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Speaker 1: York Jets. Now here's Eric Gallen. Welcome to the Inside
Speaker 1: the Jets. Eric Allen here alongside my new partner for
Speaker 1: the two thousand eighteen season, former Jets safety Eric Coleman.
Speaker 1: Thank you, Thank you man. I'm excited to do the
Speaker 1: season with you. They got off to a great start
Speaker 1: yesterday and there's a lot to be be inspired for
Speaker 1: if you're a jetman. How about the New York Jets
Speaker 1: almost laying a fifty burger in the Motor City victory
Speaker 1: over the Detroit Lines. What did you think about that performance?
Speaker 1: I was, I was so excited. You know, they were
Speaker 1: clicking on all cylinders, all three phases of the game
Speaker 1: that they were They were tough, they were ready to play,
Speaker 1: and and it was just a great showing of the
Speaker 1: talent of the coaching that Todd Bowles did this whole offseason.
Speaker 1: And I thought they did a great performance. Alright, So,
Speaker 1: Eric Coleman, you were at a cooking class last night
Speaker 1: actually with the Jets had the Jets cooking school. It
Speaker 1: was it was in Morristown. It was awesome. We had
Speaker 1: we we were cooking, uh, all kinds of meals, Detroit food.
Speaker 1: And I got to watch the game with with some
Speaker 1: of the fans and it was a great time. But
Speaker 1: you actually missed the first play. So Sam Donald takes
Speaker 1: his first play from scrimmage in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: He goes out to pass, He rolls to his right,
Speaker 1: he throws to his left. He sees bilal Paul and
Speaker 1: the one guy I didn't see was Quare Unbelievable. You know,
Speaker 1: I mean, what a way to start your career. You know,
Speaker 1: you're the third pick of the draft, you're the franchise quarterback.
Speaker 1: You come out and throw an interception for a touchdown.
Speaker 1: But you know what, I was so proud of him.
Speaker 1: He showed his resilience, he showed his toughness, and he's
Speaker 1: that going through that adversity I think was something great
Speaker 1: for for Sam Arnold. You know, you go through those
Speaker 1: tough times, you bounce back. You know, you lead the
Speaker 1: team to you know, all kinds of points, you put
Speaker 1: all kinds of points on the board. Um, just it's
Speaker 1: not the best start. That is not there's not something
Speaker 1: that you would draw up. But it's a great start
Speaker 1: for Sam Donald. He What was the fans reaction though
Speaker 1: in Morristown when Darnald goes back and the lines are
Speaker 1: running the other way, four fields going nuts. Everybody was shocked.
Speaker 1: You know, everybody was like, oh no, this is this
Speaker 1: is supposed to be the guy that, you know, to say,
Speaker 1: brings us back to the super Bowl, but you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes it doesn't work out that way. And it was
Speaker 1: a lesson that he learned from. You saw Josh McCown.
Speaker 1: He was the first guy to grab him on the sideline,
Speaker 1: you know, got into his head, told me to keep
Speaker 1: his head up, came back and was ready to go.
Speaker 1: What does it say about this guy's character, his metal,
Speaker 1: his poise, his makeup, the way he came back because
Speaker 1: he finished in the night sixteen it's twenty one for
Speaker 1: a yards and his first two professional touchdowns. I think
Speaker 1: he just confirmed everything that I thought going into this season.
Speaker 1: You know, he the bright lights aren't gonna beat too
Speaker 1: big for him. He can handle adversity. He's a great
Speaker 1: leader and he has that level head, you know, playing
Speaker 1: quarterback in New York. Is is something different. You know,
Speaker 1: there's a lot of expectations that come of you, and
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a lot of ebbs and flows in
Speaker 1: your career. And Sam Donald handled that perfectly. He brushed
Speaker 1: it right off, went on to the next play and
Speaker 1: continue his success. You played the safety position in the
Speaker 1: National Football League. What kind of challenges does a guy
Speaker 1: like Donald present? Because he's an accurate thrower of the
Speaker 1: football inside the pocket. But I think he is special
Speaker 1: feat and potentially we could be talking about him as
Speaker 1: one of the game's elite players. Well, you know, playing
Speaker 1: in the secondary, you know, obviously it's tough to cover
Speaker 1: that initial route, you know, but Sam Donald has the
Speaker 1: arm strength to to make any throw in the field.
Speaker 1: But the way he's unique is when he gets on
Speaker 1: the run. You know a lot of quarterbacks, especially young quarterbacks,
Speaker 1: when they get on the run, their eyes are down
Speaker 1: the field. They're trying to make it happen. They're worried
Speaker 1: about the pressure that's coming on him. Sam Donald does
Speaker 1: a great job of keeping his eyes downfield. He's extremely
Speaker 1: accurate throwing the ball on the run, and that's very dangerous,
Speaker 1: you know. I think of Aaron Rodgers. He's another guy
Speaker 1: who's accurate on the run, who's justice dangerous in the
Speaker 1: pocket as he is outside of the pocket. Eric Allen
Speaker 1: and Eric Coleman here at Vanderbilt's and Flora Park inside
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Speaker 1: Response is everything? How about the judge response that initial
Speaker 1: touchdown because they weathered that storm and they responded with
Speaker 1: a seventeen point run of their own. Uh that culminated
Speaker 1: on a touchdown pass from Donald to Robby Anderson. I
Speaker 1: thought it was awesome, you know, just showing the resilience. UH.
Speaker 1: This team is is a hard nosed football team who
Speaker 1: can handle adversity, who can come through all the tough
Speaker 1: situations and still thrive. You know, they had a couple
Speaker 1: of tough challenges during this game. You know though it
Speaker 1: was a blowout. At the end of the game, you know,
Speaker 1: you have the first play for a pick six, you know,
Speaker 1: coming out going into the halftime, Lions hit a field goal.
Speaker 1: They come back and score another touchdown. You know, they
Speaker 1: continue to fight through adversity and shows a lot about
Speaker 1: their character. About the leadership of this team. Complimentary football.
Speaker 1: Everybody was worried about the Jet special teams after that
Speaker 1: third preseason out against the New York Giants, But the
Speaker 1: Jets special teams were special against the Detroit Lions, namely,
Speaker 1: how about Andre Roberts. Oh, Andre Roberts, he showed out yesterday.
Speaker 1: And the great thing. The funny thing is is that
Speaker 1: ever since Mike Westoff left the Jet staff, everybody has
Speaker 1: been like, oh, I don't know, the special teams aren't
Speaker 1: the same. I'll tell you what. Yesterday, all three phases
Speaker 1: they played well. Um. Andre Roberts had three great returns.
Speaker 1: He had a sixteen yard or he had to touchdown,
Speaker 1: and he had another long return. I thought they looked great.
Speaker 1: The the guys who were blocking form did a great
Speaker 1: job of holding up at the line. Uh, kicking game
Speaker 1: was great. Nine touchbacks. I have nothing to complain about
Speaker 1: about those special teams. He don't get mad at maybecause
Speaker 1: we're gonna get to the defense here in a second.
Speaker 1: Obviously they deserve plenty of props. But the balance offensively,
Speaker 1: what do you think about the tandem? Isaiah crow All
Speaker 1: now added to the mix. I love it, I love it.
Speaker 1: You know, you know what you get with balah Pal.
Speaker 1: He's a guy that once he gets a handoff, he
Speaker 1: has an opportunity to hit his head on the goal
Speaker 1: post whenever he touches the ball. So he's a big
Speaker 1: play guy, does a great job on third down, Awesome
Speaker 1: in past protection. But to add Isaiah Crowell, who's tough,
Speaker 1: He's physical. He's similar to like a Chris Ivvery where
Speaker 1: he loves that contact and he thrives off it. Did
Speaker 1: a great job yesterday showing his physicality and really punishing
Speaker 1: the Lions defenders. The balance offensively was very impressive. I
Speaker 1: like the way Jeremy Bates called the game. What about
Speaker 1: on the outside Quincy and him up back in the
Speaker 1: lineup for the Jets six reception sixty three yards and
Speaker 1: when the game got tight in the second half, like
Speaker 1: you mentioned, who did the rookie go to? He went
Speaker 1: the number eighty one. I call him the energizer Bunny
Speaker 1: for this offense when Quincy and no one was on
Speaker 1: the field. The Jets are a different team that he is.
Speaker 1: He's a special player and he's one of those guys
Speaker 1: who's a tone setter. You know, he is a wide receiver,
Speaker 1: so you don't think of those guys as the one
Speaker 1: who are gonna set the tone. But when Clinty catches
Speaker 1: the ball, going across the middle, taking those shots, giving
Speaker 1: shots across the middle, leading, leading on blocks, he does
Speaker 1: a great job of blocking. You know, he really just
Speaker 1: embodies what it is to be a jet. He's tough,
Speaker 1: he's physical, hard working, and he's dependable. So it was
Speaker 1: great to see him, especially after that injury, to come
Speaker 1: back and have such a big impact. What about the
Speaker 1: versatility when you're talking about a noon wall about line
Speaker 1: of him outside the numbers, they're moving them inside. You
Speaker 1: had to fund guys in the National Football League, but
Speaker 1: there aren't a lot of folks out there on the
Speaker 1: offensive side of the ball who present that kind of
Speaker 1: matchup problems like in Yeah, No one is so tough
Speaker 1: because you know, when he's playing the slot, he can
Speaker 1: be kind of like a tight end because he's tough
Speaker 1: enough to go down there and chip those outside linebackers.
Speaker 1: He's physical enough in the run game where he can
Speaker 1: go knock down the safety, but he can go across
Speaker 1: the middle. He can catch balls out in the perimeter.
Speaker 1: Once he catches the ball, he's just as dangerous. You know,
Speaker 1: he's tough, he's physical, he's built like a running back.
Speaker 1: You know, he kind of reminds me of an air
Speaker 1: Kwon Bolden earlier in his career here where he's he's
Speaker 1: one of those tough, physical guys who can move the
Speaker 1: change for you and make those tough catchers. How about
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson. You know, you never can sleep on number
Speaker 1: eleven because you go in the entire half and say, hey,
Speaker 1: where's Robbie, and then all of a sudden, there he is.
Speaker 1: Ona Go Donald hits him and just like that, boom,
Speaker 1: He's into that zone. I thought that was awesome, you know,
Speaker 1: to get Robbie Anderson involved. You know, they kind of
Speaker 1: improvised on the route. Robbie Anderson put his hand up
Speaker 1: like Randy Moss. He is to letting, letting Donald know
Speaker 1: I'm gonna change the round. I'm going deep. He threw
Speaker 1: it deep and he went up and made the play.
Speaker 1: It was great to see him. You know, he's such
Speaker 1: a he was such a big part of this offense
Speaker 1: last season, and to see him contribute early in the
Speaker 1: season is great. I can't wait to see when Jermaine
Speaker 1: Curse gets back to this wide receiver Corps, no doubt
Speaker 1: about that. Did they improvised? There? I'm watching from the
Speaker 1: press box up top in Detroit, and I'm wondering. I'm
Speaker 1: shouting internally saying Donald's got him, He's He's got him.
Speaker 1: And like you said, Robbie's waving to him. So take
Speaker 1: me through that place, okay, So I'll take you through
Speaker 1: the play eight. What what happened? It was a third
Speaker 1: and two situations. Sterling was lined up. Oh, by the way,
Speaker 1: the Jets were great on third do in the first
Speaker 1: halfred at the rookie quarterback in Jeremy Bates again for
Speaker 1: they did a great job. But it was third and two.
Speaker 1: Sterling was lined up in the slot. Robbie Anderson was
Speaker 1: on the outside. What what happened was Sterling came up
Speaker 1: around a six yard curl. Robby Anderson did the inside release.
Speaker 1: Every time a defensive back, especially as safety sees that
Speaker 1: they're thinking snagger out, meaning Robby Anderson is gonna run
Speaker 1: the dig. And if you watch on the film, the
Speaker 1: Lion's safety jumped the dig so hard that Robby Anderson
Speaker 1: didn't even run it. He just put his hand up
Speaker 1: and kept running. That's why Sam kind of hesitated and
Speaker 1: before throwing that ball deep. Great improvisation by Robbie Anderson
Speaker 1: and Sam Donald. Is great to see them doing that
Speaker 1: so early in his career. All right, if we all
Speaker 1: get to the defensive side of the ball, though, five interceptions,
Speaker 1: Matt stafford thrill for nearly forty yards. In two thousand seventeen.
Speaker 1: He had twenty nine touchdowns and ten inter receptions over
Speaker 1: the course is sixteen games. He was intercepted four times.
Speaker 1: Last night, the Jets had five interceptions in all New
Speaker 1: jack City. You know, they made their presence known on
Speaker 1: this league. You know, this is the defense that that
Speaker 1: wants to be, uh, the top defense in the league.
Speaker 1: They have the attitude, They put in the work, and
Speaker 1: they put in the film study. You know, you can
Speaker 1: see these guys jumping routes. Every time they ran a route,
Speaker 1: whether it was intercepted or not, there was pressure on
Speaker 1: those receivers every time. There was never a time where
Speaker 1: they caught the ball and they had room to run.
Speaker 1: It was always bang bang, and if not, it was
Speaker 1: an interception. I talked to former Jets quarterback Chad Pennington
Speaker 1: uh today about a number of things, including Sam Donald
Speaker 1: of course, but he said. Defensively, what you saw from
Speaker 1: the Jets was really sticky in coverage and it's a
Speaker 1: fast unit. Do you see that yourself? You know this
Speaker 1: is this defense is so athletic. They're tough, they're physical,
Speaker 1: they're they're constantly applying pressure. I mean you think about
Speaker 1: on the outside on the perimeter with Tremaine Johnson and Maclaymore,
Speaker 1: but screen on the inside on the slot. These guys
Speaker 1: are tough, physical corners who like to get their hands
Speaker 1: and receivers disrupt the routes. And they know that they
Speaker 1: have protection because Jamal Adams and Doug Middleton last week
Speaker 1: all yesterday was back there holding it down in the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. So they have a lot of
Speaker 1: trust for one another. Great communication across the board. That's
Speaker 1: one thing I look at when I look at the
Speaker 1: secondary is are they communicating? Are they doing hand signals?
Speaker 1: And the Jets were talking about every single play out
Speaker 1: there on the field. Great ball skills. How about Morris Clayborn.
Speaker 1: He had one interception last year, but I thought last
Speaker 1: season with the Jets was his finest in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. That was a helvin in or such. Oh,
Speaker 1: that was a great job, you know, it looked, you know,
Speaker 1: from from the film, it looked like they were playing
Speaker 1: a trap cover to cover two. More Claiborne kind of
Speaker 1: he kind of sunk off the number one receiver. Matt
Speaker 1: Stafford thought he can fit into the honey hoole and
Speaker 1: cover two the safeties high, the corners underneath. Matt Stafford
Speaker 1: has the arm to get it into that little space
Speaker 1: between the corner and the safety. More Claiborne showed his
Speaker 1: athleticism going up and getting that ball. It was a
Speaker 1: great play, all right. Only said it was coming. He said,
Speaker 1: I'm gonna be the next New York Jet to have
Speaker 1: a return touchdown. So he comes off with his two
Speaker 1: first professional interceptions and in fact, he takes one of
Speaker 1: the house. After the game, he talks in the locker
Speaker 1: room saying, we knew what was coming. We were prepared
Speaker 1: through our film study. We go all the way back
Speaker 1: to July, and we knew what the lines were doing.
Speaker 1: We had a beat. Can you explain what went into
Speaker 1: the preparation for this ballgame and what a guy means
Speaker 1: when he says that, Well, what he means is when
Speaker 1: you're scouting the team, typically you go back and look
Speaker 1: at the last four regular season games, and there's tendencies.
Speaker 1: You know, a lot of teams will will put up
Speaker 1: you know, put up some hands and and make it
Speaker 1: look different. But a lot of the teams run the
Speaker 1: same route combinations. So so what Darren Lee means is
Speaker 1: their tendencies the same. The routes they were doing, the
Speaker 1: motions that they were doing. We're giving away the routes.
Speaker 1: You can tell by stances of offensive lineman. You can
Speaker 1: tell by splits of receivers. And that all happened was
Speaker 1: with communication. As I said, that defense was communicating, they
Speaker 1: understood what was gonna happen. They were alerting one another
Speaker 1: two plays. And that's what Darren Lee was talking about
Speaker 1: when when he knew the plays, you know, hand signals,
Speaker 1: you have to change that stuff up if you're in offense.
Speaker 1: You know. That's why I credit uh, you know, the Jets,
Speaker 1: the Jets team for for mixing up their tendencies. Like
Speaker 1: I mentioned earlier before and that Robbie Anderson touchdown, the
Speaker 1: tendency is for Robby Anderson to run that dig route.
Speaker 1: He changed it up, went vertical and scored a touchdown.
Speaker 1: The Lions didn't make those changes and they ended up
Speaker 1: in interceptions. They ended up in turnovers for the Jets. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you gotta give the entire coaching staff a lot of
Speaker 1: credit for how prepared this team was a hopening weekend. Absolutely,
Speaker 1: they did. They did a great job of preparing this
Speaker 1: team on all three phases, you know, and you look
Speaker 1: on the other side, it looked like the Lions were
Speaker 1: lost at times, you know, it looked like they weren't
Speaker 1: ready for these situations. But the Jets, Todd Bowls, Casey Rogers,
Speaker 1: Jeremy Bates had this team fully prepared. There there, you
Speaker 1: can see the leadership in this team, and it was
Speaker 1: exciting to watch. All Right, we are ready for the situation,
Speaker 1: Eric Allen and Eric him in here at Vanderbilts. You're
Speaker 1: listening inside. The Jets are gonna be right back. After
Speaker 1: this break. Former sever its back to throw is Donald
Speaker 1: looks left, has time, looks over the middle, fires one
Speaker 1: down the left sideline towards the ends of Robbie Anderson.
Speaker 1: He's got it. That's a Jet touchdown Robbie Anderson, a
Speaker 1: rightful throw from Sam Donald and the Jets extend their lead.
Speaker 1: Donald bouncing back from the pick sticks to start the game.
Speaker 1: We're back here at Inside the Jets Eric Allen alongside
Speaker 1: Eric Coleman. The two ease in the House at Vanderbilts.
Speaker 1: Inside the Jets is presented by e Y building a
Speaker 1: better working world. And like we talked about before, great
Speaker 1: response from Sam Donald there early and he culminated that
Speaker 1: first half of the score and pass to Robbie Anderson
Speaker 1: where those guys made an adjustment on the fly. So
Speaker 1: big time football. Before are we get to Iran staten Island.
Speaker 1: Who's gonna start us off with our calls? Three seven
Speaker 1: seven six E. What about Jamal Adams? What? Man? What
Speaker 1: about the energy he brought to the field last night
Speaker 1: and he finally got that first career interseption. Man, I'm
Speaker 1: so excited, you know, watching him, you know, obviously being
Speaker 1: a former safety, that's the guy who I'm watching on
Speaker 1: the field. But Jamal has you know, from the day
Speaker 1: he walked into this facility, you know last year, he's
Speaker 1: made a big impact. His energy is infectious. Uh. He
Speaker 1: loves a game of football and you can see it
Speaker 1: in the way he plays. And yesterday he was all
Speaker 1: over the place, you know, in coverage, coming up in
Speaker 1: the run game, getting tackles for losses, and he also
Speaker 1: had that that big interception. It was great to see
Speaker 1: him finally get that first interception. I'm extremely happy for him.
Speaker 1: And that's the first of many because this guy going
Speaker 1: into a second year. You know that that first year
Speaker 1: playing safety, you're just out there playing ball. You know,
Speaker 1: you just out there trying to survive. This year that
Speaker 1: second year comes, Now you learn tendencies, Now you learn
Speaker 1: route recognition. Now you start jumping balls and making plays.
Speaker 1: And you're gonna see a lot of that out of
Speaker 1: Marcus May as well as Jamal Adams. So let's go
Speaker 1: to the airways right now, bringing Ira from Staten Island. Ahi,
Speaker 1: how are you buddy? Hey hey Eric, how great great
Speaker 1: way to start off the season after win like last night.
Speaker 1: Just I'll tell you, man, all these years following his team,
Speaker 1: uh full three phases, how they did it last night?
Speaker 1: It was just amazing. It was you know, Eric, you
Speaker 1: really hit on something with how fast his defense looks
Speaker 1: and they sure looks like a last night. And you know,
Speaker 1: I was really surprised how Bold use a lot of
Speaker 1: two defensive lineman at times, and he mixed it in
Speaker 1: with extra linebacker or extra backs and even the special
Speaker 1: teams you know, there was some issues with the punting
Speaker 1: early on in the summer, and now they look like
Speaker 1: they've gone to this directional punting, which they solved that problem.
Speaker 1: I thought Myers was money. And you know, of course
Speaker 1: Donald's a big story. Um, this kid's just you know,
Speaker 1: God willing, he stays healthy. This kid's huture. I think
Speaker 1: the sky's the limit because he has he has stuff
Speaker 1: that you can't coach. He has a pocket presence. He
Speaker 1: knows when the Russia is coming. Um, he could get
Speaker 1: out of the pocket and you know, he could make
Speaker 1: every throw and the future looks right. And even when
Speaker 1: they were in the running game, I mean proel and power.
Speaker 1: That's a really nice can. Then we'll see how Tannon
Speaker 1: comes along. And all summer long, all your ear we fans, Well,
Speaker 1: the Jets don't have a number one receiver. And guess what,
Speaker 1: they got four receivers. And yeah, I'm sure you're you're
Speaker 1: aware of it. They got four receivership had an eight
Speaker 1: hundred yard or more season and that's the only team
Speaker 1: in the NFL that has that. So there's a lot
Speaker 1: more talent on this team than most people think. So
Speaker 1: I'll just coourage what you guys think, yeah, great call
Speaker 1: is always listen. Uh. I want to go back to
Speaker 1: Donald for a second. The quality then I talked about
Speaker 1: early on here on inside of Jets he is, he's
Speaker 1: got special feet. But what you need more than anything
Speaker 1: else to play at the professional level and be successful,
Speaker 1: I think, is that you have to be instinctive. And
Speaker 1: he has a tremendous feel for the game. He can
Speaker 1: feel that pocket collapsing, and he also knows when to
Speaker 1: step up and when to use his feet to advance
Speaker 1: and get the get the yards on the ground, but
Speaker 1: also to extend and use his vision. That he has
Speaker 1: very good vision paired up with instinctive qualities, and those
Speaker 1: are things he can't teach because you butt in so
Speaker 1: many classrooms in your career where guys can process on
Speaker 1: the chalkboard, but they get out on the field and
Speaker 1: it's a completely different story. This guy could process in
Speaker 1: the classroom and then it translates on the field. And
Speaker 1: that's one of his big qualities is his mental side
Speaker 1: of the game. You know, he doesn't he doesn't ever
Speaker 1: seem rattled, you know when he's playing the game, and
Speaker 1: when I see him going through his progressions, that's so
Speaker 1: impressive watching the rookie quarterback do that. You know, I
Speaker 1: think back to my rookie year when with the Jets
Speaker 1: we were playing the Pittsburgh Steelers Ben Roethlisberger in his
Speaker 1: first year. The scouting report on Ben Roethlisberger was that
Speaker 1: he's looking at his number one receiver. If he's not open,
Speaker 1: he's tucking it and running. And that's when he did
Speaker 1: all season long, and he had a lot of success
Speaker 1: doing it. But when I watched Sam Donald, he's going
Speaker 1: through his progression. He's going through his one, two, three receiver.
Speaker 1: Then he's getting outside of the pocket with his eyes
Speaker 1: down the field, making great throws and it's it's it's
Speaker 1: so exciting to see, especially this young in his career. Alright,
Speaker 1: we're taking calls here on and said in said the
Speaker 1: Jets eight nine on nine three seven seven six. Let's
Speaker 1: go to Claudio, who is in the car. Claudio, what's up? Hey?
Speaker 1: Eric and Eric, it's Claudio Gotham Bitter crew were on
Speaker 1: route eight heading back to New York from Detroit. That's
Speaker 1: absolutely elated in and surreal, just the energy the fans,
Speaker 1: big shout out to fireman heat and everybody going down
Speaker 1: to center field in the stands. You could just feel
Speaker 1: the excitement from the fans. It was. It was surreal
Speaker 1: and amazing. Yeah, yeah, Claudio, before you throw out a
Speaker 1: question here, I got a question for you. I have
Speaker 1: been covering the Jets for eighteen years. I haven't seen
Speaker 1: anything quite like that, where for everybody got the other
Speaker 1: Detroit Lions fans, they were exciting by about the end
Speaker 1: of the third quarter, and then behind the Jets bench
Speaker 1: in the fourth quarter it was a chorus of j
Speaker 1: E t S Jets, Jets, Jets, and I'm sure Claudio
Speaker 1: was one of them. What was that like that experience
Speaker 1: like for you, Claudio, I think we're um five people
Speaker 1: in the car right now and just even everybody as
Speaker 1: a whole, but personally, it was that bone chilling feel,
Speaker 1: that internal skeleton that you're just wow, it was. It
Speaker 1: was amazing. Just I think the one thing from the
Speaker 1: fan perspective is getting behind this team. Enough of the
Speaker 1: bickering between fans, because you always see the back and
Speaker 1: forth on the Facebook groups and this and this. We
Speaker 1: just gotta get behind it. We have a lot of
Speaker 1: young players that want to be here, Jamal and like
Speaker 1: the fans, want to win or we deserve it, and
Speaker 1: Erica was chilling especially. I think um somebody had tweeted
Speaker 1: out when we started champion Shannan, Hey, hey hey, it
Speaker 1: was just surreal, so many fans united, not one fight
Speaker 1: between Jet fans and everybody just happy. So I get
Speaker 1: get home safe and rest of that voice. Yeah, it
Speaker 1: was really something else. This is a step for the Jets.
Speaker 1: Obviously you're started off the season, but when we looked
Speaker 1: at the schedule, we said three or four on the road.
Speaker 1: How was this young team going to respond in two
Speaker 1: thousand and eight team, because remember last season just one
Speaker 1: and seven on the road and that only win came
Speaker 1: in Cleveland. Well, you know what, sometimes it's it's it's
Speaker 1: great playing on the road, especially when you have a young,
Speaker 1: resilient team, because you know what you do. You put
Speaker 1: your back against the wall and you fight your way out.
Speaker 1: You just scrap out. And that was what the Jets
Speaker 1: did yesterday. They did a great job of fighting out
Speaker 1: of the situation, taking the crowd out of it, and
Speaker 1: then getting the Jets crowd, getting the Jets fans that
Speaker 1: that made that trip out there involved in the game.
Speaker 1: You know, it took me back when I saw those
Speaker 1: Jets fans behind the bench. Took me back to my
Speaker 1: two when I was playing with the Jets. We played
Speaker 1: at Arizona and we were doing the j E T
Speaker 1: S Jets Jets Jets chant in Arizona and it was loud.
Speaker 1: You have thought we were playing at home. So you
Speaker 1: know the the Jets fans, I know the players, I
Speaker 1: know the players. The team appreciate your support. Keep traveling
Speaker 1: with them and uh and keep losing your voice at
Speaker 1: them games one, seven, seven six. Eric Allen and Eric
Speaker 1: Coleman here at Vanderbilts. We're gonna come back and hit
Speaker 1: some more calls up after this break. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: the inside the jaz. Eric Allen and Eric Coleman here
Speaker 1: at the Windham Hamilton's Park. Uh. He we're talking about
Speaker 1: the safety position before the break. How about Doug Middleton.
Speaker 1: He came in, uh, filling in for Marcus May. Marcus May,
Speaker 1: of course went down against the New England Patriots and
Speaker 1: the final game in the two thousand and seventeen season.
Speaker 1: He dealt with some ankle issues throughout the spring, so
Speaker 1: Middleton got those valuable reps working alongside the a fore
Speaker 1: mentioned Jamal Adams. How do you think he fared out
Speaker 1: there working with the ones in game action. I thought
Speaker 1: I thought Middleton did a great job of controlling the
Speaker 1: middle of the field. And no, you didn't hear his
Speaker 1: name a lot, but when you're in that free safety
Speaker 1: position sometimes that's the best thing. You know. His job
Speaker 1: is out there out there is to get everybody lined up,
Speaker 1: prevent big plays, and make open field tackles. And he
Speaker 1: did all three of those and he did them. Well,
Speaker 1: we're still taking calls here on inside the Jats, Quincy
Speaker 1: and Noon is going to join us momentarily. You will
Speaker 1: be in the house. Let's go to Dan in the car. Dan,
Speaker 1: what's up? What's awesome? Can you hear me? Oh? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I want to talk about Darren Lee Man, I feel
Speaker 1: like finally thought his day on Channon. How about that?
Speaker 1: You take that? Oh Man? First of all, Damn Buchanan's
Speaker 1: from Washington State, so you know, I think that it
Speaker 1: was it was great that darrenly stepped up in this
Speaker 1: past game. Jets fans have been waiting for him to
Speaker 1: be that big playmaker. You know, he showed his athleticism
Speaker 1: in the past. He's shown he could cover tight ends,
Speaker 1: he can cover running backs in the open field. But today,
Speaker 1: but yesterday, it was great to see him read the
Speaker 1: uderback's eyes and he really looked comfortable back there. You know,
Speaker 1: he was calling out plays, he was making tackles for losses.
Speaker 1: And that interception for a touchdown. What was impressive. You know,
Speaker 1: he jumped that route. He baited, He baited Matt Stafford
Speaker 1: into that throw. He went with the drag route, waited
Speaker 1: for him to cross his face, and as soon as
Speaker 1: he pulled that arm back, he jumped the route took
Speaker 1: it to the house. It was awesome to see. I
Speaker 1: don't think Buchanan is quite as big as Darren Lee.
Speaker 1: And when Lee was drafted out of Ohio. Stay, let's
Speaker 1: be clear about this, because people would asking me about
Speaker 1: this over the years, and I know they've been asking
Speaker 1: you this. He is. People say, hey, Darren Lye, he's
Speaker 1: a great athlete. Why don't you bring him off the edge?
Speaker 1: Todd Bowls all along said, hey, he's gonna play inside
Speaker 1: linebacker for me. Yeah, I mean I think he's He
Speaker 1: does great inside at that linebacker position. No, he's not
Speaker 1: the biggest, most physical inside linebacker, but he does a
Speaker 1: great job in coverage. Uh, he's versatile, he can make
Speaker 1: plays and Todd Bowls can mix up his blitzes with
Speaker 1: darrenly being in the middle of that defense. Speaking, uh
Speaker 1: being in the middle. We're joining out live on set
Speaker 1: by Quincy and Noon Waq. Six catches, sixty three yards.
Speaker 1: What were welcome back man, Yeah, welcome back. And what
Speaker 1: were your expectations for your first regular season action right
Speaker 1: around eight team months? Yeah, Um, it was kind of
Speaker 1: one part for what I was hoping would happen. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I had a lot of confidence in myself
Speaker 1: going into it, and uh, my my goal was to
Speaker 1: kind of make some plays, and I was happy that
Speaker 1: made some plays and even scored a touchdown. So you know,
Speaker 1: I'm just excited to see how the rest of the
Speaker 1: year is gonna go. It gave me a lot of
Speaker 1: confidence for the year. Thank you. So this is a
Speaker 1: young team. You know, you go out there, first play
Speaker 1: of the game, your new quarterback throws the interception. What
Speaker 1: was the mindset when you guys got over to the
Speaker 1: sideline and what helped you guys bounce back so quick?
Speaker 1: I think I think one of the big things was
Speaker 1: that the defense, uh kind of rallied around us. They
Speaker 1: ran on the field and we're like, hey, you know,
Speaker 1: it's just one bad play. You know, we're going to
Speaker 1: keep going. We're gonna keep rolling. Uh, you know, don't, don't,
Speaker 1: don't get down to yourself. We got this game, and uh,
Speaker 1: you know, once we saw them playing the way they
Speaker 1: were playing, it kind of just gave us a confidence,
Speaker 1: you know, and we kind of just rolled with it.
Speaker 1: Eric Ellen and Eric Coleman here at Vanderbilts were joined
Speaker 1: by Quincy and Noon. While one of the Jets stars.
Speaker 1: In week one, you were targeted ten times. Ten times,
Speaker 1: so I didn't know if people were asking me, hey,
Speaker 1: it's que full goal, and I said, yeah, I think
Speaker 1: you're full goal. And sure enough. You were a big
Speaker 1: part of that game plan early. Did you know that
Speaker 1: throughout the week as you're going through those practice reps, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know, as you kind of get the game plan
Speaker 1: and see how the players are gonna go, you kind
Speaker 1: of get a feeling idea of just kind of what's
Speaker 1: gonna happen during the game, and uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: I kind of uh had an idea was gonna go
Speaker 1: that way, and and it ended up going that way. Uh.
Speaker 1: In the beginning of the game, I was kind of like,
Speaker 1: you know, we can kind of spread the ball a
Speaker 1: little bit. You know, I'm taking taking a few hits,
Speaker 1: but uh, you know you were audition. It's still quincy. Um.
Speaker 1: How about that third down catch that preceded I believe
Speaker 1: Isaiah Crowell's touchdown in the first half? The um, what
Speaker 1: route where you're running? Because and what are you thinking
Speaker 1: when you see Sam on the move? Yeah? So I was.
Speaker 1: I was running it out. And one thing that we've
Speaker 1: been trying to focus on is uh, kind of getting
Speaker 1: open when Sam scrambling, uh, because those are where the
Speaker 1: big players are made. And so my my mindset was like, okay, well,
Speaker 1: you know I have a man on me, but you
Speaker 1: know Sam needs somebody to throw the ball too. So
Speaker 1: I did my best to kind of move around. Uh,
Speaker 1: he saw me and we connected, and you know, they
Speaker 1: reviewed it, but it was still the cats. Did you
Speaker 1: know all along or you're crossing your fingers? Well, so,
Speaker 1: I mean I knew I caught your jug about four
Speaker 1: or five times. Yeah, so I knew I caught it.
Speaker 1: But with the rules, you never know, you know, like
Speaker 1: one one minute is a catch woman and it's not.
Speaker 1: So you know, I was just kind of leaving it
Speaker 1: up to you know, the people upstairs. So so when
Speaker 1: you guys went on that run, you know, in the
Speaker 1: in the third and fourth quarter, what was it feeling
Speaker 1: like going on that run knowing that all the work
Speaker 1: that you guys put in we're starting to pay off
Speaker 1: at the end of that game. Yeah, it felt really good.
Speaker 1: I think for us. Um, you know, I think we're
Speaker 1: a pretty confident team. Uh, you know, we're going to
Speaker 1: practice every day and we see what we're capable of doing,
Speaker 1: and so, uh, it was it kind of lit a
Speaker 1: fire in us just to kind of see that we
Speaker 1: were able to do this against another team on Monday
Speaker 1: night with a rookie quarterback that people said, you know,
Speaker 1: he's gonna have issues. Um, you know, and I think
Speaker 1: that we're hoping to carry that momentum because you know,
Speaker 1: we know that people are gonna still count us out. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, because it's just one game and we have
Speaker 1: to keep that momentum going in to be consistent. Key
Speaker 1: Junks through that game. Though seventeen seventeen early in the
Speaker 1: third quarter, the Lions had responded towards the end of
Speaker 1: the first half to get a field goal, going to
Speaker 1: an intermission and Stanford for the only time all night
Speaker 1: he carved up the secondary's Other than that secondary was fantastic.
Speaker 1: But you guys come out at seventeen seventeen. What did
Speaker 1: that show you about the makeup of this team early
Speaker 1: in the season. And take me through the twenty one
Speaker 1: yard touchdown reception when you refuse to lose, you were
Speaker 1: gonna cross that goal line. Yeah, I think it just
Speaker 1: kind of shows our poise. You know. Uh, we work
Speaker 1: hard every day in practice. We work on situational football.
Speaker 1: We're working on being down. We work on uh, you know,
Speaker 1: not kind of getting down on ourselves when those type
Speaker 1: of situations happen. And so we just went out there
Speaker 1: and kind of show that. You know, when you have
Speaker 1: confidence in what you've been practising, Uh, there's no way
Speaker 1: you can really lose. You know, you go out there
Speaker 1: and you just execute the plan. Um. And that was
Speaker 1: what we did. You know, we went out there with
Speaker 1: Marc down the field, um and I'm gonna touchdown. You know, Sam,
Speaker 1: feel me a good ball. We had some good blocks
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, I just did what you know
Speaker 1: I tried to do every game and let's make a play. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, if I see the end zone. My goals
Speaker 1: to get there regardless of who's in front of me.
Speaker 1: Nice and five interceptions. For your defense, they were all
Speaker 1: over the field special teams, you guys were scoring touchdowns.
Speaker 1: How much does that motivate you as an offense to
Speaker 1: see your defense out there is creating, creating turnovers and
Speaker 1: reaking having against a great quarterback like Matthew Stafford. Yeah.
Speaker 1: One thing that's good about this team is we feed
Speaker 1: off each other so well, offense, defense and special teams.
Speaker 1: You know. Uh, when we saw the defense making those plays, uh,
Speaker 1: getting those turnovers, Uh, it really kind of fueled us
Speaker 1: to kind of go out there and just make some
Speaker 1: plays as well. You know, I think that we we
Speaker 1: couldn't do anything less than score when we got on
Speaker 1: the field. Uh, you know, if they're gonna give us
Speaker 1: the ball, you know, we gotta make We gotta take
Speaker 1: advantage of those things. Carl Durral was asked about you,
Speaker 1: um about a week ago when somebody said, well, is
Speaker 1: que all the way back? And Carl said, I think
Speaker 1: he's all the way back, but he's ready to take
Speaker 1: another step. What's the next step for you? Uh? Just
Speaker 1: being consistent man, you know, I can't have a one off.
Speaker 1: I want to have consistent games, keep oning it on, um,
Speaker 1: showing from parts of my game. You know, there are
Speaker 1: some things that I wasn't exactly happy about watching the film,
Speaker 1: But I think that I had a pretty good game,
Speaker 1: you know, and I think the team had a good game,
Speaker 1: and so you know, for me, I just want to
Speaker 1: keep getting better. UM And uh, you know, this guy's
Speaker 1: a limit in my head and I'm gonna take it there.
Speaker 1: What what does Terrell Prior's edition mean to this wide
Speaker 1: receiver group? Because we talked about it before. I were
Speaker 1: from Staten Island called him before, saying, hey, the Jets
Speaker 1: was only receiving group in the league who's had four
Speaker 1: players have had eight hundred yards receiving in this season before.
Speaker 1: But Prior specifically, like I, Eric and I were talking
Speaker 1: about this before, Q, you are a unique player because
Speaker 1: you can use you all over the field. Prior is
Speaker 1: an interesting guy himself because that size and speed combinations rare. Yeah. Yeah,
Speaker 1: And just like you said, the size and the speed man,
Speaker 1: the guy has huge hands. He catches everything. Uh literally
Speaker 1: one hands, two hands, no hands. You know, he he's
Speaker 1: gonna catch the ball. Uh. And That's that's what's so
Speaker 1: cool about our receiving corps that were so dynamic, Like
Speaker 1: we have so many different pieces and everybody is so
Speaker 1: different and so unique, but everybody can play and we
Speaker 1: prove that in the NFL. And so our goal this
Speaker 1: year is just to continue to do that and continue
Speaker 1: to make plays and uh, you know, I think that
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a really good season for us. So
Speaker 1: you guys get the practice against some of the best
Speaker 1: corners in defensive backs in the league. How much did
Speaker 1: that prepare you for this matchup against the Detroit Lions
Speaker 1: in their secondary. Yeah, it prepares us a lot, and
Speaker 1: it's gonna prepare us throughout the year. You know, every
Speaker 1: time that we get to go against them. That's that's
Speaker 1: huge competition. You know, there's not many corners that are
Speaker 1: like True, not many corners that are like Buster, not
Speaker 1: many corners like Mo And it goes down the line.
Speaker 1: You know, when you get that much variety and so
Speaker 1: much talent, Uh, you know, it's hard to go in
Speaker 1: the game and really not be prepared for who you're
Speaker 1: lining up against. What was that locker room like, um,
Speaker 1: Monday night in Detroit, late Monday when you guys go
Speaker 1: in there and tie bowls, addresses the team and if
Speaker 1: you haven't checked it out, I think you just go
Speaker 1: to New York. Just Commeranni the team's social platforms. But
Speaker 1: he delivered that message of outstanding team victory. But this
Speaker 1: is one of sixteen. Yeah, and uh, that's one thing
Speaker 1: that we got to always remember is that, uh, it's
Speaker 1: just one game. You know. Uh, it was a great
Speaker 1: one game, but we want to continue to pile those on,
Speaker 1: continue to pile on great one games, one games, one
Speaker 1: games till the sixteen till the seventeen eighteen. You know,
Speaker 1: we're in the Super Bowl. Uh. And that's that's the
Speaker 1: goal I think of any NFL team, And uh, you know,
Speaker 1: we just gotta continue to be consistent. That's gonna be
Speaker 1: my theme is just consistency. Uh, we're gonna be good.
Speaker 1: We gotta be good throughout the year. So so one
Speaker 1: of the advantages of playing on Monday night is that
Speaker 1: you get to sit back and watch all the games
Speaker 1: on Sunday. I know you were peaking at the Dolphins game.
Speaker 1: What are some of the matchup problems? What are some
Speaker 1: of the issues that the Dolphins bring to the Jets team. Uh, well,
Speaker 1: you know they have a great pass washer. Um, the
Speaker 1: secondary is talented as well. Um. You know I didn't
Speaker 1: get a chance to watch it all because it was
Speaker 1: delays obviously. Yeah. No, man, I can't even imagine. You know,
Speaker 1: I have some uh some friends that play for the Titans,
Speaker 1: and you know, they weren't very happy about that, but uh,
Speaker 1: you know, I know that they're gonna be They're gonna
Speaker 1: come come with it during the game. You know, it's
Speaker 1: a divisional game, so it's not gonna be easy. But
Speaker 1: you know, we're just we're looking forward to It's gonna
Speaker 1: be our first home game. You get to have a
Speaker 1: chance to just go out there and show out for
Speaker 1: our home team, I mean our home crowd. So you know,
Speaker 1: we're all excited for it. If I would have told
Speaker 1: you before the season that your team, the New York Jets,
Speaker 1: would go out and set a franchise record in terms
Speaker 1: of points in Week one, if for any road game
Speaker 1: in this team's history going back to nineteen sixty, what
Speaker 1: would you have said? Forty eight points and you were
Speaker 1: kneeling at the end of the game, like we were
Speaker 1: talking about before, you could have you know it again,
Speaker 1: I was respectful at I appreciate, uh because both being
Speaker 1: that way, but towards the end of the year, we
Speaker 1: get no more respect for guys. But now, you know,
Speaker 1: I would have believed you just because I think that
Speaker 1: we put the work in to do that. Um. And
Speaker 1: you know, I think we're capable of doing that every week,
Speaker 1: but we just have to be consistent. Like it's not
Speaker 1: easy to do what we did to have all three
Speaker 1: phases score, but uh, you know, I'm looking forward to
Speaker 1: us doing that. I think that we can do it, um,
Speaker 1: and we just gotta stay stay grounded, uh and stay hungry.
Speaker 1: And speaking of all three phases, listen, you came into
Speaker 1: this league as a special team. You know, you you're
Speaker 1: dominant on special teams and work your way into that
Speaker 1: starting lineup into a star role. What was the message
Speaker 1: in the special team's room all week? You know, Listen,
Speaker 1: you came off a game with the Giants were the
Speaker 1: punk coverage wasn't as good. What was the message since
Speaker 1: that game and how did they come out so dominant? Yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, I think one of the things was that,
Speaker 1: you know, nobody, I think coach Boyer told the guys
Speaker 1: not to panic. I mean, for one, you know, we
Speaker 1: had a lot of guys kind of really figuring out
Speaker 1: their way. Uh. You know how it goes in the preseason.
Speaker 1: You know, you don't really have your set core. So
Speaker 1: I think once we were able to get the those
Speaker 1: guys and really have them perform and be together as
Speaker 1: a cohesive team, um like the show, you know, and
Speaker 1: we were able to kind of just make some plays
Speaker 1: and and move the ball with the punt team. Uh
Speaker 1: you know, And I think going forward, we're going to
Speaker 1: continue to do that. We just got to make sure
Speaker 1: that we're you know, being smart, remembering what we have
Speaker 1: to do, and uh, it'll it'll be good. What characteristics
Speaker 1: stand out to you about Donald Above the most in
Speaker 1: the time that you've but around him over the the
Speaker 1: first few months of his NFL career. I think the
Speaker 1: most common thing that everybody says is his poise in
Speaker 1: the pocket man. Uh, it's huge. But you know, after
Speaker 1: watching the game, I think another thing would have to
Speaker 1: be just his ability to just move on from that play.
Speaker 1: Whether it's a good player or bad play, He's able
Speaker 1: to just go ahead and move on from it, and
Speaker 1: and and and get to the next one. And that's huge.
Speaker 1: Four quarterback, you know, short term memory. Um, you know
Speaker 1: you don't want him to get too high or too low,
Speaker 1: and he stays right there even kill and he's able
Speaker 1: to to lead us to victory. Well, I'll tell you what,
Speaker 1: Eric Coleman, he knows where to go with the football.
Speaker 1: He targeted Quincy and Noon with ten times, and good
Speaker 1: things happen when you get the ball to queue. Six
Speaker 1: catches sixty three yards, a game winning score in week one.
Speaker 1: Quincy and Nona, thank you so much for joining us
Speaker 1: Inside the Jets. We'll be right back. Welcome back to
Speaker 1: Inside the Jets. We're broadcasting live from Vanderbilt Sports and
Speaker 1: Spirits inside the Windom Hamilton's Park Hotel. Eric Allen alongside
Speaker 1: Eric Coleman. I'll tell you what this hour has gone quickly. Uh,
Speaker 1: Quincy and Nona showed up about halfway through the show,
Speaker 1: and everybody's filing out outside. Because Q when he is
Speaker 1: the in the building, he makes his presence felt. When
Speaker 1: you lined up against guys who had physicality of a
Speaker 1: Noon on, what would it physically present As far as
Speaker 1: the the chilenge of tackling a guy that big and
Speaker 1: who comes at you like a freak train. Well, you
Speaker 1: know It's tough, especially as a safety because you know,
Speaker 1: as the safety you want to be that you want
Speaker 1: to be the imposer, and you want to be laying
Speaker 1: down your will on the offensive players. And you know,
Speaker 1: ever since you were young playing safety, you always said,
Speaker 1: when the receiver comes across the middle, I gotta make
Speaker 1: him pay. But when you play against the guy like
Speaker 1: Quincy and Noma, it hurts, you know. I remember back
Speaker 1: when I was in Atlanta, we played against Brandon Marshall,
Speaker 1: the old Brandon Marshall, back when he was with the Broncos,
Speaker 1: and he came across the middle on the slant and
Speaker 1: I hit him hard and he went down. But I
Speaker 1: felt it probably just as much as he did, and
Speaker 1: I thought to myself, man, this is gonna be a
Speaker 1: long day. I'm gonna have to strap it up and
Speaker 1: it's gonna be a tough challenge. But the thing that
Speaker 1: happens is they're so quick in the middle of the field.
Speaker 1: You don't want to break down because you don't want
Speaker 1: to get ranned over and embarrassed. But you still have
Speaker 1: to be stout in your tackle. So it's it's a
Speaker 1: tough challenge, man. And you know, a guy like Quincy's
Speaker 1: gonna keep bringing in every single play. Let's hit the
Speaker 1: airwaves here eight nine, one, nine, three, seven, seven six
Speaker 1: and go to Sell who is in Brooklyn? Sell? What's up?
Speaker 1: What's up? Boys? Good evening, great show man, excellent, great
Speaker 1: job man. You know, not enough credit is actually given
Speaker 1: to these wide receivers. I don't know if the word
Speaker 1: is respected credit because the Noonwall was on his way
Speaker 1: last year, soil he got hurt, and Richie Anderson, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe he just had some maturity problems. But the beasts,
Speaker 1: because not only can they fly, they break off the
Speaker 1: line of scrimmy for our contact. They're always open, good
Speaker 1: hands and like with a Noonwall, he's a tight end
Speaker 1: and a wide receive. The body. Last time Jets had
Speaker 1: something like that was a guy by the name of
Speaker 1: jar Won't balcom back in the seven. So the receivers,
Speaker 1: and it's not a coincidence that McCowen had a good
Speaker 1: year because of those receivers, you know, but nobody wants
Speaker 1: to give these receivers credit. I love him to death.
Speaker 1: One if you don't mind me, boys number two with
Speaker 1: this kid that they had playing yesterday, the love that
Speaker 1: the offensive line showed him after the touchdown. Not because
Speaker 1: they were happy for as far as touchdown, but you know,
Speaker 1: Eric both erics, what you see him practice. You know,
Speaker 1: if the defenders are falling asleep and they skiddy, they
Speaker 1: see these kids zipping one volume, they see him in
Speaker 1: the offensive hurdle. These veterans are looking at him after
Speaker 1: he gave up that pick and he scored the touchdown.
Speaker 1: They were like, yo were in this game. This kid
Speaker 1: can do this. It's not that it's not that bad now,
Speaker 1: It's not like it donten points and this game is
Speaker 1: over because we got no shot to come back. And
Speaker 1: the offensive line loves it when he avoids a scramble
Speaker 1: because then they're not staying. It's a weak line. They
Speaker 1: give up sack. There's so many positives that come out
Speaker 1: of this that people just maybe don't see. I personally
Speaker 1: love what I saw yesterday with the defense, because the offense,
Speaker 1: the special teams, everybody worked collectively. And if you know
Speaker 1: there's not one phone call to get rid of the coach,
Speaker 1: maybe they can do all right, son, Hey listen, great call,
Speaker 1: Because you know what, I think, that's it's real. I
Speaker 1: think people are feeling excitement and there is a reason
Speaker 1: I'm not saying that jess are going to the playoffs.
Speaker 1: We don't know he had sixteen games left. They're gonna
Speaker 1: play a Miami team divisional game and typically those are
Speaker 1: your close matchups. Is it's gonna be a fourth quarterball game,
Speaker 1: will be a completely different than what you saw Monday
Speaker 1: night against the Detroit Lions. But you're starting to see
Speaker 1: pieces come together, and they are young pieces. E they
Speaker 1: are Jamal Adams there, Leonard Williams there, Darren Lee Dark
Speaker 1: Quincy and Noon was there, Robbie Anderson's there, Sam Donald
Speaker 1: and oh, by the way, Mike mccagnet has this thing
Speaker 1: set up where he has more money under the cap
Speaker 1: than any team in the National Football League. So if
Speaker 1: you are a fan right now, you're looking at it
Speaker 1: on a mec role level, long term and also a
Speaker 1: short term, and you have to be encouraged. Yeah, Mike,
Speaker 1: Mike mccagnet and Todd Bows have done a great job
Speaker 1: of putting this team together. And when Todd Bows came
Speaker 1: to this team, he changed the whole culture. He changed
Speaker 1: the attitude. Uh you know, he brought that intensity and
Speaker 1: you can see it out there on the field. These
Speaker 1: guys are competitive, they're pushing one another, and as you mentioned,
Speaker 1: they have a great combination of young and older players.
Speaker 1: And when you when you look at those teams, those
Speaker 1: franchises that have that long term success, they build from within,
Speaker 1: They draft well, they get they have their free agents. Uh,
Speaker 1: the their young free agents contribute to the game. And
Speaker 1: that's everything that you're seeing with the Jets. This is
Speaker 1: gonna be uh, this is gonna be some success this season,
Speaker 1: but it's also going to continue into the into the
Speaker 1: next coming season. So if you're a Jets fan, you
Speaker 1: have to be excited. You have to be excited in
Speaker 1: what you see. I like to set up for this
Speaker 1: ball game because here's an early maturity test. Because last year,
Speaker 1: the Jets put together their best performance of the year
Speaker 1: on a Thursday night game against the Buffalo Bills, where
Speaker 1: they played well in all three phases. Then they followed
Speaker 1: up ten days later they went down to Tampa and
Speaker 1: they didn't have anything. So now the next step for
Speaker 1: the Jets is to come out and playing other complete
Speaker 1: effort back to back. Yeah, this is saying that the
Speaker 1: coaches used to tell us is success doesn't breed success.
Speaker 1: Success breeds complacency and it's gonna take the veterans on
Speaker 1: this team, the coaching staff to continue to fight and
Speaker 1: to push one another to get better. This is a
Speaker 1: game that after watching them play on Monday, they should win.
Speaker 1: Going against the Dolphins, they should dominate this game. They're
Speaker 1: playing at home, they should have a lot of energy,
Speaker 1: and I fully expect that with the leadership, with what
Speaker 1: the players and the coaching staff that the Jets have.
Speaker 1: What do you think about three games in eleven days,
Speaker 1: because if you're a fan, you're already looking ahead to Hey,
Speaker 1: if we can get by Miami, then we got Cleveland
Speaker 1: Thursday night. Yeah, I'm thinking it's it's first of all,
Speaker 1: it's a good thing that is at the beginning of
Speaker 1: the season. And it's another good thing that this team
Speaker 1: is so young, because they're gonna be able to bounce
Speaker 1: back and you know, as another team with a lot
Speaker 1: of veterans would struggle a little bit towards the end
Speaker 1: of that stretch. Uh. The one thing I'm really hoping
Speaker 1: for personally on Sunday, I hope the Jets defense takes
Speaker 1: care of Frank Gore because he only trails Curtis Martin
Speaker 1: by fourteen yards for fourth time on the NFL's all
Speaker 1: time rushing list, So let him get number four all
Speaker 1: time at some point. But Frank Or, he's an amazing career.
Speaker 1: He is. He's had a great career, you know, going
Speaker 1: back to his time with the forty niners where he
Speaker 1: was dominant, came back against the Colts. He's on the
Speaker 1: last part of his career and I'm looking for the
Speaker 1: youth of the Jets to dominate the rest of this game.
Speaker 1: All right, let's see what happens Sundays that Jets go
Speaker 1: for two. And oh, we'll be back at Vanderbilt's next week.
Speaker 1: That's all for Eric Coleman and Eric Ellen. Thank you
Speaker 1: so much.