Speaker 1: The Jets are seven and four with six games remaining
Speaker 1: in the two thousand twenty two regular season. Welcome to
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Speaker 1: welcome in my co host Bart Scott and Brian Baldinger
Speaker 1: from NFL Network joins us. Now, you guys were both
Speaker 1: on the television show last week and we had to
Speaker 1: cut that down. We thought that exchanges were so good.
Speaker 1: Let's bring them both on the podcast. Well, I appreciate
Speaker 1: the invite. Whenever I can talk to somebody with the
Speaker 1: football acumen is Baldi. I mean, I think all our
Speaker 1: our viewers and listeners are better for it. I think
Speaker 1: with Jet fans saw a lot of good football acumen
Speaker 1: yesterday from a particular quarterback. Bart. I'm sure we're probably
Speaker 1: gonna get to at some point during this podcast. Who
Speaker 1: would that be? See inquiring minds. You know a lot
Speaker 1: about this team? What did they show you overall? We
Speaker 1: don't have to start with Mike White, but what did
Speaker 1: they show you overall? Taken down an overmatch team in
Speaker 1: the Chicago Bears in the manner in which they did
Speaker 1: at thirty one a time. Well, it's it's been a
Speaker 1: constant story all year long that the next guy up,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, you lose Breefe Hall, you lose James,
Speaker 1: you know Robinson, you lose Michael Carter during the game,
Speaker 1: and here comes on of the night, you know, and
Speaker 1: gave him a really good game, both running and receiving.
Speaker 1: I mean, you lose your right tackles, Cedric Abway, here
Speaker 1: comes the rookie Max Mitchell and the right tackle. I mean,
Speaker 1: it's it seems like, you know, they can't go through
Speaker 1: a game without losing players, which happens in this league.
Speaker 1: But you know they overcame all of that yesterday and
Speaker 1: it didn't affect the quarterback at all. So I think
Speaker 1: the bigger the bigger story here is that you know,
Speaker 1: this is the fifty three man team and whoever's up,
Speaker 1: they're counting on them. And in most weekends and in
Speaker 1: most cases, these guys have stepped up. That was a
Speaker 1: big That was a big spot Prizonovan night. I know
Speaker 1: it wasn't a great defense. It was the Bears and
Speaker 1: all that kind of stuff, but he showed us all
Speaker 1: a little bit yesterday. I mean, I think you you
Speaker 1: hit the nail on the head when you talk about
Speaker 1: roster building, right, And you know, I think in today's NFL,
Speaker 1: like I said all the time, it's much better to
Speaker 1: have a bunch of good players than have a couple
Speaker 1: of great players because inevitably it's a bottle of attrition.
Speaker 1: And we see this going over throughout the league. I mean,
Speaker 1: the Dolphins have to be concerned with armstead right now,
Speaker 1: you think about the Bucks, they have to be worried
Speaker 1: about worth, right, you know. But the Jets they just
Speaker 1: continue to plug and play because they've done a great
Speaker 1: job and making sure that it's quality players on this
Speaker 1: team from top to bottom. And instead of going on
Speaker 1: and spending a bunch of money on a couple of players,
Speaker 1: they spend good money on I got a lot of
Speaker 1: quality players. And and when they didn't spend money, they
Speaker 1: went out and used draft capital and use their their
Speaker 1: football acumen and identifying who will be good for this scheme.
Speaker 1: So you see them, you're really enduring a lot of
Speaker 1: injuries and being able to still continue to compete and
Speaker 1: now you know it's wide open. They put themselves in
Speaker 1: a good position, you know, I know, losing to New
Speaker 1: England hurt. They had an opportunity to be in and
Speaker 1: in solidly. But they'll be able to have a chance
Speaker 1: to take care of business against the Dolphins and the
Speaker 1: Bills as the injuries continue to mono for them, rather
Speaker 1: as Von Miller or their left tackle to really pivotal
Speaker 1: positions on their team. Let's see if they can withstand it.
Speaker 1: And we understand here with the Jets, much like when
Speaker 1: Breece Hall and Very Tucker went down, it takes a
Speaker 1: couple of weeks to adjust to the new personnel that
Speaker 1: you have. Welldi, how well did this organization handle everything
Speaker 1: last week? Robert Sale coming out on Monday saying everything
Speaker 1: is on the table at the quarterback position. On Wednesday,
Speaker 1: he informally makes an announcement that Mike White is going
Speaker 1: to be the starting quarterback in that second year signal
Speaker 1: caller Zack Wilson needed it a reset, and then the
Speaker 1: team goes out there on Sunday, takes care of business
Speaker 1: and C J. Mosley saying after the game, I really
Speaker 1: appreciate the way Salah talks to us as a group.
Speaker 1: He gives us the message team first, He's honest with us,
Speaker 1: and you heard from Zach Wilson last week He also
Speaker 1: said this is a humbling experience that he can grow from. Well,
Speaker 1: you know, everybody gets humbled in this business. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't care if you're the second pick in the draft,
Speaker 1: if it's injuries, if you get benched. Everybody gets humbled
Speaker 1: at some point. I mean, it's rare that you're Tom
Speaker 1: Brady or somebody like that. Most people have to overcome adversity,
Speaker 1: and it's almost better if you have it happened early
Speaker 1: in your career. The one thing you have to appreciate
Speaker 1: about Robert slod his whole thing is he's gonna inform
Speaker 1: his team first. His team's gonna know about it before
Speaker 1: anybody else. And that's the way it should be. It
Speaker 1: shouldn't be through the media. It shouldn't be through the press,
Speaker 1: it shouldn't be through some you know, some other people's podcast.
Speaker 1: It happens in the team meeting. And this is what
Speaker 1: we're gonna do. We're gonna make this this change at
Speaker 1: this position. He's gonna let the players know who are changing.
Speaker 1: And you can't ask for anything more than that as
Speaker 1: a player. And as far as goes like the last
Speaker 1: thing he needs to do at this point earlier, his
Speaker 1: careers hang his head. He just needs to look at
Speaker 1: things and go and look only in the mirror what
Speaker 1: can I do to improve? Because if a player isn't
Speaker 1: asking that about himself, I don't care where he's drafted,
Speaker 1: what his status is, how much money he makes. If
Speaker 1: a player isn't looking in the mirror at himself and
Speaker 1: seeing how can I get better for this team, then
Speaker 1: you're not asking the right questions. Why is Mike White
Speaker 1: making this look so easy with his first starts? First
Speaker 1: start of his NFL career last year came against the Bengals,
Speaker 1: passed for four oh five, the Jets win thirty thirty one,
Speaker 1: and here against the Bears, he passes for more than
Speaker 1: three yards with three touchdowns and zero zero interceptions. And
Speaker 1: I thought, guys, one of the most important parts to
Speaker 1: that game is the Jets got off to a fast start.
Speaker 1: That's the first time this year that the Jets took
Speaker 1: the opening possession, went down the field square touchdown. I'm mean,
Speaker 1: I think Mike White has showing you that you know
Speaker 1: the game is played you above the shoulders, right, because
Speaker 1: a lot of the things that he's done is about
Speaker 1: having pre snap recognition. What you see with this offense
Speaker 1: is the ball comes out on time and having ten
Speaker 1: receivers you know catch passes means that the ball isn't
Speaker 1: going to somebody that he's locking in on. It's going
Speaker 1: to where the defense dictates the ball should go. And
Speaker 1: they're all friendly balls. And sometimes we over complicate things
Speaker 1: and thinking it's about you know, the quarterback. You know,
Speaker 1: when we say game managers not a bad thing, what
Speaker 1: we're saying is his managing this situation nor one want
Speaker 1: to be aggressive Norman when not to and not putting
Speaker 1: the ball in harm's way. You know, he put the
Speaker 1: ball where his receivers can run with it and get
Speaker 1: yak understand that he has talented receivers that can make
Speaker 1: people missing space and we saw examples of that. And
Speaker 1: you know, the ball coming out with pre snap recognition,
Speaker 1: understanding when it's covers zero, cover one, cover three, where
Speaker 1: the holes and the weaknesses is a skill. And maybe
Speaker 1: Mike White is benefiting from the fact that he's been
Speaker 1: humbled before. Right, he was a guy that was drafted
Speaker 1: fifth round and the guy that was so he understands,
Speaker 1: so he has that grit, so he has this second opportunity.
Speaker 1: He's making the best of it. I was a starter
Speaker 1: when I came in this league. A lot of people
Speaker 1: don't know that I started on the dime package. I
Speaker 1: was a starting dime for the Baltimore Ravens. By week four,
Speaker 1: I was benched. And it took me three more seasons
Speaker 1: to get another opportunity to prove that I was ready
Speaker 1: for the opportunity. And I never looked back from there.
Speaker 1: I mean, I you know, I was listening to the
Speaker 1: pregame show on ESPN and I heard, you know, Matt
Speaker 1: Hasselbacks talking about when he got benched after he was
Speaker 1: brought out there to be the guy. Right. So what
Speaker 1: Zach Wilson has to you know, for Trent Dilford, what
Speaker 1: he needs to realize is this is a familiar story
Speaker 1: for a lot of guys that you know has fallen
Speaker 1: down but decided to get back up. You know, I
Speaker 1: say all the time, you know, adversity doesn't define character,
Speaker 1: it reveals it. So this situation is going to reveal
Speaker 1: a lot about Zack Wilson to his fans, but ultimately
Speaker 1: it's gonna reveal a lot to himself. Mike Whites had
Speaker 1: an interesting career in an interesting year. You think about it,
Speaker 1: that JA have started three different quarterbacks this year, and
Speaker 1: at the beginning of season, White was number three, then
Speaker 1: he got elevated to number two, and now he's the
Speaker 1: guy who potentially could finish the season as a Jet quarterback.
Speaker 1: Oh that is true. Um. You know, the thing is
Speaker 1: is that I think he is I think he's always
Speaker 1: looking to learn. You know, he was a guy that
Speaker 1: you know, transferred to Western Kentucky, was at another school.
Speaker 1: He was a great baseball player growing up in Fort Lauderdale.
Speaker 1: He was a high school feing on. He's had success
Speaker 1: at different levels, so you know, it's not like he
Speaker 1: hasn't been successful. I know we had a couple of
Speaker 1: games last year we looked really good. But I just
Speaker 1: think that some guys are just ready for the moment
Speaker 1: because they prepared for the moment. And I feel like
Speaker 1: even when he wasn't active, when Joe Flacco was a
Speaker 1: starter and he wasn't gonna get any action, wasn't getting
Speaker 1: I think he was probably you know, looking at uh,
Speaker 1: whether it's scout team and practice this or film sessions.
Speaker 1: I think he was always preparing for this moment and
Speaker 1: so that when he gets this chance, it doesn't look
Speaker 1: like he's raw or not ready. He looks ready. I
Speaker 1: mean that was an impressive opening drive going down the
Speaker 1: field with quick, accurate decisions and really, you know, they've
Speaker 1: got a good offense with a lot of different personnel
Speaker 1: and spacing, and I thought it was a really good
Speaker 1: game plan where he wasn't taking seven step drops. The
Speaker 1: ball was coming out fast, and guys, like to Bart's point,
Speaker 1: if you hit it in the right spot, you know,
Speaker 1: to Alijah More could go a long ways if you
Speaker 1: get it, you know, to Znom the night on the
Speaker 1: outside as you're check down, he could go along ways.
Speaker 1: These guys are capable of making people misses. And so
Speaker 1: I just thought he's probably taken all of his time
Speaker 1: away from not being on the field and made the
Speaker 1: most of it. That's what it looked like, is I
Speaker 1: don't think that you could have just you know, been
Speaker 1: snoozing the last three months and go out there and
Speaker 1: play like that. How important were these two receptions by
Speaker 1: Elijah More that Baldi just referred to their part? What
Speaker 1: can it do for his confidence? And if you have
Speaker 1: him going added to the equation with Garrett Wilson, and
Speaker 1: you brought Corey Davis back to the lineup. Suddenly this
Speaker 1: passing game can look a lot different, can it? Absolutely,
Speaker 1: because you don't know who to take away if you
Speaker 1: decide to double uh Garrett Wilson then allows you to
Speaker 1: get Elijah More who thrives in the slot. And I
Speaker 1: think that's his natural position. I think that's where he
Speaker 1: can best help this team. I'd like to see them
Speaker 1: maybe get him involved more some of those you know
Speaker 1: carries from Burials, give him some of those you know,
Speaker 1: those jet suits, because he really flourished with those last year.
Speaker 1: But you know, it just makes it a team harder
Speaker 1: to to be able to defend, and it gives you
Speaker 1: opportunity of guys that can give your explosive plays. When
Speaker 1: you think about you know, you lost a lot of
Speaker 1: that from Breece Hall because he was a guy that
Speaker 1: can give you forty yards or sixty yards, explore the plays,
Speaker 1: you know, with relatively safe type of plays. But now
Speaker 1: you look at a log and morelarg and more. Now
Speaker 1: it's confidences back and now he believes that, Okay, if
Speaker 1: I get the ball in my hands, if I'm open,
Speaker 1: that the ball is going to be delivered to me.
Speaker 1: So now that chemistry just continues to grow with Mike White.
Speaker 1: And listen, Mike White. You know last year this so
Speaker 1: like everybody want to say, well, it's against the Bears
Speaker 1: and that was an easy defense. He did it against
Speaker 1: the Bengals under the Bengals beat up on the Ravens.
Speaker 1: You know, they came in here and got humbled by
Speaker 1: the Jets, and you know that was because Mike White
Speaker 1: had a career day. So if everybody says, well, it's
Speaker 1: not a it's a fluke, look who he did it against.
Speaker 1: He did it against great competition last year. And he
Speaker 1: started off on Monday Night football doing it against the
Speaker 1: Coast before he got injured. So like, to me, this
Speaker 1: is something that we can count on. We can count
Speaker 1: on quick decisions, you know, trying to take care of
Speaker 1: the football. And everybody want to talk about, oh, well,
Speaker 1: you know the interships that he had last year, that's
Speaker 1: because there was a lot of tips. Those were tip balls.
Speaker 1: So that just tells me that people looked at the
Speaker 1: box score they didn't actually see the game. I saw
Speaker 1: the game, so I believe it. You can believe in
Speaker 1: Mike White and you can call on it and you
Speaker 1: don't have to be great when you have a defense
Speaker 1: like this and you have a good special teams, and
Speaker 1: the special teams are going to continue to be a
Speaker 1: bigger part of the game as the weather continues to
Speaker 1: get bad. Fil positioned and being able to flip the
Speaker 1: field defensively into a special team is going to be
Speaker 1: key to make it easy to put points on the board. Well,
Speaker 1: you know this part was saying on the television show
Speaker 1: last week that the Jets should be very thankful for
Speaker 1: what they have on the outside with Sauce, Gardner and
Speaker 1: DJ Read. The Bears made a couple of plays in
Speaker 1: the passing game, and one that actually happens. It's a
Speaker 1: surprise because these guys have been so good. What do
Speaker 1: you think about the response from the Jets. They give
Speaker 1: up ten of early points, then they slammed the door
Speaker 1: and that's it. And they went after those guys after that,
Speaker 1: and neither one of those guys got beatn I mean,
Speaker 1: they both gave up a play early in that game
Speaker 1: that led to the ten points. I mean, we have
Speaker 1: not seen Sauce panic at all with the ball in
Speaker 1: the air, no matter who he was covering by Claypool,
Speaker 1: for whatever reason, he was in good position. He just
Speaker 1: didn't play it right. And that's that can happen to
Speaker 1: any corner. I don't care if your name is Durell
Speaker 1: Reeves or anybody. That can happen to anybody. The good
Speaker 1: thing is, you know, and then DJ got beat, you know,
Speaker 1: for a touchdown. He was right in perfect position, you know,
Speaker 1: to make the play, just didn't make it Byron Pringle did.
Speaker 1: And so you know, in those situations, what you want
Speaker 1: for any young player is to not let that affect
Speaker 1: them going forward. And neither player was affected going forward.
Speaker 1: They both made plays after that, like they were kind
Speaker 1: of accustomed to see him. And the other thing about
Speaker 1: both those players is they're very, very good in the
Speaker 1: run game and then tackling, I mean, both of them
Speaker 1: will use I mean I've heard you know, part Rex
Speaker 1: Ryan say, look, I don't care if my corners tackle.
Speaker 1: I got nine other guys gotta go make that tackle.
Speaker 1: But I like my corners that go up there and
Speaker 1: put their nose into things. And that's what DJ and
Speaker 1: saw us do. They did it yesterday. And so look,
Speaker 1: one play in a game against a quarterback that they
Speaker 1: hadn't watched at all, you know, in in any in
Speaker 1: any sort of take what kind of a gold ball
Speaker 1: they throw Claypool's just do there. I mean, I'm making
Speaker 1: any excuses for these guys, but you know they make
Speaker 1: you get a play. They're gonna give up a playoff
Speaker 1: next week to Justin Jefferson. It's gonna happen. How do
Speaker 1: you respond to those plays after it happens. I can't
Speaker 1: wait for this matchup part Jets going to Minnesota. The
Speaker 1: Vikings one of the league's surprises. I would say at
Speaker 1: nine and two, they've won so many games in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter. We've talked about the Jets success in the
Speaker 1: fourth quarter throughout the year. I think the Vikings might
Speaker 1: be eight and oh in one possession games BALLD. The
Speaker 1: just talked about Justin Jefferson. So let's get right into it.
Speaker 1: Where would you put the Vikings skill position players if
Speaker 1: you were ranking them in the National Football League. How
Speaker 1: do you think the Jets match up with this group?
Speaker 1: Dalvin Cook, they trade for t. J. Hockenson, they got
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson, they got Adam Tealing, and of course Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins is the guy at the center of that thing
Speaker 1: at the quarterback position. Well, you know what, Kirk Cousins,
Speaker 1: the ball is gonna come out on time. You know,
Speaker 1: he's got some football accument. He's gonna understand when you
Speaker 1: you're rolling those safeties over and he got covered three,
Speaker 1: He's gonna know that he has man and man on
Speaker 1: the back side and if that guy is justin Jefferson,
Speaker 1: the ball is going to him. And you know, in
Speaker 1: this matchup, the the the Vikings are gonna be able
Speaker 1: to dictate matchups because of Jets play left and right,
Speaker 1: so depending on you know, what matchups they want and
Speaker 1: whether it's stealing on this side of Jefferson against a
Speaker 1: particular corner. You know, we know that they're going to
Speaker 1: be able to get that. And the Jets are going
Speaker 1: to do what they do best, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: important for them to really, you know, put a lot
Speaker 1: of pressure with the ford right and be able to
Speaker 1: double and you know, somebody's gonna get the heavy lifting,
Speaker 1: but you have to make sure that it's a not
Speaker 1: a steady dose where they can get predictable about being
Speaker 1: able to get the matchups. I like Michael Carter and
Speaker 1: this as well. Dalvin Cook is a closer back, but
Speaker 1: the Jets don't struggle with the backs that's kind of
Speaker 1: built like him. They struggle with the backs like Montgomery
Speaker 1: and Stevenson, the guys at bounce off and make the
Speaker 1: Jets miss a lot of tackles. Dalvin Cook is a
Speaker 1: powerful runner, but he's not a guy with that similar
Speaker 1: body that body type. Hockinson is going to be interesting
Speaker 1: because you know, I think you you know, he's a
Speaker 1: guy that they thought that they needed in this system,
Speaker 1: and he's a guy that can hurt you. You know,
Speaker 1: he's a guy that'll like kiddos who can get vertical,
Speaker 1: but he's you know, he's a he's a past receiving
Speaker 1: tight end. So it's gonna be some interesting matchups and
Speaker 1: you're gonna have to do some things that maybe you
Speaker 1: haven't shown on film. And but one thing they're gonna
Speaker 1: have to consistently do is get after this team with
Speaker 1: four rushers, and I think they can do that, especially
Speaker 1: if Dershaw isn't a dent or if he's not back
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Speaker 1: New York, Tennessee, and Virginia. Yeah, Baldi, you're living in
Speaker 1: the film room. What do you think early in a
Speaker 1: week here as we look ahead of the Jets defense
Speaker 1: playing at such an elite level against the Minnesota offense
Speaker 1: that has so many players that can make plays happen
Speaker 1: with ball, the ball in their hands, and they make
Speaker 1: clutch plays as well. Justin Jefferson, what do you think,
Speaker 1: top receiver in the league right now? Well, he's as
Speaker 1: good as anybody out there. You know the thing about
Speaker 1: Justin Jefferson, He's got he's got two plans. He's got
Speaker 1: a plan to get open and then he's got a
Speaker 1: plan once he catches the ball to get busy and
Speaker 1: to gain as many yards or get to the end
Speaker 1: zone as he can. Like he's he's a difference maker. Look,
Speaker 1: the whole key to this thing is how can you
Speaker 1: affect Kirk Cousins. I'm just saying a page out of
Speaker 1: Rex Ryan's book. You affect the quarterback. You're can affect
Speaker 1: this game. The two games that they lost this year,
Speaker 1: Kirk Cousins has been effected through three interceptions against the Eagles,
Speaker 1: one in the red zone. Horrible throw, but he was
Speaker 1: under pressure. You've got a pressure Kirk Cousins. You could
Speaker 1: pressure him. He can throw up too to the Jets
Speaker 1: during this game if the pressure is is applied. And
Speaker 1: he's not that much different than a lot of quarterbacks.
Speaker 1: But that's why he has not been successful in big,
Speaker 1: big games and in the postseason because the pressure is
Speaker 1: gonna be much bigger. And to me, that's gonna be
Speaker 1: the key to this game. Um, you know I saw C. J.
Speaker 1: Mosley force uh, you know, a sack by Bryce huff
Speaker 1: Lash yesterday just by stepping into the a gap and
Speaker 1: drawing the guard tackle down. I saw him go to
Speaker 1: a five minute defense line that led to a sack
Speaker 1: early in the game. I mean, I think you have
Speaker 1: to change up a little. But I don't think you
Speaker 1: could just rush four all the time. I think you
Speaker 1: gotta try some overloads, give him some different looks, give him,
Speaker 1: you know, get him to go max protection and limit
Speaker 1: the number of options for Cousins to go down the
Speaker 1: field too. But you know, by and large, this team
Speaker 1: is built around the front four, and you know they
Speaker 1: got to earn their money in this game up in Minnesota.
Speaker 1: And so to me, it's about getting hits on Kirk
Speaker 1: Cousins early. The earlier the better, because any of these
Speaker 1: quarterbacks are all the same. You hit him early, we're
Speaker 1: gonna give it to you late. And to me, that's
Speaker 1: what I'd be preaching all week long. Part, do you
Speaker 1: like those matchup advantages up front along the line of
Speaker 1: skirmish for the Jets defense only, especially if if there
Speaker 1: show is not not healthy? I mean, you talk about
Speaker 1: being able to run some games with quinnin and Carl
Speaker 1: on the other side, you know, and the Jets, you know,
Speaker 1: they do it in waves, right. I love when huff
Speaker 1: comes off. He's kind of like the closer, but they
Speaker 1: put him in a little earlier. I do get concerned.
Speaker 1: Consider Quinny Williams without shelling the rankings there. You know,
Speaker 1: you you don't have a lot of veterans, you know,
Speaker 1: leadership there. Solomon Thomas is is there, but he's not
Speaker 1: a big, heavy guy. So you look think about you know,
Speaker 1: them maybe trying to isolate those matchups and get movement
Speaker 1: off the line of scrimmage for Dalvin Cook. But they're
Speaker 1: gonna have to make them one dimensional. They're gonna have
Speaker 1: to stop the run and and making one dimentional. And
Speaker 1: that that's a team thing, you know, because if the
Speaker 1: offense gets up, then that they'll abandon the run like
Speaker 1: most teams do, to try and catch up. And that's
Speaker 1: when you have opportunities for Kirk Cousins to throw you one.
Speaker 1: And you know, the goal was always to get up
Speaker 1: by two scores and then dictate the rules of engagement
Speaker 1: for the opposing team. Kirk Cousins is not um one
Speaker 1: of these mobile quarterbacks that are gonna take off. He's
Speaker 1: gonna be in the pocket, you know where he's gonna be,
Speaker 1: and if you can get him off this spot rather
Speaker 1: than you know, they ran a couple of fish hooks
Speaker 1: last week where the opposite DN goals underneath and the
Speaker 1: otherwise the defender gets why and you know Kirk Cousins
Speaker 1: can be affected that way as well, getting in his
Speaker 1: face and get him on the ground early, make him
Speaker 1: start seeing goals or well, that's something that we can't
Speaker 1: use with the Jets anymore. Um, make them, make them panic.
Speaker 1: Let's go there that they just brought up bad memories
Speaker 1: a few years ago. Let's flip it to the other
Speaker 1: side of the ball. They'll ball the The Vikings are winning,
Speaker 1: but statistically they're giving up a ton defensively and they're
Speaker 1: really not getting to the quarterback either. First year in
Speaker 1: that new system with the three four, they got the
Speaker 1: veteran safeties back there. They do have good players. But
Speaker 1: when you're looking at them where they are as a unit,
Speaker 1: where do you think the Jets can get after the
Speaker 1: Vikings defense? Well, I think you gotta run out of them.
Speaker 1: You know, they don't have a lot of big bodies inside. Um.
Speaker 1: But you know, look Darius Smith, dj want Um, Daniel Hunter.
Speaker 1: I wouldn't I wouldn't underestimate any of those guys Darius
Speaker 1: can line up anywhere on the field. He's gonna pick
Speaker 1: his matchups. They kind of let him go freelance quite
Speaker 1: a bit. Uh. He might find the weakness in what
Speaker 1: he thinks the Jets offensive line is where that might be.
Speaker 1: I don't know, maybe it's Lake and Tomlinson. But he
Speaker 1: can line up over the center guards, tackles um really anywhere,
Speaker 1: and he can win one on once. He's He's really
Speaker 1: good to Neil Hunter is a good power rusher. Uh
Speaker 1: DJ want him is you cannot underestimate um. And so look, uh,
Speaker 1: I think the air Quality group, I don't care what
Speaker 1: their numbers say. They have guys that can get home
Speaker 1: and get to the quarterback and can affect it. I've
Speaker 1: seen it throughout the season. Um. I think said Aius
Speaker 1: is capable of leading this league in sacks one year
Speaker 1: if he just, you know, just gets the opportunities to
Speaker 1: do it just because of his style. He's got a
Speaker 1: unique style. He's a slap and you know, runaround guy,
Speaker 1: but he also has some power. So look, you know,
Speaker 1: Eric Hendricks is about his uh A sound a middle
Speaker 1: linebackers there is and and so uh you know, I
Speaker 1: I think that they've got good players. I mean, they
Speaker 1: might have some young corners out there. Every time I
Speaker 1: look at the right corner position, looks like there's a
Speaker 1: new guy out there right now. Uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: kind of find out who's out there if they can
Speaker 1: hold up out there in that spot. Hey, bart, what
Speaker 1: is White gonna be seeing when he looks at those
Speaker 1: safeties the two guys have seen at all? On Harrison
Speaker 1: Smith and then Patrick Peterson? Of course, Yeah, Harrison Smith
Speaker 1: is a prose pro. I mean he's a guy who's
Speaker 1: played in this league at a high level, you know,
Speaker 1: for a very long time. He's a playmaker, and he's
Speaker 1: he's the he's the air traffic controller back there. So
Speaker 1: they're gonna, you know, they're gonna have to come at
Speaker 1: the Patrick Peterson even though you know he's playing safety,
Speaker 1: he really doesn't have a lot of experience there, um,
Speaker 1: but he's smart. He knows it from the corner position.
Speaker 1: You know, he's he's been one of the corners that
Speaker 1: have made that transition. When you think about Charles Woodson,
Speaker 1: Rod Woodson, you know guys that have been able to
Speaker 1: you know, extend their career by playing you know, the
Speaker 1: safety position after they slowed down a little bit, but
Speaker 1: you you gotta come up there, and you gotta you
Speaker 1: gotta have a sound plan and um, you gotta try
Speaker 1: and get him in space, right. Kendrick Is has played
Speaker 1: at a high level for a long time as well. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'm a personal, uh you know fan of his. I
Speaker 1: love the way he plays in tone. Him and his
Speaker 1: brother always brought a little grit to the game. But
Speaker 1: you gotta, you gotta go in. You gotta make it
Speaker 1: a physical contest as well. You can't abandon the run.
Speaker 1: You have to set everything off of the run. They understand,
Speaker 1: you know, really that Mike White's going to get the
Speaker 1: ball out, so they understand it. They made flat foot,
Speaker 1: so it's gonna be important for you to take some
Speaker 1: shots to try and loosen them up early on. I
Speaker 1: don't know if that's the Corey Davis that two mems,
Speaker 1: you know what I mean, But I think you know,
Speaker 1: you gotta come with some unique um formations and personnels
Speaker 1: to keep them guessing. And you know, I would love
Speaker 1: for them to go into this game. It's a hostile environment,
Speaker 1: but to take him out of the game to kind
Speaker 1: of with some up tempo stuff, especially when you come
Speaker 1: out with your fift team play script to be able
Speaker 1: to kind of change some things up just to kind of,
Speaker 1: you know, make them not see what you're trying to
Speaker 1: put in front of their eyes. Well, they got my
Speaker 1: eyes on Tyler Conklin. Going back to Minnesota. This ball
Speaker 1: game is one of Kirk cousins top targets last year,
Speaker 1: and you're watching that game on Thanksgiving. Uh. I know,
Speaker 1: the styles make fights, but the Patriots and Mac Jones
Speaker 1: and Hunter Henry, they had some success on the tight end,
Speaker 1: So I think maybe Tyler Conklin can get going after
Speaker 1: his former teammates. Well, I think when the Vikings study, uh,
Speaker 1: the Jets victory against the Bears, they're going to be
Speaker 1: impressed by how both Tyler Conklin and c James Aama blocked.
Speaker 1: I mean those outside zones and their ability to just
Speaker 1: seal the edge and really kind of do combo blocks
Speaker 1: up to the next level. They were excellent, and even
Speaker 1: the hit screen out to Garrett Wilson that end up
Speaker 1: leading to a you know, an eventual touchdown. I mean
Speaker 1: they were they looked like they were really enjoying themselves
Speaker 1: block and they both were effective in the past game.
Speaker 1: I thought Tyler Conklin was excellent last year as a
Speaker 1: starting tight end, especially when er Smith went down early
Speaker 1: and he carried him. And so you know, he's familiar
Speaker 1: with that defense. He's familiar. Even though that they've had
Speaker 1: a coaching change, he's familiar with the personnel that's there
Speaker 1: hasn't changed all that much from a year ago. So
Speaker 1: there's some things that he might be able to help
Speaker 1: out game plan wise. But you know, I think them
Speaker 1: nation and the tandem of him and c J is
Speaker 1: excellent right now in the running past game. All right,
Speaker 1: Big picture, guys, the Jets are entering December playing meaningful football.
Speaker 1: Part Jets fans, who should they be rooting for Thursday
Speaker 1: night when the Bills play the New England Patriots. You
Speaker 1: got the Bills who are eight and three, but the
Speaker 1: Patriots right behind the nippit in your heels at six
Speaker 1: and five, And I know you have to take care
Speaker 1: of your own business. I'm talking about from a fans perspective,
Speaker 1: who you root for there? I mean, I'm I'm rooting
Speaker 1: for New England to beat the Bills because I have
Speaker 1: dreams of winning the division. So I think it's wide open.
Speaker 1: You know, let's see how that just for not having
Speaker 1: von Miller. But I want I want them to I
Speaker 1: want I want them to lose, so then I see
Speaker 1: them and I'll take care of my business so I
Speaker 1: can guarantee that's too. I'm done with New England, right,
Speaker 1: I can't do anything else to affect New England. I
Speaker 1: want the Bills to lose so then I can take
Speaker 1: care of business. And that's two losses which make me
Speaker 1: be ahead of them. And also when I see Miami,
Speaker 1: if I can do that again, then we went to vision.
Speaker 1: We went into vision till you got an opportunity to
Speaker 1: get an opponent that is not a top seat, and
Speaker 1: that should always be the goal that keeps you away
Speaker 1: from Kansas City early and allows you to kind of
Speaker 1: get used to play in the PLO season and maybe
Speaker 1: even hosting a game at home. How about that? I
Speaker 1: love that? Thank you, Baldi. What's your take on it?
Speaker 1: I feel like if New England takes care of business
Speaker 1: against Buffalo, Buffalo is officially really um you know, they
Speaker 1: have not played well. They don't look nearly as explosive
Speaker 1: as they did in the first half of the season.
Speaker 1: Um you know. I think that if they would lose
Speaker 1: to New England right here. I think the confidence that
Speaker 1: I saw from this team from training camp when I
Speaker 1: was up there in Rochester through the start of the season,
Speaker 1: that I would think that they would begin to have
Speaker 1: some doubts, some real doubts about just who they are.
Speaker 1: And because the quarterback doesn't look nearly as aggressive as
Speaker 1: he once was, where he looked like he was the
Speaker 1: best player in the league for the first half of
Speaker 1: the season, and then the turnovers, then to kind of
Speaker 1: lead on the run game, then to kind of take
Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands. Like, I think this
Speaker 1: could do a real number on the Buffalo Bills. As
Speaker 1: you know, the Jets get ready to you know, to
Speaker 1: take them on here pretty soon. So right after Minnesota.
Speaker 1: So if I was the Jets, like I think the Patriots,
Speaker 1: even though they beat them twice, I think that if
Speaker 1: you would meet them again in the postseason, if that
Speaker 1: would happen, I don't think the Jets would fear New
Speaker 1: England at all if they would get near them again.
Speaker 1: Part is this going to be a defining two weeks
Speaker 1: for the Jets going to Minnesota than going to Buffalo. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think this is if we can take
Speaker 1: them seriously. Now, they let one get away with New England.
Speaker 1: But if they able to take care of this, I
Speaker 1: think they put the league on notice, right because you're
Speaker 1: beating two teams that you know are going to be
Speaker 1: in a postseason and you know they can ride that
Speaker 1: momentum and that wave. It's not about who's the best team.
Speaker 1: It's about who's playing the best at the right time time,
Speaker 1: And this is the time where you have your identity
Speaker 1: and you know how you want to try and win
Speaker 1: football games going forward, and it's about executing the game plan.
Speaker 1: And because the Jets have so much depth, they may
Speaker 1: be one of the most healthier teams, even though they're
Speaker 1: gonna be without very Tucker Breece Hall, but they have
Speaker 1: good backups. They have guys coming back. Max Mitchell was
Speaker 1: able to step in. Listen. Injuries aren't gonna stop mounting
Speaker 1: up in the lays in the last six weeks. They're
Speaker 1: gonna keep happening. But the Jets are equipped and they're
Speaker 1: gonna get some of their hurt players back, right, so
Speaker 1: they dealt with their adversity. Some teams are just starting
Speaker 1: to deal with the adversity right. Buffalo has been relatively
Speaker 1: healthy outside of the safety position now with von Miller
Speaker 1: bean hurt, that was their horse whisper, their Super Bowl whisper,
Speaker 1: and now they're gonna have to adjust without having a
Speaker 1: guy that's one of the best closes in the game,
Speaker 1: and that's going to take a while in the period.
Speaker 1: Let's see if they won't reel from that, right and
Speaker 1: you look at Miami, you know, reeling as well from
Speaker 1: maybe Armstead being out and now concerns with the protection
Speaker 1: of does that change the way they you know, throw
Speaker 1: the football. Does that mean that now it's three step
Speaker 1: drops not these long you know, bombs down the field.
Speaker 1: And how does that affect the way they go about business?
Speaker 1: Their run game and they're passing game. The Jets are fine.
Speaker 1: They know that they can withstand almost any injury, you know,
Speaker 1: and be fine because they have tremendous depth. And that's
Speaker 1: the plus that they have in this division that the
Speaker 1: other teams don't have the lecture of habit well they
Speaker 1: when it's all said and done, you think three teams
Speaker 1: out of their sc East make the playoffs. I don't
Speaker 1: see anybody in the West, you know, putting anybody beside
Speaker 1: you know, Kansas City in there. I don't see anybody
Speaker 1: in the South putting anybody beside Tennessee in there. And
Speaker 1: so then you're looking at you know, the Cincinnati in Baltimore.
Speaker 1: You know, can they can they guy kind of go
Speaker 1: head to head here and probably put two in there,
Speaker 1: you know, And if that's the case that they do,
Speaker 1: that's three from the East that are gonna go in,
Speaker 1: you know, with the records that they have, unless you know,
Speaker 1: one or two of these teams fall apart down the stretch,
Speaker 1: which I don't really see happening, but it's a tough
Speaker 1: stretch for the Jets right now. They're gonna find out
Speaker 1: an awful lot about themselves. And that can work both ways.
Speaker 1: You know, you beat both these teams, or at least
Speaker 1: show really well go one on one on the road
Speaker 1: against these two teams. For as young as the Jets are,
Speaker 1: I mean, that's just gonna build confidence in the entire
Speaker 1: organization that they can go toe to toe with these
Speaker 1: teams that are expected to play January football. And you
Speaker 1: just seem I mean, I know, we we kind of
Speaker 1: glossed over. But to see how excited Elijah Moore was
Speaker 1: when he scored his first touchdown yesterday, those are the
Speaker 1: type of moments with a young player that they could
Speaker 1: build on and they could say, I could do this
Speaker 1: against Buffalo, I could do this against Minnesota. I don't
Speaker 1: care what the name of the jerseys are, and you
Speaker 1: know where these games are being played. Young players feed
Speaker 1: off and and veteran players feed off of young players
Speaker 1: that are excited and they kind of don't know what
Speaker 1: they don't know, which is not a good bad thing.
Speaker 1: They're just excited and they kind of give the entire
Speaker 1: team at should I saw Elijah More run off that
Speaker 1: field with that ball like it was his only touchdown
Speaker 1: he's ever scored his life, and we know that's not true.
Speaker 1: So that's that's what's in front of these young kids
Speaker 1: for the judge. And we also know how capable he
Speaker 1: is because we've seen it. So he doesn't have a
Speaker 1: level of fear because last year he did that, he
Speaker 1: took care of business, and he coming into this season
Speaker 1: was supposed to be one of the brightest spots on
Speaker 1: the offense. That hasn't materialized, but it's never too late,
Speaker 1: and it's you know, it looks like he's got on
Speaker 1: a roll and if he can get that going, man
Speaker 1: to just become so much more difficult to be able
Speaker 1: to defend. And that opens everything up because you're gonna
Speaker 1: be putting your number two receiver trying to bracket him,
Speaker 1: you know, you know, in the slot, being able to
Speaker 1: have easy access, being off the ball, being able to
Speaker 1: determine and go left and right, and you know, determined matchups.
Speaker 1: Then you know that just clears the table for you know,
Speaker 1: Corey Davis. Oh yeah, that guy right, you know, to
Speaker 1: get the third best corner or get the less attention
Speaker 1: and get one on one matchup that he can exploit
Speaker 1: as he's getting more healthy. And what a good job
Speaker 1: by Denzel, ma'am's kind of holding the fort and then
Speaker 1: he's got to say, hey, ma'am's has earned the right
Speaker 1: to be up over Smith, so now you know he
Speaker 1: can get in there. Hey kid, can you give me
Speaker 1: a good over route. You know, we've wore these corners out.
Speaker 1: They're tired, you know, they haven't played against you, And
Speaker 1: you get to go out there with a different body type,
Speaker 1: of big long body type, and let's see if you
Speaker 1: can go catch the old nine ball. Hey, subscribe, rate
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Speaker 1: thanks for joining myself and the mat backer today. Brother,
Speaker 1: always gonna be with you guys. Man, Bart be good.
Speaker 1: Let's uh, let's see if the Jets can get on
Speaker 1: a roll here at the right time of the year. Man,
Speaker 1: it's uh, this is a stretch run right, Here's when
Speaker 1: you gotta play your best football and you have to
Speaker 1: a good start last Sunday. Man, I'm excited to watch
Speaker 1: him this weekend. Absolutely