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Speaker 1: Welcome to Inside the Jets. Were broadcasting live from Vanderbilt
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Speaker 1: Allen joined alongside by my partner. We have found Eric
Speaker 1: coleman E. Thanks for showing up tonight back like I
Speaker 1: left something. Yeah, we missed you a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 1: Later on, during this episode of Inside the Jets will
Speaker 1: be joined by Jets inside linebacker Neville Hewitt, who's had
Speaker 1: a really fine start to this season, but overall for
Speaker 1: the Green and White, a tough first quarter four games
Speaker 1: through still one less. Yeah, it's been a unfortunate a
Speaker 1: series of unfortunate events for the Jets, you know, having
Speaker 1: the injuries that the injuries have decimated them, but the
Speaker 1: play hasn't been there, you know, I don't think it's
Speaker 1: been up to the expectations of the players or the organization.
Speaker 1: So they got some things to clean up, but there
Speaker 1: is relief coming a couple of guys coming off suspension.
Speaker 1: Hopefully Sam Donald comes back, and hopefully we'll get C.
Speaker 1: JM B back in that connection, so that will be
Speaker 1: a great jump for this team. That was the news
Speaker 1: out of one Jets Drive today. Sam Donald, of course,
Speaker 1: took first team reps Wednesday and Thursday last week. The
Speaker 1: Jets hoped that he could have got in the lineup
Speaker 1: against the Philadelphia Eagles, unfortunately ruled out. Thursday night, Luke
Speaker 1: Falk made the start. The Jets went down to Philadelphia
Speaker 1: and took a loss thirty one to six. Today, Adam
Speaker 1: Gates announced that Sam Donald will indeed get tests Tuesday,
Speaker 1: so we should know by the end of the day
Speaker 1: tomorrow whether Donald will make his second start of two
Speaker 1: thousand nineteen. Yeah, I mean, and that would be a
Speaker 1: big relief, not only for his physical presence, you know,
Speaker 1: throwing the football accurately on time, but just his presence
Speaker 1: as a leader. You know, he's the leader of this team,
Speaker 1: and he's established himself as the leader, you know, from
Speaker 1: last season, going through the off season and to the
Speaker 1: start of this season. So it'll be big for the
Speaker 1: confidence of the team just having your your guy out
Speaker 1: there leading the troops. I would make the argument that
Speaker 1: most teams would be in the same boat the Jets
Speaker 1: find themselves in right now. You lose your quarterback after
Speaker 1: week one where he felt like he said, he didn't
Speaker 1: feel like himself. He missed some plays out there in
Speaker 1: the field. With that being said, he's still completed one passes.
Speaker 1: Then he's diagnosed with model. He misses games two through four.
Speaker 1: During that game against the Buffalo Bills, that opener, you
Speaker 1: goun a double digit lead. C J. Mosley had a
Speaker 1: pick s in a fumble recovery. He went out with
Speaker 1: the groin injury. You lost your quarterback at the defense.
Speaker 1: Those are two guys that you just can't replace. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean we're not sitting here making excuses for the team. Uh,
Speaker 1: that's just reality. That's reality. I mean, you lose your
Speaker 1: starting quarterback, you lose your backup quarterback, and then you
Speaker 1: lose some some key components on your team. These are
Speaker 1: guys who you paid a lot of money to. Uh.
Speaker 1: You you invested draft picks to to beat leaders or
Speaker 1: your team, to be playmakers for your team that you
Speaker 1: had counted on that that aren't here right now. So
Speaker 1: it's gonna leave a big void for the team to fill.
Speaker 1: And unfortunately for the Jets, they play some tough teams
Speaker 1: and haven't been able to come up with the win
Speaker 1: in the first four games. And you just mentioned it before.
Speaker 1: Maybe the Jets will get a pair back from suspension
Speaker 1: this week in Chris Herndon, a tight end who developed
Speaker 1: a great rapport and connection with Sam Donald when they
Speaker 1: were both rookies in two thousand and eighteen. And Brandon Copeland,
Speaker 1: a guy who was slated to be one of your
Speaker 1: outside start an outside linebackers when the season begin. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Brandon Copeland is a guy who had an excellent preseason.
Speaker 1: You know, he brings a spark, you know, off that edge.
Speaker 1: He you know, he's he's not the John Abraham, but
Speaker 1: he's physical. He does a great job against the run.
Speaker 1: He can get after the quarterback. Uh. And then you
Speaker 1: look at um, you look at Herndon, who's a speedy
Speaker 1: tight end, and look at the lack of production that
Speaker 1: we've had from that position since he's since he hasn't
Speaker 1: been in. Yeah, and I think Ryan Griffin has done
Speaker 1: a good job, great job. He's done a great job
Speaker 1: as a blocker, and he'll continue to do a good job.
Speaker 1: But Herndon brings such a different, uh, just a different
Speaker 1: aspect of the game, uh to that offense. You know,
Speaker 1: he can spread the field vertically down the field. He's
Speaker 1: a mismatch for any safety or a linebacker who covers
Speaker 1: him and opens it up for the other receivers. So
Speaker 1: hopefully his presence will help spark the offense. Well, let's
Speaker 1: talk about that right now. If the Jets do indeed
Speaker 1: get Sam Darnold back in the lineup and Chris Herndon
Speaker 1: against the Dallas Cowboys Sunday, and we're gonna talk about
Speaker 1: that matchup later on here tonight as you're listening to
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Speaker 1: how does that change things for defenses when they got
Speaker 1: to match up with the Jets in terms of what's
Speaker 1: happening on the middle of the field. In the middle
Speaker 1: of the field, because the Jets gotta boost Sunday, the
Speaker 1: Marrius Thomas got back in the lineup, so that shifted
Speaker 1: Jamison Crowder back inside to the slot. But now if
Speaker 1: you add Herndon into the mix. What does it do
Speaker 1: to opposing defenses that, no, not only is Herndon, not
Speaker 1: only is crowd or a threat over the middle, but
Speaker 1: now you got Herndon as well well. It makes it tough.
Speaker 1: You know, when you when you have your personnel matchups,
Speaker 1: you always want to match up the linebackers in secondary
Speaker 1: to the to the personnel of the offense. And with
Speaker 1: Herndon out there, he's a guy who can go inside
Speaker 1: and block, so you know, you can't bring an extra
Speaker 1: dB to cover him, so you have to keep a
Speaker 1: linebacker out there. And when you do have that linebacker
Speaker 1: out there, you can split Herndon, put him out there
Speaker 1: on the island where he's very uncomfortable, and maybe convert
Speaker 1: a third down and four, maybe just convert some mismatch
Speaker 1: plays to keep the drive going and and help your
Speaker 1: offense continue those drives. What possibly could he also do
Speaker 1: for Bell Herndon's reinsertion into the lineup, but also Donald
Speaker 1: coming back there, because I know the Jets have had
Speaker 1: struggles in protection so far this season. We know that,
Speaker 1: but Donald's a guy can make plays with his feet
Speaker 1: and when chaos is happening around him, we've seen him
Speaker 1: escape that pocket keep his eyes down the field. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, he does an excellent job of throwing the
Speaker 1: ball on the run, breaking and wants to play breakdowns
Speaker 1: he can extend it. But also just having that confidence
Speaker 1: of being that starting quarterback understanding who's gonna be open.
Speaker 1: You know, the main thing about a quarterback is anticipation,
Speaker 1: and when you have a young quarterback in there who
Speaker 1: hasn't seen, hasn't had the reps, hasn't been in there
Speaker 1: against number one defense, is it's hard for him to
Speaker 1: trust what he sees. And I think that's what you
Speaker 1: saw in times with Luke Falk. He's holding the football
Speaker 1: a little extra and that extra second is the is
Speaker 1: the world to a pass rush, to an offensive lineman
Speaker 1: having a block. So I think Sam getting the ball
Speaker 1: out quick, being assertive with it, extending plays when it
Speaker 1: breaks down will help the offense quite a bit. And
Speaker 1: I think it's gonna help Levan Bell, who just has
Speaker 1: not had enough space out there. He is doing a
Speaker 1: tremendous job of producing yards after a contact, but you
Speaker 1: only can ask a guy to do so much. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, he he's out there fighting every play, fighting
Speaker 1: for every yard, and you know you just have to
Speaker 1: commend a guy who's given that effort. And you know
Speaker 1: it's tough because defenses are are inching, their safety is
Speaker 1: in closer. I know, if I'm playing safety against Levian Bell,
Speaker 1: against the third string quarterback, I'm gonna be lining up
Speaker 1: at instead of twelve yards, I'm lining up at nine,
Speaker 1: and I'm gonna just gonna exactly. I dare you to
Speaker 1: throw it deep, and if you beat the strowing it deep,
Speaker 1: then we'll take that. But we're not gonna let do
Speaker 1: your best player on your team beat us. And that's
Speaker 1: what teams are doing. They're trying to take away Levy
Speaker 1: on Bill, no matter if it's in the run game
Speaker 1: of the past game, and making other players beat them.
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Speaker 1: here alongside Eric Coleman. We're gonna be joined by Jets
Speaker 1: linebacker Neville Hewitt. In our second segment Um the Jets Today.
Speaker 1: Leonard Williams was on a conference call and said we
Speaker 1: had a players only meeting, and guys got up there
Speaker 1: and discussed that we're not pointing fingers at each other.
Speaker 1: Right now, here's a moment, a key moment I think
Speaker 1: for this team early in the season, because there's still
Speaker 1: three quarters of the season left in two thousand nineteen.
Speaker 1: This season, it's a marathon. They gotta stay together, they
Speaker 1: gotta stick together. And I like the message that we
Speaker 1: heard from the guys today. Yeah, I think that's important
Speaker 1: for uh, you know, the veterans of the team to
Speaker 1: bring in the players have a players only meeting with
Speaker 1: no coaching uh no, you know, not having to worry
Speaker 1: about what someone's gonna think about you. Let get the
Speaker 1: issues off your chest. You know. I'm sure it probably
Speaker 1: got heated at times. Yes, it was a positive meeting,
Speaker 1: but there are probably some things that guys are frustrated
Speaker 1: about and you can get that off your chest with
Speaker 1: your teammate. And I think that's very important to open
Speaker 1: those lines at communication. Let everyone know that we're in
Speaker 1: this together. You know, we may not be winning right now,
Speaker 1: but if we stick together as a unit, we're gonna
Speaker 1: be so much more dangerous than if we start pointing
Speaker 1: fingers at guys, because ultimately, you know, we win and
Speaker 1: lose as a team. And about forty five seconds here,
Speaker 1: how frustrating it can it be for defender right now,
Speaker 1: when you know your offense, it's so difficult for them
Speaker 1: to move the football because they're not even sustaining drives,
Speaker 1: not all the third downs. It's three and out. It's tough,
Speaker 1: you know, it is very frustrating as a defense when
Speaker 1: you do your job, you get a three and out,
Speaker 1: you go sit down and grab your gatorade and can't
Speaker 1: even finish the cup. Because the punt team has to
Speaker 1: go back out there. Uh. You know, it can get frustrating.
Speaker 1: But as a defense, you have so much to worry
Speaker 1: about in your own mind, so many assignments that you
Speaker 1: have to handle, that it's hard for you to focus
Speaker 1: on that, you know, during the game. All right, we're
Speaker 1: gonna come right back with just linebacker Neville Hewitt. You're
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Speaker 1: up the shotgun to the sievers left or to the right.
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Speaker 1: Welcome back to Inside the Jets. We are broadcasting live
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Speaker 1: York Jets. Let's bring in now and unlikely big time
Speaker 1: contributor for the New York Jets in two thousand nineteen.
Speaker 1: Linebacker for you, Itt, Thanks for having me. How you doing, man,
Speaker 1: I'm good. No, but we just heard uh a pick
Speaker 1: six from Jamal Anams actually against the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: But you guys were down in Philadelphia yesterday. I thought
Speaker 1: the defense gave this team an opportunity to win the game.
Speaker 1: This was a Philadelphia Eagles team that, at average twenty
Speaker 1: seven and a half points per contest. The defense held
Speaker 1: them the seventeen points. Also an Eagles team that led
Speaker 1: the National Football League in terms of third down efficiency
Speaker 1: fifty six point one percent. After allowing those three third
Speaker 1: down conversions, I believe there were two other next ten.
Speaker 1: When you guys went back to one Jets drive today,
Speaker 1: what did the film reveal? Um? We just cleaned up
Speaker 1: the little things. Um we know the defense we've been
Speaker 1: playing well, and um we just really all year, our
Speaker 1: our plan has deen and just clean up the little
Speaker 1: things and will we could be even better than we look.
Speaker 1: And each week is is just little details here and there,
Speaker 1: you know, somebody hopping out of a gap or something
Speaker 1: like that, or me not doing something I was supposed
Speaker 1: to do, you know, so and and some of the
Speaker 1: mistakes is my fault, you know. But um, it's just
Speaker 1: a lot of things. It's just really little things that
Speaker 1: we can clean up on defense and and it's going
Speaker 1: to get clean and um, we're gonna be even better.
Speaker 1: So so never I want to go back to the
Speaker 1: beginning of the season. Obviously, you prepared yourself to be
Speaker 1: the starting linebacker. You know, that's something that's an opportunity
Speaker 1: that we all you know, wait for. But Avery Williamson
Speaker 1: goes down, then you're like, Okay, it's gonna be c J.
Speaker 1: And I he's a veteran, he's been doing it at
Speaker 1: a high level for a long time. And then c
Speaker 1: J goes down. How did that transformation? How did that
Speaker 1: transform your responsibility as a linebacker from being a guy
Speaker 1: next to c J to being like d Man calling
Speaker 1: the plays, running the show. Yeah, I think our coaching
Speaker 1: staff did a really good job on the preseason. When um,
Speaker 1: they started moving some guys around and making us learn
Speaker 1: UM two to three different positions, and I end up
Speaker 1: having to play it in a few games. One in
Speaker 1: Atlanta during the preseason. UM played played it against the
Speaker 1: Giants in the preseason. So when the CJ went down,
Speaker 1: all know how to do was know that I was
Speaker 1: the MIC and I was able to go into that position.
Speaker 1: And it's just you know, any position, if you're not
Speaker 1: practicing it, you're not going to be as good until
Speaker 1: you start getting more reps. So every game I've I've
Speaker 1: gotten better and I'm getting more comfortable at it. What
Speaker 1: do you think about the run fits you guys all
Speaker 1: the Eagles, I think to less than three yards per carry.
Speaker 1: You were all over the field, leading the team in
Speaker 1: terms of tackles with ten. Yeah. I think they shot
Speaker 1: me a few. Yeah yeah, yeah. Uh. You gotta get
Speaker 1: up and celebrate after every tackle, so they give you
Speaker 1: the credit, that's what they say. So what do you
Speaker 1: what do you think about the way you would handle
Speaker 1: the run game, because this is an Eagles team that
Speaker 1: rushed for nearly two hundred yards against the Packers. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think we we take pride in and stopping the
Speaker 1: on and any good defense, You know, you have to
Speaker 1: stop to run and make um make a team one
Speaker 1: dimensions and forced them to throw the ball. And I
Speaker 1: think that's something we we probably ourselves on and each
Speaker 1: week that's our goal. We're gonna try to stop you
Speaker 1: from winding the ball and you're going We're gonna see
Speaker 1: what you get with your quarterback and do what do
Speaker 1: you think about the way you guys respond And you
Speaker 1: took that early punch again like you did in New England,
Speaker 1: But the Patriots scored on three consecutive drives to start
Speaker 1: the game. You started up bleeding, you stopped the bleeding
Speaker 1: after giving up the initial touchdown. You settled down for
Speaker 1: the rest of the first half until right it then Yeah,
Speaker 1: I think, Um, one thing we're starting to continue to
Speaker 1: work on is it's starting off fast and once we um,
Speaker 1: once we we figured that out, how we can once
Speaker 1: the defense come out in that first series, you know,
Speaker 1: calm down and and and get back to our fundamentals
Speaker 1: and get off the field that first drive, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be hard, really hard to score on us. So when
Speaker 1: you when you guys go back in the film room
Speaker 1: or the defensive meeting room, Uh, is it a situation
Speaker 1: where you have your third string quarter back in Are
Speaker 1: you talking to yourselves like, listen, we need everybody to
Speaker 1: be on point this week because we have a guy
Speaker 1: in here who hasn't done it. Uh, you know, we're
Speaker 1: probably gonna have to play a lot better than we
Speaker 1: will normally play. Is there a lot of pressure having
Speaker 1: that situation? Um? Well, we we we don't really worry
Speaker 1: about what the offense have going on. Um we we
Speaker 1: know the situation. But as a defense, we're always trying
Speaker 1: to force turnovers. You know, we're big on forcing turnovers,
Speaker 1: being physical, and you know, whenever a team playoffs, they
Speaker 1: know they have to come play no matter what our
Speaker 1: situation is on the other side of the ball, they
Speaker 1: have to deal with our defense. So, um, you know,
Speaker 1: we try to go out to the ball and we're
Speaker 1: emphasizing and then we're trying to get even more just
Speaker 1: to even give our offense even more chances, you know,
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Speaker 1: fourth and five in the first quarter, what was happening
Speaker 1: in terms of that pass rush look like a little stunner,
Speaker 1: a little game for you, and you got a clear
Speaker 1: shot at once. Yeah. Yeah, whenever they send me, if
Speaker 1: I have like a two way a go or something
Speaker 1: on the lineman, I'm probably gonna get there. Um, And
Speaker 1: we had the stunt going and I came around and
Speaker 1: just almost had the sack. Phone one. He got it,
Speaker 1: He got it off. I mean, he's a big quarterback
Speaker 1: and he's he's pretty good at getting rid of the
Speaker 1: ball when people get you've been getting to the quarterback.
Speaker 1: Had a sack of Baker Mayfield in Week two, You
Speaker 1: had the interception in Week one against the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 1: So what is this experience going to do for your
Speaker 1: long term? Like Eric mentioned, you started out is okay.
Speaker 1: I know I want to be a special team's contributor.
Speaker 1: I know I'm gonna provide depth. I want to start.
Speaker 1: But if my numbers called, I'll be ready. And sure enough,
Speaker 1: every Williamson goes down with the torn a c L
Speaker 1: and Mosley goes out, and not only did you have
Speaker 1: to change position, but you are the quarterback of this
Speaker 1: defense right now. Yeah, this is this is like an
Speaker 1: opportunity I've been preparing for it for like two years now.
Speaker 1: Like when I was in Miami. I started the year
Speaker 1: we went to the playoffs. Um, I started in bass
Speaker 1: defense and then when I got injured, I got cut.
Speaker 1: So it was like a whole It was a it
Speaker 1: was a learning process for me, and I just just
Speaker 1: kept grinding and grinding and got the opportunity here and
Speaker 1: then then with all the injuries, it's like the same
Speaker 1: thing that happened to me. It just flipped and I
Speaker 1: ended up working out for me to where I end
Speaker 1: up having the opportunity to show how good I really am.
Speaker 1: And um, I'm just you know, weekend week out, I'm
Speaker 1: trying to help this team win. The good thing too, Eric,
Speaker 1: as we we talked to Nevill right now, is that
Speaker 1: he played a Marshal and he did had the experience.
Speaker 1: Think about cross training. You played well and Mike and
Speaker 1: Marshall as well. Yeah, I did. When I got to Marshall,
Speaker 1: I was I went to Georgian Military College first, and
Speaker 1: then once I transfer the Marshall, they moved me the
Speaker 1: linebacker and my coach having I was playing will and
Speaker 1: then he moved me to Mike and then so it
Speaker 1: was three of us. So he was rotating. So I
Speaker 1: was playing Mike and Will in the game, so I'm
Speaker 1: doing the same thing now. It's crazy had life works.
Speaker 1: So so never can you talk about your your defensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Greg Williams obviously legendary defensive coach, very big personality.
Speaker 1: What is it like going out there and is it
Speaker 1: different than playing for other coordinators? Because I feel like
Speaker 1: I would want to go out there and just just
Speaker 1: run through a wall for Greg Williams? Is it something similar?
Speaker 1: It's cool because I grew up. I grew up in
Speaker 1: um said with Spring Maryland, So I grew up watching
Speaker 1: him when he was coaching with the Redskin, So like
Speaker 1: actually being able to play for him now and actually
Speaker 1: he hied coaches as cool, so like as a player
Speaker 1: and just the stuff that he's like realistic, you know,
Speaker 1: and and and he's like he's old school and he's
Speaker 1: gonna get the best out of all of us, and
Speaker 1: he pushes us in. You know, some days you might
Speaker 1: be tired and you can't feel bad for yourself playing
Speaker 1: for Greg. You know what I'm saying. He gets the
Speaker 1: best out of you. So is it really it's cool experience?
Speaker 1: Quarterback Sam Donald said on the Michael k show earlier
Speaker 1: today on ESPN Radio that you guys had a players
Speaker 1: only meeting today where you kind of clear the air.
Speaker 1: What was said that you can tell us obviously you're
Speaker 1: not gonna be able to tell us everything but the
Speaker 1: but the tone of that meeting and how important was
Speaker 1: that to have that? Now, well, you gotta know that
Speaker 1: this team is we got a new head coach, you
Speaker 1: offensive you know, you offensive playable system for the offense.
Speaker 1: We've got a new defensive staff and its just and
Speaker 1: we got new players, you know what I'm saying. So
Speaker 1: it's one of those things. It's not our first time
Speaker 1: having one of those, but it's one of those things
Speaker 1: where we all just get the coaches out of the
Speaker 1: room and just have a conversation with each other and
Speaker 1: really jail And that's pretty much what we were doing
Speaker 1: in there, just if you have something to say said
Speaker 1: and you know at the end of the day that
Speaker 1: we all got to be on the same page. How
Speaker 1: important is that to maintain the perspective Because I've talked
Speaker 1: to you about this before. You just mentioned that experience
Speaker 1: in Miami. You started one and four a couple of
Speaker 1: years ago, and you guys found yourself in the playoffs. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean that that's you. You don't see that, especially
Speaker 1: on this level, Like you have a team meeting, but
Speaker 1: like the stuff that we're doing here, we're not far
Speaker 1: off from being a really good team. And then the
Speaker 1: day we we have growing pains here and there, but
Speaker 1: we're not far off from where we need to be. Okay,
Speaker 1: let's look ahead, Dallas Cowboys Sunday. I know you're probably
Speaker 1: jumping into the film because you're all over it right now.
Speaker 1: You gotta be what kind of challenge will it be
Speaker 1: defended against? Seek Elliott? Um, I'm still warming up on
Speaker 1: him right now, but I think you know, I hear
Speaker 1: a lot about them, heard a lot about them about him,
Speaker 1: and um, you know, he's one of the better backs
Speaker 1: in this league. So um, I'm hungry like he hungry.
Speaker 1: So so never you know, when I when I was playing,
Speaker 1: say the back, when I play safety, playing against a
Speaker 1: heavy running team, it was always fun for me, Like
Speaker 1: you know, playing against Buffalo when Marshawn Lynch was there,
Speaker 1: or the Steelers with Jerome Bettes, it was like, all right,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to typen up my chinz trap. It's
Speaker 1: gonna be a fun game. Do you look at it
Speaker 1: like that as a linebacker, like this is such a
Speaker 1: passing league down when you get to play a running team,
Speaker 1: is it something that you look forward to every time? Everything?
Speaker 1: Just like even like playing against the Eagles, whenever a
Speaker 1: team want to run the ball, as a linebacker or
Speaker 1: a defensive lineman, you you should. If you're not excited
Speaker 1: about that game, something's wrong with you. You're probably playing
Speaker 1: the wrong position, you know, understanding, Like this week, I'm
Speaker 1: very excited. And you know they say they had one
Speaker 1: to better um offensive line in the end the game,
Speaker 1: and you know what I'm saying, have not the best.
Speaker 1: So yeah, we're off for the challenge. Yeah, listen, metluck
Speaker 1: is gonna be rock and it's a four start. Like
Speaker 1: you mentioned before, you guys are gonna be up for
Speaker 1: the challenge. That's the number one offense in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. Got Dak Prescott, Zeke Elliott, of course, Marii
Speaker 1: Cooper and company. But Nevill you deserve arrest. So thanks
Speaker 1: for coming by here on inside the Jets and we're
Speaker 1: gonna come right back. You are listening Inside the Jets
Speaker 1: on ESPN New York talking the shotgun. Four receivers takes
Speaker 1: the snap. Five man rush, what's over the middle, crows
Speaker 1: high and it is tipped up and on the town.
Speaker 1: It's intercepted, picked off by Rodney McCloud. He runs right
Speaker 1: to the forty five, breaks a tackle at the fifty,
Speaker 1: gets hit hard, got the Jet forty two and goes
Speaker 1: down there. Welcome back to Inside the Jets, Eric Allen
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Speaker 1: just joined in our last segment by linebacker Novil Hewitt.
Speaker 1: He's made great strides this year, no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: And people are like, why do you why do you
Speaker 1: tell him to get some rust? Well, the guy played
Speaker 1: every defensive snap team and he plays on punt team,
Speaker 1: so he's not coming off the field too much. And
Speaker 1: this is a guy who throughout most of his career
Speaker 1: was a reserve and and now he's the guy and
Speaker 1: he's calling the quarterback signal. He's he's a signal caller
Speaker 1: on defense. He's out there every single play. That could
Speaker 1: change when C. J. Mosley comes in, but he'll just
Speaker 1: shift over and he remains a starter, will be the
Speaker 1: week side linebacker. Yeah, I mean, I mean, And the
Speaker 1: way he's playing right now, he's really setting himself up
Speaker 1: for a nice career, uh, you know, to establish himself
Speaker 1: as a starting linebacker in this league, to prove that
Speaker 1: he can go out there every play and perform in
Speaker 1: pass coverage, running, you know, gets the run. He's leading
Speaker 1: the team and tackles right now, doing a heck of
Speaker 1: a job. And this defense is playing well. They have
Speaker 1: some plays out there that they wish they could have back,
Speaker 1: I'm sure, but overall, this defensive unit is playing good football.
Speaker 1: I gotta be honest with you. If you're a Jets
Speaker 1: fan and you see Mosley go out in Week one
Speaker 1: and you see Devin Singletary taking advantage of some of
Speaker 1: those big, gaping holes, you're probably like, we're in big
Speaker 1: time trouble run from a run defense perspective. But the Jets,
Speaker 1: if you look at their numbers through the first five
Speaker 1: weeks in the NFL season, they're one of the better
Speaker 1: rush defense is in the league without mostly Yeah, I mean,
Speaker 1: I mean, and that's coaching, you know, first of all,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's effort by the players. They're doing a
Speaker 1: fantastic job up front of dominating the line of scrimmage.
Speaker 1: But when you see, you know, you're starting linebacker go
Speaker 1: out and in that same game there's some big runs
Speaker 1: going through and then the next week that the run
Speaker 1: game gets gets stopped. Those coaches are coaching up those
Speaker 1: young linebackers to to correct their fits. Let's play team
Speaker 1: defense like Neville was talking about. You know, make sure
Speaker 1: everyone stays in their gap, keep that gap integrity. Everybody
Speaker 1: do your job and you can get that run stop.
Speaker 1: What does Greg Williams do in terms of him scheming
Speaker 1: things that make it so hard on an offense because
Speaker 1: everybody talks, we know he's got an attacking style. I
Speaker 1: know he sends pressure a lot, but talking in terms
Speaker 1: of disguising, well, you know, the disguising is a huge
Speaker 1: part of a defense. You know, as a as a
Speaker 1: player in the secondary, as a linebacker, you always you
Speaker 1: never want the quarterback to understand what defense you're in
Speaker 1: before before the snap, you want him to start figuring
Speaker 1: out what defense that you're in. While he's dropping back.
Speaker 1: Why the past rush is going you know is rushing
Speaker 1: on him and you know now you show a cover
Speaker 1: two shell. Last second, when the ball snap, you drop
Speaker 1: down to cover one because now all those routes change.
Speaker 1: There's a route to beat every single coverage, and if
Speaker 1: he doesn't know what coverage you're in, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: hard for him to adjust while he's backing up. And
Speaker 1: you add into that a defensive line who can get
Speaker 1: after the quarterback. You add into that some blitzing packages
Speaker 1: that are unknown to the to the offensive line, and
Speaker 1: you create some big place And those guys who play
Speaker 1: under Greg Williams dent buy in. You just heard from
Speaker 1: Neville about he's an old school coach. They like being
Speaker 1: coached up by a guy like him. I would love
Speaker 1: to for Greg Williams. You know, I got a chance
Speaker 1: to play for some great coordinators in my day. My
Speaker 1: last one I played for was gun Through Cunningham Rest
Speaker 1: in Peace and one of those old school, just violent
Speaker 1: coaches that just wanted you to just hit as hard
Speaker 1: as you can, run as fast as you can. You
Speaker 1: can tell when he gets angry because he's gonna start
Speaker 1: dialing up the blitzes and makes it fun. You know,
Speaker 1: it makes playing defense fun. And when I see this
Speaker 1: Jets team, they may be losing some games and maybe
Speaker 1: down to the score. But Jamal Adams is having fun.
Speaker 1: But that's gonna bring up what you're talking about fun.
Speaker 1: I'm in the press box yesterday. I'm watching Jamal's the
Speaker 1: third one. He makes a hull of a play on
Speaker 1: Carson Wentz pass intended for Dallas Goddard, and then they
Speaker 1: come up with the fourth Downd stuff and Jamal's dancing
Speaker 1: like it's a Saturday night, as he should be. You
Speaker 1: know what, There's so much that goes into making a
Speaker 1: play in the NFL. You know, there's the in the
Speaker 1: off season, you're working on your footwork, your speed to
Speaker 1: get that that much faster. And during the season you're
Speaker 1: you're looking at scheme, you're looking at technique to understand
Speaker 1: and how this team is gonna attack you. And then
Speaker 1: you put it all together and go make a big play.
Speaker 1: There's no better feeling than making a big play. I
Speaker 1: don't care what the score is, I don't care who
Speaker 1: you're playing. If you make a play in the NFL,
Speaker 1: you should celebrate and pat yourself on the bat. Yeah, listen, um,
Speaker 1: just rewards members, don't forget to enter code. Play p
Speaker 1: L A Y in your jet rewards portal during the
Speaker 1: show to earn a hundred points. H. I was just
Speaker 1: gonna say that if you had told me before Sunday
Speaker 1: that you're gonna go into Philadelphia and just give up
Speaker 1: seventeen points and they're only going to convert on five
Speaker 1: of their thirteen third downs, You're also gonna get a
Speaker 1: special teams take away deep inside the opponent's territory, I
Speaker 1: would have said, sign me off, because they gave you
Speaker 1: a chance to win it. Yeah, I mean in this defense,
Speaker 1: and the special teams unit hasn't played phenomenal, uh you
Speaker 1: know during out during this season. Uh, you know, they
Speaker 1: they have had to go above and beyond what they
Speaker 1: would normally do to win these games. And unfortunately, offensively,
Speaker 1: they just haven't found a way to get it clicking.
Speaker 1: You know. You try to feed the ball to levy On,
Speaker 1: you try to spread the love around the offense, but
Speaker 1: it's just not jelling in this all because it's not
Speaker 1: all because because I'm sure there's some other you know,
Speaker 1: some receivers can run some better routes. Offensive line, they
Speaker 1: could probably do a better job of protecting, but you know,
Speaker 1: the quarterback got it, has to get the ball out
Speaker 1: it's a it's a team unit, and everybody works hand
Speaker 1: in hand. Adam Gates told me before this season started
Speaker 1: that it's gonna take three or four games to know
Speaker 1: what my team's identity is. I would say, now, after
Speaker 1: four games, you can't possibly know what your team is.
Speaker 1: You can't, well, you know what you got on defense,
Speaker 1: know what you got on special teams, um offensively, I mean,
Speaker 1: there's so many components missing. And when you take the
Speaker 1: quarterback out, and I keep harping on it because it's
Speaker 1: the truth. You know, your quarterback is the most important
Speaker 1: position on the field. He makes the most money, You
Speaker 1: invest the most money protecting him. If he's out of
Speaker 1: the game, then it makes it tough for your offense
Speaker 1: to go. And I think, you know, and I'm not
Speaker 1: saying that when you plug Sam Donald and everything's gonna
Speaker 1: be fixed, but it's gonna help tremendously. He's gonna help
Speaker 1: with you know, the get the most out of every player.
Speaker 1: The calm. I think you'll see more football, better football,
Speaker 1: you'll see more points on the board, and uh, you'll
Speaker 1: get more competitive. Yeah, And it's hard to take a
Speaker 1: deep dive into the offense in terms of your analysis
Speaker 1: when you know that Luke fall is. He might make
Speaker 1: one more start depending on what happens with the tests
Speaker 1: Tuesday and whether Sam Donald gets clearance or not. But
Speaker 1: the bottom line is you really can't look at this
Speaker 1: offense and give it a grade or nowhere it's going
Speaker 1: until Donald plays any plays for multiple games. You can't
Speaker 1: tell me what this Jets offenses by just looking at
Speaker 1: what happened against the Buffalo Bills. Who oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: have yeah? I mean? And then you know, to Luke
Speaker 1: fawks credit. You know, the first game that he played,
Speaker 1: he was activated all practice squad on Friday. Then he
Speaker 1: goes in there and starts the game. The next week
Speaker 1: he plays against the Patriots. You know, it doesn't have
Speaker 1: a good showing, but that's a great defensive, one of
Speaker 1: the best Patriot defensive we've seen in a long time.
Speaker 1: And then you know he Sam Donald takes all the
Speaker 1: first team reps last week. Falk finds out on Friday
Speaker 1: that he's going to be the starter, and that's just
Speaker 1: not enough, especially for a young quarterback who hasn't done enough.
Speaker 1: He needs a full week of preparation to even have
Speaker 1: a chance, and to play against an aggressive defense like Philadelphia,
Speaker 1: who is coached by Jim Schwartz, who I played for.
Speaker 1: All he cares about is getting to the quarterback. He
Speaker 1: doesn't care about the draw, doesn't care about the screen.
Speaker 1: He wants those defensive linemen get into the quarterback. And
Speaker 1: to play against that kind of pressure as a quarterback
Speaker 1: who's got one day of preparation is a tough thing
Speaker 1: to ask. I do think the frustrating aspect for not
Speaker 1: only people watching at home, but over across the street
Speaker 1: the facility is sometimes the pressure is getting home when
Speaker 1: they are just rushing for Yeah, but you know a
Speaker 1: lot of that is in the offensive line's fault, you know.
Speaker 1: For for a quarterback who hasn't seen a lot of
Speaker 1: different coverages, he's trying not to make a mistake, and
Speaker 1: you can't win trying not to lose, you know, trying
Speaker 1: not to throw an interception. You have to take the
Speaker 1: fight to the defense. You have to anticipate those throws
Speaker 1: you have to throw the receiver's open, and it's hard
Speaker 1: to get a feel for that when you don't get
Speaker 1: the reps. You don't have the experience or the confidence,
Speaker 1: uh that Sam Donald has. These are great points when
Speaker 1: you're talking about a young quarterback who's just made is
Speaker 1: second start in the National Football League. You're emphasizing not
Speaker 1: making a mistake. So maybe sometimes your eyes should be
Speaker 1: going through the progressions or maybe you should be seeing
Speaker 1: something and instead maybe you're looking at something else. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, it's all about anticipation. And as I mentioned earlier,
Speaker 1: you know, there's a route to beat every coverage. So
Speaker 1: if they're in cover two, then you're gonna run a
Speaker 1: certain route and there's there's gonna be an area of
Speaker 1: the field that's open. But excuse me, Detroit, Philadelphia did
Speaker 1: a great job of disguising coverage. They have some veterans,
Speaker 1: have a veteran secondary led by Malcolm Jenkins, even though
Speaker 1: they were banged up in at the cornerback, but they're
Speaker 1: still moving around making things confusing. Then you add to
Speaker 1: the fact, you know, Luke fowks on his back quite
Speaker 1: a bit. You know, it doesn't make it easy. You know,
Speaker 1: it's it's a it's a tough thing to ask and
Speaker 1: it was frustrating to watch. You know, you and I
Speaker 1: were both there at the game. You know, the all
Speaker 1: the air, you know, the Philadelphia fans were hyped, the
Speaker 1: crowd was hyped. Uh. You know, if you're a Jet fan.
Speaker 1: It was like, after the first couple of series, it
Speaker 1: was like, oh, man, well, how do you how do
Speaker 1: you prevent that feeling on the sideline because you have
Speaker 1: such a fascinating perspective because you've been on that sideline before.
Speaker 1: Because now we've seen the last three weeks, Cleveland's up
Speaker 1: thirteen nothing in the second quarter. New England's up twenty
Speaker 1: to nothing in the first quarter, Philly's up fourteen nothing
Speaker 1: before people have gotten back from buying their popcorn. Stay
Speaker 1: in your lane, you got everybody has to stay in
Speaker 1: the lane. If I'm on defense and the offense isn't playing, well,
Speaker 1: guess what. That's not my responsibility. That's out of my control.
Speaker 1: While all I can do is handle my job. I
Speaker 1: can be where I'm supposed to be. I can make
Speaker 1: the plays that I'm supposed to make within the defense.
Speaker 1: I'm not gonna go, you know, cover somebody else's job
Speaker 1: trying to make a play and then I'm gonna leave
Speaker 1: mine open and give up a big play. Everyone has
Speaker 1: to do their job. There's a role for every player
Speaker 1: and every and I don't care if you're on offensive defense,
Speaker 1: you have to stick to your job and be where
Speaker 1: you're supposed to be and be accountable to the man
Speaker 1: next year. Yeah, And the Jets did start a pair
Speaker 1: of new starters at offensive line. Along that offensive line,
Speaker 1: left guard Alice Lewis, who's had some starting experience in
Speaker 1: the National Football League. He took the place with Collecchio,
Speaker 1: assembly who's banged up with the shoulder. And then you
Speaker 1: started to doga your third round pick from USC who
Speaker 1: was taking the spot of an interactive Brandon Shell. So
Speaker 1: to your five offensive linemen against Philadelphia team looking to
Speaker 1: get after the quarterback, we're new, We're new upfront. Oh yeah,
Speaker 1: and it's always tough. You talk about the offensive line,
Speaker 1: you talk about the chemistry that that that that bond
Speaker 1: that you have to have, that unspoken communication that you
Speaker 1: have to have in a crazy atmosphere like Philadelphia, And
Speaker 1: when you're throwing somebody new, it's like, wait, you know,
Speaker 1: we're on the same page. And if we're not on
Speaker 1: the same page, then there's gonna that's gonna be a
Speaker 1: lot of big plays that we're giving up. That's what
Speaker 1: That's what Lewis said today. We gotta communicate, butter, Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean in the secondary. We had a saying is,
Speaker 1: you know, as long as you communicate, as long as
Speaker 1: if we're all wrong, and we're all wrong together, then
Speaker 1: we're all right. We'll get through the down. We're all
Speaker 1: playing the same coverage, but we can't have one guy
Speaker 1: playing cover two the other guy playing playing Cover four
Speaker 1: over here. And that's when you start to get those
Speaker 1: big plays where there's a free runner running down the
Speaker 1: running of the field wide open and nobody's around him
Speaker 1: because that communication isn't there. How much do you think
Speaker 1: this is hurting c J. Molesley right now? Because he
Speaker 1: came from a winning program in Baltimore. He signed a
Speaker 1: lucle ritive contract in the off season. He was brought
Speaker 1: here to turn the tide. And this guy, his d
Speaker 1: n A says winner. Oh yeah, it has to be
Speaker 1: tough for he. Uh, Sam Donald, Quincy, all these guys
Speaker 1: are competitors, they're they're winners, and for c J. His
Speaker 1: presence is still felt. You know, you you watching Neville
Speaker 1: go out there and play. He's out there busting heads. Uh.
Speaker 1: You know, every player, every linebacker out there, they playing
Speaker 1: with the mentality. The whole defense is playing with a
Speaker 1: certain mentality and just because c J isn't out there
Speaker 1: doesn't mean his presence can't be felt. But I'm sure
Speaker 1: it's killing him that to sit there and watch his
Speaker 1: his teammates, watch his dogs go out there and not
Speaker 1: not get the winds, not being able to contribute. You know,
Speaker 1: if you're gonna get beat, I want to get beat
Speaker 1: with you. You know what I mean. I don't want
Speaker 1: you guys just to be out there without me leading,
Speaker 1: leading away. Do you think I crazy? My sense is
Speaker 1: here in between weeks eight weeks fourteen, the Jets are
Speaker 1: gonna get a few wins. They're gonna get some talent back,
Speaker 1: and I think by the end of the season they
Speaker 1: could be it. They could become a team that, you
Speaker 1: know what, we don't want to play the squad after
Speaker 1: Dallas in New England. Two very difficulty uh games coming up,
Speaker 1: no doubt about it, and we're gonna break down the
Speaker 1: Cowboys matchup coming up. You're at Jacksonville teams two and three.
Speaker 1: Right now, I know they have a tough defense. But
Speaker 1: then you're in Miami that's a winless team. You're home
Speaker 1: to the Giants, a team that's rebuilding on fly two
Speaker 1: and three. Washington Redskins. They just made a coaching change,
Speaker 1: um as Kell Hants takes over there. They're owing five
Speaker 1: the Raiders three and two right now, but then at
Speaker 1: Cincinnati on five, and then you complete that little stretch
Speaker 1: with a trip with a home game against Miami. Who. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean there's gonna be some opportunities, but but ultimately,
Speaker 1: you know, if you're if you're going out there and playing,
Speaker 1: you can't worry about who you're playing. You have to
Speaker 1: worry about your job and not making mistakes, not beating yourself.
Speaker 1: And I think that once his team starts to gain
Speaker 1: that confidence, you start to win a game, you start
Speaker 1: to score on the end of a drive, you start
Speaker 1: to pick up that momentum and that confidence. And once
Speaker 1: this team has some more confidence and they understand that
Speaker 1: they can go out there and compete with anybody, I
Speaker 1: think they're gonna be dangerous. I think we're gonna take
Speaker 1: a deep dive into this player's only meeting because I
Speaker 1: wanted to get your reactions on that. Coming up. Also,
Speaker 1: we have to explore the matchup that awaits the Jets
Speaker 1: Sunday at MetLife Stadium the Dallas Cowboys, who look like
Speaker 1: world beaters. Those first three weeks now have taken a
Speaker 1: couple of losses the last two, so they'll be desperate
Speaker 1: for victory as well. So more coming up. You are
Speaker 1: listening to Inside the Jets on ESPN New York Block.
Speaker 1: Edwards comes on to punt by Clement deep to receive
Speaker 1: and over and kicked to the far side left will
Speaker 1: bounce inside the thirty and Clement touches it and the
Speaker 1: Jets get after it. In about the twenty yard lock,
Speaker 1: there's a loose ball inside the twenty to the Jets recover.
Speaker 1: They did. The Eagles touched the ball for some reason.
Speaker 1: Clement went after it instead of letting it bounce. Trenton
Speaker 1: Kennon the gunner was there and it looked like Cannon
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Speaker 1: at Vanderbilt's Sports and spirits inside to Windham Hamilton's Park.
Speaker 1: Um listen. Sometimes you gotta get breaks, and again Jet's
Speaker 1: got a break on special teams where Philadelphia messed up
Speaker 1: in terms of fielding that punt, but you gotta be
Speaker 1: there two pounds on your opportunities and Trent and Cannon
Speaker 1: once yeah, and you know, Trent and Cannon Gate gave
Speaker 1: great effort on that play and he was in the
Speaker 1: right place at the right time. And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a credit to him. He's been showing up on
Speaker 1: special teams a lot, whether it be in the return game,
Speaker 1: covering punts. He's very active and it's great to see
Speaker 1: a player like that get rewarded with the big place.
Speaker 1: So what do you think about the play call from
Speaker 1: Adam Case following that, he goes to a pistol formation.
Speaker 1: Time Montgomery lines up behind Luke Falk little play action
Speaker 1: to Levian Bell and everybody goes right over pursuit. They're
Speaker 1: thinking the pitch is gonna go to Time Montgomery and
Speaker 1: here calls Vincent Smith, who's active for his first for
Speaker 1: the first time as a jet. I thought that was
Speaker 1: a great play called little misdirection, fake option reverse. Uh,
Speaker 1: it was exactly what was needed, you know, And that's
Speaker 1: the creativity I think everyone's been looking for for Coach Gaze,
Speaker 1: because you know he you know, he has the weapons.
Speaker 1: You know, you know, he has the players to go
Speaker 1: out there and execute those plays, but it's all about
Speaker 1: you know, getting guys healthy, getting put in the right situations,
Speaker 1: capitalizing off turnovers. And I thought they did a great job.
Speaker 1: But there it is. You just said it. He being
Speaker 1: put in the right situation. I think Gay has this
Speaker 1: if you followed his career at all in Miami, He's
Speaker 1: got a lot of things dialed up, especially inside that
Speaker 1: red zone where he can get really creative. And that
Speaker 1: was an example of it. Oh yeah, I mean and
Speaker 1: once his offense gets going, once the momentum starts going,
Speaker 1: they you know, start having nice drives and uh, they
Speaker 1: can start breaking tendencies. I think that's when you're gonna
Speaker 1: start seeing the special plays. You start seeing the big
Speaker 1: place from Levan in time Montgomery, uh, and start to
Speaker 1: see just feature different players. And um, I'm excited to
Speaker 1: see that playbook start to open up once Sam Donald
Speaker 1: gets back, because I'm sure that's what's been holding things back. Listen,
Speaker 1: you haven't been playing for a couple of years, but
Speaker 1: you're still in very good shape. But I tried to
Speaker 1: keep myself in shape. I don't look quite like you
Speaker 1: with the arms, but I will say that I kind
Speaker 1: of got into the end zone, I think on that
Speaker 1: one because Leveon Bell was leading the way. The cornerback
Speaker 1: wanted no part of him. Lebian said, follow me. I'm
Speaker 1: taking you to that. And that's what it takes sometimes,
Speaker 1: that unselfish play from your stars. I mean, you talk
Speaker 1: about the best player on the field and he's out
Speaker 1: there blocking cornerbacks, you know, down the field where he
Speaker 1: doesn't even know if the play is gonna make it
Speaker 1: to him. Excellent block by Lebian. Unselfish, unselfish football. That's
Speaker 1: how you win the game. If Donald does indeed come
Speaker 1: back against the Cowboys on Sunday at MetLife, that's sure
Speaker 1: gonna add a lot of drama. It's gonna give the
Speaker 1: crowd a big time boost. What do you anticipate from
Speaker 1: the Jets offensively with four under center, Well, you know,
Speaker 1: I think they'll take more vertical shots down the field.
Speaker 1: I think they'll you'll see him converting more third downs
Speaker 1: and moving the chains a little bit and being more efficient.
Speaker 1: But they've got a tough opponent against them, you know,
Speaker 1: de Marcus Lawrence, Layton vander esh On the other side,
Speaker 1: Jalen Smith uh is a pretty good front seven over
Speaker 1: there in Dallas, and they're playing good football. So I
Speaker 1: think if Sam plays, you know, he'll be up for
Speaker 1: the challenge. I know lady On will be up for
Speaker 1: the challenge because every time he gets the ball, he's
Speaker 1: trying to score, trying to break, you know, a thousand
Speaker 1: tackles to get three yards. So it's um, it's gonna
Speaker 1: be competitive games. What's the trademark of a Rod Marionelli
Speaker 1: coach defense? Rod marion Nelly, Um, Tampa two plays a
Speaker 1: lot of Tampa two defense. Uh, you know some zone blitz.
Speaker 1: Is he likes those athletic outside linebackers who can just
Speaker 1: read the quarterback's eyes. You know, that's what you think
Speaker 1: back to Derek Brooks and Hardy nick Sin they got
Speaker 1: a lot of interceptions even Ryande Barber off of reading
Speaker 1: the quarterback underneath coverage. Uh, just just moving on a
Speaker 1: chain together. So it's gonna take a lot of manipulation
Speaker 1: from the quarterback. They're gonna have some some schemes Herndon
Speaker 1: being in the middle of that defense because the middle
Speaker 1: of the line, in the middle linebacker closes the middle
Speaker 1: of the field and Tampa two. So it's gonna be
Speaker 1: Herndon versus Layton vander ash or Jalon Smith, whoever it is.
Speaker 1: But but that's gonna be a great matchup. On the
Speaker 1: other side of the ball, Cowboys of getting themselves into
Speaker 1: trouble with some turnovers, but boy, they can move the football.
Speaker 1: They had like five d sixty total yards against the
Speaker 1: Green Bay Packers trying to come back. Um, then about
Speaker 1: forty five seconds. What do you gotta do if you're
Speaker 1: Greg Williams to contain this Cowboys offensive? Obviously starts with
Speaker 1: Zeke Elliott, but Dak Prescott, he's got some weapons on
Speaker 1: the outside, and Mary Cooper just had two yards receiving. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: it's tough. It's a tough test, but it has to
Speaker 1: start with stopping the run. You cannot let the Dallas
Speaker 1: Cowboys run the football on you, because now that opens
Speaker 1: up a can of worms for your defense has play
Speaker 1: action shots. Uh, Jason Witten, Uh, Michael Gallup. You know
Speaker 1: there's so many receivers out there. But if you stop
Speaker 1: that run, you stuff Zeke up, it's gonna make it difficult.
Speaker 1: You're gonna put all the pressure on Dak Prescott. And
Speaker 1: finally you feel good about the Jets cleaner in there today.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, I feel great about it. It's always great
Speaker 1: to get everything off your chest, let it be known.
Speaker 1: Have that team on the players only meeting. I thought that.
Speaker 1: I think that's gonna help them out. That's all for
Speaker 1: us this week from Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits. Thanks for
Speaker 1: listening to Inside the Jets.