Speaker 1: Like the world you played to win the game. Jet toucksdown,
Speaker 1: can't work your listening to the official Jets podcast on
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Speaker 1: Allen and Bart Scott Here at Vanderbilt's Sports and Spirits
Speaker 1: inside the Window, Hamilton Park. We're also joined right off
Speaker 1: the bat by Jets rookie receiver Chad Hanson. Chad, thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us. Can't chat handsome Chad handsome,
Speaker 1: and you got a new nickname for him. That's a
Speaker 1: spoof off off off the boondocks. Your three creatin't ain't
Speaker 1: deep enough to know about Chris Hanson. Alright, take it
Speaker 1: easy there, alright, Chad first three receptions as a pro
Speaker 1: against the Tampa ben Buccaneers. Unfortunately he came at a loss.
Speaker 1: But what I want to know, and part might be
Speaker 1: able to help us out with this is what do
Speaker 1: you do with that first ball? Where does that go?
Speaker 1: I gave it to the rev the first first touchdown
Speaker 1: and then the first touchdown he celebrate the little thing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: of course it does. That has the first tricycle first
Speaker 1: big will I mean fart Scott, So your first career interception, Yeah,
Speaker 1: that's the interception, like a game changer. Play the act
Speaker 1: all right, listen, the guy has three receptions. I'm giving
Speaker 1: him credit here. I appreciate it. Thank you. You got
Speaker 1: your feet wet, right, Yeah, yeah, but that's important. Manu.
Speaker 1: How was the nerves going into the game? What did
Speaker 1: you expect that it? You know, was a game faster? Um?
Speaker 1: Did you see the game? Well, you know, tell tell
Speaker 1: everybody about the experience your first game. It had to
Speaker 1: be some nerves from jitters. Did you call home tell Mom, Hey,
Speaker 1: I think that's the week I'm gonna get something done?
Speaker 1: Check out? I mean, you know, well, I guess I
Speaker 1: guess going in too. Every week you sort you sort
Speaker 1: of have those those pregame jitters just because you know,
Speaker 1: you you wake up and you play in the NFL
Speaker 1: for a living, and that's you know, that's just a
Speaker 1: crazy thought and it's just you know, something you've been
Speaker 1: working at your whole life. And um, but yeah, going
Speaker 1: I mean going into this game, I knew that I
Speaker 1: was gonna get a lot more playing time than normal. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I think that I like to be calm
Speaker 1: before the games, and that's that's something that I like
Speaker 1: to do and not work myself up. Um, so yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I think I just went out there, um
Speaker 1: tried to have as much fun as I could. And
Speaker 1: you know, we didn't we didn't go down there and
Speaker 1: get the w like we wanted to. But um, I
Speaker 1: think there's a lot of things that we can learn
Speaker 1: from and and uh, you know, work towards in the
Speaker 1: weeks to come. Our player guest segment is presented by
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Speaker 1: New York Jets. Chad Hanson joins us here a Vanderbilts
Speaker 1: chat handsome man. We changed his name. You can call
Speaker 1: them that. I'm gonna go with Hansen. Um here Avannabelle
Speaker 1: Sports and Spirits. You actually were in on sev of
Speaker 1: the Snaps. You knew you were gonna get a lot
Speaker 1: more playing time because Jeremy Curley suspended for four games.
Speaker 1: That was the first, the first of his four games suspension. Um,
Speaker 1: how different was practiced throughout the week? Well, I mean,
Speaker 1: I just, you know, got a lot more reps. Like
Speaker 1: you said, I mean the Snaps, I didn't I didn't
Speaker 1: know that. You didn't know that. I didn't know that.
Speaker 1: I did not know that. But yeah, going into this week.
Speaker 1: I knew that I had to be sharp and and
Speaker 1: just just to just to get the trust and and
Speaker 1: uh of the coaches and the guys and all that.
Speaker 1: So rookie man, I'd tell you, I gotta coach him up.
Speaker 1: First of all. The first you got to pull Josh aside. Actually,
Speaker 1: do we want to donuts any any any breakfast or anything.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta you gotta butt up. We gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta smooth up to the quarterback. Man. You gotta say, hey,
Speaker 1: this man, I'm not I'm not trying to say I
Speaker 1: do your job. I'm killing this guy every time. I
Speaker 1: don't know if you read it, but I'm killing this
Speaker 1: guy every time. But you're probably making catches on the prep.
Speaker 1: Just feel but that's got to go a long way
Speaker 1: for your confidence now that you were able to take
Speaker 1: it on the field and actually get a few receptions. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 1: I mean that's it's huge for my confidence, and I
Speaker 1: think it's it's also huge um for the conference that
Speaker 1: quarterback Josh McCown and and all the coaches have in me. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, I think I should went out there and
Speaker 1: showed that I could play UM and you know, the
Speaker 1: moment's not too big, and you know, I think I
Speaker 1: think that's that's a good base to build off of
Speaker 1: and hopefully it's just up from here now. Curly was
Speaker 1: playing predominantly the slot, he also could play outside and
Speaker 1: the numbers. So your comfort level playing both inside and outside, yeah,
Speaker 1: pretty comfortable. Um, you know, throughout my career though I was,
Speaker 1: I was predominantly an outside receiver. Um, so that's something
Speaker 1: that I've had to learn being here, is being able
Speaker 1: to play both inside and outside. And I think that's
Speaker 1: something that's that's come along and um, you know, I
Speaker 1: think it's I think it's been really good to add
Speaker 1: that to um my repertoire explained to the listeners what
Speaker 1: the difference is because you talked about being in the slot.
Speaker 1: You know, you're with with a cricker defender, but also
Speaker 1: he can't really put his hands on you, opposed to
Speaker 1: being out to a side where you have the sideline,
Speaker 1: you can get outside reliefs or inside relieves because usually
Speaker 1: generally playing some type of leverage. Yeah, it's definitely tough.
Speaker 1: I mean the coverages are all different. Um, based on
Speaker 1: being inside outside. You you gotta know, um, you know
Speaker 1: where the defender is as as a receiver on the outside,
Speaker 1: you know, the corners, the guy that's covering you, Um,
Speaker 1: on the inside, you gotta you gotta recognize if it's
Speaker 1: the safety or if it's the outside linebacker something like that.
Speaker 1: So you've gotta be able to you know, read that
Speaker 1: and um react off that. And that's uh, you know,
Speaker 1: that's one of the things is as like you you
Speaker 1: were saying earlier, but um, you know, the other thing
Speaker 1: is being able to work in space, work in type places.
Speaker 1: And that's something that you gotta learn being a slot
Speaker 1: receiver and um, it's it's it's uh, it's definitely different.
Speaker 1: We see a lot of different guys operating inside the slot,
Speaker 1: sometimes small or quick twitch guys, and that you add
Speaker 1: some height to the position so you can use that
Speaker 1: to your advantage over the middle, don't you think. Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: I think I had a you know, a big body,
Speaker 1: a big target for for josh Um coming over the middle.
Speaker 1: I think that's that's change up to you know, the smaller,
Speaker 1: quicker guys. It's currently a guy who's been able to
Speaker 1: help you make your approach transition. Yeah, yeah, definitely, I
Speaker 1: mean all the all the vet receivers, Um, But yeah,
Speaker 1: definitely Curly he he definitely helped um me think about
Speaker 1: the position differently, um, because he goes about it differently
Speaker 1: knowing that that position is different than the outside. So
Speaker 1: he helped me think about it differently offensively. Chat Sunday
Speaker 1: against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. What happened? Peace? We've come
Speaker 1: to expect the Jets with fast starts. You hadn't trail
Speaker 1: uh at the half since all the way back in
Speaker 1: Week two against the Oakland Raiders over the past five games.
Speaker 1: Entering that ball game against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, you
Speaker 1: had not any time during the first half. So what
Speaker 1: happened against the Bucks that took you guys out of
Speaker 1: your rhythm early? Yeah? Well, I mean they're they're a
Speaker 1: good team, you know, but I think I think we're
Speaker 1: just a little bit stagnan on offense, and that's that's
Speaker 1: something that we gotta clean up. And and definitely the penalties,
Speaker 1: So that's that was that was a huge factor in
Speaker 1: this game, and um, you know, the coaches address that
Speaker 1: and that's definitely something we need to clean up. Enough
Speaker 1: of the downer stuff, how are you, how are your
Speaker 1: approaching your your bye week. This is your first bye week.
Speaker 1: You know you're from the from the West Coast. Are
Speaker 1: you gonna go all the way back to to the
Speaker 1: West Coast? Are you going to explore New York? As
Speaker 1: you know you're a new um bachelor here in New
Speaker 1: York and New York City. You know a lot to
Speaker 1: explore for a young bachelor like yourself. You've got the
Speaker 1: next games going on, you got the nets, how your experience, well,
Speaker 1: how your by are we going to be and what
Speaker 1: do you anticipate doing and learning or how much work
Speaker 1: is going involved? Um, I'm definitely going back to the
Speaker 1: West Coast. I gotta hang out there the family. No,
Speaker 1: not really, just you know, I gotta go home, recharge
Speaker 1: the batteries, get away a little bit. Um. I think
Speaker 1: that's That's what I've been told, is is what the
Speaker 1: bye week is for. Um, you know, be able to recharge, Um,
Speaker 1: not get totally away because we have a game coming
Speaker 1: up in a couple of weeks against a really good
Speaker 1: Panthers team, but um, you know, just being able to
Speaker 1: get away, uh, hang out with family and um you know,
Speaker 1: relax a little bit. What was that Kelly atmosphere experience?
Speaker 1: Like I should say at Berkeley, because yes, I don't
Speaker 1: even want to talk about the field just yet. What
Speaker 1: about your studies and how demanding it was going to
Speaker 1: a place like Berkeley. Oh, it's extremely difficult. I mean
Speaker 1: it's it's the classes are are extremely difficult. The uh
Speaker 1: you know everything that everything has to be you have
Speaker 1: to give percent and everything and it's it's it's really tough.
Speaker 1: I mean because you'll have practice, but you know that
Speaker 1: you have you know, a mid term and essays that
Speaker 1: you have to write after that. So um, you you
Speaker 1: really do have to put your full effort into um
Speaker 1: all the all the studies and every all the class
Speaker 1: work that you do. So it was it was you
Speaker 1: took universal studies, correct, universally. Tell them what you made
Speaker 1: legal studies, legal legal studies? And what what did you
Speaker 1: take from that experience? I took that I don't I
Speaker 1: don't want to be a lawyer. That's what I figured out.
Speaker 1: That you work hard now man, lawyers, Man, I tell
Speaker 1: you what, they're always on the clock. Um, you weren't
Speaker 1: on a lot of people's radar. Frankly maybe at this
Speaker 1: point last year at KEL. What what happened last year
Speaker 1: for you? As you took off, you became such a
Speaker 1: productive receiver for the Bears, and then eventually worked yourself
Speaker 1: into the draft where the New York Jets took you
Speaker 1: the fourth round. Well, I mean, I think it's just
Speaker 1: consistent hard work, and I think that's something that I
Speaker 1: pride myself on and and being able to to go
Speaker 1: in day in, day out and put in as much
Speaker 1: work as is needed to to beat the opponent. And
Speaker 1: I think that's that's something that I did all year long,
Speaker 1: and and uh, you know, I'm just lucky that the
Speaker 1: Jets notice that. What about the differences and all offensive
Speaker 1: systems that you were running at Kel and now what
Speaker 1: you're seeing with John Morton here in the NFL. Oh,
Speaker 1: it's it's it's extremely different. It's it's night and day.
Speaker 1: I mean a cow we ran a spread offense. Everything
Speaker 1: was hand signals, uh you know you but but here
Speaker 1: it's you know, sentences two sentences long, and you gotta
Speaker 1: you gotta be able to decipher um what your route is,
Speaker 1: where you're supposed to line up, and and all that
Speaker 1: different stuff. So it's it's really different, and it takes
Speaker 1: it takes time. It definitely takes time. You bring up
Speaker 1: an interesting point because everybody's talking about it used to
Speaker 1: be that through college, um, you know, college game was
Speaker 1: a feeder program. But but it seems now that college
Speaker 1: is kind of just concerned with college you know, they're
Speaker 1: not really uh concerned with development you to the next level.
Speaker 1: You know, how was that transition because when you talk
Speaker 1: about you know, a lot of times, you know, the viewers,
Speaker 1: they see the the offense go up to the line
Speaker 1: of scrimmage, the quarterback goes through the caden's then looks
Speaker 1: to the sideline, and the coach is pretty much doing
Speaker 1: the thinking for you. But in the NFL you have
Speaker 1: to read. You know, sometimes if the if these safeties
Speaker 1: rotating down to if you have the one on one coverage,
Speaker 1: if you have the side adjustment and the man read.
Speaker 1: So how long did it take you to really understand
Speaker 1: and be able to get caught up to speed because
Speaker 1: you know, like you said, your offense in college wasn't
Speaker 1: pro style offense. It definitely takes some time. And that's
Speaker 1: one thing that they tell you when you get here
Speaker 1: is it's gonna take time and you're gonna you're gonna
Speaker 1: have to put in the work because it's not gonna
Speaker 1: It's not gonna come easier to anybody. And that's I
Speaker 1: learned that. I figured that out pretty early. But um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think I'm still learning, um, you know,
Speaker 1: different ways to do things better and and being able to,
Speaker 1: um pick up on new things that that the older guys,
Speaker 1: uh do well, and I'm just trying to pick up
Speaker 1: on that help be in the same boat as our
Speaker 1: Darius Stewart, the rookie out of Alabama was drafted one
Speaker 1: round before you in the third. Yeah, definitely, I mean
Speaker 1: we were able to help each other out essentially. I
Speaker 1: mean it was it was definitely hard for both of us,
Speaker 1: but you know, we we knew we were going through
Speaker 1: it together. So um, we were able to help each
Speaker 1: other out. And and uh and yeah, I think we're
Speaker 1: here because of that. Your quarterback at KEL was Davis
Speaker 1: Webb cross Town over there playing for the Giants back
Speaker 1: up maybe playing pretty soon back up quarterback. Well, what
Speaker 1: can you tell us about your relationship with Davis and
Speaker 1: why you became his number one target A cow Well,
Speaker 1: I mean he only he was a graduate transfer ACCOW
Speaker 1: and and so he was only there for like six months,
Speaker 1: but in that short period of time, we became really
Speaker 1: close and then him coming here or him coming to
Speaker 1: cal he knew the it or we knew that we
Speaker 1: had to become close if we're gonna be successful, and
Speaker 1: he knew that he needed me to get where he
Speaker 1: wanted to go, and and vice versa. So, uh, we
Speaker 1: we definitely have. We definitely had a great relationship and
Speaker 1: we still have a great relationship. You know, go out
Speaker 1: and hang out all the time. How is he ad
Speaker 1: justin the life of the National Football League? I think
Speaker 1: pretty well, yeah, pretty well, And I think it's a
Speaker 1: little bit and I think it's a little bit more
Speaker 1: difficult for him right now being that you know, his
Speaker 1: team is is, you know, not not living up to expectations.
Speaker 1: And he's the quarterback. So he's a guy that that
Speaker 1: they're calling for. You the most popular person on the
Speaker 1: football team is the backup quarterback. And you know, I
Speaker 1: don't know. I'm looking at that team across town and
Speaker 1: I don't know if he wants to step in and
Speaker 1: that type of situation. It's a tough situation to put
Speaker 1: a young quarterback in with so many injuries, you know,
Speaker 1: not to support of a of a strong running game,
Speaker 1: not to support a compliment of a healthy offensive line.
Speaker 1: You know that that's a tough situation to put him in. You,
Speaker 1: my friend, you have a great opportunity and what as
Speaker 1: a successful three weeks you look like? You know, while
Speaker 1: Curly is away? What what do you hope to get
Speaker 1: accomplished in these three weeks so that when you do
Speaker 1: come back, you still could be worked into the offense.
Speaker 1: I mean, you know, just get three wins. Really, I mean,
Speaker 1: just do everything that I can say to you. I
Speaker 1: know the wins are one thing, but we have our
Speaker 1: team goals that we have our individual goals for you
Speaker 1: these next three weeks. What do you want him to
Speaker 1: look like? You know, Josh McConnell, would you like to
Speaker 1: get a couple more balls throwing your way, maybe some
Speaker 1: plays designed for you? And if so, you know, what
Speaker 1: does a successful three weeks look like? Yeah? Definitely, I
Speaker 1: mean I think I as a receiver, I want I
Speaker 1: want as many you gotta put on your chest, come
Speaker 1: on to help you out, exactly him the ball to
Speaker 1: take you off to lunch, I promise, I mean, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1: I just I want to be able to go out
Speaker 1: there and be someone that he can trust and know
Speaker 1: that when he throws the ball in my direction, I'm
Speaker 1: gonna come down with it, all right, So just don't
Speaker 1: keep the ball after any reception across them then all
Speaker 1: the fields. Okay, but did you keep He kept the ball?
Speaker 1: Decona Warm up to Jesus Christ. Good things happen to
Speaker 1: people who come here on inside the Jets. So watch
Speaker 1: out for Chad Hanson and the Weeks to come. And
Speaker 1: Jay Handsome, enjoy your trip back to Kelly. Going back
Speaker 1: to Kelly. Uh, and we're gonna come right back here
Speaker 1: on inside the Jets. The Voice of the Jets Bob
Speaker 1: was shust and will join us. All right, We're back
Speaker 1: here Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits inside the Windham Hamilton Park
Speaker 1: Eric Allen alongside Bart Scott and now the voice of
Speaker 1: the Jets Bob with shoes and joins us. Thanks so much, man,
Speaker 1: Jesus Christ, take it easy, take it easy, we are,
Speaker 1: that's the response. I normally get shoes. How many years
Speaker 1: is this for you? Now? As far as play by
Speaker 1: play of the New York Jets seventeen, this is and
Speaker 1: let me this is an honor tonight to be on
Speaker 1: with one of the great frauds who I gotta tell
Speaker 1: you this. This for me, this is a big night
Speaker 1: because when Chubby balding announcer boy would come trotting up
Speaker 1: to his locker when his uniform is still covered with blood.
Speaker 1: You should have seen the look that I would get
Speaker 1: when I would come up and try to interview. I
Speaker 1: was to walk in sound bite right, and now he
Speaker 1: would give me the heart time. He is on the
Speaker 1: dark side taking that check every week. I am very,
Speaker 1: very impressed that you have this kind of level of
Speaker 1: hypocrisy and have no problem just flaunting it for everyone
Speaker 1: to say. Sometimes you gotta fake it till you make it.
Speaker 1: You know what I'm saying. You're doing it trying to
Speaker 1: get that cheese. Tell you something. Boba Shusan has a
Speaker 1: very difficult job on game days because, yes, you and Marty,
Speaker 1: it's old hat, old school for you guys calling the game.
Speaker 1: But at the end of that game, you're walking down
Speaker 1: to a press box and then you go inside a
Speaker 1: locker room, and after the Jets sometimes lose unfortunately like
Speaker 1: they did against the Tampa Bay Bucking years, you have
Speaker 1: to go up to guys and get them and those
Speaker 1: a little spots for the postgame radio show and guys like,
Speaker 1: are you looking at me? Guys like first, who whoa whoa? Whoa?
Speaker 1: Whoa whoa whoa whoa. They don't want to talk. I
Speaker 1: always talk to Marty. He never came around. That's not true.
Speaker 1: I just talked the quarterback. But exactly so, you come
Speaker 1: to meet the third time, you know, third, fourth time.
Speaker 1: I can't be your fifth option. I just got the shower.
Speaker 1: I got. Another thing about this show is is that
Speaker 1: you're in there before the rest of the media. The
Speaker 1: rest of the media. It's got a little bit of
Speaker 1: an easier situation than environment. Is easier to handle because
Speaker 1: everybody's asking guys and there's a group of fifty or sixty.
Speaker 1: But when you and Malty going initially, it's just you
Speaker 1: two guys, and sometimes that is a nasty there's one
Speaker 1: part of the job you don't like. That's part of
Speaker 1: the job. You don't talk to guys right after a loss.
Speaker 1: What from your perspective, Well, we want a lot though
Speaker 1: you did, there's no we're happy for the most part.
Speaker 1: But how did you view us when we came in,
Speaker 1: I mean, thirty seconds after it's you know where we
Speaker 1: are in your grill moments, your pads and we're in
Speaker 1: there talking to you. Well, that's that's that's what it is.
Speaker 1: You know, you still emotionally, you know, it takes so
Speaker 1: much to get up to play a football game, to say, hey,
Speaker 1: I'm about to run through a brick wall, no matter
Speaker 1: what happens for the next three hours. And you put
Speaker 1: so much and you invest so much time and energy
Speaker 1: into it, and then to be defeated is you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes you just needed an opportunity to collect yourself, the
Speaker 1: opportunity to kind of talk to your brother's first, to
Speaker 1: calm down and figure out what's going to be the message.
Speaker 1: But then you guys just kicked right in. It's like, man,
Speaker 1: can I think? Can I take my shoes all? Can
Speaker 1: I get out? My kids out here waiting for me?
Speaker 1: And it's a balance, it's a balanced act that you
Speaker 1: have to do. But especially being on this side of
Speaker 1: understand the importance because you guys are communicated. You guys
Speaker 1: helped tell the story on the flip side too. We
Speaker 1: are live on the air. Yeah, so there's no like
Speaker 1: I'm gonna get an interview and post it to a
Speaker 1: blog hour later. We need them mediacy. I think the
Speaker 1: players mostly understand that we agree mostly we do. You know,
Speaker 1: you got a couple of guys that you know are outliers,
Speaker 1: but for the most part, we all get it, you know,
Speaker 1: especially coming here in New York. You know, this is
Speaker 1: a difficult place to play, you know, because the media
Speaker 1: here is like triple the media that I had to
Speaker 1: deal with in in Into and Baltimore is still a
Speaker 1: pretty big city, right and you know, but you talked
Speaker 1: about this is pay six man, it's hot. I remember Herms,
Speaker 1: Herms first or second year, Jack del Rio's coach at
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jets play the Jaguars Old Giant Stadium. Come down
Speaker 1: the media Elbert walk right past the visitors locker room,
Speaker 1: visitors media room, go to the Jet media room. So
Speaker 1: I remember, and this struck me looking into the room
Speaker 1: where Jack del rio is going to do his post
Speaker 1: game press conference, and I'm walking by looking at five people.
Speaker 1: There's like four or five people. There were two television
Speaker 1: cameras and like one guy in a Jaguar polo like
Speaker 1: waiting for the coach to commit. Walk down the hallway,
Speaker 1: went to Herms postgame press conference. There twenty two television
Speaker 1: cameras and at least fifty people in that room. Knowing
Speaker 1: that as soon as Herm was done with his press
Speaker 1: conference that Horde was all going into the locker room.
Speaker 1: I mean, I've been to the super Bowl before. It's
Speaker 1: not that different. A Jetter Giant New York City postgame
Speaker 1: locker room with a number of microphones. If you turn around,
Speaker 1: it your locker and it kind of then gets broadcast
Speaker 1: just because you start talking to one or two people.
Speaker 1: Bart Scott's talking. Oh boy, it is like the flies
Speaker 1: all of a sudden converge on that one guy, and
Speaker 1: you feel like you are at the Super Bowls five
Speaker 1: minutes after you get inside. Is supported by insurance responses everything,
Speaker 1: And like she was just talking about people wanted your
Speaker 1: responses after the game, not as much. People all know
Speaker 1: what happens is if you mess up and they know
Speaker 1: they're going to get something from you, they love to
Speaker 1: come to you. For me, I always said here at first.
Speaker 1: The first year I was here was fine. They want
Speaker 1: to come here, they want to get a sound by
Speaker 1: ha ha ha. The second year, Santonio Lager was next
Speaker 1: to mine, and I used to just be sitting at out.
Speaker 1: Don't do with Santonio, Oh he did it. The offensive
Speaker 1: line need to block oh, man, don't give them what
Speaker 1: they want, you know, and that's the game you have
Speaker 1: to play. Man. It's funny that you know, you talk
Speaker 1: about the people in the media that that were the
Speaker 1: biggest hypocrites. You know, me and um and Randy Moss
Speaker 1: are members of the media now. But we're just trying
Speaker 1: to show you guys how to do it. It ask
Speaker 1: some balance to the to the craft. Well, I need
Speaker 1: the less. I appreciate that. That is really benevolent of
Speaker 1: you to try to come over, man, nobody. Don't we
Speaker 1: lose all those big words. Man, I needed the sword,
Speaker 1: the fact that we never played and that was always
Speaker 1: And now you're gonna come over to the media side
Speaker 1: and now show us, in your benevolence at thinking of
Speaker 1: your care how to do this job too. What is
Speaker 1: appreciated benevolence on your twice you're a nice guy man. Now,
Speaker 1: Bob Schusing has a lot of experience with this very
Speaker 1: show because inside the Jets you're hosting for how many years? Fifteen? Man,
Speaker 1: I took your job. I'm sorry fifteen years, fifteen years
Speaker 1: and I've got kids getting go to college things. Listen, Man,
Speaker 1: I love your voice. You know you talk about people
Speaker 1: that have great voices. You should do some voice over
Speaker 1: work for like Pixar or something like that. Man, you
Speaker 1: can give the world so many more gifts. Man, you
Speaker 1: have one of the great voices. You James Earl Jones,
Speaker 1: Darth Vader. Man, I'm telling you out, James Arrol Jones.
Speaker 1: What are you gonna drop? Maybe Morgan Freeman on it. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he can be right now, right now. That might claim
Speaker 1: to famous if you call the Jet complex, I'm the
Speaker 1: voice of holds for me, that's as good as a guest.
Speaker 1: And that's where you start. Man. You start there, Man,
Speaker 1: where you can we can finish in pixar Um. Why
Speaker 1: has the chemistry done so good with you and your
Speaker 1: partner Marty Lions. How could the chemistry be bad with
Speaker 1: Marty Lions? Yeah, I mean if if you don't like Marty,
Speaker 1: then you're the problem. So the chemistry will never be
Speaker 1: a problem with Marty. He's as good at guy as
Speaker 1: there is. You guys, we have a great time together.
Speaker 1: You have a great time, but your close personal friends
Speaker 1: as well. When he suffered a stroke in the summer
Speaker 1: and he wasn't in the booth with booth with you
Speaker 1: during the preseason, how difficult. Was that for you? Well,
Speaker 1: you're just worried about him. I mean, once I knew
Speaker 1: he was okay, that was fine. But and he called it,
Speaker 1: I guess other people called it a mild stroke. And
Speaker 1: people would ask me what happened. It's a mild stroke
Speaker 1: when it doesn't happen to you, it happens to you,
Speaker 1: it's a stroke. Get a stroke. And so that was
Speaker 1: an eye opener for him. Um, but you know, he's
Speaker 1: doing great. I mean if you knew have you just
Speaker 1: met him, you know, right now and he walked in
Speaker 1: the room, you would have no idea that any of
Speaker 1: this happened. So he has made outwardly at least a
Speaker 1: d percent recovered. Yeah, and I'll tell you what, it's
Speaker 1: so great for him to be back. He didn't miss
Speaker 1: a regular season game, and in the preseason I thought
Speaker 1: Anthony Beck did a nice job filling in. And you
Speaker 1: showed him the ropes here and those games on ESPR,
Speaker 1: So he knows what he's doing. Uh. Speaking of ESPN,
Speaker 1: what is it tepical work week like for Bob with
Speaker 1: shoes and in the football season, Uh, well, this week,
Speaker 1: you know, I've already got information coming in for our game.
Speaker 1: This week, we're doing Tennessee and l s U on
Speaker 1: Saturday night, so some interesting storylines. Tennessee just dismissing Jones. Yeah,
Speaker 1: the fire in the dumpster gets bigger and bigger every moment. Yea.
Speaker 1: So yeah, but you know, normally it's travel Thursday meetings,
Speaker 1: Thursday night meetings all day, Friday, college game, Saturday, run
Speaker 1: to the airport, fly to wherever the Jets are, do
Speaker 1: the game Sunday, fly home with the Jets. But that's
Speaker 1: kind of the standard week. You talk about that like
Speaker 1: it's easy. Sometimes it's not easy gett into a Jets game.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to hear me complain about my job. Um,
Speaker 1: so is it Saturday night this week? This week? Saturday
Speaker 1: night because we've a by So oh, that's right, so
Speaker 1: I don't have to get to a Jet game. Normally
Speaker 1: it's a noon or three thirty game because you're racing
Speaker 1: to get to whatever flight gets you to wherever these
Speaker 1: guys are, whether it's back here or on the road. Right,
Speaker 1: So that will be nice for you this weekend. You'll
Speaker 1: be able to spend something with your family. On Sunday,
Speaker 1: I will reintroduce myself to my children and you have
Speaker 1: a few children. I've got more than Yeah, I've got
Speaker 1: a handful literally shoes. What were your expectations expectations for
Speaker 1: this Jets team entering the two thousand seventeen season, and
Speaker 1: what do you think of where they stand now at
Speaker 1: the buck I think my expectations have basically colored how
Speaker 1: I've looked at every game this season, including yesterday. You know,
Speaker 1: I don't get caught up in yesterday's performance in a
Speaker 1: vacuum the way the media did today where now it's
Speaker 1: a disaster, and look at the opportunity they had in
Speaker 1: front of them. I've tried to look at this wide
Speaker 1: angle lens since the start, and to me, I am thankful.
Speaker 1: As the broadcaster, I thought we were going to see
Speaker 1: what we saw yesterday like ten times this year. Yesterday
Speaker 1: was the first. It's the first time this season that
Speaker 1: we have seen this offense look to me, the way
Speaker 1: it's capable of looking any week. So the fact that
Speaker 1: they have been as productive as they've been, as competitive
Speaker 1: as they've been, the games of the fourth quarter, have
Speaker 1: been as entertaining as they have been, far exceeds what
Speaker 1: I expected this season. That's the way I'm looking at it.
Speaker 1: I still think their talent level is absolutely down in
Speaker 1: the we are rebuilding towards the future phase. Um, I've
Speaker 1: been saying this. I'll get your take on this. I
Speaker 1: line up the whole on the draft block, and you
Speaker 1: want to draft Aaron Rodgers first and Tom Brady second
Speaker 1: and Carson Wentz whatever you want to do? How far
Speaker 1: down the list you get for your draft in a jet?
Speaker 1: How many guys you gonna take before you get to
Speaker 1: get you know, you take a chet. Well, let me
Speaker 1: ask you this question. How many giants would you draft
Speaker 1: before you take a Jet? A decent number. But that's
Speaker 1: that's close. That's close because I think that I think
Speaker 1: Leonard Williams is wanted to Williams. I think he's one
Speaker 1: of the premier talents. And I think that's the season
Speaker 1: is going. People are starting to see Jamal Adams is
Speaker 1: one of those players too, one of these guys that
Speaker 1: are going to be a superstar. I mean, I remember
Speaker 1: once when I when I saw Eat his first year,
Speaker 1: you knew that he was a year or two away
Speaker 1: from being one of the upper scheln safeties in the
Speaker 1: game and getting his first Pro Bowl, Pro Bowl berth.
Speaker 1: But I think what's surprising me more than any is
Speaker 1: Marcus May because I think at the end of the day,
Speaker 1: he may end up being the better pro. I think
Speaker 1: he may be the guy that's gonna surprise where You're
Speaker 1: gonna have to make a decision. Is this guy going
Speaker 1: to be that? You know, our franchise, you know defensive,
Speaker 1: probably can't pay both of them exactly. That's what saying,
Speaker 1: who do you My point being thought right, like the
Speaker 1: giants in a vacuum have individual talent that more giants
Speaker 1: gonna get drafted higher than jazz. To me, the Jets
Speaker 1: this season have been the quintessential example of the whole
Speaker 1: is better than the parts that they have found a
Speaker 1: way to kind of be galvanized around. There's nobody thought
Speaker 1: we could even be competitive them, and they are not
Speaker 1: only being competitive, they're giving themselves not only chances to win,
Speaker 1: but actually winning more games than anyone expected. They had
Speaker 1: fourth quarter leads against both teams that were in the
Speaker 1: Super Bowl last year. No one expected that. So if
Speaker 1: I look at all of that, take all of that in,
Speaker 1: how do you then blow up yesterday? As if they
Speaker 1: lost some type of golden opportunity to make a playoff
Speaker 1: rout you're not looking at what this season was always
Speaker 1: supposed to be about wide angle lens. If yesterday becomes
Speaker 1: the overriding negative that they changed the narrative of their
Speaker 1: entire season and blew it all yesterday no wide angle lens.
Speaker 1: What do you think with all that being said, what
Speaker 1: do you think about what Todd Bowls and his coaching
Speaker 1: staff have done this year? The changes he has made
Speaker 1: of this coaching staff have made a major, major difference,
Speaker 1: especially on the offensive side of the ball. You know,
Speaker 1: if they do end up bringing in what we all
Speaker 1: think they will next year, which is a young quarterback,
Speaker 1: the offensive coordinator they have right now, that's the offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator you want in charge of that young quarterback. I mean,
Speaker 1: even even just give Todd credit for this and this
Speaker 1: loops in the old coaching staff. He has gotten already
Speaker 1: the best out of Ryan Fitzpatrick and Josh McCown in
Speaker 1: their respective careers. Josh McCown never played as well for
Speaker 1: anyone as he has already played for the Jets this season.
Speaker 1: Ryan Fitzpatrick in his career, has had one season of
Speaker 1: above five hundred football as a starter two years ago
Speaker 1: with the Jets. So look at whose quarterbacks have been
Speaker 1: and then judge what kind of a job you think
Speaker 1: he's done well? I think did the fan base still
Speaker 1: get a little disappointed because you raise expectations as you
Speaker 1: see this team be competitive, and you know, you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes we are victims of the moment, and you look
Speaker 1: at this this Jets roster and how they perform. You know,
Speaker 1: I think it's based on energy and effort, and I
Speaker 1: think what was disappointing yesterday was the effort didn't seem
Speaker 1: it was. It was the effort, but it wasn't the
Speaker 1: next level passion. It wasn't the enthusiasm. You know that
Speaker 1: you that that I have become accustomed to see just
Speaker 1: didn't seem to have the juice right exactly. And that
Speaker 1: the going forward, how does this team take that type
Speaker 1: of enthusiasm and jews to the road on the road.
Speaker 1: We've seen it. You sometimes you have to manufacture it
Speaker 1: on the road because the crowd is against you. So
Speaker 1: you have to make them that the US against the world.
Speaker 1: But who's going to be that guy? Offensively? Because I
Speaker 1: think defensively, even though they didn't have the extra enthusiasm,
Speaker 1: I still think they performed. I think they just got tired,
Speaker 1: and I think they didn't make the places that they
Speaker 1: need to. Let me go somewhere with you that obviously
Speaker 1: I shouldn't know anything about you know about it, I don't,
Speaker 1: but this is what I think. I see that the
Speaker 1: Jets have to be at their absolute optimum level every
Speaker 1: single moment of every single game in order to win.
Speaker 1: I mean when they have played their absolute best for
Speaker 1: the most part, that's when they've won. Even when they've
Speaker 1: been at their best, it's just getting competitive and then
Speaker 1: losing games late. No team does that. No team goes
Speaker 1: sixteen games at their best all the time. But teams
Speaker 1: that have a different level of talent. The Eagles, who
Speaker 1: right now everyone is putting in the Super Bowl. They
Speaker 1: had to kick a sixty one yard field goal at
Speaker 1: home at the gun to beat the Giants. They barely
Speaker 1: beat the Chargers, Uh, the Patriots. We're down fourteen to
Speaker 1: the Jets. They had five wins by one possession. So
Speaker 1: to me, that's where the talent difference comes into play.
Speaker 1: Where you've got teams that don't play their best find
Speaker 1: a way to win because at some point they've got
Speaker 1: guys that can make a play and rise above the
Speaker 1: fact that they are not at their optimum level all
Speaker 1: the time. The Jets can't have any sag even in
Speaker 1: any way in their effort level. Yesterday they had a
Speaker 1: sag and they lost a really bland looking game. Because
Speaker 1: it's about making the necessary adjustments. And Mike Smith made
Speaker 1: the necessary adjustments. And you know, he was my linebacker
Speaker 1: coach with the Ravens, and he found something in their
Speaker 1: protection and the Jets didn't really make the corrections until
Speaker 1: it was too late. That's why he kept saying the
Speaker 1: free runners getting to Josh mcconowell after they only had
Speaker 1: so how much of that was on the offensive line
Speaker 1: yesterday and how much of that was on other guys
Speaker 1: either tight end or backs in protection adjusting to those schemes. Well,
Speaker 1: that's that's just on scheming, and sometimes you have to,
Speaker 1: you know, adjust as the game go with the game
Speaker 1: is more about adjustment. I would like to see them
Speaker 1: you know, we call it five. Oh you know R
Speaker 1: five one to three four five gonna take their five.
Speaker 1: But what happens is when they bring getting the linebacker,
Speaker 1: then that's really six and that's where the smoking mirrors
Speaker 1: comes in. I would like to see them turn the
Speaker 1: protection that way. You can see these guys sneaking in
Speaker 1: the middle in the A gaps. You know, the A
Speaker 1: gap is the easiest way to get to the quarterback
Speaker 1: because even if you have a running back off set,
Speaker 1: it's hard for him to get there because you can't
Speaker 1: really cut the linebacker because as a linebacker comes, you
Speaker 1: cut him, he's gonna fall right into the quarterbacks knees
Speaker 1: and you you're gonna jeopardize your quarterback. You really don't
Speaker 1: have the angle to come across in front of the
Speaker 1: quarterback and stop to stop the stop the running because
Speaker 1: he's coming in a straight line, so he'll run through you.
Speaker 1: So that's about making the necessary adjustments. What I would
Speaker 1: have liked seeing the adjustment I would like to see
Speaker 1: when when the offense is struggling, you have to change
Speaker 1: the tempo. So I would have liked to see them
Speaker 1: hurry up the pace, go to no huddle. You saw
Speaker 1: it later in the game, but when you see it
Speaker 1: all the time with Ben Roethlisberger, nobody has has you know,
Speaker 1: beat me more taken more for me than Ben Roethlisberg,
Speaker 1: and Pittsburgh stillers whenever Ben is struggling, two minute offense,
Speaker 1: let's go let's get in the rhythm, let's feed up
Speaker 1: the pace, and they just seemed to go at that
Speaker 1: same pace expecting a different result. But sometimes it also
Speaker 1: takes two and three bart Scotts to get bent on
Speaker 1: the ground as opposed to one Bart Scott to get
Speaker 1: a Josh McCown on the ground. Tampa's got a couple
Speaker 1: of Barts got kind of linebacker. Well, that's that's what
Speaker 1: I was gonna one Alexander are there was kind of
Speaker 1: undersized sideline to sideline, missile kind of guys. Those guys
Speaker 1: are tougher defend. Three things happened on a Sunday. I
Speaker 1: thought that Jets, obviously we're losing the battle up front.
Speaker 1: The line was losing the battle there. David was fantastic,
Speaker 1: and for the first time all season you saw Josh
Speaker 1: McCown never get into a rhythm over the course of
Speaker 1: sixty minutes. He never seemed comfortable yesterday until they sped
Speaker 1: the temple up. But it was too little, too late,
Speaker 1: because when you changed the temple, then what happens is
Speaker 1: you get predictable defenses from the defense because the coach
Speaker 1: really can't change in and our personnel, right, he can't
Speaker 1: get a call in so they go to their safety calls,
Speaker 1: and their safety calls are usually a man and man's
Speaker 1: own or some type of zone where everybody can see,
Speaker 1: and then you can go into the personnel. When you
Speaker 1: think about the personnel, that it just happens Farren Jenkins,
Speaker 1: no matter if he's attached to the line of scrimmage
Speaker 1: or you remove him from the line of scrimmage. Those
Speaker 1: those pass rushing and those blitzers only got about six
Speaker 1: good plays in them before they start helping and puffing,
Speaker 1: and then you can't really go with that, so you
Speaker 1: have to put him back on your heels. What happened yesterday,
Speaker 1: I feel like Tampa dictated the pace of the game
Speaker 1: to the offense and not the other way around. And
Speaker 1: they slowed it down offensively too. That's what we're talking
Speaker 1: four quarters, man. I felt like I was watching Princeton
Speaker 1: play basketball already passed before you shoot. I worked with
Speaker 1: prock Heward. He was Peyton Manning's backup college football wise.
Speaker 1: Everything What a great what a great job right holding
Speaker 1: the clipboards for Payton. I mean, how good is that?
Speaker 1: So he said that nothing's screwed with Peyton more than
Speaker 1: two linebackers up in the eight gaps with ten on
Speaker 1: the play clock because he wanted play clock down all
Speaker 1: the way as far as he could take it. Can
Speaker 1: I get these guys to tip their hand? Can I
Speaker 1: diagnose what they're in? I've got ten plays I can
Speaker 1: go to. I'm gonna pick the right one. And it
Speaker 1: wasn't so much that he didn't know where they were
Speaker 1: coming from. But with ten on the play clock or less,
Speaker 1: do I have enough time to get my protection lined up?
Speaker 1: Can I communicate to those five guys what I need
Speaker 1: to get across to them when now I've got nose
Speaker 1: guard or maybe like a like a zero one technique
Speaker 1: in two linebackers in the a gaps. He was never
Speaker 1: and obviously it's not something Peyton Manning was ever gonna
Speaker 1: say as a player, but he did stay behind closed
Speaker 1: doors to the guys in Indie. I wonder why more
Speaker 1: teams don't do that. I wonder why more defensive coordinators
Speaker 1: don't see all of it's with Rex and all the
Speaker 1: why'm more defensive coordinators don't see how those two guys
Speaker 1: on either side of the center are gonna screw with
Speaker 1: what I wanted segment and his course light He's almost.
Speaker 1: We might keep him on from one more segment. We'll
Speaker 1: come right back. Man, he's got to go see his
Speaker 1: hand for the kids. All right, I'll standing show tonight.
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Speaker 1: We're joined this week by Hall of Fame running back
Speaker 1: and former Jet Ladania Thomlinson. As he takes talks a
Speaker 1: little bit about his time with the Jets, as well
Speaker 1: as well as how it feels to wear that gold jacket.
Speaker 1: Ladinian Thomlinson, of course, inducted into the NFL Hall of
Speaker 1: Fame last August. Eric Ellen, alongside Bart Scott and the
Speaker 1: voice of the Jets, Bob was choosing uh. One quick
Speaker 1: note before UH, we talk a little college football with
Speaker 1: Bob and look at what the Jets have remaining after
Speaker 1: the by is this is uh. Robert's last show with
Speaker 1: us tonight. Who's on the controls over here in the corner.
Speaker 1: You're not seeing him him at home, but please, but
Speaker 1: everybody a hair a Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits give Robert
Speaker 1: a great round of applause. Also, Brittany is back in
Speaker 1: New York City. She doesn't run this job every week,
Speaker 1: and fortunately for us, she's not going anywhere as far
Speaker 1: as I know. Alright, shoes. Uh, when you look at
Speaker 1: the Jet schedule, Um, what do you think after the
Speaker 1: bye Carolina is coming to town and then the Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs teams that are desperate for wins. I mean, now,
Speaker 1: now once we get the Thanksgiving and later partners, this
Speaker 1: money time in the NFL, that's exactly right. And now
Speaker 1: you're trying to raise I mean her I'm always called
Speaker 1: a race to ten. Get to ten. If you get
Speaker 1: better than ten, you know you're in. Now you're talking
Speaker 1: about buys, you're talking about home field division titles. But
Speaker 1: now you're going to get a lot of teams that
Speaker 1: are gonna be trying to do whatever they can to
Speaker 1: inch their way to that tenth win. And uh, and
Speaker 1: the Jets have a bunch of them on their schedule.
Speaker 1: This Carolina offense is not prolific by any means, but
Speaker 1: cam Newton can get it done on the ground. Defensively
Speaker 1: is where they make it happen. Part they remind me
Speaker 1: of of all the Raven teams our on. It's nothing
Speaker 1: flash about what they do. But they will beat you
Speaker 1: up physically, mentally. I mean they're aggressive right off the bus.
Speaker 1: And then you know it's gonna be tough because they're
Speaker 1: gonna challenge your manhood. And it's one thing to break
Speaker 1: somebody mentally, but to break somebody physically, you know, it's
Speaker 1: tough to do. But they thrive on that. They're a
Speaker 1: physical football team. You know, you talk about you know,
Speaker 1: you know the great players they have, you talked about.
Speaker 1: I think about the line backers, Thomas Davison, Louke Kickley.
Speaker 1: That's the first thing I'm always talking about when you
Speaker 1: talk about Carolina. Julius Peppers man, he's like seventy five
Speaker 1: years old man, but he's like Benjamin Button, he's still
Speaker 1: getting it in. He's still you know, collapse in the pocket.
Speaker 1: He still can get to the quarterback and you know
Speaker 1: he's that he's that inspirational leader for them. Um Carolina,
Speaker 1: so far, like I said, not gaudy numbers on the
Speaker 1: ground shoes. They come at you with Jonathan Stewart and
Speaker 1: Christian McCaffrey. But McCaffrey has become a deadly weapon out
Speaker 1: of the backfield. As a receiver. They drafted him, and
Speaker 1: they drafted him to be a threat guy. He's not
Speaker 1: between the tackles runners. He's Danny Woodhead, He's Rex Birkehead.
Speaker 1: He's one of these guys that you are gonna try
Speaker 1: to get on a matchup how he's a matchup nightmare.
Speaker 1: And so yeah, I mean, how would you defend him? Well,
Speaker 1: you know, we we you know that brings up another point.
Speaker 1: I'm remembered or you know, I'm remembering the play in
Speaker 1: the game on Sunday where Da Mario Davis came up.
Speaker 1: And you have to make sure that if you're going
Speaker 1: to play around with the quarterback and try and you
Speaker 1: give them certain looks, you've gotta be on the on
Speaker 1: the same page with everybody on the field. You know,
Speaker 1: you gotta chip a guy like him. You have to
Speaker 1: bracket him. You can't try and take away both sides.
Speaker 1: You can't take the outer way in the vertical way.
Speaker 1: You gotta take one the other way. To do that,
Speaker 1: you gotta have your buddy protect you, you know. So
Speaker 1: to do that, you gotta make sure say, okay, I'm
Speaker 1: going to take the out and if he goes out
Speaker 1: and up safety you got him. If he crosses my face,
Speaker 1: then okay, you'll darrenly, you come and take him, and
Speaker 1: you make sure that you make it predictable. You make
Speaker 1: him predict what he what he has to do. If
Speaker 1: he's got a two way go on a linebacker, that
Speaker 1: linebacker is gonna be a big, big trump that's in anybody.
Speaker 1: You know, I'm in and and and and what you
Speaker 1: want to do? Also, you want to try and force
Speaker 1: him to stay in because you know that they want
Speaker 1: to get him out, So you want to try and
Speaker 1: force him to have to be you know, pick somebody
Speaker 1: up in past detection, you give some all out the
Speaker 1: type of blitz type of thing, and they'll probably release him,
Speaker 1: but you want to try and put that pressure on
Speaker 1: him to make them have to make the decision to
Speaker 1: make him have to be physical. And if if they
Speaker 1: realize that that's the game plan, they may take him
Speaker 1: out of the game. How difficult is it for a
Speaker 1: guy in your position, linebacker or defensive end or defensive
Speaker 1: tackle facing a guy like Newton who is an enormous man,
Speaker 1: who's tough to bring down and who will tuck it
Speaker 1: and run. Well, when you think about Cam Newton, you
Speaker 1: know he has one of the quickert releases, but he's
Speaker 1: not a He's not a very accurate quarterback. So what
Speaker 1: you wanna do is you want to play tight man
Speaker 1: and man hoping that he's gonna throw a ball you
Speaker 1: know not you know exactly where it's supposed to be
Speaker 1: and you can get an opportunity to get it. But
Speaker 1: what makes Cam Newton difficult is when you talk about
Speaker 1: the Tyrode Taylors, you talk about the Russell Wilson's of
Speaker 1: the world. You know they don't have the height to
Speaker 1: see over the offensive line, so the same windows, so
Speaker 1: you can start the pocket and distort their vision and
Speaker 1: they have to either move up and out or retreat
Speaker 1: back to try and get vision. Camp consider in the
Speaker 1: pocket and still see over the defense to still deliver
Speaker 1: the ball. So that's what makes it a lot more difficult.
Speaker 1: But what that being said is he believes in his physicality,
Speaker 1: in his physical gifts, so he's gonna hold onto the ball,
Speaker 1: So it's gonna be opportunities for guys to get the
Speaker 1: ball out of his hand. Much like Ben Roethlisberger, you
Speaker 1: have to make sure that you attack his throwing arm
Speaker 1: because you don't attack his throwing arm, then he's going
Speaker 1: to throw the ball either. If you're taking them to
Speaker 1: the ground, the shoe is a real challenge. In six
Speaker 1: games stretch in the season, Like I mentioned Carolina, then
Speaker 1: Kansas City, he was a complete balance football team coming
Speaker 1: to Mountlife Stadium, followed by trips to Denver, trips to
Speaker 1: New Orleans. A New Orleans team like we haven't seen
Speaker 1: any year. They pound you with mark Ingram and Alvin
Speaker 1: Kamaras taking the NFL by storm, and then you host
Speaker 1: the Charges on Christmas Eve, and and then you're in
Speaker 1: New England. To me, again, this goes back to what
Speaker 1: I talked about at the start. Why I have looked
Speaker 1: at this wide angle lens from the beginning. Back in April,
Speaker 1: everyone said, how many wins you think the Jets will have? Three? Four, five,
Speaker 1: somewhere in that range. But if they win a few,
Speaker 1: they'll probably win them early. Look, they got Buffalo, they've
Speaker 1: got Cleveland. You know, they've got some games at the
Speaker 1: beginning that they feel like they can win. Then they
Speaker 1: won them early, and then all of a sudden it
Speaker 1: became a completely warped set of expectations and we gotta
Speaker 1: get out of here. Let's see you next week. He'll
Speaker 1: be back. Today's t