WEBVTT - Listen: Lachlan Edwards (12/24) 0:00:01.960 --> 0:00:05.400 Welcome back to the Official Jets Podcast, presented by Amazon 0:00:05.480 --> 0:00:08.799 Web Services. Here in the bet MGM Casino studio, Ethan Greenberg, 0:00:08.880 --> 0:00:12.160 Eric Allen joined by Locklin Edwards. Lock thanks for coming 0:00:12.240 --> 0:00:15.240 up to the studio. Yeah, man, we appreciate it. So 0:00:15.800 --> 0:00:18.760 you've got the white sweatshirt on today? Obviously the Jets 0:00:19.000 --> 0:00:23.480 had new uniforms unveiled in the spring. Now that you've 0:00:23.480 --> 0:00:28.360 seen the combinations throughout most of the two thousand nineteen campaign, 0:00:28.800 --> 0:00:31.400 what's your favorite? Um? Actually, I really like the black. 0:00:31.440 --> 0:00:32.800 I didn't think I would lock it as much as 0:00:32.840 --> 0:00:37.160 I did. Um, my favorite was the green, and now black. 0:00:37.159 --> 0:00:39.400 It is definitely become the favorite. But why didn't you 0:00:39.400 --> 0:00:41.280 think you'd like it at first? Probably because it's just 0:00:41.320 --> 0:00:44.320 so different from what we had previous. Yes, um, but 0:00:44.440 --> 0:00:48.159 it's really great on me. And so the last two times, 0:00:48.200 --> 0:00:50.839 I know, the first time the Jets wore black a loss, 0:00:51.280 --> 0:00:53.239 but they'll finish the year with the two win one 0:00:53.360 --> 0:00:55.640 mark in the Blacks. Maybe that's why you like Busy 0:00:55.680 --> 0:00:59.000 beat the Giants and then of course Takedown in Miami Dolphins. 0:00:59.760 --> 0:01:03.240 So I've been meaning to ask you this for a while. 0:01:04.440 --> 0:01:08.399 Here we go, Yeah, here we go. When you were 0:01:08.640 --> 0:01:12.640 overseas back home in Australia the way you got into punting. 0:01:12.720 --> 0:01:14.360 I read this and I just want to know if 0:01:14.360 --> 0:01:17.080 this is true or not. One of your teachers happened 0:01:17.080 --> 0:01:19.920 to be driving by, like some field and you were 0:01:19.959 --> 0:01:23.560 just kicking a football, and like, this is how I 0:01:23.440 --> 0:01:26.480 imagine this. He's literally driving by, you know, you got 0:01:26.520 --> 0:01:30.399 like some beautiful background. He's like, that's one of my students. 0:01:30.600 --> 0:01:32.720 It's like, wait a minute, he's kicking a football. Wait 0:01:32.720 --> 0:01:34.960 a minute, he's really good at this. Wait a minute, 0:01:34.959 --> 0:01:38.240 I have to stop. Pull over, like, throw all my hazards. 0:01:38.360 --> 0:01:40.479 Tell Lachlan that he should go kick in the NFL, 0:01:40.600 --> 0:01:44.160 or go kick football is overseas in college? Is that act? Like? 0:01:44.560 --> 0:01:47.160 Is that essentially how it happened? Essentially happened? I? Um, 0:01:47.280 --> 0:01:49.720 we would just we actually started throwing the football and 0:01:50.000 --> 0:01:53.560 back then I was even worse thrown. Um, and we 0:01:53.680 --> 0:01:57.080 just started kicking it and he drives Boston. Um, he's 0:01:57.120 --> 0:01:59.000 now one of my good buddies. A goot telpye. Um 0:01:59.040 --> 0:02:02.919 he's originally from Connecticut. Sorry, he recognized the football compared 0:02:02.920 --> 0:02:06.440 to doing Australian football. Um. Yeah, he stopped and came 0:02:06.480 --> 0:02:08.359 over and uh, and had a chat and he said, 0:02:08.360 --> 0:02:09.680 do you want to try it? And I thought he 0:02:09.720 --> 0:02:12.640 was joking and he led me in the right direction 0:02:12.680 --> 0:02:17.359 and ended up going to college six months later in Texas. 0:02:17.400 --> 0:02:22.000 In Texas, Yeah, what'd your family think about you leaving Australia. 0:02:22.040 --> 0:02:25.080 It's not like a kid growing up in Florida Park 0:02:25.160 --> 0:02:27.560 and they're going to Georgia or something like that. You 0:02:27.680 --> 0:02:30.840 left Australia. Yeah. They kind of kind of scoffed at 0:02:30.880 --> 0:02:33.239 the start because I was like, you know, you're joking. 0:02:33.840 --> 0:02:37.359 But after a while and you know, started you know, 0:02:37.400 --> 0:02:39.760 started to figure out how we could actually do it. Um. 0:02:39.800 --> 0:02:41.600 You know, they caught on a bit more and they 0:02:41.600 --> 0:02:45.240 saw that people had actually done it before me. Um, 0:02:45.280 --> 0:02:47.880 and we started watching some TV shows like Azzi's Abroad 0:02:47.880 --> 0:02:50.040 and Stuff, which was a show on ESPN back then. 0:02:50.080 --> 0:02:53.600 And that followed guys like Darren Bennett and um Ozzy's 0:02:53.720 --> 0:02:57.040 met McBryan that had been in the NFL and college system. Um, 0:02:57.080 --> 0:02:59.600 and they started to, you know, to think it might 0:02:59.639 --> 0:03:03.240 be a good idea And yeah, but but are you 0:03:03.280 --> 0:03:06.919 thinking and you and your family thinking free education or 0:03:07.000 --> 0:03:10.200 maybe I got a chance to do this as my 0:03:10.320 --> 0:03:14.000 livelihood and make money doing it and start a career. 0:03:14.280 --> 0:03:16.600 It didn't really start it as I think I could 0:03:16.600 --> 0:03:20.080 do it in the NFL. It just sort of started as, um, 0:03:20.120 --> 0:03:22.000 you know, I want to go see how colleges in America. 0:03:22.000 --> 0:03:23.120 I want to see the world, you know. And I 0:03:23.200 --> 0:03:26.760 hadn't been out of Australia at that stage, um, and 0:03:26.840 --> 0:03:28.920 it just looked like a load of fun. Um you 0:03:28.919 --> 0:03:31.720 know you see Texas in in the movies and stuff. 0:03:32.480 --> 0:03:34.280 It was just a great, you know, a chance for 0:03:34.280 --> 0:03:37.480 me to try something new. And uh, you know, luckily enough, 0:03:37.560 --> 0:03:39.880 I I did all right and was able to make it. 0:03:40.400 --> 0:03:43.760 What was your NFL consumption growing up? And what is 0:03:43.800 --> 0:03:48.480 the general NFL consumption like in Australia, Because I imagine 0:03:48.560 --> 0:03:51.760 it's decent. But not only that, the the time zones 0:03:51.800 --> 0:03:54.160 are just so different. So if you're watching a one 0:03:54.160 --> 0:03:57.160 o'clock game here, like, I have no idea what time 0:03:57.160 --> 0:03:58.920 it is in Australia, but I imagine you have to 0:03:58.920 --> 0:04:01.880 be up pretty late to watch some NFL game. Yeah, 0:04:01.920 --> 0:04:04.200 so depending on daylight savings and stuff. Mom, mom and 0:04:04.240 --> 0:04:06.000 dad is set in the alarm at about four four 0:04:06.000 --> 0:04:08.520 o'clock in the morning, um, just to watch them play football. 0:04:08.560 --> 0:04:12.120 So and they've never missed a game, which is great. Um. 0:04:12.240 --> 0:04:14.560 But before, you know, growing up, I didn't really see 0:04:14.640 --> 0:04:18.560 much NFL. Um you'd see the movies like remember the Titans. 0:04:19.600 --> 0:04:22.680 That's a good soundtrack, Yeah, fright, and allarts stuff like that, 0:04:24.040 --> 0:04:26.000 so you know, I had a little understanding of it. 0:04:26.040 --> 0:04:29.040 And you know, it was like a small town, small 0:04:29.040 --> 0:04:31.279 Texas towns that were like everything was football, and I 0:04:31.320 --> 0:04:33.599 was like, that's not true. But you know, long behold, 0:04:33.640 --> 0:04:38.360 it is pretty true. Um. It's growing on in Australia now, 0:04:38.760 --> 0:04:41.400 especially with the more guys we get in um, you know, 0:04:41.440 --> 0:04:45.000 and every time we get a professional sports player like 0:04:46.400 --> 0:04:51.400 you know Valentine, like how it spurs you know, more 0:04:51.440 --> 0:04:54.240 interest from the republic And yeah, they they like to 0:04:54.279 --> 0:04:56.960 see people other than punners, you know in the NFL. 0:04:57.800 --> 0:05:01.200 So for folks who don't have the roster in front 0:05:01.200 --> 0:05:03.280 of them. What what college did you do in Texas? 0:05:03.560 --> 0:05:07.520 Sam Houston State, Sam Houston State, So how much culture 0:05:07.520 --> 0:05:10.400 shock when you went there? And did you even go 0:05:10.440 --> 0:05:14.400 on a visit before actually pecking your bags and leaving Australia. 0:05:14.480 --> 0:05:17.760 Obviously didn't go on a boat, but imagine you flew 0:05:17.839 --> 0:05:19.840 over but I probably would rather to vote. Actually, the 0:05:19.920 --> 0:05:23.479 flight over it was terrible, was it? Really? Remember the flight? Well, 0:05:23.760 --> 0:05:25.400 they know it's long. It was only because I got 0:05:25.400 --> 0:05:28.040 on the plane. In my whole road the power wasn't working, 0:05:28.040 --> 0:05:30.400 so I couldn't watch a movie. I couldn't even turn 0:05:30.400 --> 0:05:33.840 my heart on like the overhead light. Yeah, so I 0:05:34.120 --> 0:05:36.480 put and it's you know, sixteen hours from Sydney to 0:05:36.640 --> 0:05:39.359 l A or fourteen your take. So you were in 0:05:39.360 --> 0:05:44.120 the three across. I was in the economy Yeah, definitely, um, 0:05:44.240 --> 0:05:47.240 and I luckily had a seat between me, so you know, 0:05:47.480 --> 0:05:49.960 I had a little bit of room, but still pretty brutal. 0:05:50.040 --> 0:05:52.560 You know, I've been six ft five ish back there. 0:05:52.600 --> 0:05:55.640 It's not great. But I pulled out the laptop and 0:05:55.680 --> 0:05:58.560 I unfortunately I hadn't seen the movie before I put 0:05:58.600 --> 0:06:04.560 on with Marshall. Really Matthew mcguy, I want a plane 0:06:04.560 --> 0:06:06.320 And you know the whole movie is about a plane crash, 0:06:06.320 --> 0:06:09.080 which is you know, it's a horrible thing. You're going 0:06:09.120 --> 0:06:13.760 to college, yes, but right, but you're watching We are 0:06:13.839 --> 0:06:18.760 Marshall on a plane international flight. This is your first 0:06:18.800 --> 0:06:24.120 international flight time. Yeah. Yeah, but the culture shock was 0:06:24.200 --> 0:06:27.600 it was huge. When I got there. They had had 0:06:27.640 --> 0:06:30.120 an Australian there before me, so they sort of knew 0:06:30.160 --> 0:06:32.240 what to expect. But he was a bit older. I 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:34.200 think he was like twenty seven when he got there, 0:06:34.200 --> 0:06:38.800 and I was I just turned twenty one, and you know, 0:06:39.160 --> 0:06:41.600 people couldn't really understand me. I couldn't really understand them, 0:06:41.640 --> 0:06:42.760 and it it was kind of like, you know, you just 0:06:42.839 --> 0:06:44.600 give each other a not and just go about your way. 0:06:44.720 --> 0:06:49.480 You know. Did you initially have a full ride there? Um? 0:06:49.520 --> 0:06:51.080 So I was. I was told I could, I would 0:06:51.120 --> 0:06:53.400 have a full ride. And when I got there, I 0:06:53.400 --> 0:06:56.520 was informed i'ld get a half scholarship. Oh no, yeah, 0:06:56.640 --> 0:06:58.880 so it wasn't It wasn't great. Um we had to 0:06:58.880 --> 0:07:01.359 figure out whether I could even in the first place. Um, 0:07:02.200 --> 0:07:04.800 and you know, Mom and Dad thankfully made it, made 0:07:04.800 --> 0:07:06.920 it work for me. Um, Huntsville is a pretty cheap 0:07:06.920 --> 0:07:10.120 place and we're able to find some cheap accommodation for 0:07:10.160 --> 0:07:13.800 the for the year, and um, so we made it work. 0:07:14.120 --> 0:07:17.080 I didn't get on full scholarship until my last year. Wow, 0:07:17.560 --> 0:07:20.640 do you consider yourself an adventurous guy a courageous guy? 0:07:20.840 --> 0:07:24.640 Because I know myself at eighteen, nineteen, twenty years old, 0:07:24.680 --> 0:07:27.760 there's no way in hell I'll be like, oh, I 0:07:27.800 --> 0:07:30.760 tried to support for six months. Maybe you know it 0:07:30.880 --> 0:07:33.840 was a rugby league or something like that, and people 0:07:33.840 --> 0:07:35.560 are like, hey, give it a try over here. I 0:07:35.560 --> 0:07:38.080 couldn't do it. No. I mean it's probably sort of 0:07:38.120 --> 0:07:40.720 more of I guess Australian culture. I guess it's more 0:07:40.840 --> 0:07:42.080 just you know, give it a shot. What's the worse 0:07:42.080 --> 0:07:43.640 it can happen? You know, I'll just stand up back 0:07:43.680 --> 0:07:47.400 home where I am. Sorry. Um, I was at university 0:07:47.400 --> 0:07:49.480 back there, and I thought, why not give it a shot, 0:07:49.480 --> 0:07:51.000 and you know, if it all goes, you know, in 0:07:51.040 --> 0:07:54.880 pair shape, I'll come back. I've never lived in Texas before. 0:07:56.360 --> 0:08:00.000 What is Texas? Like? Everybody talks about everything is bigger 0:08:00.080 --> 0:08:02.280 in Texas, you know. And now you're living up here 0:08:02.320 --> 0:08:06.280 in New York obviously, UM yeah, I love it. I 0:08:06.480 --> 0:08:09.120 Um I got place down in Austin. Um so we 0:08:09.160 --> 0:08:12.920 lived there in the off season. UM, I really enjoy it. 0:08:12.960 --> 0:08:15.320 You know, Austin has a great, great culture as in 0:08:16.040 --> 0:08:19.040 music scene. It's got a good night life. Ray Street 0:08:19.600 --> 0:08:22.320 Rainy Street is yeah, six Streets a bit too young 0:08:22.360 --> 0:08:23.760 for me now, so I kind of hang out a 0:08:23.880 --> 0:08:26.000 Rainy Street if I do go out at all, kind 0:08:26.000 --> 0:08:29.520 of a homebody lately. Um, but yeah, I really like, 0:08:29.760 --> 0:08:32.559 really like Texas. Have you been to Terry Black's barbecue? 0:08:32.960 --> 0:08:35.160 I haven't. I'm not a big barbecue guy. You know. 0:08:35.200 --> 0:08:36.680 That's hard to be, you know, in Texas and not 0:08:36.760 --> 0:08:39.040 be a barbeque guy. So what do you eat down there? 0:08:39.960 --> 0:08:45.880 By the way, how did you and your your fiance 0:08:46.160 --> 0:08:50.360 decided in Austin? So I went to obviously Samuson State, 0:08:50.400 --> 0:08:53.559 which is a little bit north of Houston. Um, small town. 0:08:54.280 --> 0:08:57.480 We went out there, and I want to say New 0:08:57.520 --> 0:09:01.000 Year's Eve, my first year in college, all sick in. 0:09:01.080 --> 0:09:04.319 You and I had a great time obviously you two 0:09:04.400 --> 0:09:07.559 is a huge, huge university, a lot of young people, 0:09:07.559 --> 0:09:10.439 and I had a lot of a lot of fun. Um. 0:09:10.480 --> 0:09:14.040 And then when my FANSI was coming out of college, Um, 0:09:14.080 --> 0:09:16.600 she needed to find a job. She's a nurse and 0:09:16.600 --> 0:09:18.720 and Austin had an opening and we said, let's do it. 0:09:18.920 --> 0:09:22.199 We went out there. I can't get over the barbecue thing. 0:09:22.480 --> 0:09:26.480 You lived in Texas for how many years including um, 0:09:26.559 --> 0:09:30.959 about for or four including school? Yeah? And how many years? Five? Now? Okay, 0:09:31.000 --> 0:09:33.360 so you've been there five years and you've you just 0:09:33.400 --> 0:09:35.000 don't like it, like, what don't you like about it? 0:09:35.040 --> 0:09:37.600 So I don't like it? Um, I just don't need 0:09:37.640 --> 0:09:40.040 it all the time, you know, I can I understand 0:09:40.160 --> 0:09:41.560 I don't need it all the time. Are you Are 0:09:41.600 --> 0:09:43.640 you a fish guy? Oh yeah, I like a bit 0:09:43.640 --> 0:09:47.440 of sushi, um, a lot of sushi. Um, big Mexican 0:09:47.480 --> 0:09:50.400 food guy? Are you okay? Because well, we don't really 0:09:50.400 --> 0:09:52.640 have it in Australia and if you do, it's too 0:09:52.679 --> 0:09:55.400 fancy and they charge you a lot. I'm more about 0:09:55.440 --> 0:09:57.560 like a hole in the wall Mexican food. But I 0:09:57.559 --> 0:10:01.160 do know that a corona is really expensive Australia. Everything 0:10:01.200 --> 0:10:03.000 is expensive in Asia. I know that too, but I 0:10:03.040 --> 0:10:08.400 know coronas are extremely expensive compared to here. Yes, yeah, 0:10:08.600 --> 0:10:10.920 like taxi and everything. You guys drink I pas over 0:10:10.960 --> 0:10:13.400 there have been done there. Um yeah you know all 0:10:14.960 --> 0:10:16.920 all of you guys. Well we'll venture out to that. 0:10:16.960 --> 0:10:21.760 But okay, UM, so you got some news. What can 0:10:21.760 --> 0:10:26.200 you tell us about your recent engagement and wedding plants? Um? Yes, 0:10:26.280 --> 0:10:28.839 So we we went and got engaged in Australian Laru, 0:10:28.920 --> 0:10:33.280 which is um pretty pretty special place for Australia in general. Um, 0:10:33.400 --> 0:10:35.280 not much out there other than a huge huge rock 0:10:36.800 --> 0:10:40.120 if you want to google it. Really, Hey, what's your 0:10:40.200 --> 0:10:42.960 name again? All the Aru or airs Rock depending what 0:10:43.000 --> 0:10:46.079 you want to type in both will work or eds 0:10:46.559 --> 0:10:51.360 as rock Kada state with an accident. Okay, how's your 0:10:51.400 --> 0:10:53.760 American accent gotting any better since being here? Try? And 0:10:53.760 --> 0:10:55.720 then we want to hear about the proposal too. Yeah. 0:10:55.760 --> 0:10:58.439 I try not to work on it too much because 0:10:58.440 --> 0:11:00.920 every time I go home, you know, I'll get flak 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:02.920 for it. People are like, what are you doing? Yeah, yeah, 0:11:03.000 --> 0:11:07.800 you're Australian, Yeah exactly, all right, so you're at the rock? Um? 0:11:07.920 --> 0:11:09.960 Yeah it was. And it was in my pocket all weekend, 0:11:10.000 --> 0:11:12.880 you know, a week and I couldn't find the right 0:11:12.880 --> 0:11:16.200 time to do it because it's pretty. You can't really 0:11:16.200 --> 0:11:18.679 wear nice clothes and get a good photo because it's 0:11:18.679 --> 0:11:21.720 so hot. It was about forty degrees celsius every day, 0:11:21.760 --> 0:11:26.199 which is a hundred and tennish thousands of flyes. So 0:11:26.320 --> 0:11:29.880 we're in a fly net. Not ideal for a girl 0:11:29.920 --> 0:11:32.120 to put up on Instagram of a photo you know, 0:11:32.160 --> 0:11:36.960 we're going to fly. So I did the best I could, um, 0:11:37.040 --> 0:11:38.440 and it got to the stage where I was like, 0:11:38.440 --> 0:11:39.559 all right, if I don't do it now I'm not 0:11:39.600 --> 0:11:42.360 going to do it on this trip. So um, yeah, 0:11:42.360 --> 0:11:43.560 I just got down on the knee said will you 0:11:43.559 --> 0:11:46.160 marry me? And she said absolutely? And it worked out well. 0:11:46.240 --> 0:11:48.400 But you wanted to do it at home as I 0:11:48.400 --> 0:11:51.200 wanted to do it in Australia. Yeah, brought the ring 0:11:51.280 --> 0:11:52.920 over here and then we did it over there. So 0:11:53.000 --> 0:11:55.719 it's probably too expensive over there, probably, you know. Just 0:11:56.200 --> 0:11:57.960 so what are what are the plants where you guys 0:11:58.080 --> 0:12:01.000 getting married? Getting married in Hawaii? Um, you know, halfway 0:12:01.000 --> 0:12:05.080 between Australia in Texas. Alisa has a bit of family 0:12:05.400 --> 0:12:07.840 from Hawaii, so it's gonna work out pretty well. Um, 0:12:07.960 --> 0:12:10.439 it'll get my my family a trip to Hawaii too. 0:12:10.520 --> 0:12:13.920 So have they ever been? They haven't? Have you? I 0:12:14.000 --> 0:12:16.480 have been? Um yet I have. My first year in 0:12:16.760 --> 0:12:20.800 the league, we went out to Hawaii. Okay, No, So 0:12:20.840 --> 0:12:23.960 I'm thinking about this. Is she a native Texas? She 0:12:24.120 --> 0:12:28.800 is from Corpus Christie, Yes, Corpus Christie. So how her 0:12:28.880 --> 0:12:31.520 dad to handle this? When you asked him, Hey, you 0:12:31.640 --> 0:12:33.720 did be So I remember having this conversation with you. 0:12:33.720 --> 0:12:37.760 You were talking about it. Yeah, I was surprising. Um, 0:12:37.760 --> 0:12:40.200 he was super happy about it. And you know, originally 0:12:40.240 --> 0:12:42.120 you know, you never you don't know how they're gonna 0:12:42.120 --> 0:12:43.920 react you because you's thinking maybe he's going to try 0:12:43.920 --> 0:12:47.480 and steal my daughter away to Australia one day. Yeah, 0:12:47.520 --> 0:12:49.200 I guess, I guess I didn't think about that. Part 0:12:49.280 --> 0:12:51.080 is you're not like you know somewhere in the States 0:12:51.080 --> 0:12:53.400 you happen to be. Yeah. Yeah, it's very it's one 0:12:53.400 --> 0:12:56.520 side of the world or the other. Um no, it 0:12:56.559 --> 0:12:58.199 was great. Um, I just had to chat on the 0:12:58.200 --> 0:13:00.000 phone because there was no way I could drive three 0:13:00.000 --> 0:13:03.040 as the corpse Christy without you know, setting off alarm 0:13:03.080 --> 0:13:06.240 bells or something with with Ali. So called him a 0:13:06.320 --> 0:13:08.560 couple of days before we went went to Australia and um, 0:13:09.559 --> 0:13:14.200 how to chat and it's super happy about it. No, 0:13:14.400 --> 0:13:17.400 he's unfortunately Cowboys fan too, so okay, so he most 0:13:17.480 --> 0:13:19.600 loved Week six. Yeah, he came out here. He had 0:13:19.600 --> 0:13:23.040 to wear a Jets Jase though Ali didn't let him work. 0:13:23.679 --> 0:13:26.240 He was so fortunately enough for him, he didn't get 0:13:26.280 --> 0:13:29.640 you know, Jets fans worked out, so he did him 0:13:29.640 --> 0:13:35.120 a favor. What have you found your Okay? So I 0:13:35.200 --> 0:13:38.960 know Australia has a couple of like native food, mainly 0:13:38.960 --> 0:13:41.640 the meat pie. Have you found the meat pie out 0:13:41.640 --> 0:13:44.520 here or something that reminds you of home, you can't 0:13:44.520 --> 0:13:49.040 so you can't get it um shipped and frozen out here. Um. 0:13:49.080 --> 0:13:52.319 I haven't done it yet, but Ali learned when she 0:13:52.400 --> 0:13:55.120 was back in Australia how to make sausage roll. Um. 0:13:55.800 --> 0:13:57.120 I don't expect you to know what it is. It's 0:13:57.160 --> 0:13:58.959 kind of it's kind of like a meat in a 0:13:59.400 --> 0:14:02.160 pastry rolled up. It's kind of like it like a 0:14:02.200 --> 0:14:06.679 pig in a blanket. Yeah better, Um, I'm not a 0:14:06.720 --> 0:14:09.000 big hot dog, guys. Sorry that the pig in blanket 0:14:09.000 --> 0:14:15.160 isn't great? Uh? Ok yeah right that barbecue. No pigs 0:14:15.160 --> 0:14:18.960 in a blanket? Yeah, this is crazy destination wedding. But 0:14:19.000 --> 0:14:22.680 you guys was probably gonna be rather big or small. 0:14:23.240 --> 0:14:28.000 We're hoping it's not too big, of course. Um, we'll see, 0:14:28.200 --> 0:14:30.680 you know, we're still getting our se pace. We'll see. 0:14:32.320 --> 0:14:36.120 I gotta ask this, okay, so very recently, just get 0:14:36.120 --> 0:14:38.640 a game winner from Sam faking a forty four yard 0:14:38.720 --> 0:14:41.640 or what? What is your property? You are the holder. 0:14:41.840 --> 0:14:44.280 You are a key part of the operation. Everybody talks 0:14:44.280 --> 0:14:47.800 about operation out there in terms of field goals and 0:14:47.880 --> 0:14:52.040 extra points. But I don't think people's minds registered to 0:14:52.560 --> 0:14:58.840 oh Hennessee Lachlan, they're the big deal incorporated in all this. 0:14:59.440 --> 0:15:01.760 What do you do one on the sideline? Is what 0:15:02.080 --> 0:15:04.720 any situation when the Jets are moving down the field 0:15:04.760 --> 0:15:08.760 and you know, okay, not only maybe we're going for 0:15:08.800 --> 0:15:11.480 a game winner here, but maybe it's a game winner 0:15:11.800 --> 0:15:14.880 time explorers. Um, yes, I went whenever the offense on 0:15:14.920 --> 0:15:17.000 the field, will me and Tom will be getting snaps 0:15:17.000 --> 0:15:19.000 of some sort, you know, depending where we are on 0:15:19.040 --> 0:15:20.840 the field. As soon as we crossed the fifty, we 0:15:20.880 --> 0:15:25.000 start to get field goal snaps, um, And yeah, it's 0:15:25.000 --> 0:15:26.280 just trying to keep a lid on it. You know, 0:15:26.320 --> 0:15:27.720 we didn't know what we're gonna do with time out 0:15:27.720 --> 0:15:29.520 its whether it was a Harry Harry field goal or 0:15:29.680 --> 0:15:32.800 was a um a milk it And we just went 0:15:32.840 --> 0:15:34.560 down there. We were watching the whole time. We'll get 0:15:34.560 --> 0:15:36.080 a snap every now and then. It's just trying to 0:15:36.160 --> 0:15:38.600 keep it a lid on your emotions and and just 0:15:38.680 --> 0:15:40.960 do what you've practiced. You know a couple of thousand times. 0:15:42.200 --> 0:15:45.400 Was that your second game winning field goal that it 0:15:45.520 --> 0:15:50.280 held for almost Chandler against Jet Jaguars and um, yeah, 0:15:50.280 --> 0:15:52.280 this is the second one. But but is it like 0:15:52.400 --> 0:15:56.720 baseball in terms of when a guy's really going he's 0:15:56.760 --> 0:15:59.760 got a no hitter. The old superstition is don't talk 0:15:59.800 --> 0:16:05.280 to so before vickens about to get out there? Is 0:16:05.280 --> 0:16:07.680 it just you and Hennessey talk and you leave that 0:16:07.760 --> 0:16:10.160 dude alone because you know he's just got to go 0:16:10.280 --> 0:16:13.400 through his prep being his own zone. Absolutely, I'll leave 0:16:13.480 --> 0:16:15.680 him alone. Um. The worst thing you ever say, you know, 0:16:15.720 --> 0:16:17.760 he's say it in college all the time is the 0:16:17.800 --> 0:16:20.360 same position players go up and start talking to the kicker, 0:16:20.400 --> 0:16:22.120 and this is leave him alone. You know this is 0:16:22.760 --> 0:16:25.600 this is his moment um. So yeah, I'll just run out, 0:16:25.640 --> 0:16:27.680 you know, give him pound my back, let's go, and 0:16:27.920 --> 0:16:29.720 you know he need he put it through. How do 0:16:29.760 --> 0:16:32.760 you keep your hands and fingers from not getting too 0:16:32.800 --> 0:16:37.120 cold or too nervous like sweaty palms or anything like that. 0:16:37.160 --> 0:16:40.320 I actually really like holding. Um, isn't that a learned 0:16:40.320 --> 0:16:41.920 trait from you? Like when you came in the league. 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.320 Have you did you hold up to that date? I 0:16:44.320 --> 0:16:47.640 hadn't held in a game. Um, but I how to practice. 0:16:47.760 --> 0:16:50.320 I got through throughout college. But you know, having to 0:16:50.400 --> 0:16:53.280 learn to hold to for Nick Faulkes he's pretty picky 0:16:53.320 --> 0:16:56.239 with these holds, so he helped me a lot. Um 0:16:56.480 --> 0:16:58.360 him and Tanna went my first year. They took me 0:16:58.440 --> 0:17:00.400 on the wing and show me the ripes and not 0:17:00.600 --> 0:17:03.000 now Tom. Tom's out. He's a great snapper. Sorry, he 0:17:03.040 --> 0:17:04.920 makes it makes it easy. But you're one of the 0:17:05.000 --> 0:17:07.400 few guys in the stadium. Am I correct on? This 0:17:07.480 --> 0:17:10.160 is that you got to keep your head down. So 0:17:10.760 --> 0:17:14.000 when he's kicking a ball, are you just waiting to 0:17:14.000 --> 0:17:17.120 hear the reaction or to stay up? And you can 0:17:17.119 --> 0:17:19.639 time it perfectly where you finally see the ball. So 0:17:19.720 --> 0:17:22.000 I usually don't see the bowl until it's through the 0:17:22.000 --> 0:17:24.360 three projects in my spot. Um, and then because you've 0:17:24.359 --> 0:17:26.600 got the line in front of nice while stand up. Sorry, 0:17:27.240 --> 0:17:29.439 I can usually tell from how Sam is if we 0:17:29.520 --> 0:17:33.680 make it or not. Ah, do you remember what you 0:17:33.720 --> 0:17:39.080 said to me yesterday? I mean after you, I don't know. 0:17:39.200 --> 0:17:44.960 I got my hug and I want to know. This 0:17:45.000 --> 0:17:47.800 time of year, obviously it gets chilly up here in 0:17:48.560 --> 0:17:53.440 New Jersey and in the Northeast. As a specialist, sometimes 0:17:53.480 --> 0:17:55.600 you have a little extra time on your hands up practice. 0:17:56.320 --> 0:17:59.520 Are you freezing during practice? Um? Well, you know if 0:17:59.520 --> 0:18:01.760 we're indos we'll go outside and we'll actually get some 0:18:01.840 --> 0:18:04.359 work in the cold, and um, you know, try to 0:18:05.160 --> 0:18:06.560 get used to it as much as you can. It's 0:18:06.600 --> 0:18:09.240 kind of hard to get used to the weather because 0:18:09.240 --> 0:18:12.000 it's so different every game. Um, but we'll get out 0:18:12.000 --> 0:18:14.400 there and get some snaps and stuff. But we'll try 0:18:14.400 --> 0:18:16.199 to get we'll try to keep warm, and we'll just 0:18:16.240 --> 0:18:18.320 bundle up once we're done without part of the practice. 0:18:18.400 --> 0:18:20.520 But for the most part, we actually stay pretty active 0:18:20.520 --> 0:18:24.120 throughout the day. How close are you dudes? You went Hennessey, 0:18:24.160 --> 0:18:25.800 You've been together for a while and then you had 0:18:25.840 --> 0:18:28.240 to bring the new guy in. You guys have really 0:18:28.280 --> 0:18:30.520 been through a lot this year. Talking about adversity on 0:18:30.560 --> 0:18:32.880 the team, adversity on the field goal team, I mean 0:18:33.280 --> 0:18:36.959 you work with every kicker, uh, this side of the Mississippi. 0:18:36.960 --> 0:18:40.040 I fell like, well, yeah, this is um if you 0:18:40.080 --> 0:18:41.600 look at it, this a fifth kicker I've had in 0:18:41.640 --> 0:18:45.800 four years. Um, second this season. Or if you don't 0:18:45.800 --> 0:18:49.679 even want to like in the active see you know, yeah, Um, 0:18:49.720 --> 0:18:51.399 first year was Nick Fogg, then we went Channel and 0:18:51.520 --> 0:18:54.239 Jason and then now we've got Sam as well as 0:18:54.280 --> 0:18:57.760 the Vic earlier in the year. Sorry, Um, it's really 0:18:57.840 --> 0:18:59.600 me and me and Tom we've got a pretty good 0:18:59.640 --> 0:19:02.120 sink and um, you know, I'm pretty confident we can 0:19:02.200 --> 0:19:05.840 we can help any any kicker that comes in here. Um. 0:19:05.880 --> 0:19:07.520 And you know, as soon as I come out the door, 0:19:07.560 --> 0:19:09.439 it's like, how mane, what kind of holds you like? 0:19:09.480 --> 0:19:11.200 How do you like it? And they'll tell me what 0:19:11.320 --> 0:19:12.640 they want. I'm like, all right, well, what's this work 0:19:12.680 --> 0:19:15.280 on it? How many different kinds of holds are there? 0:19:15.720 --> 0:19:19.720 Because I feel like, to e as point, fans focus 0:19:19.760 --> 0:19:22.280 on two things, very black and white. Is it in 0:19:22.800 --> 0:19:25.520 or is it out? And they don't think about the operation, 0:19:25.680 --> 0:19:29.120 the snap, the hold, but even within that, like how 0:19:29.160 --> 0:19:32.080 many different kinds of holds are there? So it comes 0:19:32.119 --> 0:19:34.520 down to the preference of the kicker obviously. So a 0:19:34.520 --> 0:19:36.400 lot of guys will want a bit of a lean 0:19:36.480 --> 0:19:40.359 on it towards me, not towards them. Um. And some 0:19:40.400 --> 0:19:42.320 guys I want to straight up and down. Nick Folk 0:19:42.440 --> 0:19:44.920 was was interesting. He had he didn't want to give 0:19:45.000 --> 0:19:47.520 up the uprights, so he had me lean the ball 0:19:47.520 --> 0:19:49.680 according to the wind. So you tell me I want 0:19:49.760 --> 0:19:51.879 a large lean here or a small lean or a 0:19:51.920 --> 0:19:55.280 medium lean, um, you know, and then you've got to 0:19:55.320 --> 0:19:57.040 find the spot with that lean because you don't want 0:19:57.040 --> 0:19:59.480 to put it down and then lean it. So you're 0:19:59.480 --> 0:20:01.400 just trying to make your the kicker's job as easy 0:20:01.440 --> 0:20:04.240 it is, because it is. It is a tough job. 0:20:04.280 --> 0:20:06.800 I know, I you know, I don't. I'm not jealous 0:20:06.800 --> 0:20:08.880