Speaker 1: Welcome to Official Jets Podcast. Eric Allen here in studio
Speaker 1: with Jets linebacker Quincy Williams. So we're joined by Bart
Speaker 1: Scott is always Quincy. You guys didn't get the results
Speaker 1: you wanted against the Baltimore Ravens, But what kind of
Speaker 1: positives can you take out of that matchup heading into
Speaker 1: week two? On the positives we can take out of
Speaker 1: it is then what we wanted to showcase. On defense,
Speaker 1: I can talk defense. I'm a defensive player, so I'm
Speaker 1: start with dead. So the biggest thing is run game
Speaker 1: and just the violence of our defense. UM, we rebuild it. UM.
Speaker 1: A lot of the players that we have now UM
Speaker 1: went back to based fundamentals and stuff, and we wanted
Speaker 1: to stop to run this game. And I think they
Speaker 1: end up having was six or three yards running and
Speaker 1: for a team that's top five the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: that's a good thing. And there was an accomplishment that
Speaker 1: we wanted to accomplish. So that's really it. And you
Speaker 1: know the game plan with the containing Lamar Jackson. I
Speaker 1: saw you guys at four guys on the second level
Speaker 1: to make sure that the defense they get flanked. You know,
Speaker 1: you can take your minutes. Probably last year, you guys
Speaker 1: gave up a hunter yard Russia almost in every game.
Speaker 1: Now we know kind of fast forward and you know,
Speaker 1: you guys went in, you watched the film and maybe
Speaker 1: some details on technique. How difficult was it to kind
Speaker 1: of have that non verbal communication being that you know
Speaker 1: now in today's game, you know, starters don't really collectively
Speaker 1: play in the preseason. So how much of that is
Speaker 1: just rust and kind of not being in sync with
Speaker 1: the guys next to you, and how much of that
Speaker 1: was what they did? Um? A lot of them is
Speaker 1: just us being ourself. Um. The biggest thing I coach
Speaker 1: told us with a lot of games are lost and
Speaker 1: I want so just cutting down on the mentors. We
Speaker 1: had three explosive I think they all let the points.
Speaker 1: We actually had four explosives, but we call one of
Speaker 1: the penalties are explosive. So the biggest thing is cutting
Speaker 1: down now are explosive and really just playing a sound
Speaker 1: defense and not beating ourselves. If you guys are consistent
Speaker 1: against the run this year, what is the potential for
Speaker 1: the defense potentials? Um, there is no seiling to it,
Speaker 1: disguise limits for us. That's the biggest thing. But like
Speaker 1: my mind set was, my mind set has been this
Speaker 1: whole year offseason, all that stopping the run on the
Speaker 1: back end and handed the back end. We got um good,
Speaker 1: nice piece of new pieces on the in the back end,
Speaker 1: so I'm very excited about that. But my focus in
Speaker 1: the front, the linebackers, our focus was to stop the run. Now,
Speaker 1: Robert Salom made some comments saying that, hey, we need
Speaker 1: some young guys to kind of mature and grow up
Speaker 1: and have a sense of urgency. You know, the good
Speaker 1: thing about what you guys did in free agency, but
Speaker 1: also what you guys did in the draft. If you
Speaker 1: guys have tremendous depth, and I think that was really
Speaker 1: apparent the fact when you look at you know, you
Speaker 1: guys able to roll in Sheldon rankings and you can
Speaker 1: bring in Franklin Myers, and you can bring getting Clemens
Speaker 1: and Jacob and you know, you guys can continue on
Speaker 1: the on the on the on that I know, the
Speaker 1: defensive minds kind of just breaking fresh bodies. You on
Speaker 1: the second level, you guys really don't don't interchange that much.
Speaker 1: But you know, when you think about you know, you
Speaker 1: guys are young, and how are you guys gonna try
Speaker 1: and kind of bridge the gap to kind of maybe
Speaker 1: mature and understand the game and become veterans in short order. Um,
Speaker 1: when you talk about, you know, being able to be
Speaker 1: a unit that's veteran even though you guys are still y'all.
Speaker 1: The biggest thing is keeping the game simple. So that's
Speaker 1: how we said, So the older guys that we do
Speaker 1: having the room, the vending guys that we do having
Speaker 1: the room, just telling the younger guys like, hey, um,
Speaker 1: the draft happened. You had um preseason, so like now
Speaker 1: we're trying to grow up like you're doing. You play
Speaker 1: in the same position that vendors are playing. Like you
Speaker 1: came to take someone's job. You took the job. You
Speaker 1: know what you're gonna do with it. So that's the
Speaker 1: biggest thing. So, um, just finding those older guys to
Speaker 1: learn how I think we had a conversation today with
Speaker 1: a couple of guys just what's our routine on going forward,
Speaker 1: So like, just find them a routine, find you a
Speaker 1: massage routine, find you some treatment routine. Then also get
Speaker 1: your mental ready for the next week. I don't we
Speaker 1: went through the corrections today. A lot of guys like, yeah,
Speaker 1: I gotta do this. I gotta do this is better.
Speaker 1: And I was like, yeah, so take that and move
Speaker 1: forward with it and not just look past him like
Speaker 1: well I did this last game. Well I did this
Speaker 1: last game. Actually, we had one of our younger guys
Speaker 1: got his first set, um Jermaine Johnson Germain. Yeah, so
Speaker 1: actually told him. I was just like, yeah, you got
Speaker 1: your sack this game. What you did last game really
Speaker 1: doesn't matter. It is Monday. We're gonna talk about it now.
Speaker 1: Come Tuesday, get your all day, come Wednesday's about the Browns.
Speaker 1: A lot of times in the National Football League, teams
Speaker 1: are gonna try to spread you guys out, so you're
Speaker 1: forced to play sub packages. With that being set, how
Speaker 1: much do you enjoy playing in that base looks because
Speaker 1: it's you, it's c J, and it's k Alexander's that's
Speaker 1: our Viellain type look all that. So that's what we
Speaker 1: want kind of want to stay in just having it.
Speaker 1: We can play that. We can play any type of
Speaker 1: offense with that right there. Just those guys were running
Speaker 1: sideline the sideline, like we got our captain in our
Speaker 1: general in the in the middle, and we got our
Speaker 1: runners on the outside. So that's the biggest thing running
Speaker 1: sidel one the sideline, and our biggest thing is having
Speaker 1: all three linebackers at the ball, no matter where it is.
Speaker 1: So when they stopped the camera, like all right, three
Speaker 1: linebackers at the party. So really it's like, are we
Speaker 1: handled this up here? Our dbs haunded this and we're
Speaker 1: trusting that our d line gonna handle what they gotta handle.
Speaker 1: I don't know if you guys were in cover three,
Speaker 1: but it looked like white Head had a quick trigger.
Speaker 1: He was coming downhill. Yo. Just talk about his his
Speaker 1: championship pedigree and also like his his impact on the
Speaker 1: run game yesterday because it was a parent that you know,
Speaker 1: he he is like a runner as well, and he
Speaker 1: has to the temperament in the physicality that you guys
Speaker 1: preach on the second level. Oh, it's really like having
Speaker 1: the fourth linebacker and really so sideline and our line
Speaker 1: type mentality. And he's a thumper also, so it's like
Speaker 1: having that fourth linebacker. So now it's kind of like
Speaker 1: being a little stingy with the taller We gotta hurt
Speaker 1: you up and get there and get them down for
Speaker 1: it be a point five. So uh, we joke about
Speaker 1: it a lot, though, But like I said, biggies thing
Speaker 1: coming in the camp, coming into every like no one
Speaker 1: would run the bottles. We're gonna make a team one dimensional,
Speaker 1: and the way we do that is stopping to run.
Speaker 1: So they put the pieces together. We put the players together.
Speaker 1: Whether it's Nickel, whether it's Bays, whether it's Dime. You
Speaker 1: ain't running the ball on us. Let's talk about you
Speaker 1: guys there at the linebacker position. What are your superpowers?
Speaker 1: Let's start with mostly, then go kwine and then talk
Speaker 1: about you. Sorry, here we go. So what we what
Speaker 1: we're gonna think about this? All right? C J's our leader.
Speaker 1: It's like a lion. He's the lion. We're gonna say
Speaker 1: the lion. So he's the we like villains. We want
Speaker 1: to be a bad guy. So like me, me, I
Speaker 1: already took the point of the joke because me, I'm
Speaker 1: always laughing, always smiling, I'm always joking around. I'm also
Speaker 1: the youngest, I mean experienced. Why his youngest, So I'm
Speaker 1: taking the joker road. And then we got c J.
Speaker 1: C J is more like the leader of the villains.
Speaker 1: So we're gonna say he like, we're gonna say he
Speaker 1: liked either doom, we're gonna say doom or we're gonna say, um, yeah,
Speaker 1: let's go with that. And then we got Quanquan. Really
Speaker 1: can take a few a few few of the villains,
Speaker 1: but I'm gonna probably go with Venom. So what do
Speaker 1: you think about Kuine wearing a single digit? Like Bart
Speaker 1: was just talking about Jordan's So sometimes I see these
Speaker 1: guys flying around and I'm like, hey, was that Jordan?
Speaker 1: Was that Quan? So I liked the single day he
Speaker 1: wore five when he was in the Saints, So really
Speaker 1: it was kind of well, I didn't really recognize. Actually,
Speaker 1: one of the fans recognized and it was like, um,
Speaker 1: it's like fifty six fifty seven, and it was like,
Speaker 1: why didn't eight? But then it's a crazier story because
Speaker 1: c J had red tips in his hair and I
Speaker 1: was talking about dying my Harry and then Corn came
Speaker 1: and harry hair died, and I was like, all right, now,
Speaker 1: we can't do this now, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: So I was like, all right, we all can't have
Speaker 1: our hair diar red now. So, I mean, but it's
Speaker 1: just like those type things that connection, um everyone like
Speaker 1: we had this thing and I grew when everyone tells
Speaker 1: their why, So he knows why I'm playing football. I
Speaker 1: know why he's playing football. So if I see him
Speaker 1: like getting down or like having a bad day, you know,
Speaker 1: I just remind him of his why. I really like
Speaker 1: and usual that they were like make that person to
Speaker 1: decide whether they want to be like all right, I'm
Speaker 1: doing this because I want to do this, or like
Speaker 1: I ain't really try and do this, but it tells
Speaker 1: a lot about the person though, Like if you're not
Speaker 1: gonna do it for your wife, there's nothing I can
Speaker 1: tell you to do. So the natural follow up here
Speaker 1: of barter is what is your wife? All right? So
Speaker 1: my wife, my wife's most family orientated, y'all. Not the
Speaker 1: three else faith, family, and football. But my biggest thing
Speaker 1: is to be uh actually, which is great because my
Speaker 1: brother actually plays on the team with My younger brother
Speaker 1: actually played on the team with me, and I'm the oldest.
Speaker 1: So my wife is so my brothers so I can
Speaker 1: take the light and my brothers and them can have
Speaker 1: a path to walk, and I like that path, and
Speaker 1: they learn from my mistakes or also capitalize on my
Speaker 1: blessings or what I'm doing. And I felt like my
Speaker 1: brother walked to my footsteps and were like very positive
Speaker 1: about it. Um, we had this conversation all the time.
Speaker 1: So that's really my wife. And then my wife actually
Speaker 1: on the team with me. So my brother he's on
Speaker 1: me the same reason I'm on here. We celebrate together. Um,
Speaker 1: that's really the tackles together and stuff. We've got a
Speaker 1: little celebrations together. So really my wife is actually on
Speaker 1: the field with me and my otherwise my mom. My
Speaker 1: mom passed a breast and so I know every single
Speaker 1: thing I'm doing, every moment I'm making every tackle. That man,
Speaker 1: I know she's up there watching me and she got
Speaker 1: the best view of the game, so she sees everything.
Speaker 1: Now when you when you, I just want to pass
Speaker 1: forward a little bit, right because you talked about the
Speaker 1: success that you guys had as far as stopping the run.
Speaker 1: But the next week's opponent, you know, it's to Cleveland Brown.
Speaker 1: Everybody knows Nick Chub. They understand that, Jacobe bro said
Speaker 1: is a placeholder you know for Deshaun watch when he
Speaker 1: gets back. So they're gonna try and establish the run.
Speaker 1: It's going to be about the physicality. How much pride
Speaker 1: do you take that if you guys are gonna have
Speaker 1: success on defense. It rests on the success of the
Speaker 1: front seven. Oh, we take a lot of prode in it.
Speaker 1: Like that's how number one mine says, like make the
Speaker 1: team one to mention, like, no matter what aim it is,
Speaker 1: no matter what we're going in there, whether we're going
Speaker 1: in base or Nickele, Like I said, the number one
Speaker 1: thing is stopping the run. So that's how mindset going
Speaker 1: in And I don't think it's gonna have a change
Speaker 1: for real. So like the team why he is to
Speaker 1: stop his run? And that definitely gets your attention when
Speaker 1: you're talking about a bronze team that rolled up more
Speaker 1: than two yards on the ground against the Panthers, and
Speaker 1: partes talked about Nick Chubb kaream hunting company. You know
Speaker 1: what they're gonna do. That's one of those. That's one
Speaker 1: of those get your chin strap, yeah, chance strap, maybe
Speaker 1: two mouth pieces, you know, yeah, the top hand bottom, Yeah,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it. You just talked about your mother.
Speaker 1: You just talked about your mom before. Well, one of
Speaker 1: your thoughts on DJ Reid was his first game as
Speaker 1: a Jet. He comes up with an interception and a
Speaker 1: forced fumble and we find out after the game that
Speaker 1: his dad just tragically passed. Yeah, so we actually find
Speaker 1: about it after the game too, man, so it just
Speaker 1: makes it even more special. Like I said, like you
Speaker 1: don't really know what a person is going through really,
Speaker 1: so um, you just have your brother's back. Really, so
Speaker 1: we didn't know that, but we knew that found out
Speaker 1: after the game. But like during the game, you have
Speaker 1: your brother's back. No matter we celebrate together, you never
Speaker 1: know what that person is going through. Like we didn't
Speaker 1: even know anything was going on or anything, like well
Speaker 1: I didn't know myself and be honest, so just really
Speaker 1: like playing next to your brother, like like they their family,
Speaker 1: you feel so um tragedy and all that kind of
Speaker 1: stuff and just being really for your brother and like
Speaker 1: that just shows like all of us our family on
Speaker 1: this team. So that's yeah, that was kind of crazy.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean you talk about you know, people
Speaker 1: think that you know that athletes a lot of times
Speaker 1: are immune to the two things that happened in the world, right,
Speaker 1: you know, because you know, traditionally somebody lose their their father,
Speaker 1: lose a loved one. You know, they take time off
Speaker 1: for work, you don't see them. But in football, you know,
Speaker 1: we're expected to show up and play at any time.
Speaker 1: So you know, what's some of the things that you
Speaker 1: guys are gonna try and do, or what's the conversation
Speaker 1: that you guys are having amongst yourself to rally behind
Speaker 1: him because it may be tough days ahead where he's
Speaker 1: you know, thinking about it, you know the arrangements and
Speaker 1: all those things, but he's gonna have to lean lean
Speaker 1: on his brothers like you kind of speak to kind
Speaker 1: of how you guys are gonna corral them or you
Speaker 1: know what's going on and how you guys support each
Speaker 1: other because it won't be the first of the last
Speaker 1: time if you play long enough that you're gonna have
Speaker 1: to deal with a tragedy on on the team with
Speaker 1: with someone in their loved ones. Um the realist thing
Speaker 1: I can tell y'all, and a lot of fans problem.
Speaker 1: I don't know this, but football is a lot of
Speaker 1: people to escape for real, for real. So like my
Speaker 1: mom pass, it was my escape because I knew for
Speaker 1: a fact you wanted me playing football. And my brother also,
Speaker 1: so he told a certain when he came in today.
Speaker 1: He was like, like, no, I wouldn't want to be
Speaker 1: no where else. But with y'all. Like so with him
Speaker 1: saying that, saying like he wouldn't not saying he wouldn't
Speaker 1: be with his family, but he's choosing to be with us.
Speaker 1: We tell that's like every time I step out on
Speaker 1: the field, like now when we in these meetings, like, man,
Speaker 1: this man right here, he could be with his family
Speaker 1: moren over there, dad, But yeah, he with us trying
Speaker 1: to correct these things and folks, let us focus on
Speaker 1: being a better, better team. So it's like, whatever I
Speaker 1: got going on at the house, I'm gonna put that
Speaker 1: to this. I'm make sure I'm here. If he can
Speaker 1: do that, I can do that too. So that's the
Speaker 1: biggest thing. And then it's more like, you know, just
Speaker 1: let him know that you got him off the field,
Speaker 1: off the field and on the field. So a lot
Speaker 1: of people, a lot of people, especially men with mental
Speaker 1: health and stuff like that. That's a very very huge
Speaker 1: thing and people don't really talk about. So that's one
Speaker 1: thing that people try to do, Like especially me and
Speaker 1: my brother, we always smiled around the locker room, laughing joke,
Speaker 1: because you never know what someone else can what someone
Speaker 1: that's going through, and that person like seeing your smile
Speaker 1: and stuff. Like that brighten a day or just laughing
Speaker 1: and joking and stuff like that, you know, just randomly
Speaker 1: action a person like you know, how things going on
Speaker 1: off the field, Like a lot of people don't really
Speaker 1: ask that though that you at work. They were about
Speaker 1: what's at work, what's going on the field, what players
Speaker 1: you got? You know you just pausing and be like
Speaker 1: grevery thing good off the field because off the field
Speaker 1: can really affect on the field. So but uh, we
Speaker 1: had this quote. We had this quote this year and
Speaker 1: it was like life is what happens. I mean, life
Speaker 1: is tempercent what happens to you. How you respond. So
Speaker 1: really just taking that taking their mindset every day really
Speaker 1: speaking about responding. You know, Breece Hall, you know, was
Speaker 1: expected to have a breakout season. We I know I
Speaker 1: have him as a you know, maybe a rookie of
Speaker 1: the year, offensive rookie of the year. You know, he
Speaker 1: had a pipole, you know, fumble. You know, you've been
Speaker 1: a Vegean. We've all made mistakes, We've all had pivotle
Speaker 1: plays that we wish we could have back. How do
Speaker 1: you go on that side of the ball as a linebacker,
Speaker 1: just as a brother to kind of talk to him,
Speaker 1: you know, you know this week, and how important is
Speaker 1: make sure that his morale and his confidence is still
Speaker 1: sky high. The same way, the same thing we tell
Speaker 1: everyone is like what you did last game, learn from that, Like,
Speaker 1: don't use it as a pillar to step, a pedarsal
Speaker 1: to stand up on the side that I told you
Speaker 1: may be like, hey you made a second lad, you
Speaker 1: made it say last week, see if you can get
Speaker 1: another one this week. All right, you made some mistake
Speaker 1: last week, now going to bride breeze more like you
Speaker 1: made me stay last week. Let's not make those same mistakes.
Speaker 1: Let's learn from those mistakes. What did we have how
Speaker 1: we get to this point of view? Really just in
Speaker 1: the game, you gotta have short term memory, short term
Speaker 1: memory laws to the last play. But like during the week,
Speaker 1: you can every day you got a chance, So like,
Speaker 1: all right, that part was on him familing, But yeah,
Speaker 1: it's on all of us really because like now we're
Speaker 1: telling the practice squad, we're telling the defense. Like I
Speaker 1: started punching at the ball more so he can get
Speaker 1: used to it, because now I feel like I didn't
Speaker 1: have him prepare for it, because when it happened, it
Speaker 1: was more like an old timon. So if I was
Speaker 1: punching more of the ball that practice, like he would
Speaker 1: be more prepared for. So really like not even like
Speaker 1: point fingers are like talking to him, but like talking
Speaker 1: to the whole team. Like him fumbling, that's on all
Speaker 1: of us because we weren't punching at the ball. We
Speaker 1: don't prepare you for that. So really just taking it
Speaker 1: like that now, speaking to that a little bit more
Speaker 1: because running back to linebackers have a unique relationship because
Speaker 1: we're mirrored body types for mirrored positions and you're One
Speaker 1: of the things that you know he has to learn
Speaker 1: is that when you're fighting for extra yards, you have
Speaker 1: to pin the ball to your chest because if you're spinning,
Speaker 1: the ball in your arm naturally comes away from your body.
Speaker 1: So with that being said, you understand that, you know
Speaker 1: that was a tremendous play by Chuck Clark pushing at
Speaker 1: the ball. He did in the right spot, something that
Speaker 1: they practice a lot. But what's some things that you
Speaker 1: can anticipate maybe to help him and help you know,
Speaker 1: both running backs as far as how to it. It's
Speaker 1: like it's weird, right, you don't want to teach them
Speaker 1: how to beat you. Your teammate because you don't want
Speaker 1: him to beat you in practice because you know what
Speaker 1: you're trying to do. But you also have an obligation
Speaker 1: responsibility as a teammate to make him better because it
Speaker 1: possibly affects your jobs in the winning, which everybody gets
Speaker 1: more who teacher you know? Yeah, my mind saying is,
Speaker 1: I feel like I'm one of the fast linebackers in
Speaker 1: his league, so i'mn be honest with you. So the
Speaker 1: way I played, the way I practice, the way I play,
Speaker 1: So me, now I need to start punching about me.
Speaker 1: I'm more like a big hit type person, so I'm
Speaker 1: more like jarring the ball from my head. But now
Speaker 1: I'll see, like, all right, I can help my team
Speaker 1: by punching at the ball. Then on top of that,
Speaker 1: I can help the offense by punching at the ball
Speaker 1: now at practice. So now it helps me too though,
Speaker 1: because now I'm practicing, I'm practicing helping him hold the ball.
Speaker 1: But then I'm also helping myself find the ball and
Speaker 1: punch it out too, So it's like it mirrors, so
Speaker 1: like just like we're mirroring each other far as like
Speaker 1: position wise, it's mirroring as far as like skills wise too,
Speaker 1: So I'm punching at the ball to get my little
Speaker 1: mental edge on his focus on getting the ball turnovers.
Speaker 1: So then turn around his up at him like, all right,
Speaker 1: he's punching at the ball. I need to secure the ball.
Speaker 1: So it's like a competition. How do you weigh the
Speaker 1: big hit? Like you talked about the speed, you're going
Speaker 1: sidelines and sideline your hits. When you get your hands
Speaker 1: on somebody body body in contact, they're violent. With that
Speaker 1: being said, how do you weigh that versus Hey, maybe
Speaker 1: I got an opportunity at a takeaway here. Maybe I
Speaker 1: just don't want to worry about the hit. I want
Speaker 1: to get the ball too. So the biggest thing started
Speaker 1: that press because you can't hit your own teammates. So
Speaker 1: with me coming in with the same speed, knowing I
Speaker 1: can't hear my team and are let me find the ball?
Speaker 1: Where's the air behind the ball? Now punching at the ball.
Speaker 1: So in the game, I'm doing the same thing, coming
Speaker 1: at the same not breaking stride anything, coming with the
Speaker 1: same speed, and be honest, most players thinking number one, oh,
Speaker 1: he coming for the big hit. So number one I'm
Speaker 1: looking for a juice. Still with my tracking number two
Speaker 1: is like, all right, so now let me switch you
Speaker 1: us on him show actually come from my actual form
Speaker 1: tackle and look for the ball to punch out. So
Speaker 1: just add another skill to my built and really like,
Speaker 1: now the game is about the ball for real. So
Speaker 1: how many how many positions can I get my offense
Speaker 1: to school? Really so not really like being selfish on
Speaker 1: tackles now, so it's like, all right, I got him down.
Speaker 1: The next play, well I could like, all right, I
Speaker 1: got the ball out and I got to turn over.
Speaker 1: That's about That's a plus right there. So that's the
Speaker 1: biggest thing. Yeah, yeah, this is the first on any
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Speaker 1: former former college safety right four or five one, So
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Speaker 1: hit changes games as well, so you know big hit
Speaker 1: can change the game and inergize your team the same way.
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Speaker 1: now you're saying this on here, that mean this is
Speaker 1: it's official. You just put it out there. Now, I'm
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Speaker 1: My niece is swimming at Cold Gate, she's in her
Speaker 1: fresh from year. What was your background? And yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: my girlfriend with the cold Okay, it's a small world.
Speaker 1: What what did you swim again when you were growing up?
Speaker 1: And did you think, like when you were rocking and rolling,
Speaker 1: that I'm gonna maybe be an Olympic swimmer? As opposed
Speaker 1: to an NFL player, oh Man. To be honest, it
Speaker 1: really came to then, you know, it's more like a
Speaker 1: thought process sitting down and being like, all right, now,
Speaker 1: way the pros and cons and be like all right,
Speaker 1: Because it got to a point where I was doing both,
Speaker 1: but you had to lose so much weight swimming. Then
Speaker 1: I was losing muscle, so then it's like, all right,
Speaker 1: now I gotta turn around and get more be field
Speaker 1: for football season. So it kind of got to a
Speaker 1: point where is like weight going up and down, fluctuating.
Speaker 1: So it's like I just got to the middle point
Speaker 1: and I was just like, all right, I gotta pick.
Speaker 1: I gotta choose now. And honestly, it came to my
Speaker 1: brother like which more can I have more fun doing?
Speaker 1: Because I was the only swimmer two brothers playing football.
Speaker 1: All Right, I'm going I can spend more time with
Speaker 1: my brothers. Hill, We'll be honest. What was your stroke?
Speaker 1: So my stroke was spread Mentally, I was freestyle, hated butterfly,
Speaker 1: bread stroke, fifty freestyle. I was winning no hands down,
Speaker 1: Olympic size pool. I'm winning. How much? How much did
Speaker 1: that help you? That background in the terms of football
Speaker 1: completely different sorts. Why show that long? Yeah, so when
Speaker 1: we're watching you on the field. Shoulders, I got that
Speaker 1: from swimming, so shoulders why long arms? Man? Really during
Speaker 1: during the off season for endurance, that's the biggest thing
Speaker 1: that helped me out a lot. Lean musl masks were like, um,
Speaker 1: on my heavy days as far as like conditioning wise,
Speaker 1: al right, my legs kind of heav Let me get
Speaker 1: in the pool, dou with swimming, Um, working on my
Speaker 1: breathing underwater breathing and stuff like that. Really like control
Speaker 1: of my brews, especially when it get to third quarter.
Speaker 1: They just had a long drive. All right, let's go
Speaker 1: to forth two minute for a minute drive all right,
Speaker 1: you know, control your breathes and stuff. Um, it's really
Speaker 1: how it hlped me out a lot. And then just
Speaker 1: eating habits really just a lot a lot more vegetables
Speaker 1: and then football is you need a lot more protest,
Speaker 1: but still vegetables and stuff like that. So really just
Speaker 1: the endurance part and the conditioning really so I still
Speaker 1: do a little bit of it, not as much. Yeah, okay,
Speaker 1: I ain't. I ain't no competing your brothers swim or
Speaker 1: they're sitting there with the rubber duckies on it. No,
Speaker 1: my brother, my brothers can actually swim. He just went
Speaker 1: for has nothing to compete. I'm just saying, you know,
Speaker 1: I mean a lot of us don't know how to swim.
Speaker 1: I know how to swim. I'm saying, Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: They know how to swim. They just swim competitively. But
Speaker 1: and they ain't to the point we're like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna put my money on him. Nah, I'll tell
Speaker 1: you what. Speaking to your brother, You're always been a
Speaker 1: great shape. And I'm not saying he wasn't in good
Speaker 1: shape before, but he's come in this season in ridiculous shape,
Speaker 1: not only physically but mentally too. Just like the conversations
Speaker 1: we've had, like it's a mental is, He's in a
Speaker 1: better place mentally, for real, for real, as far as
Speaker 1: like confidence and just what he's what he's at in
Speaker 1: the game. Honestly, he's like a legitiviatteran. We started this
Speaker 1: podcast off by talking about your success against the run.
Speaker 1: That was the lowest rushing total the Ravens have ever
Speaker 1: had with Lamar Jackson as a starting quarterback, sixty three yards.
Speaker 1: Something struck me and I'd like to get both of
Speaker 1: your takes on this that Jeff all Bricks said last week,
Speaker 1: he said, first down, we really gotta win early down
Speaker 1: because then second down against Baltimore, specifically the Ravens, you
Speaker 1: can play more of a normal football, but on third
Speaker 1: down we can get more creative. Can you talk about
Speaker 1: how creative if you guys actually can be calm and
Speaker 1: we saw glimpses of that when you do when early
Speaker 1: downs and you are successful against the run. UM, earlier
Speaker 1: downs are great, especially you don't have to get those
Speaker 1: third and shorts where like your playbook is really like
Speaker 1: all right, short yard and we're playing for like two yards.
Speaker 1: We're looking for a sneak, so like long yards, we
Speaker 1: can open up anything. We can open up the places.
Speaker 1: We're gonna open up the man, we can open up
Speaker 1: the zone like you gotta heavy arsenal. What it's all about,
Speaker 1: the biggest thing, I'm gonna be all right, So I'd
Speaker 1: be hipping out my brother out a lot. So we
Speaker 1: get if we get third and long, we can let
Speaker 1: them free and let them rush how they want to
Speaker 1: rush and feel me. So that's the biggest thing. So
Speaker 1: you know, just having their mindset and be like um,
Speaker 1: what they say earned the right to rush or whatever.
Speaker 1: So just having that in my mindset to be like,
Speaker 1: all right, let me get my brother, get my brother
Speaker 1: to sex. You know, that's the biggest thing. So stopping
Speaker 1: them stopping to run and stuff like that stars deal today.
Speaker 1: But that goes both ways, right because in the early rundowns,
Speaker 1: he's holding those jump room. Know what I'm saying, he'd
Speaker 1: be having to look out. Now, I'm need you to
Speaker 1: hold that double between and living alone so I can
Speaker 1: slip through and get this gap. Because he always talked
Speaker 1: about that. He was like, Bro, you don't never put
Speaker 1: your hands on the guard like they putting hands on you.
Speaker 1: Hey uh, you talked about being there for each other
Speaker 1: as teammates. How close is this locker room? Michael Carter
Speaker 1: said after the game, that feels like we lost the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl, but it's just one game in a seventeen
Speaker 1: game season. Like, how do those strong bonds in the
Speaker 1: locker room help you, guys? Is you just look ahead
Speaker 1: the week two? Because you got any proper perspective, Fans
Speaker 1: can be like, hey, stand in the world, we lost
Speaker 1: by fifteen at home and our home opener Jets aren't
Speaker 1: going anywhere again, where you guys gotta say, hey, listen,
Speaker 1: we actually did a lot of good things and we
Speaker 1: got a lot of football to play, and we gotta
Speaker 1: turn the page to Cleveland. So we had me and
Speaker 1: Mike actually did had a conversation my card, um running
Speaker 1: back my card, right, So we had this conversation. It
Speaker 1: was just like it's a loss. But um, fans coming
Speaker 1: in of course from the outside looking in and be like, oh,
Speaker 1: it's the same Jets, It's the same Jets, and and
Speaker 1: am We're more like, hey, y'all, we got two pieces,
Speaker 1: Like you know, this whole off season was together, this
Speaker 1: off season together, the camp, competing with each other, the
Speaker 1: biggest things to be like you know what's going on
Speaker 1: the hill, Like so we're the ones working, so the
Speaker 1: biggest things to be like that mindset. But like, yeah,
Speaker 1: it felt like we lost the super We was more
Speaker 1: like it was more disappointed than ourselves just because we
Speaker 1: know what we were capable of, Like we know we're
Speaker 1: capable of on both sides of all three phases of
Speaker 1: the special teams included. So um, it's just we just
Speaker 1: felt disappointed in ourselves at first, But then we got
Speaker 1: to the point where would be like, all right, let's
Speaker 1: look at the numbers. So, like, you know, we did
Speaker 1: a lot of good things. What can we capitalized on.
Speaker 1: Then it got to the points will be like remind you'all,
Speaker 1: remind yourself the more games are lost than one. So
Speaker 1: then we started going to be like, all right, let's
Speaker 1: go let's look through the film today and see what's
Speaker 1: going on. All we gave up three we only get
Speaker 1: we only gave up three explosives. Then you get people
Speaker 1: that be like, all right, now, you know, let's sit
Speaker 1: up and talk about it. But then you getting to
Speaker 1: the point of like those three explosive was turned downs.
Speaker 1: So then you get to the point but okay, so
Speaker 1: we stopped the three explosive day, let's go. So you
Speaker 1: know it's positive in the negative type thing. So you
Speaker 1: just have that same mindset. And like I said, only
Speaker 1: I only talked about deep because I don't really never
Speaker 1: know about the gonna be honest with you, so off
Speaker 1: of the side of the ball, I can't really tell
Speaker 1: you I'm gonna be honest with you. I can't. So
Speaker 1: but the biggest thing I can't say about the offense,
Speaker 1: and they know we're gonna have their back they know
Speaker 1: we're gonna get them a chance. They know we ain't
Speaker 1: gonna never phold on them. They know we're gonna never
Speaker 1: point the finger to them. Every time we ran out
Speaker 1: there on the field, we'd be like, hey, go to
Speaker 1: the sideline, look at the playbook. They find out how
Speaker 1: we're gonna get in this, thank and y'all coming right
Speaker 1: back out like just having their mindset well, defense is
Speaker 1: always gonna be a head of offenses early on, you know,
Speaker 1: and just speaking because you know, of course I covered
Speaker 1: the game, but for that s and why pre and post,
Speaker 1: you know, it's pretty much it was you know, the
Speaker 1: you games, it was an interior pressure. But it's about
Speaker 1: you know, the offensive line hasn't had the opportunity to
Speaker 1: really jail with each other, so you know, it's about
Speaker 1: the chemistreet that they have to start working within the
Speaker 1: communication how to pass games. And that's just gonna come
Speaker 1: with time. So you know, they're gonna be leaning or
Speaker 1: they're gonna need to lean on your defense keeping the
Speaker 1: score down and giving them short fields and opportunities, you know,
Speaker 1: until they can you know, get up to speed and
Speaker 1: get up to communication because teams are going to cover
Speaker 1: up those guards and then also try to run you
Speaker 1: games and see if they're you know, made the made
Speaker 1: the necessary adjustments. So I mean, you know, on both
Speaker 1: sides of it, just it was a game where you know,
Speaker 1: you can tell that it was a little nerves and
Speaker 1: jitters from some of the young guys and some of
Speaker 1: the guys that are making their debuts, you know, but
Speaker 1: a lot of guys had a lot of a lot
Speaker 1: of football for us, so you know, from the outside end,
Speaker 1: it's about having us still have to have a little
Speaker 1: sit subergency because you don't want it to look up
Speaker 1: and if we came and you're still talking about the
Speaker 1: same things, but it's no need to pad it, no
Speaker 1: need to panic, no doubt about that. The offer stands
Speaker 1: from this guy, Quincy. Yeah, Quincy, we appreciate you coming up,
Speaker 1: coming out to the studio and we can't wait using
Speaker 1: one of his lines for more three linebacker action because
Speaker 1: I like that first installment of Plantcy, C J and Kwan.
Speaker 1: You got a big test ahead and I know you
Speaker 1: guys are gonna be ready for it. Yeah, for sure,
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Speaker 1: me an offense a remedy for the Jets this week
Speaker 1: as they prepare for the Cleveland Brons. Well, thank you know.
Speaker 1: Traditional teams put their tight ends on the right side.
Speaker 1: I think you have the most of your tight ends.
Speaker 1: Whoever Miles Garrett is, he's a game record. I think
Speaker 1: you want to protect that left tackle position and be
Speaker 1: able to try and you know, scheme up some shots.
Speaker 1: Are really looking forward to seeing Gary Wilson gets some
Speaker 1: more opportunities. I know they want to bring him along slowly,
Speaker 1: but he showed that he has a knack for you know,
Speaker 1: the big playability and he just pops off the film.
Speaker 1: I'm looking forward for Breece Hall to be able to
Speaker 1: establish a run and defensively you know there, you know,
Speaker 1: I don't think this is a knock on, Jacobe bro said,
Speaker 1: but he's not Lamar Jackson. He's a guy that you
Speaker 1: know exactly where he's gonna be. I think the Jets
Speaker 1: and that defensive line is gonna have to take advantage
Speaker 1: of his immobility and be able to try and get
Speaker 1: him off his spot and make him have to throw
Speaker 1: and deliver the ball on the run and take advantage
Speaker 1: of the fact that you know, you you know. I
Speaker 1: think on the backside, DJ read, I think that Sauce Gardner,
Speaker 1: you know, has done a tremendous job week one. They
Speaker 1: have to put it together week too. I expect the
Speaker 1: safety is to play a little bit better as far
Speaker 1: as not letting the ball over the head. But I
Speaker 1: think a lot of that was the nerves, the fact
Speaker 1: that Lamar Jackson all eyes on him. How much are
Speaker 1: you encouraged by the play? Uh? They forementioned Gardner and
Speaker 1: of course DJ Reid. We talked to Quincy about DJ
Speaker 1: and everything personally that he was dealon with. But those
Speaker 1: guys really came out Week one, I thought balled out. Yeah,
Speaker 1: they played at a high level, and I think, you know, sometimes,
Speaker 1: you know, we we assumed that young guys aren't going
Speaker 1: to be able to be veteran or be able to
Speaker 1: make the plays. And I think, you know, the just
Speaker 1: paid de penalty for that. You're on the big touchdown Joiner,
Speaker 1: you know, was outside leverage and not believing that that
Speaker 1: sauce was gonna be where he was supposed to be.
Speaker 1: And that's the thing, you know, it's not just about
Speaker 1: playing with each other, it's about establishing trust. And you
Speaker 1: know a lot of that comes with playing with each other,
Speaker 1: and they just don't have the reps. You'll join it that,
Speaker 1: you know, miss a lot of the season last year,
Speaker 1: and he's trying to knock some rust off as well.
Speaker 1: And early in the season. It's a lot of guys
Speaker 1: with bad eyes. We saw it with Jalen Ramsey. We
Speaker 1: saw it with guys you know, letting balls go over
Speaker 1: the head yesterday, you know, last you know, last week.
Speaker 1: So let's see if guys take the necessary steps to
Speaker 1: make sure that they're keep it in front of Like
Speaker 1: my coaches always say, Dennis Thurmott, they'll watch the catch it.
Speaker 1: You know, you see him watch them catching, you know,
Speaker 1: And that's where the thing. Keep your eyes on your
Speaker 1: luggage and trusting your teammates to do their job so
Speaker 1: the coach can only have to correct one person and
Speaker 1: not too totally different dynamic as far as the way
Speaker 1: these teams approached the run games with the Ravens and
Speaker 1: Lamar Jackson and now you have to Kobe Bersett, Nick
Speaker 1: Chubb Um and Kareem Hunt. So with that, with that
Speaker 1: being said, this is more of a traditional rush attack.
Speaker 1: But how do they contain the Browns? I mean, the
Speaker 1: Browns had one of the most dynamic offensive lines as well.
Speaker 1: You know, they've invested heavily in that and you know
Speaker 1: they really get to the edges and get you out flank.
Speaker 1: You talk about Chubb and he has ability to get
Speaker 1: to the edge, but he has the power to run
Speaker 1: through arm tackles. Kareem Hunt is you know, not as
Speaker 1: powerful as as Nick Chubb, but he's just as effective
Speaker 1: and especially as a receiver. You know, he may not
Speaker 1: look like he's a great receiver, but he's a guy
Speaker 1: that can really expose linebackers in space. So you want
Speaker 1: to try and contain these guys are gonna be about
Speaker 1: sending the edges, getting penetration and not really getting too
Speaker 1: far up the film. All right, two final things, How
Speaker 1: hostile is this environment gonna be in Cleveland? It is
Speaker 1: their home opener. And you, as a former player, what
Speaker 1: kind of approach would you want to take in terms
Speaker 1: of tone setting on the road. We have to drop
Speaker 1: drawn off the noise and um, you gotta understand that
Speaker 1: the head of the snake is that running game. So
Speaker 1: you have to make sure that you know, you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta invest in the body. Body blows early on you,
Speaker 1: you attack the body in the head of follow you know,
Speaker 1: so you have to really be physical. You have to
Speaker 1: wear them down. You have to make them feel like
Speaker 1: it's one to mention. You have to say, you know,
Speaker 1: if we're gonna lose because of Marie Cooper, you know,
Speaker 1: went off and had some biggest closer plays. But you're
Speaker 1: gonna go and actually not even Mark Coop because you're
Speaker 1: gonna try and double him. You're gonna try and say, Okay, well,
Speaker 1: let let's put it on. Let's put it on People's
Speaker 1: on the other side, and I see if sauce can
Speaker 1: really hang with people's and then that that's that's how
Speaker 1: you establish yourself in this league. Right, every week it's
Speaker 1: it's heavy sledging for somebody, right, you know, one week
Speaker 1: it may be on the d line one the other
Speaker 1: week and maybe on the linebackers. You know that. You know,
Speaker 1: the other week could be on the corners or the secondary.
Speaker 1: This week is gonna be on the front seven as
Speaker 1: a whole, because you gotta match the physicality of the
Speaker 1: Cleveland Browns who rushed over to on the yards. Okay,
Speaker 1: so we're gonna end here. Two parter. Did you see
Speaker 1: Levy on Bell's knockout of Adrian Peterson and okay, your
Speaker 1: thoughts on that? And also, you've trained quite a bit
Speaker 1: over the years, have you ever thought about getting in
Speaker 1: the ring yourself? Yeah, but I gotta get in the
Speaker 1: ring with like somebody that's similar type. That's a Google
Speaker 1: gobble like me, So I'll fight James Harrison. I gotta
Speaker 1: I gotta call out the silver Back. What I'm saying,
Speaker 1: the map back of the silver Back. And much like
Speaker 1: people probably thought that Adrian previously was gonna win because
Speaker 1: of the hard head shakes and stuff like that, you
Speaker 1: know what I'm saying, Levian Belle had the swiftness, athleticism,
Speaker 1: and he listened to exactly what his corner said. Too
Speaker 1: soft to the body, right over the top. Adrian Peterson
Speaker 1: ran right into it. Night night out one. Yeah, he
Speaker 1: might have been all day during his playing career, but
Speaker 1: certainly night night in the ring. I don't know. I
Speaker 1: don't want to see a fight Harrison. He scares me
Speaker 1: some of those workout videos. But boxing is a totally
Speaker 1: different platform than getting inside and throwing iron run Well,
Speaker 1: it's it's just like it's like Brad's um Smith said,
Speaker 1: Um Brad Pitt said in troits like that guy over there,
Speaker 1: he's the biggest guy. I don't want to fight him. Son.
Speaker 1: That's what nobody ever remember your name? Thanks brother, m