Speaker 1: Is this just another game for you? Absolutely? Rex. You
Speaker 1: had alluded earlier today. I guess in your comments to
Speaker 1: reporters up in Buffalo that kind of might change your
Speaker 1: approach with how much you talk up things in the
Speaker 1: off season. Uh. Why is that? Well, probably because we
Speaker 1: failed miserably and now, but you know, I think it's uh,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's that's probably the truth. You know. I
Speaker 1: sometimes you don't think about the consequences. I said, what's
Speaker 1: really on my mind, what I truly believe. But then
Speaker 1: it comes back and it bites you when it's you know,
Speaker 1: if it if it doesn't go right, and as we've
Speaker 1: historically know that I've done that more than once. Um.
Speaker 1: But and the reason for it. I'll take all the criticism,
Speaker 1: and I get that, that's fine. I just don't want
Speaker 1: my team to be criticized for it or look that
Speaker 1: way because their work that they put in and all that,
Speaker 1: I don't think they deserve it. Obviously we came up short. Uh,
Speaker 1: but you know it's not by lack effort or anything else.
Speaker 1: It's it's just we didn't get it done. And um,
Speaker 1: you know, so I think in instead of it all
Speaker 1: being negative that way, Um, you know, I could probably prevent,
Speaker 1: you know, some of that with a common or something.
Speaker 1: I'm always going to be true to myself, but at
Speaker 1: the same time, maybe I can keep those things internally
Speaker 1: a little bit more. That's how much would it mean
Speaker 1: to you personally if you could knock the Jets out
Speaker 1: of the playoffs. I just want to win, and if
Speaker 1: you can win, you know, I think that would be big,
Speaker 1: no question about it. You have two wins over a
Speaker 1: really good football team, so I think that would be
Speaker 1: big for us. But as far as them, I'm not
Speaker 1: going to get you know, is there going to be
Speaker 1: a little more satisfaction that way? I mean, I I
Speaker 1: can't tell you that, um, because there's a lot of
Speaker 1: people there that I care about and you want them
Speaker 1: to do well, But I don't want them to do
Speaker 1: well at my expense, you know, from a competitor in me,
Speaker 1: I want to beat them. And that's that's the truth.
Speaker 1: That's just the way it feels, you know, that's the
Speaker 1: way it is, um. And you know, so you know,
Speaker 1: whether it's my brother, where it's whether it's a lot
Speaker 1: of friends and all that stuff over there, I'm still
Speaker 1: going to try to win, regardless of who I'm up
Speaker 1: against Rex. Do you think that your players have bought
Speaker 1: in to your you know, your method, message, your theme
Speaker 1: and everything that you wanted to instill in then this year? Well,
Speaker 1: I think it's safe to say that not all of
Speaker 1: them have, you know, I think that's that's safe to
Speaker 1: say that. But I think there's a number of them
Speaker 1: that have. What makes you say that not all of
Speaker 1: them have? Rex? Well, because you know, I guess you know,
Speaker 1: you can read comments or you can read whatever you want. Um,
Speaker 1: So I think you can make a point of that,
Speaker 1: But I don't sense it when I'm here. I see
Speaker 1: guys working hard. I see you know, preparing and things
Speaker 1: like that. So those are real positive things about me. Um,
Speaker 1: I like this team. I do. I like to like
Speaker 1: our football team. Uh you know, I know a record
Speaker 1: isn't isn't what we wanted to be, but um, I
Speaker 1: like this team. REX has some of that criticism from
Speaker 1: your own players hurt you and bothered you. Yeah, probably so,
Speaker 1: um you know, when you look at it, it's you know,
Speaker 1: I've never had a negative you know, the I've never
Speaker 1: been looked at as a problem, you know, I think
Speaker 1: you know, so, Yeah, I guess that would be uh
Speaker 1: uh yeah. I mean if that bothers me, no, no
Speaker 1: doubt about it. Now. I haven't said anything publicly until
Speaker 1: now about it, but sure that that would bother me.
Speaker 1: It doesn't mean I'm gonna change who I am or
Speaker 1: how I go about my business. I can promise you that.
Speaker 1: Why do you think things didn't work this year for
Speaker 1: you guys? Rex? I who knows? You know who knows?
Speaker 1: I know. I can promise you one thing. We have
Speaker 1: one more game to play and we're gonna put that's
Speaker 1: that's where we're looking at. I think, you know, to
Speaker 1: really look at it, to go into it in detail
Speaker 1: and all that kind of stuff. I don't think so
Speaker 1: appropriate right now, Rex, looking back on the Jets game
Speaker 1: and the regular season, where you wont do you think
Speaker 1: in retrospect you put too much emotional emphasis on the
Speaker 1: importance of just that one win in the wake of it,
Speaker 1: and maybe that had a negative effect on the team
Speaker 1: going forward. No, no way, I mean, we knew that
Speaker 1: was gonna be a huge game. You know, we're we're
Speaker 1: you know, two games back or something. You had to
Speaker 1: get that win to try to, you know, to have
Speaker 1: a shot at the playoffs. I don't think there's any
Speaker 1: doubt about that. We had to get that win. So yeah,
Speaker 1: we put everything we had into it. We put everything
Speaker 1: we have in every game, but that was a big one.
Speaker 1: There was no question knew you were going against an
Speaker 1: outstanding team and it was gonna take, you know, everything
Speaker 1: we had uh to have a chance with the game,
Speaker 1: and we did. We put everything we had into it
Speaker 1: and uh and it came out, you know, the right way. X.
Speaker 1: After the game of Fitzpatrick had probably maybe his worst
Speaker 1: game of the year in that game. He admitted afterwards
Speaker 1: that he made a lot of poor decisions. What were
Speaker 1: you guys able to do to seemingly confuse him in
Speaker 1: that game? I'm not really sure, you know. I think
Speaker 1: we just went out and we played well. Um it's
Speaker 1: I don't I don't think we tricked him or anything.
Speaker 1: Just um, you know, so I think that's it. I
Speaker 1: think the call coming in is not me trying to
Speaker 1: clog the lines. Also, by the way, there's another one.
Speaker 1: What do you think of the way jobs got go ahead? Right?
Speaker 1: Do you think this passage is playing over his head lately?
Speaker 1: I think he's playing great. Look, we've seen him play
Speaker 1: like this before. I mean, you know, I just don't
Speaker 1: know if if, if we've ever can you know, seen
Speaker 1: him play like this for an entire season. I mean,
Speaker 1: guys doing phenomenal um you know. Now, look, hey, it
Speaker 1: helps having you know, Eric Decker and uh, Brandon Marshall
Speaker 1: over there. I think that probably helps also, But you know,
Speaker 1: a good running game, it thinks. But but he's doing
Speaker 1: a great job. He gets the ball out of his
Speaker 1: hand quick. You know, he doesn't take sack. He's competitive
Speaker 1: as heck, he's always been that way. So there's a
Speaker 1: lot of things I admire about him. I'm not going
Speaker 1: to say that he looks much better with the beard,
Speaker 1: and I think he's undefeated with that beard, so maybe
Speaker 1: he needs to shave it this week. Rex, what kind
Speaker 1: of shape is your team in health wise? Uh? You
Speaker 1: can You've had guys banged up here and there really
Speaker 1: throughout the season. But as the season ends, what do
Speaker 1: you guys down? Well, we're about tim starters down, so
Speaker 1: we're probably not great shape. But the guys that are
Speaker 1: out there are pretty healthy. What's McCoy status this week?
Speaker 1: Next question? I think you can figure that one out.
Speaker 1: Not too good, Rex, you coached obviously a lot of
Speaker 1: guys that are on this Jets roster. Does it Does
Speaker 1: it hurt at all to see the team that you
Speaker 1: coached a year ago have so much success in the
Speaker 1: season after you're gone. No, not really fact, you know,
Speaker 1: it's I think, you know, I really thought a whole
Speaker 1: lot about it, But they're, like I said, there's a
Speaker 1: lot of guys I care about on that team, and
Speaker 1: it's actually great to see him having success. I just
Speaker 1: don't want them to have success at my expense. You know,
Speaker 1: I'm going to give to everything I can to win
Speaker 1: this game and from the competitor, and mean, that's that's
Speaker 1: what I'm gonna do, right, You guys obviously had a
Speaker 1: lot of optimism, understandably coming into this year with the
Speaker 1: way things have unfolded, and especially some of the comments
Speaker 1: players have made criticizing you. How concerned are you about
Speaker 1: the wheels coming off really quickly for you in Buffalo
Speaker 1: and how do you plan to go about preventing that
Speaker 1: from happening. Well, the wheels aren't coming off here. I
Speaker 1: think if you're around, uh, the entire football team, you'd
Speaker 1: realize that. You know, wheels, wheels are powerful, you know,
Speaker 1: far from coming off. So we've got a lot of
Speaker 1: positive things here as well. And I think that's that's
Speaker 1: the thing that maybe people aren't focused on it. I
Speaker 1: get it, you know, so file a lot why you
Speaker 1: can We'll see what happened, rights, How how difficult that
Speaker 1: the game plan for Marshall and Decker real difficult? Uh,
Speaker 1: you know it's and that's a thing like Eric Decker
Speaker 1: is a great player by himself, Brandon Marshall is a
Speaker 1: great player by himself. But put them together, I mean
Speaker 1: it's uh, and the other guys And I'm not look,
Speaker 1: I'm not downplaying the other guys. The other guys are
Speaker 1: good players. But these guys are great players. And so yeah,
Speaker 1: it's you know, you wish they were smaller. Both of
Speaker 1: them got size, the red zone threats, they do it all,
Speaker 1: so um yeah, it's it's uh, it's rough. And then
Speaker 1: the fact you got guys that can run the football
Speaker 1: in a big offensive line, So it's it's uh, it's
Speaker 1: a huge challenge without question. Rex How deflating would it
Speaker 1: be to to lose this week and not only end
Speaker 1: the season on a losing note, but but have the
Speaker 1: Jets clinch your playoff spot in your building? Well, I'll
Speaker 1: be deflating that we you know, we've see you. We're
Speaker 1: gonna put everything we have in this game. It's our
Speaker 1: last game, losing at home. Uh, you know, with staying
Speaker 1: there's no question the fact that you know, this team
Speaker 1: has success going into the playoffs and all that doesn't
Speaker 1: have any you know, it isn't isn't the part. We
Speaker 1: just want to win, you know, And um so I
Speaker 1: think that's you know, that's it. I haven't. I haven't
Speaker 1: thought about one one second what it would be like
Speaker 1: if if we lost or whatever. So, uh, you know
Speaker 1: that's not where my focus is. Prediction. Yeah, prediction is
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna get anything. So now you know what
Speaker 1: I think. Uh, I think it's gonna be. You know,
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a great game. Obviously, I'm hoping the weather.
Speaker 1: I hope the wind blows like fifty. So that's what
Speaker 1: we're hoping for.