Speaker 1: We are presented by went Bett. Betty is a team sport,
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Speaker 1: full effect. It's Anthony Backs, Eric Coleman, Ethan Greenberg. Across
Speaker 1: the way, the Jets two thousand twenty two NFL Draft
Speaker 1: is over. I'm looking at the team's right now, and
Speaker 1: I can read off a couple of lists for you.
Speaker 1: But you've been paying attention to this for three days now.
Speaker 1: Do you think the Jets had the best draft out
Speaker 1: of anybody in the leak? Yeah? They did, no doubt
Speaker 1: about it. Um. I mean who wouldn't. If you didn't
Speaker 1: say the Jets, then you're clearly a Giants fan, right,
Speaker 1: That's really the only reason why you wouldn't say it.
Speaker 1: So uh yeah, I mean, you know, they got arguably
Speaker 1: the best four guys at their position in college football.
Speaker 1: I mean, I don't even know where to like, how
Speaker 1: does it even fattom how that happens? But I think
Speaker 1: there's a lot of people that had these four players,
Speaker 1: in particular the four picks to let the first four
Speaker 1: pick to the Jets as the number one positional player
Speaker 1: for their on their boards. So um, With Gardner, Wilson, Johnson,
Speaker 1: and Hall That's a pretty good haul there. And then
Speaker 1: you know Rutgert. Listen, he's he was hiring a lot
Speaker 1: of people's list as well. So really good uh weekend
Speaker 1: for Joe Douglas and company. And I'm excited to see
Speaker 1: all of them get on the field and start practicing.
Speaker 1: Before we get to Coleman, I want to go across
Speaker 1: the way to Greenberg here, Greens What about Baltimore, Chile, Hamilton,
Speaker 1: Tyler Linderball, David Najabo obviously coming off the Achilles, Travis
Speaker 1: Jones very impressive from Connecticut. They got a b S
Speaker 1: big tackle for Minnesota. Um, they got Charlie Cohler, one
Speaker 1: of your favorite tight ends in Africa, Isaiah likely another
Speaker 1: tight end. Uh. Do you think the Ravens give the
Speaker 1: Jets the run for the money here? I think that
Speaker 1: the raven definitely had a very good draft. I think
Speaker 1: a lot of it depends on UM. Well, really, I
Speaker 1: think it could be David a Jabo, Like if he
Speaker 1: comes back fully healthy, I would imagine he's probably not
Speaker 1: playing this next season. But if he were to come
Speaker 1: back and become the player that a lot of people
Speaker 1: thought he would be, you're talking about a potential top
Speaker 1: fifteen talent in whatever round they drafted him. I believe
Speaker 1: it was the second round. So and you talk about
Speaker 1: what they did, to your point, A, they got the
Speaker 1: best center in Tyler linder Baum somebody. I think there
Speaker 1: would be some people that think that Tyler Linderbaum was
Speaker 1: a top fifteen prospect, let alone the top guy at
Speaker 1: his position. It just depends on what you think of
Speaker 1: him as a player. And Kyle Hamilton's felt like he
Speaker 1: kind of slipped out and was there for the Ravens taking.
Speaker 1: And I think the popular saying around the Ravens is
Speaker 1: just kind of like, oh, of course he's gonna be
Speaker 1: good there. That's I think they've earned that kind of trust.
Speaker 1: And you know, I think they've definitely had a good draft.
Speaker 1: But obviously we can't create a draft on April, you know,
Speaker 1: or May one. But all indications are that they selected
Speaker 1: very well. Yeah, because that's what people keep on talking about,
Speaker 1: who will prove themselves the most. This week, Philadelphia's added
Speaker 1: into the equation. They trade for a j Brown acquire
Speaker 1: him from the Tennessee Titans. Very interesting movement. They give
Speaker 1: him a big contract where there is a direct connection,
Speaker 1: I think to the Jets is the Jets take conversations.
Speaker 1: As we've talked multiple times, I think fans are mad
Speaker 1: at maybe when I mentioned Tyreek Hill's name. I'm just
Speaker 1: looking back and saying, hey, this was part of the
Speaker 1: off season. And there was also a report this weekend
Speaker 1: that the Jets had made an offer for Deebo Samuel
Speaker 1: that included the number ten overall selections. So it's interesting
Speaker 1: to wait this played out by looking back. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: is interesting. You know. You you talk about giving up
Speaker 1: a bunch of draft picks to to attain one of
Speaker 1: the one very good receiver, whether it be Deebo Samuel,
Speaker 1: Tyree Hill, a J Brown, whoever it is, and then
Speaker 1: you look back to that not working out and what
Speaker 1: they got for it. You know, you you have to
Speaker 1: think that the Jets one in this situation looking at
Speaker 1: looking at the potential of these players. You Sauce Gardner,
Speaker 1: Jermaine Johnson, the guy who you traded for to get
Speaker 1: back into it. Um, you know, Garrett Wilson, you know,
Speaker 1: a dynamic receiver. There's so much value in these picks,
Speaker 1: and I think these guys are going to be foundational
Speaker 1: pieces for this team for years to come. They're gonna
Speaker 1: be guys that a lot of them are gonna be
Speaker 1: Pro Bowlers. They're they're gonna be here for quite some time,
Speaker 1: you know. I I think they're just good, high character guys,
Speaker 1: high football guys. They have a ton of speed, their playmakers,
Speaker 1: and I think together as a group, they're gonna do
Speaker 1: much more than one receiver than adding one receiver would do.
Speaker 1: As you're building a roster, you have a quarterback after
Speaker 1: in his second year, so he's on his rookie deal.
Speaker 1: Now a lot of your best players are very very
Speaker 1: young players. So we're entering very um interesting time. But
Speaker 1: I think you gotta credit Joe Douglas, Staff and Robert
Speaker 1: Salo and company for getting the roster or to this
Speaker 1: point two. Yeah, I mean it amps up expectation levels, right,
Speaker 1: I mean that's the key. I mean, you know, you
Speaker 1: see these guys get drafted at the top of the
Speaker 1: in the first round, and you know all all of
Speaker 1: them could have went in the top four. I mean
Speaker 1: that's how good they were top five even so, um,
Speaker 1: you know, they did their homework, they got the guys
Speaker 1: they need it. They're able to kind of throw the
Speaker 1: dice out at that brief hall pick and bring a
Speaker 1: guy in as an at a piece because they kind
Speaker 1: of dominated the first round and got everything they needed.
Speaker 1: Um and uh. I think that every piece that they
Speaker 1: brought in will bring some type of uh be a
Speaker 1: some type of factor for this football team moving forward.
Speaker 1: So uh, you know you you mentioned Pro Bowl. I mean,
Speaker 1: I hope that's where we get with these guys. But
Speaker 1: they're gonna be immediate on the field and they're gonna
Speaker 1: help the Jets. Now you're not waiting, you know, you
Speaker 1: gotta wait six games into the first season for these guys.
Speaker 1: These guys are gonna be ready to go their seasons.
Speaker 1: In my opinion, there's you know, you don't you know,
Speaker 1: take your time with them, Like, let's go get out
Speaker 1: there and do it. I mean, you know, there's a
Speaker 1: catering process with a lot of rookie sometimes across the league.
Speaker 1: I think with these guys, they show good maturity, they're
Speaker 1: very high character, they work hard. They all have chips
Speaker 1: on their shoulder, even Sauce. I mean, listen, nobody, nobody
Speaker 1: even talked about him coming out of high school and
Speaker 1: look where he is now. Jermaine Johnson fighting all the
Speaker 1: way through juchos and multiple schools and and and and
Speaker 1: got disrespected. You know, some people said he was a
Speaker 1: top five pick and he goes to which is the
Speaker 1: Jets are very fortunate. And then you know, of course
Speaker 1: Garrett Wilson is a true playmaker and a guy that
Speaker 1: probably lived up to the expectation of where he's at,
Speaker 1: big time college, big time player, and got drafted high. Yeah,
Speaker 1: and I don't want to put that expectation that they
Speaker 1: got to be Pro Bowl players, but I just look
Speaker 1: at the potential as far as what they can do
Speaker 1: and how they fit into this team. I think they're
Speaker 1: going to be put in position to make plays. You know,
Speaker 1: you look at the defensive side of the ball, they're
Speaker 1: gonna be impact players right now. What the talent that
Speaker 1: the team has right now and the way that this
Speaker 1: defense is run, it's all about aitude effort, playing smart,
Speaker 1: playing tough, and that's what these guys bring to the
Speaker 1: table on defense. Offensively, you know, you have Garrett Wilson,
Speaker 1: and look at the receiving corps. You know you've got
Speaker 1: Corey Davis, Braxton, Burios, Elijah Moore, the title, you got Conkling.
Speaker 1: You know, you have tight ends, you have an offensive
Speaker 1: line to protect a run game now. I mean all
Speaker 1: the pieces are kind of coming together to get the
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Speaker 1: one one seven A Sauce Gardner. This he a perfect
Speaker 1: fit for New York. He's he's got the swag, he's
Speaker 1: got the confidence, he's it's not over the top. Though.
Speaker 1: I know one thing that you you talked about he
Speaker 1: was that you loved that he said, I'm gonna absorb
Speaker 1: everything like a sponge. Uh, you know, I just like
Speaker 1: what he brings to the table on the field and
Speaker 1: off the field. Yeah, I mean he he brings a
Speaker 1: great attitude. He's a physical presence on the field, but
Speaker 1: he has a confidence, but he has the humility as well.
Speaker 1: He understands that I'm a rookie, you know, I just
Speaker 1: got here. There's a lot for me to learn. And
Speaker 1: I think bringing that attitude along with the confidence of
Speaker 1: I can compete with everybody in this league. I think
Speaker 1: that's just gonna help. You know, he's gonna be coached
Speaker 1: up well. We've got some great defensive back coaches. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's playing in a great scheme. You know when I
Speaker 1: look at him, you know, size wise, he's like a
Speaker 1: bigger version of Richard Sherman, and you think about him.
Speaker 1: Sherman was on social media the other day praise and
Speaker 1: he said, this is a perfect spot. It's a great
Speaker 1: spot for him because he can play. Yeah, he can
Speaker 1: play press coverage, you can play man to man, but
Speaker 1: he excels playing off the ball as well playing zone.
Speaker 1: He has great instincts, he has a terrific footwork, He's long.
Speaker 1: You know, he's gonna cause a lot of problems for
Speaker 1: office to let me put you on the spot, man,
Speaker 1: what position group do you think God is most improved
Speaker 1: at this point? You can include free agency in the
Speaker 1: mix here since January, I almost well, the biggest improvement
Speaker 1: I would say tight ends when you talk about the
Speaker 1: guys that you did C j uz Almo, Tyler Conklin.
Speaker 1: Both of those guys could start for in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. They're both on the Jets. Then you had
Speaker 1: a guy like Jeremy Ruckard. I know we kind of
Speaker 1: talked about this yesterday e A. He's one of those guys,
Speaker 1: Jeremy RUCKERD where if he steps in you can learn
Speaker 1: from a guy like c j Usama, Tyler Conklin, you
Speaker 1: stick your face in the fan. He's known as a
Speaker 1: run blocker. And the other position that I think is
Speaker 1: right where we stuck before was cornerback. Right now, it's
Speaker 1: crazy to me, I almost really can't wrap my mind
Speaker 1: around at that. Bryce Hall and Brandon Echols, who both
Speaker 1: started last year, are now in the room that have
Speaker 1: Sauce Gardner d J Reid, And now you're talking about
Speaker 1: potentially there's a situation depending on how training camp shakes out,
Speaker 1: where Bryce Hall and Brandon eccles wouldn't start in a
Speaker 1: base defense. Look for your team and all those guys
Speaker 1: that were rookies last year and second year players like
Speaker 1: Hall and Eccles. I know Joe Douglas talked about this earlier.
Speaker 1: They all got so much playing time that if their
Speaker 1: number were called at any point in the season, that
Speaker 1: you're not just being thrown into the fire and you
Speaker 1: don't know what you're gonna get. I feel like the
Speaker 1: Jets know what they're gonna get, and those players should
Speaker 1: continue to develop. I think those two positions really stand
Speaker 1: out to me. All right, before we look at a
Speaker 1: complete big picture, I think we gotta put a period
Speaker 1: of a couple of things, the trades of Jamal Adams
Speaker 1: and Sam Darnald. First off, the Jets have now used
Speaker 1: all the pics that acquired. It's a team Jamal Adams
Speaker 1: UM in the Jamal Adams steel. I should say they
Speaker 1: traded up to get Elijah Barra Tucker last year UM,
Speaker 1: and then the obviously acquired Garrett Wilson with a number
Speaker 1: ten overall selection this year. So essentially that part of
Speaker 1: the deal. I know that we're other things coming coming
Speaker 1: and going there as far as the package is concerned,
Speaker 1: but essentially you're talking Jamal Adams for Elijah, Barrett Tucker,
Speaker 1: and Garret Wilson. Yeah, Elijah tuckers like he's gonna be
Speaker 1: here forever, Like he's that good. So that that's a
Speaker 1: that's a stud move right there. And you know, Garrett
Speaker 1: Wilson's kind of rubbing on me a little bit. I
Speaker 1: like his demeanor, I like his the way he speaks,
Speaker 1: I love his game. Um, you know he comes from
Speaker 1: you know, Brian Hartline, who played a long time receiver
Speaker 1: in the NFL, was his coach. And uh, he's developing
Speaker 1: good people, you know, extraordinary players, but good people. And
Speaker 1: I think that speaks volumes to to what they're getting.
Speaker 1: So um, you know, look, all due respect to Jamal Adams,
Speaker 1: you know he had some good years here, but clearly
Speaker 1: you know he's probably on the top of the mount
Speaker 1: kind of rolling down, whereas you're getting to rising one,
Speaker 1: rising star for sure because we've seen him playing. This kid,
Speaker 1: I mean with those numbers, Uh, he's gonna get his
Speaker 1: chance now to be great. Yeah, Jamal is still a
Speaker 1: very good player in the National Football League, and when
Speaker 1: he's gonna be healthy, he's gonna get after that quarterback.
Speaker 1: He's gonna sell in the box. We know what he
Speaker 1: can do, but in Jordan white hands gonna bring that now, people,
Speaker 1: I'm serious. Now, I'm telling you, if he just matches
Speaker 1: what he did with the Bucks, I saw every snap
Speaker 1: we were talking said, uh oh boy, he's gonna be
Speaker 1: in a reference and you're like the guy all over
Speaker 1: the field maybe a white had. I felt like, I
Speaker 1: hope he's not watching it. I thought we got we
Speaker 1: got him on the cheap. In my opinion, we got
Speaker 1: a good deal for him. And I'm telling you, I
Speaker 1: do a lot of spots and down in Tampa talking
Speaker 1: about them, and I talked about him every Monday morning
Speaker 1: because he shows up. Kid guy shows up and that's
Speaker 1: a pretty good defense. Todd bowls at down there. So
Speaker 1: you know he's gonna come here man, like he's gonna earn.
Speaker 1: He's gonna demand some early respect. Like we're gonna hear
Speaker 1: Robert Salad and some of these guys tell him like dude,
Speaker 1: this George Whitehead. He's a dude, and you're gonna be
Speaker 1: excited about him, and he should show up. I mean,
Speaker 1: I'm telling you, if he's just the same dude, the
Speaker 1: same guy, it's gonna be more than the expectation of
Speaker 1: what he should be. I'm gonna go check to see
Speaker 1: what Seattle used with their fourth round pick they got
Speaker 1: from the Jets. That's going to complete the deal. But
Speaker 1: also Sam Donald. Now, if you look at it and
Speaker 1: look at the draft picks acquired, the Jets got Jonathan
Speaker 1: Marshall late last year, they get Max Mitchell here on
Speaker 1: Day three of the draft, and then of course move
Speaker 1: up there in the second in order to get Breese Hall.
Speaker 1: So if you're looking at it, you can say Sam
Speaker 1: Donald for three players. Yeah, I mean Sam Donald was
Speaker 1: a guy who um never really turned the corner for
Speaker 1: the Jets. And I think that if you're trying to
Speaker 1: move forward as the organization, you bring in, you know,
Speaker 1: a new head coach, a new offensive coordinator, it's time
Speaker 1: to move on. You know, you bring Zack Wilson in,
Speaker 1: your gonna move on for the quarterback to get as
Speaker 1: much as you can. And I like the value that
Speaker 1: they got for Sam. You know, I think Sam was
Speaker 1: a great guy, great teammate, but he didn't fit and
Speaker 1: you have to have the players in that fit the scheme.
Speaker 1: And by drafting these young guys you're able to develop
Speaker 1: them and turn them into those players that you that
Speaker 1: you need to to play in this this team. Uh, Greens,
Speaker 1: I think you talked to Joe Douglas. Maybe it was
Speaker 1: last night after the first night of the draft, or
Speaker 1: what have you've been most impressed with so far here,
Speaker 1: either over the past eighteen months or during this offseason specifically. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think it kind of goes hand in hand with
Speaker 1: what you were both or what you all three you
Speaker 1: were talking about. The one thing that I want to
Speaker 1: say before I answered the question is I think that
Speaker 1: a lot of credit should go to Joe Douglas because
Speaker 1: I don't think it was necessarily a unanimously popular pick
Speaker 1: amongst Jets fans to deal those two guys in Jamal
Speaker 1: Adam and Sam Donald. He did, and you just laid
Speaker 1: it out. It feels like you've got great return for
Speaker 1: both of those players. Especially it's kind of what Anthony
Speaker 1: said before, like you take a look at what they've
Speaker 1: done across the league rather recently, and they've had their moments,
Speaker 1: and Jamal Adams was hurt last year and so was Sam.
Speaker 1: But you know, if you told Jets fans that you
Speaker 1: traded Jamal Adams for the Hall that you got and
Speaker 1: Sam Donald. I think that fans would be on board
Speaker 1: with it, but obviously you don't know what you're gonna
Speaker 1: get in those players when you deal those guys. What
Speaker 1: I've been most impressed with is just how Joe Douglass
Speaker 1: navigates the draft and how he's really overhauled the roster
Speaker 1: pretty quickly. I mean, his first draft, he didn't have
Speaker 1: the scouting process or he was hired in two thousand
Speaker 1: nineteen into two thousand twenty, so he Here's where I
Speaker 1: come back. Toy was more of a trade back here,
Speaker 1: and you're like, oh, is this gonna be Joe Douglass
Speaker 1: mL Well one comes around, goes up nine spots. He's like,
Speaker 1: this is our guy, Elijah Bett. Tucker gives up two
Speaker 1: third round picks. He kind of lets the draft board
Speaker 1: come to him. Same thing this year. He goes up
Speaker 1: and he gets his guy, Jermaine Johnson. He goes up
Speaker 1: and gets Breece Hall, and I think, really what I've
Speaker 1: been most impressed with is the way that he's overhauled
Speaker 1: the roster pretty dramatically, pretty quickly as well, specifically in
Speaker 1: the last twelve months. And I just think that Joe
Speaker 1: Douglas is a guy where he won't get fleeced, and
Speaker 1: he also will go up and make sacrifices with draft
Speaker 1: capital to get the guy that he feels is best
Speaker 1: suited for the football team. And we've seen that. So
Speaker 1: I should say as part of that, Jamal Adam steel
Speaker 1: Hawks use the Jets fourth round pick in order to
Speaker 1: take former Sauce Gardner teammate at Cincinnati, that of course
Speaker 1: is Kobe Bryant. But those deals have set the Jets
Speaker 1: up for what they're going to become here in the future,
Speaker 1: because listen, the Jets said that they were gonna be
Speaker 1: comfortable with Sam Donald. They just thought this was a
Speaker 1: very unique opportunity to get Zach Wilson. Speaking of that,
Speaker 1: look at the quarterbacks this year. Every year we talked
Speaker 1: about the draft and we start with the quarterbacks. Well
Speaker 1: that wasn't the case this year. Kenny Pickett was the
Speaker 1: only quarterback to be taken in the first round. He
Speaker 1: goes to the home town Pittsburgh Steelers. Is actually a
Speaker 1: New Jersey native. Malik Willis who people have been talking
Speaker 1: about four months. Maybe he's a top fifteen selection. He
Speaker 1: falls all the way to the third round, Matt Correll
Speaker 1: goes late, What did you think about what you saw
Speaker 1: from the quarterbacks? No surprise there, No, that's kind of
Speaker 1: what I expected, you know, and the media and all
Speaker 1: the pundits kind of we're pushing me and jabbing me
Speaker 1: to think otherwise. You know, everybody's like, oh, no, you're
Speaker 1: gonna get four guys in the first round. I mean,
Speaker 1: this is that you know, Seattle, Atlanta, all these teams,
Speaker 1: and I'm just like, man, you know, like it's okay
Speaker 1: that we don't have a top tier quarterback. And quite frankly,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of good quarterbacks in the league right now.
Speaker 1: Unfortunately that some of the better ones are young. You know,
Speaker 1: you still got the old heads that are across the
Speaker 1: league doing their thing. But you know, you're talking about
Speaker 1: now where you're getting some quality picks that are coming
Speaker 1: up to the league and making plays and like they're
Speaker 1: gonna be there for a long time. So it is
Speaker 1: hard to jump in and just say, hey, you gotta
Speaker 1: take this guy. He's gonna start like look at you know,
Speaker 1: pick it as he guaranteed to be the start of
Speaker 1: this year. I don't even know. I mean, Mason Rudolphe
Speaker 1: he'll make it hard and whatever else and Mr Bisky,
Speaker 1: I mean, you know that's like, you know, what's the
Speaker 1: most ironic thing about the whole Sam Donald fit is
Speaker 1: that Carolina Panthers just took Yeah, and a lot of
Speaker 1: people thought he was going to be a first round pick.
Speaker 1: You know, he had a phenomenal season. I think you know,
Speaker 1: that kind of sends a message to Sam as to
Speaker 1: what they want to do. Matt rules under fire right now.
Speaker 1: And I think that pick of Matt Correll is going
Speaker 1: to uh push dam hopefully to be the best player
Speaker 1: he could be. It's it's such an advantage you walk
Speaker 1: into a draft him and a quarterback in place like
Speaker 1: this year. You know, Matt rule to how it's different.
Speaker 1: He's got final sale roster here. We have a partnership
Speaker 1: with Robert Sala and Joe Douglas, and Joe's got a
Speaker 1: great staff, you know, Rex Hogan, Chat, Alexander Phil Savage.
Speaker 1: Seasoned dudes have been around some good organizations. You need
Speaker 1: that you start coming in and making all this money
Speaker 1: as a coach, and you say, well, I gotta have
Speaker 1: final say on the roster. We'll look at them, you know, honestly,
Speaker 1: and I like Matt, but you know, it's not college anymore.
Speaker 1: It's a different deal. And you know Matt, I saw
Speaker 1: Matt Combine looks a little older, a little grayer in
Speaker 1: the hair. I mean, just a couple of years. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's so it's it's not it's not easy deal. That's
Speaker 1: why you get the right people in the building. And
Speaker 1: and that's what you see. And this is a perfect
Speaker 1: example of a draft where everybody's on the same page. Man,
Speaker 1: everybody's excited. And and you got those guys in the
Speaker 1: organization that that have been through the Rigors Area. Scouts
Speaker 1: work a big time organizations and received the knowledge to
Speaker 1: make trades like Joe Douglas did, to move up to
Speaker 1: move down, you know, not to get fleece like Ethan
Speaker 1: talked about. You know you're I mean, we could probably
Speaker 1: read the tweets the day that he traded Sam and
Speaker 1: the day that he traded Jamal, and we could probably
Speaker 1: see a lot of hate from like you were saying,
Speaker 1: I love to read something, and now now you know,
Speaker 1: you're probably like, oh, hell, let's read them because it's
Speaker 1: it works out in your favorite I love the Jamal trade.
Speaker 1: And we're putting us all to bed because it's rightfully
Speaker 1: so we're putting a period done in the sentence because
Speaker 1: now you're seeing what those draft picks have actually become.
Speaker 1: They are names, they are people, They're not just picks anymore.
Speaker 1: The Jamal trade, I thought took courage because a lot
Speaker 1: of people, there's some old school football folks, he was
Speaker 1: a foundational player who would also say who would say
Speaker 1: that you never trade the best players. He was He
Speaker 1: was supposed to be a foundational player and he was
Speaker 1: the best player on your team at that point. And
Speaker 1: look what you've done. You've opened the door to a
Speaker 1: lot of greatness with other kids, you know, other players
Speaker 1: that can come in, top tier players, you know, and
Speaker 1: guys who want to be here. That's not that's the
Speaker 1: other part of this. Guys want to be a Jet.
Speaker 1: And I think the narrative around this organization is changing. Ethan,
Speaker 1: what was your favorite image of the draft as far
Speaker 1: as from a Jets perspective? Any of these balls, uh,
Speaker 1: you know are set apart for you? Or how do
Speaker 1: you rankle the images like in terms of just pure
Speaker 1: stand like still photos or video or anything that you've
Speaker 1: seen at the building here over draft weekend. Well, first,
Speaker 1: I think it's pretty pretty jarring when you see the
Speaker 1: fourth overall pick, the tenth overall pick, and the twenty
Speaker 1: six overall pick all holding up the jerseys in the
Speaker 1: field house here at the Atlantic Health Jest Training Center.
Speaker 1: I mean that that's a pretty cool image. And you
Speaker 1: know that could be a photo where you look back
Speaker 1: in time and you really think like that was the
Speaker 1: catalyst to changing the narrative around the New York Jets
Speaker 1: depending on what unfolds here. The other thing that I love,
Speaker 1: I'm a real sucker for these there's these videos where
Speaker 1: like Sauce Gardner and Garrett Wilson and Jamaine Johnson in particular,
Speaker 1: they're watching videos of their loved ones recording messages to
Speaker 1: them that they're then watching and you get the raw motion.
Speaker 1: And for Sauce Gardner it was his coach at Cincinnati,
Speaker 1: wasn't a family member. But I've really he liked those videos.
Speaker 1: And to see Garrett Wilson get emotional, Jermaine Johnson and
Speaker 1: Sauce Gardner, to see all those guys kind of react
Speaker 1: naturally not knowing what they were about to hear, I think,
Speaker 1: to me, that's one of the coolest images. The other
Speaker 1: thing is I love seeing. Um, I'm real sucker for
Speaker 1: the phone calls, like when Joe and Rex and Coach
Speaker 1: Salah and all the guys called. The players love that.
Speaker 1: I'm all about that And there's a relatability there with
Speaker 1: these guys. Well, yeah, when Joe is getting on the
Speaker 1: call and he's saying we're on the offan clock and
Speaker 1: he's hugging people and him and Salo embracing each other.
Speaker 1: The true emotion of that that appeals to this fan
Speaker 1: base because he taught Anthony was talking about it before
Speaker 1: these guys are together with everything where he talked about
Speaker 1: the he talked about the work that he put in
Speaker 1: picking up the phone and Pick four team and trying
Speaker 1: to find a partner to get you know, Jeremaine Johnson.
Speaker 1: As picks are going and everybody's saying, no, how is
Speaker 1: it gonna work out for us? How do we get
Speaker 1: it done? And finally you get somebody to make that
Speaker 1: that play for you, and then you know there is uh,
Speaker 1: you know, your your heart's beat. I mean that you
Speaker 1: know when you're doing your job in particular field and
Speaker 1: whatever it is, and you and you do something like
Speaker 1: that that's exciting another you know to go back to
Speaker 1: what you have to eat. Another funny moment that I
Speaker 1: thought was kind of remembering was how about our boy
Speaker 1: Breecee Hall big Time. He's over at Circle Hotel. It's
Speaker 1: got his own little private suite and they send the
Speaker 1: limo or whatever suv pick him up at the hotel.
Speaker 1: Say hey, man, come over here. Man when lets you
Speaker 1: went out down the stage and and do your things?
Speaker 1: I mean, you know that's big time right there. You
Speaker 1: get that. I'm watching it on the feet, you know,
Speaker 1: like where is it? And if people are like he's
Speaker 1: in Vegas, I'm like, he's a Vegas. Don't get him? Yeah,
Speaker 1: pick him up first class. But uh, a lot of
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Speaker 1: er seven one one seven the close here. What Sala
Speaker 1: said it that end of the year or something that's
Speaker 1: struck with me. We have to close the gap. And
Speaker 1: he's talking about inside the FCS the Buffalo Bills, two
Speaker 1: time defending champions. I'm not saying, hey, are the Jets
Speaker 1: ready for the Bills, But where do you think they
Speaker 1: kind of stand inside the division right now when you're
Speaker 1: just looking at the landscape and how the other teams
Speaker 1: have gone about addressing their needs and making changes, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean we have to wait and see. I mean
Speaker 1: the Bills are doing it right now. I mean, you know,
Speaker 1: they're just adding pieces to add on to what they're
Speaker 1: already doing wing right So doing it and wanting to
Speaker 1: do it and be in the position to close the
Speaker 1: gap is all it is right now. So when this
Speaker 1: team hits to feel week one, we're gonna find out,
Speaker 1: like you know, what is all this equal and I
Speaker 1: think that's a lot of teams in the league trying
Speaker 1: to figure out and put together draft capital, free agents
Speaker 1: and all this stuff so that they can propel themselves
Speaker 1: and be in the mix in their in their division. So, um,
Speaker 1: you know, now, does do the Bills have a lot
Speaker 1: more to worry about with the Jets? Absolutely, there's no doubt.
Speaker 1: Yet you have to you have to account for these
Speaker 1: moves the free agent signs called bash them coming uh lawson,
Speaker 1: excuse me coming back. So all these guys, I mean,
Speaker 1: that's part of the process now where it's like, oh man,
Speaker 1: this is not going to be the same old team
Speaker 1: that's coming in. That's just the same. So I's think
Speaker 1: things are turning and and I love it. It's youth,
Speaker 1: it's uh, it's guys that aren't over priced, overvalued, and
Speaker 1: they're making the right moves, and you expect the product
Speaker 1: to be better come this season. Something that Anthony told
Speaker 1: me earlier this offseason, I think, and it's resonated, was Hey,
Speaker 1: don't get caught up in the rest of the NFC.
Speaker 1: You you gotta conquer your division. You got you gotta
Speaker 1: start making in rolls inside. Yeah, I mean you play.
Speaker 1: You know, you play each other so many times twice
Speaker 1: a year. You have to dominate your your own division,
Speaker 1: play well at home and kind of set yourself up
Speaker 1: from there. And you know that the great advantage that
Speaker 1: the Jets have right now in the a f C
Speaker 1: East is everyone right now is like, oh, the Jets
Speaker 1: are the bottom team right now. And you look at
Speaker 1: the teams like the Bills, they got the target on
Speaker 1: their back. You know, everybody wants to get after the Bills.
Speaker 1: Everybody wants to get after the Patriots. So you know,
Speaker 1: you look at the Jets, they continue to gear up,
Speaker 1: gear up, and just kind of work in silence and
Speaker 1: continue to grow that bond, in that chemistry and that
Speaker 1: and just grow that mentality. They're gonna start sneaking up
Speaker 1: on teams and they're not gonna be uh, They're not
Speaker 1: gonna be in the back for very long. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be the Jets are going to be the team to
Speaker 1: beat pretty soon, especially if you start adding in these
Speaker 1: great players, these high character players, and you added in
Speaker 1: the chemistry and the expectation from the coaches and just
Speaker 1: that energy. I just love it. That's why I love
Speaker 1: the off season. That's what the off season is about
Speaker 1: getting in here, working hard together, sweating together, going through it,
Speaker 1: gaining that chemistry, and then you go out there and
Speaker 1: you fight for one another because you know, that's my brother,
Speaker 1: He's got my back. That's what it's about. Ethan. What's
Speaker 1: the feel out there around the league and from the
Speaker 1: media's first what the Jets did here this weekend? I
Speaker 1: think kind of what Anthony said, I feel like everyone
Speaker 1: likes what the Jets have done in this draft and
Speaker 1: really the off season. And you know, maybe there was
Speaker 1: no maybe in free agency there wasn't like a big swing, right,
Speaker 1: but what the Jets did getting Lake and Tomlinson, solidifying
Speaker 1: the offensive line, same thing with the cornerbacks room, and
Speaker 1: you couple that with what happened in the draft, I
Speaker 1: think when you kind of look at it from a
Speaker 1: wide angle, lens year this year is about playmakers and
Speaker 1: protection and just to give like a glimpse of what
Speaker 1: the Bears did, Like, the Bears don't really take an
Speaker 1: offensive player. I think until VELAs Jones out of tennessee
Speaker 1: the wide receiver. Well, the Jets are doing the opposite.
Speaker 1: They both have second year quarterbacks and the Bears have
Speaker 1: their plan. But Joe Douglas with what's in place already,
Speaker 1: and you know what, let's get a receiver, Let's get
Speaker 1: a running back and Breece Hall. We we drafted or
Speaker 1: signed lake In Tomlinson for the offensive line. So this
Speaker 1: team I think has a blueprint of being a much
Speaker 1: better team on paper. Now let's see what happens when
Speaker 1: the pads come on. But to what Anthony and e.
Speaker 1: C We're saying before, maybe the Jets were sneaking up
Speaker 1: on teams and you know, the Bills have a target
Speaker 1: on their back. Not saying the Jets are gonna go
Speaker 1: beat the Bills today or tomorrow, but I think in
Speaker 1: two thousand twenty two, I think that the Jets could
Speaker 1: take a significant step forward to see where Buffalo and
Speaker 1: New England Miami. Miami's put some pieces around to really
Speaker 1: gonna get a good read on what he is and
Speaker 1: what he's not. When he added Tyreek Hill in an
Speaker 1: equation they got played. Make's there a very bright coach,
Speaker 1: but he's installing a new system. New England's and made
Speaker 1: a the playoffs last season. They had a fascinating draft.
Speaker 1: And we're not going to get into but uh kind
Speaker 1: of patriot like if he asked me. Uh, final thoughts here,
Speaker 1: I'm excited. I'm excited to get this thing going and
Speaker 1: seeing these guys really play and it's not developed, it's
Speaker 1: just really get into the system and go. Um. I'm
Speaker 1: excited for for coach the floor and his system and
Speaker 1: what he's gonna be able to do offensively week to week.
Speaker 1: As exciting as it is as a challenge, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of guys now that you know, you got to
Speaker 1: try to feature and and and get Zack on the
Speaker 1: level and and uh and make and and make it
Speaker 1: so that he can play better. Uh. You know, and
Speaker 1: I'm interested to see the jump Zach makes, you know,
Speaker 1: from a leadership standpoint, from a from a mentally a
Speaker 1: mental standpoint. You know, physically he's gifted. I think that's
Speaker 1: why he is where he is. But everything else that
Speaker 1: culminates being a great quarterback. You know, all those things
Speaker 1: and that's for all the guys. But you know, when
Speaker 1: you play quarterback that that has to raise. And again
Speaker 1: we've seen significant jumps across the NFL with a lot
Speaker 1: of quarterbacks, so you know, there's no real The offensive
Speaker 1: line is much better. I think it's a top ten
Speaker 1: offensive line and that's just way the way it is.
Speaker 1: They're gonna run the ball better, They're gonna have a
Speaker 1: better line, the passing games who improve, you know, and
Speaker 1: and I'll get Corey Davis too. I mean, he's a
Speaker 1: guy that was brought here to be a significant part
Speaker 1: of this offense. He has to have a big year
Speaker 1: as well. So all of those things that that mold competition,
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be fun. So these someone they're gonna
Speaker 1: somebody's gonna rise up to the top. Hopefully it's more
Speaker 1: than just one or two pieces. A lot more guys
Speaker 1: raise up and they start seeing every single day like,
Speaker 1: you know what, we got shot and that's gonna be
Speaker 1: the biggest thing. The great thing is they've set it
Speaker 1: off where Wilson doesn't have to carry this team. Anthony
Speaker 1: was just talking about it. We've been talking about it
Speaker 1: ad nauseum throughout the weekend. The line should be good.
Speaker 1: You have a lot of depth at the running back position.
Speaker 1: You just add a dynamic playmaker. Their priests hall you
Speaker 1: like your receivers. That was before getting Garrett Wilson. Wilson
Speaker 1: is that dynamic playmaker. You've got so much better at
Speaker 1: the tight position. So it's set up now for Wilson
Speaker 1: to have success and to actually make that lea and
Speaker 1: he's got a great defense, you know. On the other side,
Speaker 1: that's what I'm excited about Jeff Obrick and the in
Speaker 1: the pieces that he added to this defense. You look
Speaker 1: in the secondary. You know, last year it was a
Speaker 1: lot of youth, a lot of young guys who didn't
Speaker 1: have experience. Now you had DJ Read. You know, you
Speaker 1: get Sauce Gardner, you add white Head, you know there's there.
Speaker 1: You get a Joiner coming back from injury. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of help in that secondary. Then you
Speaker 1: add all the pass fresher, Jamin Johnson, Carl Lawson coming
Speaker 1: back from injury. I'm excited about what this team is
Speaker 1: going to do. They're gonna force a lot more turnovers.
Speaker 1: That's gonna put Zack Wilson in a great position. They're
Speaker 1: gonna win the field position battle. And then that's really
Speaker 1: what it's all about. Ethan. With this, I mean the
Speaker 1: fan base. I've been here for few years. They I
Speaker 1: haven't seen them reached this kind of pitch in a
Speaker 1: long time. I think the excitement is building. I think
Speaker 1: that the environment and not life stadium is going to
Speaker 1: be different. I definitely agree with that, and you know,
Speaker 1: I'm really excited to see what the home opener is,
Speaker 1: whatever that is, and I know the schedule is gonna
Speaker 1: be released in a couple of weeks. But to your point,
Speaker 1: it feels like, you know, the draft is always interesting
Speaker 1: from the fan perspective in terms of reaction, and I
Speaker 1: feel like by far and away, the reaction has all
Speaker 1: been positive. And Anthony kind of talked about it too yesterday.
Speaker 1: He's like, well, so far in the draft, like fans
Speaker 1: really know who each of the players are that the
Speaker 1: Jets drafted just by name. So to me, I think
Speaker 1: that probably speaks to the reaction of the fans. And
Speaker 1: I think that if you're a Jets fan, you have
Speaker 1: reason to be excited even before the draft took place,
Speaker 1: with the additions in free agency and the return of
Speaker 1: guys like Corey Davis, like Carl Lawson, like McKay Beckton.
Speaker 1: Then you couple all that together. I mean, we'll see
Speaker 1: what happens, but there's no reason to not be excited
Speaker 1: right now if you're a fan of the New York
Speaker 1: These guys are excited because I think Coleman's going back
Speaker 1: to Florida. This guy's got a dinner tonight. What are
Speaker 1: your plans? Uh? My plans are probably to sit on
Speaker 1: my couch, you know, to sit on my cows, maybe
Speaker 1: bossing TV. Probably order food because you know, I feel like,
Speaker 1: you know, I could, I could go at night without cooking,
Speaker 1: just you know, enjoy some time on the couch and
Speaker 1: then I get a good night's sleep and probably start
Speaker 1: to think about, um, what numbers these guys are gonna Yeah,
Speaker 1: there you go, that's time for another podcast. Two thousand
Speaker 1: twenty two New York Jets Draft is come and gone.
Speaker 1: You got a chance to be an historic one the
Speaker 1: first time three first round picks since two thousand and one.
Speaker 1: One of one of our buddies up here, Anthony Back,
Speaker 1: was part of the four aces. But this is the
Speaker 1: draft in its entirety for the Jets of mod Sauce
Speaker 1: Gardner in the first round, Garrett Wilson in the first round,
Speaker 1: Jermaine Johnson and first round, Breece Hall in round two.
Speaker 1: And then where do we go from there? Either h yep,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Rutckard out of Ohio state and then he finally
Speaker 1: finished up with two fourth round picks. There's uh graphic
Speaker 1: Max Mitchell and Michael Clements. Uh, we will see you soon.
Speaker 1: The fellows are getting out of here, and so Ma