Speaker 1: Welcome to the Official Jets Podcast. We were presented by
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Speaker 1: win But Bart, first things first, Happy New Year to
Speaker 1: you and your family. Hey, Sammy, you man, it's a
Speaker 1: it's a tough one. The only way we can get
Speaker 1: through this is as a family, as a Jet family,
Speaker 1: because we are the only ones that can kind of
Speaker 1: empathize with our pain today. So where do we start, Bart? Uh,
Speaker 1: the Jets are embarking on one final game here in
Speaker 1: the regular season, when just a few weeks ago it
Speaker 1: sure looked like this team was headed for the playoffs
Speaker 1: for the first time. So that's two thousand ten. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and unfortunately that street continues, Uh, fifteen or twelve years,
Speaker 1: I believe, and you know, we're you know, it's not
Speaker 1: even close. Um, And it's unfortunate because the future looks bright,
Speaker 1: but you know, the future was also now, and the
Speaker 1: opportunity to get to the season, to have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to get that type of necessary experience with a young
Speaker 1: team and a young rostery ahead of schedule. You know,
Speaker 1: it all kind of feels a little bit bitter sweet
Speaker 1: now because you see the potential, but you know, you
Speaker 1: don't want to have to carry this for an entire
Speaker 1: year to kind of get that, you know, monkey off
Speaker 1: your back, you know, and and to walk around and
Speaker 1: it's just it's just one of those tough things that
Speaker 1: they're gonna have to grow from, learn from, and understand
Speaker 1: the consequences of not making it to the postseason. You
Speaker 1: talk about turnover. You know, it's gonna be some unfortunate
Speaker 1: familiar faces on this roster that won't be here next year.
Speaker 1: And you know, really the future begins now, right. You
Speaker 1: look at all the scouts and now how important Bowl
Speaker 1: games become in the process, and it's a daunteam long road,
Speaker 1: you know, and worrying about how get guy's health. There's
Speaker 1: a lot to digest, and these guys gonna have to
Speaker 1: get away from it. Even the administrator is gonna have
Speaker 1: to get away from it. Management is gonna have to
Speaker 1: get away from it and try and digest it and
Speaker 1: take a breath and say, Okay, it is what it is,
Speaker 1: and how do we move forward. So what do you
Speaker 1: point to in terms of a backbreaker? You're seven and
Speaker 1: four your Minnesota, you got a big deficit, you come back,
Speaker 1: looks like it's gonna be the fourth quarter magic Again,
Speaker 1: you're not able to convert in the red zone in
Speaker 1: that game one of six. We can go back to
Speaker 1: that sequence where it's second and goal from the one.
Speaker 1: Jets aren't able to get it done. The following week
Speaker 1: their game in Buffalo, lose the turnover battle, but it's
Speaker 1: a one possession game. Is it, Detroit, though? Is it
Speaker 1: when you have that seventeen thirteen lead at the two
Speaker 1: minute warning, fourth and one, Golf gets his tight end
Speaker 1: wide open, fifty one yard touched on pass. What was
Speaker 1: the backbreaker? What changed? Because what has happened here the
Speaker 1: last two weeks has been really surprising for this team.
Speaker 1: I think if you look at their body of work
Speaker 1: over the course of the season, but against Jacksonville, against Seattle,
Speaker 1: not really in those game tames at all well understanding
Speaker 1: how to finish, and this team don't understand how to finish.
Speaker 1: The mentality and the preparation when everybody else was fighting
Speaker 1: for their playoff lives and we're able to step up,
Speaker 1: they weren't able to answer the bell. And you know
Speaker 1: that should be the mantra going into next year. You know,
Speaker 1: it's okay to start fast, but you have to finish
Speaker 1: and it's a lot of teams that caught the Jets
Speaker 1: because they finished strong, right, And you know, you can't
Speaker 1: just get out to fast, and that's usually the sign
Speaker 1: of a young, inexperienced team. They get out fast, but
Speaker 1: as the pressure builds up, they can't handle and answer
Speaker 1: the bell. And you know, you can ask a lot
Speaker 1: of factors and consist at the quarterback position. You know,
Speaker 1: the defense seeming like they you know, didn't have the
Speaker 1: same pop. And you know, one of the uh strength
Speaker 1: of this team was the fact that they did rotate
Speaker 1: ten ten ten pass rushers and then when they were
Speaker 1: able to make sure that guys can stay fresh, but
Speaker 1: guys really wore down and you know, they became bad tacklers.
Speaker 1: And yesterday was an example of a team that it's
Speaker 1: more physical, right, and they struggled with that type of
Speaker 1: back and those type of backs the entire year. Guys
Speaker 1: that you know were you know, not slightly built. That
Speaker 1: was kind of you know, bigg around the trunk, much
Speaker 1: like Science Sean Green. They struggle and being able to
Speaker 1: take those guys down. So they have to figure out,
Speaker 1: how do we become a better tackling team, How do
Speaker 1: we attack this type of back because Stevenson did the
Speaker 1: same thing to them, right, and then you think about
Speaker 1: Jamal Williams, same type of deal. You gotta be able
Speaker 1: to figure out, you know, when the pads get you know,
Speaker 1: when you take the pads off as a defense and
Speaker 1: as a team, how do we still learn how to
Speaker 1: tackle and be professionals to make sure our fundamentals are together,
Speaker 1: because all of a sudden they became a bad tackling team,
Speaker 1: and all teams take off the pad usually after November
Speaker 1: because just about over Trich and you can't beat each
Speaker 1: other up and had the physicality and practice. But when
Speaker 1: you're inexperience as a unit, those type of things and
Speaker 1: those bad habits happen. You know, sometimes you gotta put
Speaker 1: the pads back on just to know how to be physical,
Speaker 1: how to take down guys who are running for their lives.
Speaker 1: We expect you guys who play in between the white
Speaker 1: lines on Sundays to be superman like White taken off,
Speaker 1: you know, coming back to the lineup, re inserted as
Speaker 1: a starter after taking those vicious shots in Buffalo. He
Speaker 1: did not look like himself against the Seahawks, did he
Speaker 1: not at all? Man? You talk about how many balls
Speaker 1: were inaccurate. How many balls were just coming up short.
Speaker 1: You know, you think about the one that mems, You
Speaker 1: think about the one to Garrett Wilson just not really
Speaker 1: having really touching rhythm. You know, not only was he rusty,
Speaker 1: I don't think he had the ability physically to be
Speaker 1: able to put the the torque on the football that
Speaker 1: we had seen from him earlier in the year. And
Speaker 1: he won't make an excuse and talk about you know,
Speaker 1: the rails weren't ready. But as soon as you're clear
Speaker 1: from the doctors, if you're Mike White, you know you're
Speaker 1: playing for yourself and you're playing for your team, and
Speaker 1: this was an opportunity. Rarely do you know, players get
Speaker 1: multiple opportunities to kind of show what they can do
Speaker 1: in this league e spread sheet in those type of situations.
Speaker 1: And I'm sure that you know, he probably won't admit it,
Speaker 1: but he wasn't ready, and you know, he didn't have
Speaker 1: enough time to get a rhythm. What's disappointed this fact
Speaker 1: that this team came off from many by they just
Speaker 1: couldn't figure out how to get her done. And you know,
Speaker 1: one of the recurring things from the last three opponents
Speaker 1: was heavy shifting motions, getting the defense. I have to
Speaker 1: move and shift and rotate and change strengths. And they
Speaker 1: just ran back to the open side. And it's that's tough.
Speaker 1: You know, you look at the big run. You know
Speaker 1: they shift motion, get the defense, E over over, adjust
Speaker 1: and moved to the left and then they running back
Speaker 1: to the right and you know they make make it
Speaker 1: where you know, okay, we're gonna let one guy go
Speaker 1: and if that guy misses with our big backs, then
Speaker 1: you know, eight eight and out of the gate. And
Speaker 1: that's that's that's kind of what teams have been doing.
Speaker 1: Jacksonville did the same thing. They ran man beaters and
Speaker 1: crossed people up, and you know, unfortunately the defense wasn't
Speaker 1: able to answer the belt. And they after go back
Speaker 1: to the drawing board and figure out how do we
Speaker 1: finish strong and put put together seventeen great performances. Man.
Speaker 1: Obviously White didn't look like himself. He was clear for contact,
Speaker 1: uh twenty three or forty six, was sacked four times.
Speaker 1: I can't even believe I'm asking this question. It's Monday morning,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna ask it again. Uh. Robert Salas said
Speaker 1: last week that White is going to be the starter
Speaker 1: for the remainder of the year. Now you go into
Speaker 1: a game against Miami that means everything for the Dolphins,
Speaker 1: where you know Sunday night you're going home and that's it.
Speaker 1: Do you stick with White here, uh this final game?
Speaker 1: Or do you give him a breather because he's not himself? No?
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I'm sure Mike White want to
Speaker 1: shot at it. Right, he wasn't hisself, but he should
Speaker 1: be stronger next week. And you don't want to go
Speaker 1: back and put put Zack Wilson in that position. He
Speaker 1: needs a heavy reset and offseason, being able to put
Speaker 1: his head in the books, get stronger work on his craft,
Speaker 1: you know, so you you you stay with Mike White
Speaker 1: because also Mike White is auditioning for thirty two thirty
Speaker 1: two football teams including you, right, because he's going to
Speaker 1: be a free agent, and you give him an opportunity
Speaker 1: to not have that be the lasting image of himself.
Speaker 1: You know, go out and try and put a good
Speaker 1: performance together, and you know, if you're the Jet, you
Speaker 1: can't finish five. You know, you just gotta go back
Speaker 1: and see what you can do. What's the message? What's
Speaker 1: the take away from watching a guy like Geno Smith
Speaker 1: have a career year with the Seahawks. Obviously he was
Speaker 1: very good, very efficient again on Sunday against the Jets.
Speaker 1: But if you're a young quarterback and you look at
Speaker 1: Geno Smith's career arc that started here with the Jets,
Speaker 1: what's the takeaway? It ain't over towards over right, and
Speaker 1: opportunities are far in and few in between. And you
Speaker 1: know he had to wait. Just imagine he didn't he
Speaker 1: didn't answer the bell. He would say he had a
Speaker 1: lot of mature to do. He maybe wasn't ready for
Speaker 1: the moment. He wasn't ready for the market. And it
Speaker 1: lost some six years of his career to be able
Speaker 1: to get another opportunity. You know how rare is that?
Speaker 1: And if you're if you're a quarterback, you know sometimes
Speaker 1: you know, you get that scarlet letter and they in
Speaker 1: the in the league defines who they believe you are.
Speaker 1: You never get an opportunity show otherwise, at least to
Speaker 1: ever be a starter again. You know, Geneo is a
Speaker 1: unique story. I can't recall a story where a player
Speaker 1: didn't play a start somewhere and then takes itself to
Speaker 1: the Pro Bowl and potentially takes his team to the playoffs,
Speaker 1: but you know, late in his career, after not starting
Speaker 1: for six years, able to get potentially a hundred plus
Speaker 1: million dollar contract. I mean, outside of rich Gannon, I
Speaker 1: can't think of somebody who had a better redemption story.
Speaker 1: Someone who didn't play, you know, at a high level,
Speaker 1: didn't really get opportunity. They went to the Raiders and
Speaker 1: took that team to the super Bowl. I think one
Speaker 1: m v P. It's a wild situation because Seattle, now,
Speaker 1: you figure, is gonna give him some sort of an
Speaker 1: extension because it looks like first round draft picks. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they have four picks in the first two rounds next year,
Speaker 1: and then in the first round from Denver as the
Speaker 1: top five pick exactly. So you're looking at that and
Speaker 1: you know they thought that first five that uh, that
Speaker 1: number one pick was going to be a quarterback. But
Speaker 1: now you can say, Listen is young enough, we can
Speaker 1: go with Gino for the next three to four years.
Speaker 1: Give him a four year deal, four year extension that
Speaker 1: locks him under you know contract, and you know, they
Speaker 1: really recouped a lot of that stuff that they got
Speaker 1: that they lost in the jamal Um Adams trade as well,
Speaker 1: which you know, Jamal Adams turned into Garrett Wilson and
Speaker 1: also turned into your A b T. That's right, what
Speaker 1: changed in Denver when A v T went out in
Speaker 1: Breece Hall. Now, looking back, the season is not over.
Speaker 1: You got one game left. But this team started five
Speaker 1: and two, it started six and three, it started seven
Speaker 1: and four. Right now it is seven and nine heading
Speaker 1: into that final game. And since the buy bar, this
Speaker 1: offense has eight touchdowns. Wow, I mean the easy scores right,
Speaker 1: and you look at you know a couple of games
Speaker 1: where they were just run blitz and Darren the quarterbacks
Speaker 1: to make plays and whether it was Mike Wider or
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson and Joe Flacco, they just couldn't get it done.
Speaker 1: And you know, A b T created so much balance.
Speaker 1: He was so valuable. His ability to be able to
Speaker 1: be whatever you needed him to be was vital to
Speaker 1: this team. And they also lost a lot of the
Speaker 1: athleticism being able to get you know, a guy who
Speaker 1: can pull get to the next level, cut off linebackers
Speaker 1: and and utilize it that way. I mean it would
Speaker 1: be a Ciphers sore eyes. Hopefully Beckton can finally stay
Speaker 1: healthy and we can have a team, but they know
Speaker 1: that the strength was depth, and they lost that depth
Speaker 1: really quickly, and eventually they just couldn't overcome the lack
Speaker 1: of you know, fundamental starters or players would experience. Yeah,
Speaker 1: we wheels totally fell off an offensive line, right. It
Speaker 1: was a miraculous job John Benton was doing. For a while.
Speaker 1: It felt like no matter who came in a lineup,
Speaker 1: they were gonna come in and they we're gonna play. Well.
Speaker 1: We go back to that Buffalo game when the Jets
Speaker 1: had that drive at the end to win it, where
Speaker 1: they just ran it down their throat and you're thinking,
Speaker 1: this can go on forever. But those guys are fresh,
Speaker 1: and then what happens is when you overextend backups. You
Speaker 1: know they don't have the experience, they don't have the
Speaker 1: dourability to continue to play at a high level. I
Speaker 1: think Dwayne Brown started to break down. It was admirable
Speaker 1: what he was doing, but you asked way too much trouble.
Speaker 1: I mean, at this point, you you know you probably
Speaker 1: should have used something like Dallas Cowboys, use Jason Peters
Speaker 1: coming in, spilling guys out, playing on the pitch count.
Speaker 1: You know this count got up too high and you
Speaker 1: asked way too much of him, especially going against the
Speaker 1: best athletes on every team you know at the left
Speaker 1: tackle position, and you're, like I said, you know you
Speaker 1: you you would expect their hope that you can have
Speaker 1: a time where Beckton can stay healthy for a whole season,
Speaker 1: a BT can stay healthy for a whole season, and
Speaker 1: you can have what you expected, you know, three Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl caliber type of lineman. When you think about lengthen
Speaker 1: you think about, you know, a v T and you
Speaker 1: think about Beckton. That should be your bail cous and
Speaker 1: that's what you hope that you can get and be
Speaker 1: able to get good play from the other two positions.
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Speaker 1: and Virginia. Yeah, you know what I was thinking about
Speaker 1: watching Kenneth Walker on Sunday. Damn. It's a shame that
Speaker 1: the Jets don't have Breese Hall out here because it
Speaker 1: would have been fun to watch both of those backs
Speaker 1: on the same field. But for the Jets, it was
Speaker 1: not in the card. Sauce Gardner four p d s yesterday,
Speaker 1: first time Pro Bowler. He is going to be the
Speaker 1: defensive rookie of the year. He should be in All Pro.
Speaker 1: Where does he rank in terms of cornerbacks right now?
Speaker 1: Just take away the rookies like throughout the National Football League?
Speaker 1: How good is this guy? I mean, I think he's
Speaker 1: definitely top five independent who you who you favor? You know,
Speaker 1: it changes up and down. Um, But for me, the
Speaker 1: best corner in the league to me all year in
Speaker 1: my opinion, it's been um josr Alexander and I think
Speaker 1: he came in from last year as the number one guy,
Speaker 1: and you know, because their team wasn't winning a lot,
Speaker 1: I think he got overshadow. But you know, you know,
Speaker 1: you can make a case for Patrick Shortan who's a
Speaker 1: young guy as well, to make a case for Sauce.
Speaker 1: You can make a case for Tyreek when you know
Speaker 1: he made some outstanding plage yesterday too, dropped a couple
Speaker 1: of picks. Um, he's his future as bright as well.
Speaker 1: You know Latimore came back. He's been that dude, he's
Speaker 1: been injured, big place Sleigh. You know, it's it's it's
Speaker 1: it's it's some time the guys out there that that's
Speaker 1: capable being on islands. You started your career in Baltimore,
Speaker 1: multiple playoff appearances there. Then he came here and you
Speaker 1: had oh nine and ten, so you weren't in this
Speaker 1: situation a ton. What what do you think it's gonna
Speaker 1: be like for these players in these coaches this week?
Speaker 1: And how do you go about your business knowing what
Speaker 1: slipped through your fingers? But you still have a game
Speaker 1: against the division rival on tap. When you're young, you
Speaker 1: just you don't know, you're just excited to be playing football.
Speaker 1: So like the young guys on the team are excited,
Speaker 1: the older guys they want to go out and they
Speaker 1: want to go out with a win because they know,
Speaker 1: you know, quite frankly, it can be their last opportunity
Speaker 1: to play on this team because decisions are going to
Speaker 1: be made, and clearly this team wasn't good enough to
Speaker 1: get to where they needed to go. So the consequences
Speaker 1: are they're gonna have to upgrade some positions and guys
Speaker 1: gonna start looking at their cap numbers. And this is
Speaker 1: gonna be the first time for these young guys to
Speaker 1: see the consequences of falling short of your goal, Like
Speaker 1: falling short of your goal cost people their jobs, and
Speaker 1: you know, it's gonna be gods, that's gonna understand. They
Speaker 1: got high cap numbers. It's gonna be decisions are gonna
Speaker 1: be made. It's gonna be contracts that has to be
Speaker 1: extended or added. And you think about Quinny Williams, think
Speaker 1: about c. J. Mosley, you know, but you know, tough
Speaker 1: decisions like you know, Dwayne Brown, tough decisions like Carl Last,
Speaker 1: and tough decisions like Corey Davis, right, And I think
Speaker 1: this is important for young guys to understand that you
Speaker 1: take advantage of every year because you just never know
Speaker 1: like who you're gonna lose, or when it's your time
Speaker 1: to to to maybe be a decision that was made
Speaker 1: in a different light. Yeah, but to that point, and
Speaker 1: that's why I was mad if you weeks ago where
Speaker 1: people are saying, well, the Jets are had a schedule,
Speaker 1: but you just said it right there. Yeah, maybe people
Speaker 1: outside didn't expect them to be where they're at and
Speaker 1: the opportunity at hand, but they didn't have the opportunity
Speaker 1: at hand. And you never know what changes year to year. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, you don't know if you're gonna be healthy
Speaker 1: next year. You don't know if the other teams in
Speaker 1: your division are just gonna get that much better, right,
Speaker 1: You don't know what decision they're gonna make, and you
Speaker 1: could be a better team, but they can, you know,
Speaker 1: pass you. And then you find yourself in on that
Speaker 1: perpetual you know, treadmill where it's like, man, we're better,
Speaker 1: but man, we got a tough schedule this year. We
Speaker 1: lost some tough ones. That's why every year you gotta
Speaker 1: take advantage of but you just don't know if you're
Speaker 1: gonna get the opportunity you have another chance. You laiter
Speaker 1: all out there, and these guys are laying on all
Speaker 1: out there. But when Mosley says after the Jacksonville game,
Speaker 1: and god, he's spent so good throughout the year, that
Speaker 1: we didn't match the intensity of the Jaguars, And then
Speaker 1: Tyler Conklin says after the Seattle game, which the Jets
Speaker 1: lose twenty three to six, that we were flat. As
Speaker 1: a former player, when you hear things like that, what
Speaker 1: goes through your mind. Flats an excuse, right when you
Speaker 1: say flat, that's just that's another word for execution and
Speaker 1: them being able to You know, I thought that Seattle
Speaker 1: once again had a tremendous scheme. They blitzed early in
Speaker 1: the down once they realized and figured out, hey, man,
Speaker 1: Mike White ain't Mike White, and you know he ain't
Speaker 1: really been he's coming up short on these balls, he's missing.
Speaker 1: He's rusty, man. There's no need for us to sit
Speaker 1: back and play coverage. Let's light them up. And so
Speaker 1: early in downs they run blitzed, much like the Lions did.
Speaker 1: The Lions run blitzed early and down to get you
Speaker 1: behind the sticks. And you know, the Jets didn't make
Speaker 1: enough place to make them respect. They didn't have enough balance.
Speaker 1: And I thought they were running the ball really good,
Speaker 1: but the defense came out and they gave up a
Speaker 1: touchdown first drive. And that's that's not the recipe for success.
Speaker 1: But the Jets they're not built to put up a
Speaker 1: bunch of points, and they were putting up the field
Speaker 1: goals and not putting up touchdowns. They didn't answer, and
Speaker 1: when you don't answer, you know you have to you
Speaker 1: have to pay the consequences. And the consequences was that
Speaker 1: you walk away with not what you want. It hit
Speaker 1: the nail and I hide with this Jets defense. Right,
Speaker 1: Can you speak to that a little bit, because you know,
Speaker 1: I think it processing everything. When you look at this
Speaker 1: system and the way Solo wants it built, it's to
Speaker 1: come after the quarterback and a lot of that is
Speaker 1: predicated on the lead. So if you don't have the lead,
Speaker 1: then you're not playing the strength of your system, obviously,
Speaker 1: and they need some fat boys. Right when you look
Speaker 1: at you look at Seattle in the same system, right,
Speaker 1: you know that you would think they got the same
Speaker 1: philosophy I mean I saw you know read you know
Speaker 1: that you know, used to play with Willie used to
Speaker 1: be on the on the on the on the Stillers.
Speaker 1: It was about three sixty, right, you know number nineties seven,
Speaker 1: he was about three sixty. The Jets don't have a
Speaker 1: player like that. The only player they had that was
Speaker 1: close to that last year was Fatakazi, and it's a
Speaker 1: it's a hole in the gap in their system. They
Speaker 1: need a big, massive man. They eat up double teams.
Speaker 1: So then now it's you know, it's five on five
Speaker 1: because then you can't double quinnin and double you know,
Speaker 1: big Fatty. Right when you look at Dexter Lawrence, you know,
Speaker 1: we don't have that type of player, and that's a
Speaker 1: gap in our system. We have to find us a
Speaker 1: three fifty plus pound massive man that can eat up
Speaker 1: double team because this invito is important. When you only
Speaker 1: rush four, you can get away with it with penetration
Speaker 1: and stuff like that. When you have when you probably
Speaker 1: potentially have like a three four, when you're a four
Speaker 1: three team, you gotta have you a big anchor in there.
Speaker 1: It just always works that way because you have to
Speaker 1: have somebody to eat up gaps. Because even though Quinny Williams,
Speaker 1: you know, should be an all protest here. He's not
Speaker 1: that massive Chris Jenkins, Helodi Nada, Casey Hampton, Ted Washington
Speaker 1: type of guy, and you need that type of guy
Speaker 1: if you're only gonna rush three. Yeah, you bet, you
Speaker 1: bet a big proponent of having a big fatty for
Speaker 1: a long time. That's nothing new coming out of your mouth.
Speaker 1: But it is interesting that heading into the season, if
Speaker 1: you had a question mark about the Jets defense, it
Speaker 1: would be about the rush defense, and they held up
Speaker 1: very well. But your point about the tackling, you've seen
Speaker 1: some of that road here down the stretch, right, Yeah,
Speaker 1: because you think about it that they're just double team
Speaker 1: and getting movement. You know, you love Solomon Thomas and
Speaker 1: his effort, but he's just not a big man. So
Speaker 1: if you can get movement up there, then it makes
Speaker 1: it more difficult. And listen, everybody, whether they admit it
Speaker 1: or the on the injury report or not, are beat
Speaker 1: up and hurt, and it's just it's just a matter
Speaker 1: of physics. You know, the bigger man, stronger man, the
Speaker 1: guy that's that's fresher usually is able to win those matchups.
Speaker 1: When you get to these late games. I mean, hell,
Speaker 1: how can you explain in Carolina how they running downhill? No,
Speaker 1: I mean because they got big, powerful outfit, and you
Speaker 1: when you run downhill, you know right now, guys just
Speaker 1: aren't equipped to hold up physically. Everybody's put together with
Speaker 1: duct tape and glue right now. Yeah, I'll never forget
Speaker 1: what your training room looked like downstairs heading into that
Speaker 1: FC Championship game against Pittsburgh. I don't remember what the
Speaker 1: injury report was, but I mean it was something else
Speaker 1: like it looked like an infirmary. Guys walking out of
Speaker 1: the training room at that point of the season. Yeah, man,
Speaker 1: and you're just hoping that you've got enough. You just
Speaker 1: hope that you're not injured. You're you're less injured than
Speaker 1: your opponents, that's all you It's like one of those things.
Speaker 1: You just want to be fresher than your opponent and
Speaker 1: you do all your best, but sometimes it's unfortunate. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we got to add in a second, but can
Speaker 1: can the Jets You said this could be a lesson
Speaker 1: for them that they could take moving forward. Can they
Speaker 1: really take something from these games? Or you look at
Speaker 1: more like the Buffalo the Minnesota game, where these couple
Speaker 1: games is. It's like he didn't have much. You just
Speaker 1: saw that, you know, Seattle On Jacksonville took it to
Speaker 1: you for sixty minutes. Good good team. Good teams find
Speaker 1: a way to win, to finish. And as these younger
Speaker 1: players mature into their body and learn how to be
Speaker 1: a professional, they'll learn how to build their body to
Speaker 1: be successful and to stay fresh. And that's that's that's
Speaker 1: important too, right, being able to know how you invest
Speaker 1: in your body. What's your routine is going to have
Speaker 1: to be, how do you stay strong throughout the season.
Speaker 1: How much cardio do you do? How much extra lifting
Speaker 1: do you do? How much cardio mean, how much chiropractor? Uh?
Speaker 1: Personal mussus. That's all investments that come out of your pocket,
Speaker 1: that's away from the facility. You know. You you hear
Speaker 1: about the great athletes like Lebron James and how much
Speaker 1: money he invested in his body throughout his career, Chris Paul,
Speaker 1: even Russell Wilson. It's about how much money you how
Speaker 1: important it is to you, and you find it out
Speaker 1: what makes you stay healthy and play at a high
Speaker 1: level for all seventeen. If you're solid this week, do
Speaker 1: you take a long look at some of those young
Speaker 1: guys that and I don't have the roster in front
Speaker 1: of me. I don't have anybody top of mind right now.
Speaker 1: But Dan, you saw guys like that everything out there.
Speaker 1: Um'm so yeah, yeah. I mean, you get my opportunities
Speaker 1: to play, but I mean I think you also want
Speaker 1: a chance to maybe not Miami out. If I can't go,
Speaker 1: you can't and go either, especially with the comments of
Speaker 1: Tyreek Hill early in the process when he made made
Speaker 1: made light of oh who the Jets, you know, like, okay, yeah,
Speaker 1: we you know you ain't going either. If I can't go,
Speaker 1: you can't go. Take that with you, Yeah. Is that
Speaker 1: something they talk amongst themselves in the locker room that
Speaker 1: we want to be spoiler. We don't want the Dolphins
Speaker 1: go if I can't go. I'll be damned if somebody
Speaker 1: within my division is about to have have a good
Speaker 1: time and they have extra game and get that type
Speaker 1: of experience. What if you're solid, what do you say
Speaker 1: to them this week early in the week, once you
Speaker 1: get back here onesday, let's finished from because no matter what,
Speaker 1: everybody's not gonna be here, So put your best effort
Speaker 1: out there. So that you can play for somewhere else
Speaker 1: because people see how you finish when there's nothing to
Speaker 1: play for. And we're gonna get to the quarterback bit
Speaker 1: once we break down the season next week. But man,
Speaker 1: it's been something else for the Jets of the quarterback
Speaker 1: position this year. Yeah. I mean you look, you look
Speaker 1: at like a team like the Giants and what they've
Speaker 1: been able to do, but they've had consistency at the
Speaker 1: orterback position. So I mean, it's so different for everybody.
Speaker 1: This guy five step drop is different, this guy ball
Speaker 1: is different, this guy Caten's and rhythm is different. You know,
Speaker 1: the one place where you gotta have consistency at and
Speaker 1: gotta have you know, you know the same person is
Speaker 1: the quarterback position. Yeah. Um, who are you liking the
Speaker 1: FC right now? And who you like in NFC? I
Speaker 1: like the Bengals right now. Uh so you got them winning,
Speaker 1: You got them winning tonight at home, I do, which
Speaker 1: could be bad news because then whether I think they
Speaker 1: hate the Patriots enough that they wouldn't just lay aid
Speaker 1: for the Patriots either, you know what I mean? If
Speaker 1: they lost, I think they wouldn't want to go. Um,
Speaker 1: I'm trying to think you wouldn't would probably still be
Speaker 1: playing for a two or three seed exactly because they
Speaker 1: wouldn't want to be far behind Cincinnati. And it was
Speaker 1: the same regular Cincinnati. Even though Cincinnati has a game
Speaker 1: with Baltimore. If Cincinnati loses today, then it gets flex
Speaker 1: and then they're gonna be playing the Baltimore Ravens for
Speaker 1: the division where it seemed like they had the division
Speaker 1: wrapped up. Okay, so Cincinnati, f C, NFC, you got Frisco, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I got Frisco. Yeah, absolutely, Okay, And when they play
Speaker 1: football and give me a dark horse emerging, are the
Speaker 1: Chargers are dark horse? No? I just don't think defensively
Speaker 1: they do enough. I do like them on the offensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. Both are coming back, YO makes
Speaker 1: them better? They can't they don't stop the run. I
Speaker 1: just their team that I think can surprise somebody in
Speaker 1: a wild card. But I think eventually they have a
Speaker 1: silly So you still you still see Cincinnati, Kansas City,
Speaker 1: maybe maybe Buffalo. Those three are gonna duke it out,
Speaker 1: and you just you just never know. Like a team
Speaker 1: that can upset some people are the Ravens. If Lamar
Speaker 1: Jackson comes back just because he can be special. And
Speaker 1: if you watch the TCU game, you see that a
Speaker 1: mobile quarterback can kind of mess up everything. You do
Speaker 1: everything right in and mobile quarterback and make you pay
Speaker 1: like no no other position in the league. Uh speaking
Speaker 1: of TCU, Uh, puncher's chance against Georgia or you expect
Speaker 1: them to win that game? I mean Georgia, Eskate. It's like,
Speaker 1: if Marvin Harris Jr. Doesn't get hurt, that's a totally
Speaker 1: different situation. I know that's a big if, but you know,
Speaker 1: somebody taking a personal file shot on somebody not getting
Speaker 1: injected your helmet. The helmet, yo, shouldn't have cost the
Speaker 1: Ohio State Buckeyes to national championship. But that's the football
Speaker 1: and it worked out in Georgia's favor. But it definitely
Speaker 1: would have been not the same outcome if if Marvin
Speaker 1: Harrison Junior hadn't got injured. Yeah, he's gonna be a
Speaker 1: freak on the next level. Well all right, brother, what's
Speaker 1: this week looking for you? Looking like for you? Well?
Speaker 1: Getting back on the bike, man, I was gonna go
Speaker 1: back to the local with the with the radio station
Speaker 1: and back to TV. Man. Unfortunately I won't be talking
Speaker 1: about the Jets. You know much. I'm sure we'll talk
Speaker 1: about them, but we won't be talking about them in
Speaker 1: the postseason, so you know, it's always tough that way. Alright, buddy,
Speaker 1: See next week. Yeah, I'm gonna crying the car h