WEBVTT - LISTEN | Jets 2021 Season Preview (9/7) 0:00:03.120 --> 0:00:06.320 Welcome to the Official Jets Podcast, Eric Allen and Leja 0:00:06.640 --> 0:00:10.160 Douzable here in studio. Dudes, it has been a while. 0:00:10.280 --> 0:00:13.360 I'm so pumped that you are part of our content 0:00:13.480 --> 0:00:16.280 team throughout the regular season. Not only is Dudes gonna 0:00:16.320 --> 0:00:20.200 be on the Official Jets Podcast, but he is also 0:00:20.280 --> 0:00:23.600 going to be on Jets Game Day with Robert Sala, 0:00:23.720 --> 0:00:29.960 that premier's Sunday eleven thirty here locally on CBS felt right. 0:00:30.000 --> 0:00:33.040 I haven't been here since I think two thousand fifteen 0:00:33.080 --> 0:00:34.919 or maybe sixteen was my last year, because I think 0:00:34.920 --> 0:00:38.919 we played a game in January and twenty season, so 0:00:38.960 --> 0:00:40.479 I mean, it feels good to be back on one 0:00:41.040 --> 0:00:43.040 Jets Drive in the studio with you. It's it's been 0:00:43.080 --> 0:00:47.280 a while. Yeah, I'm pumped for all throughout the regular season. 0:00:47.280 --> 0:00:51.440 The Official Jets Podcast is presented by winn Bett Betting 0:00:51.600 --> 0:00:54.600 is a team sport bet together at win Bet. We 0:00:54.720 --> 0:00:58.760 also have some exciting news on the podcast front to 0:00:58.760 --> 0:01:02.080 announce Ethan Greenberg's gonna be joined by Cynthia Freeland for 0:01:02.120 --> 0:01:07.319 a team preview podcast weekly. But let's start off here, 0:01:07.920 --> 0:01:12.520 Leja by talking about all the roster moves. Joe Douglas 0:01:12.560 --> 0:01:15.280 had to make to get to this point. Any surprises 0:01:15.680 --> 0:01:18.000 there worked a lot of surprises. He I think the 0:01:18.000 --> 0:01:20.960 biggest surprise for everybody was the release of Blessed Austin, 0:01:21.000 --> 0:01:23.040 a guy that was still a young guy only in 0:01:23.080 --> 0:01:24.960 this third year, was kind of like the veteran of 0:01:25.040 --> 0:01:27.280 the quarterback position. Most of the guys that are on 0:01:27.280 --> 0:01:30.160 the roster are either rookies or your two players, so 0:01:30.200 --> 0:01:32.800 I think that was a big surprise. And then Jeff Smith, 0:01:33.120 --> 0:01:36.080 I love it the underdog story making a team like 0:01:36.160 --> 0:01:38.000 I can't remember the last time I said that we 0:01:38.000 --> 0:01:40.360 were deep at the receiver. The Jets were deep at receiver. 0:01:40.680 --> 0:01:42.720 And this is a guy that you know throughout training 0:01:42.720 --> 0:01:44.840 camp was sometimes with the one, sometimes with the two, 0:01:44.920 --> 0:01:48.120 sometimes with the threes, but every opportunity he got, he showed. 0:01:48.400 --> 0:01:50.320 And a guy like Vincent Smith, who they brought back 0:01:50.320 --> 0:01:51.960 on practice squad, I thought he had a chance to 0:01:52.000 --> 0:01:53.520 make the team, but I was glad that they were 0:01:53.560 --> 0:01:55.000 able to get both of them back on the on 0:01:55.040 --> 0:01:57.440 the roster. What did you think about the trades? The 0:01:57.520 --> 0:02:00.080 Jets had a clear need at the front of and 0:02:00.320 --> 0:02:04.240 after Carl Lawson unfortunately went down and Joe Douglas, I 0:02:04.280 --> 0:02:08.000 thought made a great value play obtaining your former teammates 0:02:08.000 --> 0:02:11.200 Shack Lawson from Houston. Yeah. Yeah, it just makes total sense, right. 0:02:11.200 --> 0:02:13.799 You talk about the value for the player that you're getting. Now, 0:02:13.840 --> 0:02:16.440 Shack Lawson is not gonna kill you with Gotti's SAG numbers. 0:02:16.639 --> 0:02:18.560 But this guy has a lot of energy, plays with 0:02:18.600 --> 0:02:21.040 a lot of heart. He can dominate in the run game, 0:02:21.040 --> 0:02:22.560 and I think that's where he can really help the 0:02:22.720 --> 0:02:25.840 Jets defensive front, being a rotational guy. And if he 0:02:25.840 --> 0:02:27.760 can get that four to six range. I believe his 0:02:28.240 --> 0:02:30.239 career high with six with the Buffalo Bills before he 0:02:30.280 --> 0:02:32.360 signed in Miami last year. If he can stay in 0:02:32.360 --> 0:02:34.120 that range and to prove well for the Jets going 0:02:34.120 --> 0:02:36.720 down the stretch. Speaking of Shack Lawson, we're gonna have 0:02:36.960 --> 0:02:41.120 him on the podcast here. In just a few moments, 0:02:41.160 --> 0:02:43.720 we were able to catch up with him here this 0:02:43.760 --> 0:02:48.280 week is the Jets prepared for the regular season Week 0:02:48.480 --> 0:02:51.800 one opener against the Carolina Panthers. It is here already. 0:02:51.840 --> 0:02:55.800 How about the value on that trade, Chris Herndon going 0:02:55.880 --> 0:02:58.720 to Minnesota. They got some injuries at the tight end position, 0:02:58.880 --> 0:03:02.679 so Joe Douglass ships Herndon and a six gets a 0:03:02.800 --> 0:03:06.679 four back. Think about this, the Jets have two first 0:03:06.800 --> 0:03:10.160 round picks next April to second round picks next April. 0:03:10.639 --> 0:03:15.040 I believe two fours and two fives as well. And 0:03:15.080 --> 0:03:17.360 that's what you're talking about, right the compensation for Herndon, 0:03:17.760 --> 0:03:19.359 and I don't think his value would have been any 0:03:19.440 --> 0:03:21.280 higher if you had traded him later in the season. 0:03:21.520 --> 0:03:24.600 To me, Minnesota was in a dire straits right er Smith. 0:03:24.600 --> 0:03:26.760 Their tight end had getting gotten hurt and he needed 0:03:26.760 --> 0:03:28.720 somebody to fill that void. I think Joe d did 0:03:28.760 --> 0:03:31.200 a great job getting great value of getting the fourth 0:03:31.320 --> 0:03:33.880 round pick. Usually that doesn't happen in training camp. Most 0:03:33.880 --> 0:03:36.520 guys that get traded around training camp six seven round 0:03:36.560 --> 0:03:38.560 pick is usually what happens. For you. To get a 0:03:38.600 --> 0:03:41.640 fourth round pick is major compensation for a guy Chris 0:03:41.640 --> 0:03:45.120 Herndon has a lot of ability but has struggled with consistency. 0:03:45.160 --> 0:03:48.760 How about the guys down the roster you made NFL 0:03:48.880 --> 0:03:52.680 clubs after going on drafting yourself. How about when you 0:03:52.720 --> 0:03:55.040 look at that Jets roster you mentioned the youth, so 0:03:55.120 --> 0:04:00.400 you've got ten person draft class twelve rookies at all, 0:04:00.480 --> 0:04:05.280 an undrafted free agent quarterback as they had done and 0:04:05.320 --> 0:04:07.440 that's the thing. I always root for the undrafted guy. Right. 0:04:07.760 --> 0:04:10.400 My guy when I was here was Snack Harrison. He 0:04:10.440 --> 0:04:12.680 was an undrafted guy. This is a guy that after 0:04:12.680 --> 0:04:14.800 practice we would sit in the hot box. We was 0:04:14.840 --> 0:04:17.360 sitting the coatub And I remember in two thousand and 0:04:17.360 --> 0:04:20.119 thirteen when I got here, and that's when Snacks became 0:04:20.120 --> 0:04:23.240 the starter and noose tackle. He was like, dudes, He's like, 0:04:23.320 --> 0:04:25.520 I don't I don't know why, but they finally given 0:04:25.520 --> 0:04:27.720 me the opportunity. They're finally letting me be the guy. 0:04:27.720 --> 0:04:29.760 And I was like, bro, you've earned it, Like you've 0:04:29.760 --> 0:04:31.839 went out there, you put your time in, and you 0:04:31.920 --> 0:04:34.040 prove that you deserve to be the starting those tackle 0:04:34.120 --> 0:04:35.880 on this team. And this is a guy still talked 0:04:35.880 --> 0:04:38.080 to routine. I talked to Snacks probably three or four 0:04:38.120 --> 0:04:40.000 times a week. That's my guy. And when you're an 0:04:40.040 --> 0:04:42.119 undrafted guy and I was blessed to play ten years, 0:04:42.480 --> 0:04:45.680 you really do, you know, gravitate two guys that are undrafted. 0:04:45.720 --> 0:04:47.640 So like when I see a Bryce huff do well, 0:04:47.800 --> 0:04:49.719 I get excited. You know, when I say it done, 0:04:49.760 --> 0:04:52.880 does well? I get excited because and it's been like 0:04:52.920 --> 0:04:54.719 that my whole career even when I was with Buffalo, 0:04:54.880 --> 0:04:57.719 me and and Lorenzo Um we're together and he was 0:04:57.880 --> 0:04:59.719 undrafted guy and he was in like year eleven. We 0:04:59.800 --> 0:05:04.520 just gravitated and we just gravitate to each other because 0:05:04.560 --> 0:05:06.560 you know how the strain and how hard it took 0:05:06.600 --> 0:05:09.640 for you to get to that point. When you're undrafted guy, man, 0:05:09.680 --> 0:05:12.800 it's like you're a walk on. And as opposed to 0:05:12.839 --> 0:05:15.240 like in college, you're a walking in the NFL, So 0:05:15.320 --> 0:05:17.719 you're literally at the bottom of the barrel. So you 0:05:17.800 --> 0:05:19.760 literally have to fight for every rep that you get 0:05:19.839 --> 0:05:22.479 and then you don't have that many opportunities to make mistakes. 0:05:22.480 --> 0:05:24.200 So when you have your reps, you have to take 0:05:24.360 --> 0:05:28.200 full advantage of those reps because tomorrow is not promise. 0:05:28.600 --> 0:05:31.239 How about this, Where are the strengths on this roster 0:05:31.480 --> 0:05:34.640 right now? Where are maybe some of the holes or 0:05:34.760 --> 0:05:37.400 positions that don't have great depth and where are the 0:05:37.440 --> 0:05:41.440 great un notes to me that the strength undoubtedly is 0:05:41.440 --> 0:05:44.000 the defensive tackle position. If you look at what the 0:05:44.080 --> 0:05:45.800 Jets have done, you know, and Joe D. You know, 0:05:45.880 --> 0:05:47.800 Quinnin Williams was the first round pick a few years 0:05:47.839 --> 0:05:50.640 ago Sheldon Rankings. Joe D brings him in this year 0:05:50.880 --> 0:05:54.160 fully fied Akassi is a grown man child, especially in 0:05:54.160 --> 0:05:56.039 that run game at the nose. And then you still 0:05:56.040 --> 0:05:58.360 got Nathan Shepard and a guy that I really like it, 0:05:58.440 --> 0:06:01.440 Jonathan Marshall. This guy show really well in preseason and 0:06:01.480 --> 0:06:04.400 to me, he's had a freakish ability for a guy 0:06:04.480 --> 0:06:07.880 that side, and he has crazy strength. If they can 0:06:07.880 --> 0:06:09.960 get that ability out of him and he can get 0:06:10.000 --> 0:06:12.360 maybe ten to fifteen reps throughout the year and he 0:06:12.400 --> 0:06:14.200 build that up to twenty, I think he can be 0:06:14.360 --> 0:06:17.440 a really good player down the road. A group that 0:06:17.480 --> 0:06:19.320 doesn't have as much depth that we thought had a 0:06:19.320 --> 0:06:21.719 lot of depth would be the lineback in position with 0:06:21.839 --> 0:06:24.159 Jared David is getting hurt. That kind of really hurt 0:06:24.240 --> 0:06:27.359 that position group, right, You got potentially to Ricky starting 0:06:27.400 --> 0:06:30.160 next to the Printeral Pro Bowl c J. Mosley. So 0:06:30.200 --> 0:06:32.240 you're talking about the youth movement that you talked about 0:06:32.240 --> 0:06:35.640 e A. That group is really struggling. In the obvious 0:06:35.640 --> 0:06:38.560 group that everybody is talking about, the cornerback position, it's 0:06:38.600 --> 0:06:40.800 it's really young. You know, first and second year players 0:06:41.000 --> 0:06:44.080 throughout the whole roster, not a lot of experience there. 0:06:44.400 --> 0:06:46.400 But the great thing is with this defense, and Robert 0:06:46.400 --> 0:06:48.080 salid he's not gonna put too much on this and 0:06:48.120 --> 0:06:50.520 pressure on those young corners. He will be in a 0:06:50.560 --> 0:06:53.480 lot of Cover three, which can turn into man coverage. 0:06:53.520 --> 0:06:55.400 If you're talking about guys that are running go routes 0:06:55.440 --> 0:06:57.359 and fade routes. You gotta be hip to him with 0:06:57.400 --> 0:07:00.240 that guy, and you know three deep concept that corner 0:07:00.240 --> 0:07:01.760 is gonna have to take that the number one, number 0:07:01.760 --> 0:07:04.040 one receiver all the way. And especially in week one, 0:07:04.040 --> 0:07:05.960 you got Robby Anderson, a guy that you know they're 0:07:05.960 --> 0:07:07.800 gonna throw the ball too, and in the post they're 0:07:07.839 --> 0:07:09.960 gonna throw the ball on the fade and go routes 0:07:10.000 --> 0:07:12.400 to him, so that that's the time the corners have 0:07:12.480 --> 0:07:15.000 to make plays. But to me that the group that 0:07:15.120 --> 0:07:17.640 you know probably not as deep with a lot of you, 0:07:18.000 --> 0:07:21.000 is that that cornerback position. Obviously, why is cover three 0:07:21.280 --> 0:07:24.320 advantageous if you are a young player, because you know, 0:07:24.880 --> 0:07:28.520 Robert Sale continues to say that, hey, we're not gonna 0:07:28.600 --> 0:07:31.360 throw too much at these guys. We just want them 0:07:31.640 --> 0:07:35.160 to absorb what we do give them and then just 0:07:35.240 --> 0:07:37.000 to play fast. Yeah, so if you're looking at the 0:07:37.040 --> 0:07:39.040 cover three, you're not gonna be a man to man 0:07:39.160 --> 0:07:41.560 coveras like guys that are running, you know, come backgrounds, 0:07:41.600 --> 0:07:43.760 guys on the running post routes. You have that safety 0:07:43.760 --> 0:07:45.600 in the middle that's gonna help you out. You're not 0:07:45.600 --> 0:07:47.400 gonna have to be on an island with that guy 0:07:47.440 --> 0:07:49.520 one on one. And then also those scene routes, you're 0:07:49.520 --> 0:07:51.680 gonna have the linebackers be able to carry the guy 0:07:51.760 --> 0:07:54.120 underneath for a while, and you have help over the 0:07:54.160 --> 0:07:56.680 top with the three defenders in the back end. So 0:07:56.800 --> 0:07:59.360 this defense is really predicated off the defensive line that 0:07:59.440 --> 0:08:01.520 you know the for corners, he'll mix it up every 0:08:01.560 --> 0:08:03.960 once in a mile and goes man blitches here and there, 0:08:04.280 --> 0:08:06.360 But the ones is gonna be on the defensive line 0:08:06.360 --> 0:08:09.160 to create pressure. That why the quarterback can't hold the 0:08:09.200 --> 0:08:10.880 ball and there isn't a lot of pressure on those 0:08:10.880 --> 0:08:13.400 young guys in the secondary. His rank is a guy 0:08:13.440 --> 0:08:15.840 flying under the radar. We talked about Quintin Williams all 0:08:15.840 --> 0:08:18.520 the time. He's an emergency star. We know that rankings 0:08:18.560 --> 0:08:21.960 himself a former first round pick. And I remember talking 0:08:22.000 --> 0:08:23.520 to you on the field at the Green and White 0:08:23.520 --> 0:08:25.960 practice at My Life Stadium. You said, this guy is 0:08:25.960 --> 0:08:28.840 a wide array of moves and and that's the thing 0:08:28.880 --> 0:08:31.520 that people aren't talking about enough. I think him and 0:08:31.600 --> 0:08:34.680 Quinny Williams, the pair is a very underrated duel in 0:08:34.720 --> 0:08:37.079 the NFL. I'm not saying it's the best defensive tackle 0:08:37.200 --> 0:08:39.880 duel in the NFL, but it's very underrated because if 0:08:39.880 --> 0:08:41.600 you look at what Quinnin Williams did, he was a 0:08:41.640 --> 0:08:44.960 sending player over seven sacks last year. Shouldon Rankings has 0:08:44.960 --> 0:08:46.920 gotten over seven sacks in his career for our season 0:08:46.960 --> 0:08:50.200 before too. This is a guy that's an assortment of 0:08:50.320 --> 0:08:52.840 pass rush moves from the three technique. And if you 0:08:52.880 --> 0:08:55.480 talk about this defense, right, that's why they brought Carl 0:08:55.520 --> 0:08:58.720 Lawson in because when Carl Lawson was in Cincinnati, he 0:08:58.800 --> 0:09:00.679 only had five and a half and a lot of 0:09:00.679 --> 0:09:02.839 it was because he didn't have the defensive tackles to 0:09:02.880 --> 0:09:04.960 press that pocket. So when he got to the quarterback, 0:09:05.200 --> 0:09:07.960 he was able to step up and throw the ball. Well, 0:09:08.040 --> 0:09:10.480 now in this defense, with those two big guys up front, 0:09:10.720 --> 0:09:12.880 they're gonna be to me too many quarterbacks stepping up 0:09:13.520 --> 0:09:15.400 and then the ends. We talked about a guy like 0:09:15.440 --> 0:09:18.520 Shack Lawson. He's not a real big crazy you know, god, 0:09:18.600 --> 0:09:20.600 he's sacked number guy, but He's a guy that can 0:09:20.679 --> 0:09:22.959 use his long arm, come off inside and when the 0:09:23.000 --> 0:09:25.160 quarterback tries to step up the cap he can collect 0:09:25.160 --> 0:09:27.600 some sex like that. All right, what's the four one 0:09:27.720 --> 0:09:31.240 one on Robert Sala We're seeing up from afar. But 0:09:31.400 --> 0:09:33.760 you were in the meeting rooms in San Francisco. You 0:09:33.920 --> 0:09:36.960 lined up for him when he was the defensive coordinator 0:09:37.280 --> 0:09:41.480 when the Forts were at the start of their transition 0:09:41.559 --> 0:09:45.079 in that team in two thousand, nineteen one thirteen games 0:09:45.080 --> 0:09:47.760 and advance the Super Bowl and probably should have beat 0:09:48.880 --> 0:09:50.960 you know who. Yeah, they should have beat the Kansas 0:09:50.960 --> 0:09:53.120 City Chase. But you know that's that's all in the past. 0:09:53.200 --> 0:09:56.120 But yeah, the Jets are in that situation right now, right, building, 0:09:56.280 --> 0:09:58.520 building from the ground up. And the thing about Robert 0:09:58.520 --> 0:10:00.880 Sale is the thing that players really to gravitate too, 0:10:01.320 --> 0:10:03.720 is he's authentic. Right. The same guy he is on 0:10:03.760 --> 0:10:06.079 the camera is the same guy he is off the Canada. 0:10:06.160 --> 0:10:09.679 He brings that energy day in and day out, and 0:10:09.720 --> 0:10:12.240 you feed off that as a player, right, Players know 0:10:12.280 --> 0:10:14.360 when guys on authentic and and and they're full of it. 0:10:14.640 --> 0:10:16.720 And the thing is, as a player, you want your 0:10:16.760 --> 0:10:18.800 coach to be authentic, and you want to play for 0:10:18.840 --> 0:10:20.839 a guy that brings the energy you just stated. In 0:10:21.320 --> 0:10:23.680 seventeen I was there. It was a rough start to 0:10:23.720 --> 0:10:25.400 the year, you know, when O and nine in the 0:10:25.440 --> 0:10:27.920 first nine games, and this guy was still bringing that 0:10:28.120 --> 0:10:30.840 energy every single day. And then he's just a great 0:10:30.880 --> 0:10:32.679 leader of man. He knows how to bring a group 0:10:32.720 --> 0:10:35.480 together to get the job done. And and on the 0:10:35.520 --> 0:10:38.800 practice field, he likes having fun. He's he's very animated, 0:10:38.840 --> 0:10:40.959 as you can tell by some of the videos, and 0:10:41.080 --> 0:10:43.280 players feed off that. Still to this day, the only 0:10:43.280 --> 0:10:45.240 guy know that wears cleats on the field. And I'm 0:10:45.240 --> 0:10:47.120 gonna kind of get after him about that a little 0:10:47.120 --> 0:10:49.040 bit too. Since it's become head coach, I haven't really 0:10:49.040 --> 0:10:51.679 seen him out there with cleats. I'm gonna say. I'm 0:10:51.679 --> 0:10:53.480 gonna tell him, the coach, I think you're feeling yourself 0:10:53.480 --> 0:10:55.040 a little bit. You're not wearing cleats out there. What's 0:10:55.080 --> 0:10:57.040 what's going on? Even though you're the head coach and 0:10:57.080 --> 0:10:58.920 you're surveying everything, I still want you running up and 0:10:58.920 --> 0:11:00.920 down the field because that's the guy he is, and 0:11:01.000 --> 0:11:04.320 players really feed off of that. And then down the 0:11:04.320 --> 0:11:06.040 stretch one six into the last seven, when I was 0:11:06.120 --> 0:11:09.040 in San Francisco. It's because of the guy. He was, 0:11:09.400 --> 0:11:12.000 the guy that he was, you know, always out there 0:11:12.000 --> 0:11:14.360 just giving us energy, and we were motivated to play. 0:11:14.559 --> 0:11:17.520 We had some dominant performances, I believe versus Chicago Bears, 0:11:17.640 --> 0:11:19.520 we only give up seven points that game. And and 0:11:19.559 --> 0:11:21.360 on defense, I think we only had like forty plays. 0:11:21.360 --> 0:11:22.959 So it was three and out, three and out, three 0:11:23.000 --> 0:11:25.079 and out, three and out, and we dominated. It is 0:11:25.120 --> 0:11:27.520 because we you know, we had he had a plan, 0:11:27.679 --> 0:11:30.280 we stuck to it, and we didn't We didn't waiver 0:11:30.679 --> 0:11:33.240 even though we started off over nine. Uh. We're gonna 0:11:33.240 --> 0:11:35.640 have to talk to Solo about his workouts too, because 0:11:35.640 --> 0:11:38.760 there are already becoming legendary here that he gets here 0:11:38.920 --> 0:11:42.520 so early in the morning and you look at him 0:11:42.559 --> 0:11:45.040 on the field, looks like Robert Sale could get out 0:11:45.040 --> 0:11:48.080 there and play a few snaps. Listen. I came away 0:11:49.520 --> 0:11:53.240 awfully impressed from what I heard from others who have 0:11:53.400 --> 0:11:56.360 been inside the meeting rooms. Who is not who are 0:11:56.400 --> 0:12:00.520 not even players who are former players. Chris Martin came 0:12:00.559 --> 0:12:04.120 out here one of the first training camp practices and 0:12:04.200 --> 0:12:06.800 he was in and he witnessed one of the team meetings, 0:12:06.800 --> 0:12:08.880 and he said, I would love playing for a guy 0:12:09.000 --> 0:12:12.240 like this, he has a way of connecting with people. 0:12:12.600 --> 0:12:16.400 He is a leader. He saw that just being in 0:12:16.960 --> 0:12:20.720 the meeting room. What is a Robert Salad lead meeting? Like, 0:12:21.920 --> 0:12:24.600 it's fun, man, it's it's a lot of energy. Like 0:12:25.200 --> 0:12:26.600 I'll take you into one of our means. A matter 0:12:26.600 --> 0:12:28.160 of fact, I'll take you into the meeting the day 0:12:28.160 --> 0:12:31.120 before the game. So we have our script where we 0:12:31.200 --> 0:12:34.280 break down different personnels that we're gonna save her the 0:12:34.320 --> 0:12:36.240 opposing team, and he runs through a script like it's 0:12:36.240 --> 0:12:38.960 an actual game, right, He'll call other player, the linebackers 0:12:38.960 --> 0:12:41.440 will make their calls the line and in the secondary 0:12:41.480 --> 0:12:43.320 and make their calls and we're run through that script. 0:12:43.600 --> 0:12:45.680 But I think the thing that is so unique is 0:12:45.720 --> 0:12:48.880 so interactive in that period. But then the thing that's 0:12:48.920 --> 0:12:50.680 really great at the end of that that he does 0:12:50.720 --> 0:12:53.120 that I haven't seen any other coach do, is that 0:12:53.160 --> 0:12:55.640 at the end of that, he'll put up a highlight tape, 0:12:55.679 --> 0:12:58.960 right of two players, but it'll be their college highlight tape. 0:12:59.320 --> 0:13:01.880 Like getting you to realize why you love the game, 0:13:01.960 --> 0:13:04.720 Like it brings up chills, like seeing yourself, you know, 0:13:04.760 --> 0:13:07.440 me going to UCF, seeing me taking down quarterbacks while 0:13:07.440 --> 0:13:09.880 it was at UCF who had Eric armshad who was 0:13:09.880 --> 0:13:12.080 at Oregon, and then the Forest Buttler showing some of 0:13:12.080 --> 0:13:14.520 their highlights, like it was so unique. It was a 0:13:14.559 --> 0:13:16.920 small thing, but it's unique, right, just to have that 0:13:17.040 --> 0:13:19.360 fun in that room with your brothers, it really brings 0:13:19.360 --> 0:13:22.560 you closer together as a tight knit group. Let's talk 0:13:22.600 --> 0:13:28.040 about the matchup here, Jets open up at Carolina. Uh. 0:13:28.320 --> 0:13:30.800 A lot of people say the NFL, there's a lot 0:13:30.800 --> 0:13:35.240 of humor when they're making their schedules. Of course, you 0:13:35.280 --> 0:13:37.959 have Zach Wilson's the number two overall selection in the draft, 0:13:38.080 --> 0:13:42.200 leading the Jets against his predecessor here with the Jets. 0:13:42.200 --> 0:13:45.320 Of course, that was Sam Donald, who Joe Douglas ship 0:13:45.400 --> 0:13:48.200 to Carolina prior to the draft. Yeah, and that's what 0:13:48.280 --> 0:13:50.720 the NFL is about, right ea. Storylines. They want to 0:13:50.760 --> 0:13:54.040 build up the hypers like TNT drama. We love drama. 0:13:54.320 --> 0:13:56.720 So the thing is, you got Sam Donald who got 0:13:56.760 --> 0:13:58.959 dumped by his ex girlfriend, right, and then now you 0:13:59.040 --> 0:14:01.440 got the new girlfriend coming in town. And to me, 0:14:01.480 --> 0:14:03.800 all the pressures on Sam Donna. Right, this is a 0:14:03.800 --> 0:14:06.160 guy that got traded away and in his mind he's 0:14:06.160 --> 0:14:07.760 probably thinking, well, you guys didn't want me and you 0:14:08.000 --> 0:14:11.280 you quote unquote, I've already upgraded me with the next girl. 0:14:11.559 --> 0:14:13.520 So he's gonna feel like he has to go prove 0:14:13.600 --> 0:14:16.040 itself out there and rightfully, so he has to do 0:14:16.080 --> 0:14:18.120 that anyway, because I don't know how many more chances 0:14:18.120 --> 0:14:20.800 he's gonna get to become a starting quarterback. Like you know, 0:14:20.840 --> 0:14:22.960 Matt Real trading for him. They want him to be 0:14:23.000 --> 0:14:24.400 the guy that didn't really bring in a lot of 0:14:24.440 --> 0:14:27.920 competition to go against him. So to me, him going 0:14:27.960 --> 0:14:30.320 against his old team is a little bit added pressure 0:14:30.320 --> 0:14:31.680 because he's got he feels like he has to go 0:14:31.720 --> 0:14:33.880 out there and prove that you guys made a mistake 0:14:33.880 --> 0:14:37.000 by trading. And dudes, you just don't feel this way 0:14:37.040 --> 0:14:40.120 because you're a former defensive alignment, but you just looking 0:14:40.160 --> 0:14:43.680 at it as a game analyst, you think the Jets 0:14:43.680 --> 0:14:46.840 defensive line has to win and they have to win 0:14:47.040 --> 0:14:49.480 big in order for the Green and White to come 0:14:49.520 --> 0:14:51.280 home with a victory. Yeah. Yeah, for the Jet to 0:14:51.320 --> 0:14:53.360 have a chance in this game, the defensive line has 0:14:53.440 --> 0:14:56.680 to dominate it. If you look at this Carolina Panther online, 0:14:56.720 --> 0:14:59.440 besides the right tackle Taylor Molten, this this is a 0:14:59.760 --> 0:15:02.000 want say it's a trivial old line, but it's an 0:15:02.040 --> 0:15:04.160 old line that the defensive line could take advantage of. 0:15:04.240 --> 0:15:06.680 Like there's there's no war beaters on that offensive line 0:15:06.680 --> 0:15:09.280 for the Carolina Panthers, And you know it's gonna come 0:15:09.280 --> 0:15:11.840 down to stopping Christi McCaffrey, and the defensive line has 0:15:11.880 --> 0:15:13.960 to do that in the run game and then also 0:15:14.360 --> 0:15:16.880 affect him trying to catch passes out of the backfield, 0:15:16.880 --> 0:15:19.320 whether that's chipping him when he's going down the outside 0:15:19.600 --> 0:15:22.040 or creating that pressure on Sam Donald when he tries 0:15:22.080 --> 0:15:24.840 to find Christian McCaffrey out on those option routes when 0:15:24.840 --> 0:15:27.200 he's massed up one on one with a linebacker that way, 0:15:27.240 --> 0:15:29.320 they have some mistiming and he doesn't get the ball 0:15:29.400 --> 0:15:31.760 to him in open space, because that's what Carolina wants 0:15:31.760 --> 0:15:34.200 to do. Like Christian McCaffrey is one of the most 0:15:34.280 --> 0:15:36.680 dynamic players in the NFL, one of three players in 0:15:36.680 --> 0:15:38.880 the NFL history to go for a thousand yards receiving 0:15:39.360 --> 0:15:41.440 and wresting. So this guy can get it done with 0:15:41.480 --> 0:15:43.760 the ball in his hand. So the j defensive line 0:15:43.800 --> 0:15:46.520 has to create havoc and stop him in the run game, 0:15:46.760 --> 0:15:48.880 but then also affects Sam Donald in the past game 0:15:48.880 --> 0:15:51.080 when he tries to check down the ball to Christi McCaffrey. Yeah, 0:15:51.080 --> 0:15:53.840 it's gonna be interesting to see his usage early because, 0:15:53.880 --> 0:15:58.600 like you said, basically last season was a wash for McCaffrey. 0:15:58.720 --> 0:16:02.640 But if Carolina and you're Joe Brady, you want to 0:16:02.680 --> 0:16:06.240 get the ball in his hands twenty five plus times, because, 0:16:06.880 --> 0:16:10.160 like you said, he's not just Hey, I'm gonna hand 0:16:10.200 --> 0:16:12.400 the ball off to him. I'm gonna dump the ball 0:16:12.440 --> 0:16:14.800 off to him. I'm gonna get him running routes. Because 0:16:14.840 --> 0:16:17.880 this guy is a special offensive talent, and they do 0:16:18.080 --> 0:16:22.400 have some skill position guys who are explosive on the outside, 0:16:22.400 --> 0:16:25.720 whether that be Robby Anderson or former Jet or d J. 0:16:25.920 --> 0:16:29.480 Moore of course, or Terroris Marshall. They're very high on him. 0:16:29.560 --> 0:16:31.880 Let's go to the other side of the ball. Everything 0:16:32.160 --> 0:16:36.000 so far has not seemed too big for Zach Wilson. 0:16:36.080 --> 0:16:38.360 What do you think about what he's gonna be looking 0:16:38.400 --> 0:16:42.160 at in that Carolina Panthers defense, because mostly in those 0:16:42.160 --> 0:16:44.760 two preseason games that we saw Wilson he was faced 0:16:44.800 --> 0:16:48.200 in backups from the Giants and the Packers. Yeah, and 0:16:48.200 --> 0:16:50.520 that's the thing about Zach Wilson. He's been poised about 0:16:50.520 --> 0:16:52.840 this whole preseason and and people have been talking about, 0:16:52.960 --> 0:16:55.320 we'll look at who he was playing. You play whoever 0:16:55.400 --> 0:16:57.240 they put out there. If you're a quarterback or any 0:16:57.240 --> 0:16:59.720 player in this league, you can't, you know, be like, well, 0:16:59.760 --> 0:17:02.120 they he's only played the Twols this preseason. World, that's 0:17:02.280 --> 0:17:04.359 who he played against. And the thing is I saw 0:17:04.480 --> 0:17:06.600 his growth throughout the preseason, from the Green and White 0:17:06.600 --> 0:17:08.840 scrimmage where he struggled to get to that second read 0:17:08.880 --> 0:17:11.359 a lot faster, to you know, the Giants game to 0:17:11.400 --> 0:17:13.520 the Green Bay game. He got to his reads a 0:17:13.520 --> 0:17:15.720 lot faster, and you think that is something that him 0:17:15.720 --> 0:17:17.919 and Michael for had to be working on getting to 0:17:18.000 --> 0:17:21.080 that read quicker because in this this Michaelaphore system, you 0:17:21.119 --> 0:17:22.480 have to get the ball out of your hand, you 0:17:22.520 --> 0:17:24.119 have to know where you're going with the ball, and 0:17:24.200 --> 0:17:26.200 you have to be accurate with the football. And that's 0:17:26.240 --> 0:17:28.800 something that we saw the last couple of weeks with 0:17:28.880 --> 0:17:31.560 Zach Wilson, him getting comfortable in this offense. And then 0:17:31.760 --> 0:17:33.639 we did see a lot of the off platform throws, 0:17:33.640 --> 0:17:35.240 but we did see one in the Green Bay game. 0:17:35.560 --> 0:17:37.520 Pocket breaks down, he rolls out to the right and 0:17:37.560 --> 0:17:41.160 throws an absolute laser beam to Corey Davis. And that's 0:17:41.280 --> 0:17:44.000 what really separates him, that arm talent man. He can 0:17:44.080 --> 0:17:47.560 make any throw off platform throws and I think Michael 0:17:47.600 --> 0:17:49.520 Ford has done a great job and skimming things up 0:17:49.560 --> 0:17:51.680 for Zach Wilson and just making the game easy for him. 0:17:51.720 --> 0:17:54.040 Do you think this place to the Jets advantage that 0:17:54.640 --> 0:17:59.280 Elijah Moore did not play in the preseason and he 0:17:59.440 --> 0:18:03.360 was Dyna mite out there on the field in training camp. Man, 0:18:03.440 --> 0:18:06.840 they were moving him all over the place across the formation. 0:18:07.280 --> 0:18:10.239 I love what the fleur does with his motions, but 0:18:10.640 --> 0:18:13.119