to my mental because I just didn't know how my
Speaker 1: body was gonna react after surgery. I never had a
Speaker 1: surgery before up to that day, so I was just
Speaker 1: trying to confuse on you know, how I was going
Speaker 1: to react, and I just couldn't foresee myself at the time,
Speaker 1: you know, running and cutting as well as I did
Speaker 1: before the injury. So it was some some like I was.
Speaker 1: I was nervous at the time the first time around,
Speaker 1: but after recovering and bouncing back. Honestly, the second time
Speaker 1: it happened, it it was kind of, uh, just like
Speaker 1: wiping sweat off my forehead as far as like thinking
Speaker 1: about me bouncing back, I had no doubt in my
Speaker 1: mind I was gonna be able to do it, just
Speaker 1: nona understanding my body more after the first time around.
Speaker 1: So I didn't really have a down in my mind
Speaker 1: about continuing to play. The only the only understanding was like,
Speaker 1: all right, uh, did I shave it a year or
Speaker 1: two both of them after having them surgeries. That was
Speaker 1: my only concern. I'm one of those guys I wish
Speaker 1: I could play tims forty something like, dang, I have
Speaker 1: to now pack it up at thirty six. So hey, listen,
Speaker 1: Tom Brady's doing a trough praise is doing it your
Speaker 1: teammate Frank course dirty seven years old playing running back,
Speaker 1: So why not bless Austin playing cornerback at forty Acting
Speaker 1: will always be there, blast You know, you can go
Speaker 1: as long as you want in football and then can
Speaker 1: transition to acting whether you're forty fifty however, old rightly
Speaker 1: um for you, though you had talked about checking off
Speaker 1: boxes and one after the other, whatever is right in
Speaker 1: front of you. What's next for you? Though? Entering this
Speaker 1: season a week too, you know, we got san Fran
Speaker 1: this week, so I'm just literally paying sense into the
Speaker 1: days and how much work at plenty each day because
Speaker 1: after at the end of the day, when that adds up,
Speaker 1: in affects how you play on Sunday. So that's that's
Speaker 1: how I usually do do my business. I just pittens
Speaker 1: on one day at the chum. What do you know
Speaker 1: about the forty Niners here at this stage of the week.
Speaker 1: It's early a non traditional opponent for the New York Jets.
Speaker 1: But I'm sure you watch the Super Bowl, and part
Speaker 1: two of this is you are a local guy. This
Speaker 1: is the Jets season opener. How odd is it going
Speaker 1: to feel being at my life stadium without those fans
Speaker 1: in attendance? I mean, to be pretty honest with you, man,
Speaker 1: when I'm out there, I'm so locked in. Honestly, forgot
Speaker 1: the fans was that they on Sunday. You know. I
Speaker 1: was so locked in and pumped up and and and
Speaker 1: just happy to be playing the game period that I
Speaker 1: couldn't even remember that the fans weren't there until the
Speaker 1: game was over. So, um, it's definitely gonna be different,
Speaker 1: no doubt. I'm not gonna say that the fans don't
Speaker 1: make a difference at all, because they definitely do. And
Speaker 1: it's definitely I mean energies is different when they're there,
Speaker 1: but I'm quite sure when the game starts, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be you know, the thought is gonna be out my mind.
Speaker 1: What about the Niners, Yeah yet, um what I do
Speaker 1: know of them, They're very complex offense, and they got
Speaker 1: a genus in the offensive coordinator, coach Shannon so And
Speaker 1: they got some very athletic players on it with the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball. Man. You know George Kittle,
Speaker 1: you know, I know Debo, you know he got banged
Speaker 1: up a bit in the off season. But you know,
Speaker 1: they got some other guys that I went against Pettiston
Speaker 1: in college, so you know, I know he's there. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a great dude. Man. They got some rohem moster man.
Speaker 1: You know, they got a lot of talent on that
Speaker 1: side of the ball, and just you know guys that
Speaker 1: well and tagged. They played with each other for a
Speaker 1: long time. Super Bowl team. I mean, let's lose a
Speaker 1: great football team, man. So I'm just happy to be
Speaker 1: able to go against those guys, you know, I just
Speaker 1: I love this game, be able to play against the
Speaker 1: best of the world. Hey, Plus, we wish you a
Speaker 1: lot of luck this weekend. But I wanted to ask. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I remember just talking about Levian about coming back to
Speaker 1: camp and great ship us body fat BLUs. Austin looks
Speaker 1: like he put on muscle and this offseason, and I
Speaker 1: want to know what your body fat is. It's four.
Speaker 1: It's actually it's four. Did you put on a couple
Speaker 1: of pounds of muscle on the off season? I mean, yes,
Speaker 1: I did, but I was always playing at this size.
Speaker 1: It was just now clear cutting in Dave. What people
Speaker 1: forget is I was bouncing those little a c L surgery,
Speaker 1: so I was kind of building from the ground up again.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm talking about after surgery. I'm wearing one
Speaker 1: one seventy and I have to build back up to
Speaker 1: what I play at, which is huntred. So you know,
Speaker 1: that's something that you know, people people didn't get to see,
Speaker 1: but now you know, they see, they see the word
Speaker 1: that I was able to put in in the wild season.
Speaker 1: All right, blessed. Last question here, I'm curious as a
Speaker 1: Giants fan growing up from Queens, you're obviously no stranger
Speaker 1: to Jets fans. What did you what did you think
Speaker 1: of Jets fans growing up? Because Jets fans can be
Speaker 1: ruthless especially in Queens. I mean, honestly, I kind of
Speaker 1: I love the Giants growing up, but I've had both
Speaker 1: sides of the fence because when when the Jets was
Speaker 1: in those two AMC. Shaporships, best believe, I was in
Speaker 1: front of my TV the Jets on, so you know,
Speaker 1: I didn't think anything of it at all. And then
Speaker 1: you know when they when we had the rail in
Speaker 1: Antonio Crimarti. I mean those are guys I was watching
Speaker 1: growing up, so I didn't think anything of Jets fans
Speaker 1: at all, all right, spoken like a true New Yorkers.
Speaker 1: Keep doing your thing, and maybe Greg Williams won't let
Speaker 1: you cross over the hall and talk to Adam Gates
Speaker 1: a little bit and you can get it a little
Speaker 1: package of hey, so you can maybe play some quarterback.
Speaker 1: I'm not a fan. I'm not a fan of getting
Speaker 1: at tackled. I love doing it hitting, but I don't
Speaker 1: like it. All right, fair enough, Less, we appreciate the time.
Speaker 1: Thanks a lout man. Thanks appreciate it. Great to hear
Speaker 1: from Bless Austin. What do you think about this? We
Speaker 1: talked him about his acting aspiration post football. So last
Speaker 1: year on the forty yard Stroll, I said, if you
Speaker 1: could have an actor play you in your own biography
Speaker 1: in a movie, who would you choose? And he chose
Speaker 1: Michael B. Jordan's What do you think about that? You
Speaker 1: think it's a good fit? Oh? Like it. I think
Speaker 1: you should be able to choose who's gonna play you
Speaker 1: in a movie. So what do you think it? Don't
Speaker 1: listen to you asked me a question. The bottom line is, hey,
Speaker 1: if you ask somebody who should play you, they should
Speaker 1: know it better than anybody else. Yes, that is the
Speaker 1: perfect thing. Okay, So yeah, going back to football though
Speaker 1: for a minute, I do think that the arrow is
Speaker 1: pointing up for bless Austin like you said, And I
Speaker 1: think that a lot of fans are hoping he can
Speaker 1: almost out play where you get drafted, like, not a
Speaker 1: lot of six round picks end up being second or
Speaker 1: starting corner their second season. I think that's a pretty
Speaker 1: big feat for somebody like bless Austin coming off of
Speaker 1: his dual surgery. Yeah, what do you think about his
Speaker 1: scouting report back in high school with him playing quarterback?
Speaker 1: He said he said he's got a game like Lamar Jackson.
Speaker 1: So the thing with Blesses that he's long. He's like you,
Speaker 1: I can see it. I mean, I can definitely see it.
Speaker 1: And you know, I didn't want to say this, but
Speaker 1: it's not like Queen's High schools. You're not chugging out
Speaker 1: football team. Hey, take it easy. I'm a New Yorker.
Speaker 1: I can say this thing. Manhattan guy, I am. They're
Speaker 1: definitely no Manhattan can tell you. There's a couple of schools.
Speaker 1: But Rutgers is representing the National Football League by like
Speaker 1: six or seven players, and I think four of them
Speaker 1: are defensive backs. Do you think about the quarteries? I was, yeah,
Speaker 1: I was gonna say them Logan Ryan uh On, Harmon
Speaker 1: too as well. Right, we're just talking about all Patriots
Speaker 1: or former Patriots. Former Patriots, no doubt about that. And
Speaker 1: we didn't ask him about them, accordies. But I'm sure
Speaker 1: blessed we'll exchange pleasantries with those guys when he's on
Speaker 1: the field with them. But uh, first things first for
Speaker 1: the Jets, after a tough game in Buffalo to open
Speaker 1: the season, let's see if they can take a step forward.
Speaker 1: I like the mentality of this kid. He's resilient, and
Speaker 1: that's what you need in the locker room. You need
Speaker 1: a bunch of less Austin's after what happened in Buffalo.
Speaker 1: And I also really enjoyed what he said about having
Speaker 1: no fans in stands. He said, I I couldn't even tell.
Speaker 1: I'm so jacked up. I'm so into the game itself
Speaker 1: that I just tune everything else out. I am so
Speaker 1: focused and ready to roll, it doesn't matter me. You
Speaker 1: know this is gonna sound kind of strange. Josh Allen
Speaker 1: threw for over three hundred yards for like the first
Speaker 1: time since high school against the Jets team in Week one.
Speaker 1: He didn do that? Why only? I don't believe so.
Speaker 1: But is it fair to say that Blessed Austin had
Speaker 1: a good game? Definitely like I think he did. He
Speaker 1: definitely had a good game. You look at where some
Speaker 1: of those yards were being picked up. They were across
Speaker 1: the way from him. Um. Again, he brought a physical
Speaker 1: mentality and he was out there and knocking people around. Um, yeah,
Speaker 1: he had a good game. Again, if you were getting
Speaker 1: game balls out and you don't do that after you
Speaker 1: lose by double digits on the road against the divisional opponent.
Speaker 1: But we can, because we're sitting here a far apart
Speaker 1: from the locker room. The two game balls I give out.
Speaker 1: The number one would be to Marcus May and the
Speaker 1: second one would be to bless Austin, and then I
Speaker 1: give one to Jamison. Sorry, Jameson. I you know how
Speaker 1: anytime you go for seven receptions over a hundred yards
Speaker 1: and have a sixty nine yards score, yeah you get
Speaker 1: one to Okay, we're giving a game ball to Jamison anyway.
Speaker 1: But I do think you're run. I think Blessed Austin
Speaker 1: had a good game, and I think that one that
Speaker 1: hit was awesome. The the upend over Josh Allen with
Speaker 1: the force and remember last season he had the Hunter
Speaker 1: Renfroe hit too, So I mean bless Austin likes lay
Speaker 1: the thunder on the outside a little bit. He's got
Speaker 1: good qualities for a cornerback that you want to have.
Speaker 1: Is that he's big, he's long, he can press the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmage. I also think you can find the
Speaker 1: football and is of football acumen continues to increase. You
Speaker 1: know where you come in as a rookie. And McKay
Speaker 1: Backton said it after week one. The speed of the game,
Speaker 1: everything is just coming so fast right now. I think
Speaker 1: for a guy like bless Austin. What we're watching is
Speaker 1: it's all slowing down for him. Yeah, it's funny because
Speaker 1: in the NFL, playing fast is really slowing down. It's
Speaker 1: kind of an oxy moron. And for Bless, you definitely
Speaker 1: saw that progression in the first game, and Jets fans
Speaker 1: and Bless hoping to see more of that over weeks
Speaker 1: two to seventeen. And another thing that I liked during
Speaker 1: camp was Denard Wilson. He wacks poetically about him and
Speaker 1: oftentimes you won't see a coach talk about a player
Speaker 1: like that. But the way he talked about a bless
Speaker 1: and the way he's taken to coaching and just his
Speaker 1: professional approach, that really stood out to me. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: agree with that. And you saw the progression from last
Speaker 1: season week sixteen not being situationally aware to making a
Speaker 1: playing training camp and picking off Sam Donald, So that
Speaker 1: shows the progression that Blessed Austin made. And maybe you
Speaker 1: can get Jimmy Garoppolo this week, huh, and that I
Speaker 1: would be real nice. So we'll see what happens with
Speaker 1: Blessed Austin over the course of the two thousand twenty
Speaker 1: regular season. But that's all we have here for this
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Speaker 1: Eric Allen, Ethan Greenberg, and we'll see you next week
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