Speaker 1: Jets Fans Welcome Jets podcast powered by Amazon Web Services.
Speaker 1: Another tearful reunion between myself and Marty Lyons and all
Speaker 1: of the special surprise guests coming up in about five
Speaker 1: or six minutes. With Marty. First of all, I want
Speaker 1: to know how many marbles you still have rolling around
Speaker 1: in your head right now. We're all still in for
Speaker 1: the foreseeable future, trapped in our houses, you know what, Bobby,
Speaker 1: I don't know how many marvels I had before this started.
Speaker 1: But I'm doing well, you know. I get up every morning,
Speaker 1: I have an hour conference call with the people who
Speaker 1: from the Lantech group and make sure that we're trying
Speaker 1: to do as best as possible for all our employees.
Speaker 1: Then I'll go out and walk anywhere from four to
Speaker 1: seven miles, and I keep track of how many days
Speaker 1: I've been out of the office because I try to
Speaker 1: walk every day, so I know I've been out twenty
Speaker 1: three days. So always well, you know, and it gives
Speaker 1: you time to reflect, and every time they turn the
Speaker 1: TV on, you get a whole new appreciation aition for
Speaker 1: the doctors and the nurses and the volunteers and everybody
Speaker 1: is on the front line. Uh going out there trying
Speaker 1: to do the best that they can to protect us.
Speaker 1: And I think if all of us can do the
Speaker 1: best that we can by staying at home and staying
Speaker 1: you know, away from other individuals and we're doing our party,
Speaker 1: that's all you can do right now as we make
Speaker 1: it through the difficult time. Four to seven miles, yeah,
Speaker 1: forty seven miles a day, and you know, I just
Speaker 1: uh started walking and all of a sudden, you know,
Speaker 1: I went from two miles to four miles to six
Speaker 1: miles and you just keep walking. It's one of those
Speaker 1: things that you know, as long as you can keep counting,
Speaker 1: and I count in paces of fifty and then I'll
Speaker 1: go back to one, and you know, I just keep
Speaker 1: the legs moving. You're like the forest gump of walking. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know I might be, but it's a it's a
Speaker 1: what else am I gonna do? You know, you've got
Speaker 1: to find something about I started reading a couple of books,
Speaker 1: and then you start to watch different shows on the TV.
Speaker 1: And I always find myself tuning into you know, Fox
Speaker 1: News or CNN, and you jump back and forth, and
Speaker 1: you know, you can get depressed, but I I have
Speaker 1: to commend that you know, Governor Cuomo and Governor Murphy
Speaker 1: have done an excellent job trying to keep the people
Speaker 1: of are of New York and the people of New
Speaker 1: Jersey safe. I have to commend them. Yeah. Great, they've
Speaker 1: done a great job. And I mean I played golf
Speaker 1: with you. When you play golf, you welcome minimum of
Speaker 1: nine miles with where you hit it. So it's probably
Speaker 1: right about you know. I mean yeah, but it wouldn't
Speaker 1: be nice if you give me a mulligan every now
Speaker 1: and then on a t shot. That would be helpful. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Long and Wrong is your nickname for a reason, you
Speaker 1: know what, you know, it is amazing, and I'm sure
Speaker 1: Jet fans and anybody listen to this podcast, everyone's kind
Speaker 1: of going through the same thing. You know. I we're
Speaker 1: not in prison, but it kind of feels like that,
Speaker 1: I I kind of compared to what everyone's going through
Speaker 1: right now, it's almost like it's a medium security prison,
Speaker 1: like you're allowed to walk around outside and maybe visit
Speaker 1: with people who are twenty feet away. But you know,
Speaker 1: it's just it's it's unbelievable not being able to live
Speaker 1: your life, and on top of that, so slow and
Speaker 1: fast time goes there's that unbelievable movie that people haven't
Speaker 1: seen at the movie in the Name of the Father
Speaker 1: with Daniel day Lewis. He plays that character Jerry Conlin,
Speaker 1: who was wrongly convicted of a crime and spent about
Speaker 1: twenty years in jail. And there's this one scene where
Speaker 1: he's talking about kind of the concept of time and
Speaker 1: it's like, drip, drip, drip. You like, can't believe how
Speaker 1: long it takes for five or ten minutes to go by,
Speaker 1: and all of a sudden, you blink and years have
Speaker 1: gone by. It's just we're all kind of in that
Speaker 1: in our own weird way right now. I can't believe
Speaker 1: we've been doing this for a month, you know, it
Speaker 1: was it was almost exactly a month ago. I was
Speaker 1: in Kansas City at the Big Twall basketball tournament and
Speaker 1: they canceled it and sent us home. And now a
Speaker 1: month later, we're still in this same cycle of having
Speaker 1: to sit home. And I guess you're right to our part.
Speaker 1: But week based at least the numbers that the governors
Speaker 1: are talking about in both of our two states, and
Speaker 1: we're the two hardest hit states in the country right now, Um,
Speaker 1: we're having an impact we're definitely having a positive impact. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you know what, Bobby gives you a chance to reflect
Speaker 1: and just realize how fortunate we really are, both you
Speaker 1: and I to be doing what we're doing doing it,
Speaker 1: you know, be associated with the New York Jets, and
Speaker 1: you kind of look back and say, wow, where did
Speaker 1: nineteen years go? And and all of a sudden, you
Speaker 1: know what, reality sets in that all these people dying
Speaker 1: from coronavirus or dying alone, and you think about how
Speaker 1: sad that is, and you think about a guy that
Speaker 1: we have worked with for nineteen years, Dave Shapiro. He
Speaker 1: lost his father and mother there within seven days of
Speaker 1: losing one another. I mean that, and you don't have
Speaker 1: a chance to have awake, you don't have a chance
Speaker 1: to have a funeral, and there's no real closure because
Speaker 1: you never had a chance to say goodbye. And that's
Speaker 1: the hard part that this deadly diseases doing to every
Speaker 1: one of us. So I think for all of us
Speaker 1: staying at home, we need to take time to reflect
Speaker 1: and realize, you know, just how fortunate we are and
Speaker 1: realize that all the gifts that we have around us,
Speaker 1: uh use them to the best of our abilities. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I was you I was gonna complain about being stuck
Speaker 1: in my house. But you know, you're good at that
Speaker 1: making me feel like a jerk. It's kind of your specialty,
Speaker 1: Mr Party, Mr Foundation, And I'm the idiot that that's
Speaker 1: another is you know what we've already We've already canceled three,
Speaker 1: maybe four fundraisers, and you know, if I can't get
Speaker 1: get the golf tournament in in the second Monday in
Speaker 1: July and foundation, I'm going to be in trouble. You know,
Speaker 1: we're a mom and pops shop. At last year we
Speaker 1: were a little short on bringing in money and started
Speaker 1: January we had eighty one kids in the pipeline. And
Speaker 1: with all these you know, charity events being canceled, I
Speaker 1: think I'm just like every other nonprofit. Everybody's struggling at
Speaker 1: this point. And you know, if I can't get that
Speaker 1: big golf tournament off in July, then we're gonna have
Speaker 1: some problems. Well, we will use the jets and my
Speaker 1: vehicle and your vehicle to get the word out there.
Speaker 1: If that's the case of try and draw. Yeah, I actually,
Speaker 1: uh just did kind of spur of the moment go
Speaker 1: fund me and if Jet fans are out there. You
Speaker 1: can go on go fund me and search my name
Speaker 1: and you'll find it. I mean, I was able to
Speaker 1: raise about seven thousand dollars and I don't know, seventy
Speaker 1: two hours to bring food to area hospitals. And it's easy,
Speaker 1: you know. I mean, people donate and then you're able
Speaker 1: to kind of spend the money around and go to
Speaker 1: some local restaurants. It's a win win because the restaurant
Speaker 1: gets some take out orders, which of course that's the
Speaker 1: only thing that a lot of member subsisting on right now.
Speaker 1: And I'm able to bring that up to some area hospitals,
Speaker 1: and uh, I guess the good time to bring in
Speaker 1: our surprise guests by the way, because um, I'm married
Speaker 1: to her. My wife, Julie is sitting right here, and
Speaker 1: she about three weeks ago decided as a registered nurse
Speaker 1: that she was frustrated because she felt like she wasn't
Speaker 1: doing anything. And so all right, leaning here, honey him already.
Speaker 1: I just miss you. I love you, I love Christine,
Speaker 1: and um, I love the Jets, and I'm really happy
Speaker 1: to be here with Bobby. This is like an exciting
Speaker 1: event right now. We've just been kind of like here
Speaker 1: every night looking at each other and decided what kids
Speaker 1: yell at? And you know what movie are we gonna watch?
Speaker 1: And you know, now we have events. We're here with
Speaker 1: you and I'm so glad. Yeah. Like three weeks ago,
Speaker 1: you know, I'm sitting with Bobby, We're walking the news
Speaker 1: and UM saying I've got to do something. I'm a
Speaker 1: registered nurse. But um, about five years ago, I opened
Speaker 1: a performing arts studio in scotch Plains, New Jersey with
Speaker 1: my good good friend, UM Stagecraft Studio. It's spectacular, we
Speaker 1: love it. Um, but that's what I've been doing. And
Speaker 1: I said, you know, I really need to help now.
Speaker 1: I feel I kind of feel like a jerk. I'm
Speaker 1: like in home, in my nice safe house while my
Speaker 1: other fellow nurses and healthcare professionals are out on the
Speaker 1: front lines. And UM, I ended up seeing my other
Speaker 1: great friend, Kathleen Ollen and jet fan herself and she's
Speaker 1: also registered nurse. I saw her in the shop right
Speaker 1: and she said, Juel, you we gotta. I got in
Speaker 1: touch with UM the Medical Reserve Corps and UH for
Speaker 1: our county, and UM, she hooked me up with this
Speaker 1: lovely woman. Her name is lovely Randall and the next
Speaker 1: thing I knew about two days later, we were at
Speaker 1: the Kane University COVID nineteen testing site, which they had
Speaker 1: one week to put together. The National Guard in our
Speaker 1: county officials put this together and now it's become the
Speaker 1: gold standard of the of the entire state. They have
Speaker 1: other people from other counties coming to see what we've
Speaker 1: done and it's it's unbelievable. I was going to say,
Speaker 1: I feel um proud to be a part of it.
Speaker 1: It's a very safe and well coporation. Last yesterday we
Speaker 1: saw five hundred patients. I my team of three nurses
Speaker 1: saw three uh one hundred patients. UM, it's a very
Speaker 1: well run system. Basically, the cars pull up after getting
Speaker 1: a health screen UM through a phone call the day before,
Speaker 1: and then they are told to show up. They get
Speaker 1: registered at the front of the line. UH. They basically
Speaker 1: match up their ID and their slipped to get the test.
Speaker 1: It's tucked into their windshield. They get an X made
Speaker 1: out of soap on the car window. That's UH the
Speaker 1: designated person to receive the test. And they wind through
Speaker 1: this line and then the National guardsmen send them into
Speaker 1: one of the tents and We're in the tent and
Speaker 1: it's a team of three nurses and we communicate with
Speaker 1: the patients holding up signs because we don't want them
Speaker 1: opening their window. If they don't have to, their windows
Speaker 1: are closed of the time. We swab them and out
Speaker 1: they go. They get the results in about three days.
Speaker 1: It's a very efficient system. But at the same time,
Speaker 1: the whole thing is surreal. Every day and we're out there,
Speaker 1: we're looking at each other saying, I cannot believe we're here.
Speaker 1: This is absolutely bizarre. We're in a testing site. It's
Speaker 1: like being in a science fiction movie. We are well protected,
Speaker 1: we are in full ppe. Our safety is there, you know,
Speaker 1: the natural guard in the county. That is their main
Speaker 1: focus is our safety. And uh, it's been going well.
Speaker 1: I'm proud to be a part of it. I'm humble
Speaker 1: to be a part of it. I can't believe they
Speaker 1: put it together so quickly and so efficiently. It's smarty,
Speaker 1: you're you're like the foundation. So we both felt guilty.
Speaker 1: We were sitting here like schlunkers. So I had to
Speaker 1: start to go funding and she had to go to
Speaker 1: the drive up testing site. And now we're both volunteering
Speaker 1: and I don't know. I guess we all feel like
Speaker 1: we're doing our part to trying to get through this.
Speaker 1: You know what, Julie, what was the what was Bob's
Speaker 1: first reaction? Because you're now you're putting yourself in harm's
Speaker 1: way with the beautiful family that you guys have. I
Speaker 1: commend you for doing that, and you know it doesn't
Speaker 1: surprise me that you're doing it. But what was Bob's
Speaker 1: first reaction when you said, hey you he wasn't happy? Yeah, yeah, yes,
Speaker 1: I can understand that. My friend. Yeah, he was with
Speaker 1: me when I saw my girlfriend Kathleen in the in
Speaker 1: the shop, right and we hatched this plan and he
Speaker 1: was like he made He kept looking at Kathleen. He
Speaker 1: was like, shut up, Kathleen. Yeah, thanks a lot, Kathleen.
Speaker 1: Yeah great, Okay, let's go. We gotta go get more
Speaker 1: or more serial let's go. And you know, when he
Speaker 1: was kidding, because obviously I think he knew that it
Speaker 1: was gonna I was I was kind of kidding, yeah,
Speaker 1: kind of kidd And I swear, like, you know what, Julie,
Speaker 1: when your heart opened up when that earthquake happened back
Speaker 1: in two thousand and ten over in Haiti. He tried
Speaker 1: to talk Bob into maybe adopting some baby from over there. So,
Speaker 1: like I said, what happened. I mean, I'm not completely
Speaker 1: that really just you know, makes me think of you,
Speaker 1: because honestly, I didn't go to Haiti on those health
Speaker 1: missions until you went, you and fired me, and that's
Speaker 1: why I've been there. Well yeah, but you know what, Julie,
Speaker 1: it is. It is inspiring to go over there and
Speaker 1: see the the type of world that those kids have
Speaker 1: to grow up into and the environment that they have
Speaker 1: around in and it just kind of makes you feel
Speaker 1: good that, you know what, even if you're over there
Speaker 1: for a day or you know, a couple of days,
Speaker 1: you know you're making a difference. And when you leave,
Speaker 1: you you realize that it wasn't You didn't just make
Speaker 1: a difference for them, You made a difference for yourself.
Speaker 1: You come back and you look at everything a little
Speaker 1: bit differently, and you feel better about it, and you
Speaker 1: can share that experience with the kids. I'm trying to
Speaker 1: What I'm trying to do is I want them to
Speaker 1: feel like good things happen when you're brave. You know.
Speaker 1: That's like the the thought that I want to try
Speaker 1: and get across the hint to them. But the thing
Speaker 1: with Haiti and with the thing that's happening now, what
Speaker 1: I said to Bobby was that it's um this heightened
Speaker 1: sense of all of your feelings. When I'm in Haiti,
Speaker 1: and as I when I'm in the testing site, You're
Speaker 1: feeling um, nervous, You're feeling um confused sometimes about what's
Speaker 1: going to happen next, You're feeling hopeful for the people
Speaker 1: that you're taking care of, your feeling inspired by the
Speaker 1: other people that you're working with. You're feeling all of
Speaker 1: these emotions all at once. And that's how I feel
Speaker 1: when I'm in Haiti, and that's how I feel now. Honestly,
Speaker 1: it's uh and that and that's exhausting that, you know,
Speaker 1: to be feeling all those emotions um at once, at
Speaker 1: such a heightened level. And I felt a lot better
Speaker 1: about it once I saw what they were, you know,
Speaker 1: strapping them into when they went to this, And that
Speaker 1: made all the difference when they when they first went,
Speaker 1: we didn't know and they didn't know what they were
Speaker 1: walking into. I mean, all right, all right, we're gonna
Speaker 1: go volunteer to drive up test things. So Okay, well,
Speaker 1: we're registered nurses, let's go help. And then they sent
Speaker 1: me a picture and they've got the face shield on,
Speaker 1: they've got the full you know, gown on, they've got
Speaker 1: three or four pairs of gloves on, they're taped in.
Speaker 1: I mean, they they we actually feel more endangered at
Speaker 1: the grocery store than I think they feel the testing
Speaker 1: site we did. Yeah. Yeah, wait, Julie, being that you're
Speaker 1: on that front line, how much longer do you think
Speaker 1: that America is gonna be, you know, running these tests
Speaker 1: before we can really get back to having a normal
Speaker 1: day and normal life. Right. Yeah, that's of course the
Speaker 1: million dollar question. I mean, and that adds to, you know,
Speaker 1: the confusion and the uncertainty of it. But I mean,
Speaker 1: I definitely think it's we have a lease another two months,
Speaker 1: another two months at least. Yeah, yeah, I mean, I
Speaker 1: don't know if we're gonna be locked down for another
Speaker 1: two months, but I think they're gonna be testing people
Speaker 1: pretty regularly for for the four seeable future. And I
Speaker 1: hope we don't. But I can't wait for this job
Speaker 1: to end. Yeah, you to do it, but I can't
Speaker 1: wait for it to be over. And this will just
Speaker 1: be the you know, it's a main parking lot of
Speaker 1: this beautiful school and I just there and there's no kids,
Speaker 1: and it's just, you know, it's like just another level
Speaker 1: of all the weirdness that's going on. Well, I think
Speaker 1: I speak for a lot of us, a lot of
Speaker 1: the jet fans, and just two people that maybe you
Speaker 1: don't hear from every single day. But thank you for
Speaker 1: what you're doing, and you know, we really do appreciate it.
Speaker 1: Make sure that you tell all the doctors and nurses
Speaker 1: how much we appreciate them, and you know, we'll just
Speaker 1: keep praying. There's a lot of jet fans at the
Speaker 1: testing site. There's a lot of jet fans, a lot
Speaker 1: of jet stickers on the cars, lots of fans. I
Speaker 1: don't get a Jenny chance to talk to them because
Speaker 1: I basically am like, okay, open your window, let me
Speaker 1: swab get a minute. Yep. And these are these are
Speaker 1: now and these are now Julie's people in a way
Speaker 1: that she never expected that they would be, because she
Speaker 1: legitimately has become a lunatic jet fan over the last uh,
Speaker 1: you know, twelve to fifteen. You and I've been doing
Speaker 1: this for eighteen years. I would say the first two
Speaker 1: or three years that did this, she was, you know,
Speaker 1: kind of a fan and grew. But by the time
Speaker 1: we were like three or four years in, I mean
Speaker 1: she became a borderline face painter. Like I think she's
Speaker 1: on that level. I didn't grow up in an NFL house.
Speaker 1: My dad loved Notre Dame. My brother went to Virginia Tech.
Speaker 1: I went to the Lenovo. We are college sports people.
Speaker 1: I didn't have that feeling when Bobby got the job.
Speaker 1: I was like, that's nice, Sonny, here's some spaghetti and
Speaker 1: met Paul's good for you. I'm so happy. And now
Speaker 1: it's like, uh love that. Well, you know what Julie
Speaker 1: throw into the mix with Katrina singing the Nashoy anthem
Speaker 1: the way that she has the last couple of years,
Speaker 1: that's Christmas present. That's been my Christmas presents for the
Speaker 1: past two years. Off the most. That's just an unbelievable moment.
Speaker 1: It's amazing. My you know, Bobby's you know, giving her
Speaker 1: the thumbs up out the press window and she's down
Speaker 1: there and that girl, man, she's got some pipes. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I wish you to give her the volume. I don't
Speaker 1: know where the rest of it came from, but I
Speaker 1: definitely want at least accounted for projections. What she probably
Speaker 1: doesn't see is seeing Bob wipe his eyes. Yes, well
Speaker 1: I'm up there, you know, but I've got enough of
Speaker 1: a buffer that she might not be able to see
Speaker 1: the full emotion on me. But but I want to.
Speaker 1: I want to thank my bride for everything that she's
Speaker 1: doing and for joining us here on the Official Jets Podcast. Julie,
Speaker 1: stay safe. I love you, thank you, love you. Marty.
Speaker 1: We gotta do a little football here because you know,
Speaker 1: this is a football podcast as well, and the draft
Speaker 1: is a couple of weeks away, and I mean right
Speaker 1: now it's our escape to talk about football free agency
Speaker 1: and who the Jets might take, and sitting there at eleven,
Speaker 1: I don't know. I mean from everything that you've read,
Speaker 1: everything that you've heard, whoever you've talked to, Like, what
Speaker 1: do you right now, if you had to make your
Speaker 1: best guess at what you think they are going to do?
Speaker 1: What do you think it's gonna be? You know what
Speaker 1: I mean. I'm thinking that they're gonna go with a
Speaker 1: wide receiver. I know that they've rebuilt the offensive line.
Speaker 1: They already have four new offensive lineman that they got
Speaker 1: during the free agency period. I think they got to
Speaker 1: give Sam some help on the outside. You've got Paraman
Speaker 1: coming in, but you still need somebody to compliment him.
Speaker 1: So I would hope that they would, you know, lean
Speaker 1: to the offensive side, get a wide receiver. Maybe in
Speaker 1: the second round you can get an offensive tackle, and
Speaker 1: then of course you need to get a pure pass
Speaker 1: rush or you've got to get somebody off the edge
Speaker 1: that can beat the tackle one on one and without
Speaker 1: blitzing a lot. So you know, I think that uh,
Speaker 1: Joe Douglas has done a fantastic job. He hasn't gone
Speaker 1: out and opened up the bank and overspent. I think
Speaker 1: he's bringing in some quality players. There's gonna be good
Speaker 1: competition at both the offensive line in the middle linebacker
Speaker 1: position because they got quite a few players in there.
Speaker 1: And I think if you have that open competition and
Speaker 1: you fit into the system and you don't make a
Speaker 1: lot of mental mistakes, and the biggest issue is you've
Speaker 1: got to stay healthy. I mean, look how many players
Speaker 1: the team ended with I R last year. I remember
Speaker 1: talking to Chris Johnson at the end of the season.
Speaker 1: I said, Chris, I don't know what it is, but
Speaker 1: I've never seen this many players on an IR list
Speaker 1: at the end of the year. Something's not you know
Speaker 1: what I mean. I know that you know they've ended
Speaker 1: up with you know whatever, winning six out of the
Speaker 1: last eight and ended up with seven wins. If you
Speaker 1: would have told me at the start of the year,
Speaker 1: these are the injury these these are the guys who
Speaker 1: are gonna be out, and here has cumulative how long
Speaker 1: they'll be out for. I would have thought they would
Speaker 1: have been a four win maybe a five win team
Speaker 1: losing all of those guys for the time that they
Speaker 1: lost them. So I agree. I think they did well
Speaker 1: last year to be as competitive as they were. Having
Speaker 1: said that, um, let me put it this way, because
Speaker 1: I'm not a hundred percent sure that I agree that
Speaker 1: they're gonna go with a wide receiver in the first round.
Speaker 1: I guess I think going with a wide receiver in
Speaker 1: the first rounds and no brainer if all four of
Speaker 1: those tackles are all off the board by the time
Speaker 1: they get to eleven. But let me put it this way.
Speaker 1: Let's say that their number one tackle is on the
Speaker 1: board at eleven and their number one wide receiver is
Speaker 1: on the board at eleven, they just get lucky. And
Speaker 1: however they have the tackles graded, their number one guy
Speaker 1: actually drops to them at eleven, and you still have
Speaker 1: whoever Jerry Judy or Stedey Lamb or whoever their number
Speaker 1: one receiver is. Given that, do you still think they
Speaker 1: would go with a wide receiver or do you think
Speaker 1: they would take the tackle if the guy they had
Speaker 1: rats Plot rated highest was available at the level you know,
Speaker 1: if Ibban, that's a good question. I think Joe Douglas
Speaker 1: being an offensive lineman, he made lean a little bit
Speaker 1: more to get in that fifth offensive lineman in there
Speaker 1: and try to build, try to build something in front
Speaker 1: of sam Um. But do you know what you gotta
Speaker 1: look to and see if Quincy and Noua, if he's
Speaker 1: going to be back. You know he had that neck
Speaker 1: injury last year. If he's back and they the medical
Speaker 1: staff knows that he's going to be back, I mean
Speaker 1: that goes into the draft decision that Joe Douglas and
Speaker 1: the coaching staff have to make also if any so
Speaker 1: you know they've got a high to they've got two
Speaker 1: high threes. Because I don't care what anybody says, it's
Speaker 1: still highway robbery, what they did with the Giants with
Speaker 1: Leonard Williams. Oh, I mean the Giants pick is what
Speaker 1: the fourth pick in the third round, and then they
Speaker 1: got their pick in the third round in in historically
Speaker 1: deep wide receiver draft. That's why I I put these
Speaker 1: odds on it. I think it's seven that they're gonna
Speaker 1: take a tackle at number eleven because I think one
Speaker 1: of those four guys is going to be available, and
Speaker 1: I still think that that's a glaring need even with
Speaker 1: what they did bring in George Fantoon, even with the
Speaker 1: guys that they've signed, unless they pull a stunner in
Speaker 1: trade for Trent Williams, I think they will have tackles
Speaker 1: a major need. So if you feel like tackles a
Speaker 1: major need and you can get that in the first
Speaker 1: round and you can still address wide receiver in the
Speaker 1: second or third round, I think they're gonna take a receiver.
Speaker 1: They might take two before the draft is over, but
Speaker 1: I put it in about seven percent they'll take a tackle,
Speaker 1: assuming one drops to eleven, about twenty percent that they'll
Speaker 1: take a receiver because that could definitely play out of
Speaker 1: the four tackles all go, or if they've got like,
Speaker 1: you know, whatever, Jerry Judy as the third best player
Speaker 1: in the draft, and he drops to eleven. Even if
Speaker 1: a tackles there, you might say, well, I just I
Speaker 1: can't not take my third best player, so I'm gonna
Speaker 1: take him there, and I left ten as an out
Speaker 1: that let's just say for the sake of argument, like
Speaker 1: a Kuda or Isaiah Simmons, one of these really tremendous
Speaker 1: you know, maybe perennial pro bowler defensive players drops to
Speaker 1: that spot and they also maybe have that player third
Speaker 1: or fourth overall on their board, and they're just stunned.
Speaker 1: I can't believe that guy's there at eleven. You know,
Speaker 1: you might take that guy too, So I mean, I
Speaker 1: think all of that is in play, but I you know,
Speaker 1: I think it just they're gonna have to read what
Speaker 1: the board brings them at eleven based on what happens
Speaker 1: in those top ten picks. And you know, unless somehow
Speaker 1: you've got you know, spy as in every other front office,
Speaker 1: you top ten are gonna go, and so they're gonna
Speaker 1: be I think you kind of a read and react mode. Well, also, Bobby,
Speaker 1: I was reading today about Jamal Adams and you know,
Speaker 1: whether the Jets are really going to try to sign
Speaker 1: them to a long term contractor where is he going
Speaker 1: to be waved again out there? And maybe there's a
Speaker 1: team that might want to trade for him. Uh. I
Speaker 1: think Jamal Adams is one that require I don't know.
Speaker 1: This was the trade that was kind of thrown out
Speaker 1: there hypothetically if the Cowboys were still interested in Jamal Adams, Um,
Speaker 1: you know, I think they've got the seven pick if
Speaker 1: memory serves, So would you trade Jamal Adams for the
Speaker 1: seventeenth pick and maybe the Cowboys number two pick as well? No,
Speaker 1: I went not enough for two picks. I think if
Speaker 1: you throw a player in there, then I might consider it.
Speaker 1: I really think Jamal Adams is you know, certainly he
Speaker 1: say star player for the Jets, and I think he's
Speaker 1: a true leader on that defense. And I think too
Speaker 1: that he adapted pretty well to Um. You know, Greg Williams,
Speaker 1: you know, his the defense coordinator, put him in places
Speaker 1: that he could come up with big plays. Now, can
Speaker 1: you replace him? I think one thing that you realized
Speaker 1: last year is that with so many players getting hurt,
Speaker 1: everybody can be replaced. But when you replace him with
Speaker 1: somebody with less talent, you're gonna have worse results. So
Speaker 1: I think that Adams also, Jamal Adams is a cultural
Speaker 1: player in your locker room. Like he's just a natural
Speaker 1: born leader. He's just one of those guys you were
Speaker 1: that way. I remember watching you and like, you know
Speaker 1: you you obviously weren't a perennial pro bowler, a Hall
Speaker 1: of Famer, but you brought equality to the Jets that
Speaker 1: only the guys in the locker room that were around you,
Speaker 1: I think realized that you raw. And Jamal Adams is
Speaker 1: I mean, Jamal Adams could be a Hall of Fame safety,
Speaker 1: but Jamal Adams does bring some of what you brought,
Speaker 1: you know, in a in a way as a leader
Speaker 1: and as a you know, an emotional kind of um
Speaker 1: barometer with that team. That that that's hard to replace.
Speaker 1: That that's an intangible that I'm not sure everybody realizes
Speaker 1: you're also trying to replace if you get rid of
Speaker 1: a player like that. Yeah, you're exactly right, Pop, because
Speaker 1: you know what, football is a very emotional game. You
Speaker 1: have to play it with emotion, and you know it's
Speaker 1: contagious also, and Jamal Adams has a way of bringing
Speaker 1: out the best of his teammates. He just you know,
Speaker 1: sometimes he may go over the top a little bit,
Speaker 1: but that's his personality. UM, So it'll be interesting to
Speaker 1: see again what Joe Douglas does with that. But again,
Speaker 1: the communication lines from everything that I'm hearing from the Jets,
Speaker 1: from you know, Joe Douglas to Adam Gaze, to the
Speaker 1: coaching staff and the scouts that they have. Everybody's in
Speaker 1: one room talking about the players, just not a closed
Speaker 1: door meeting with just Joe Douglas and his staff and
Speaker 1: the coach is not having some sort of an input.
Speaker 1: That's why I think this is going to be a
Speaker 1: valuable year, and this is the year that you can
Speaker 1: judge whether Adam Gaye and Joe Douglas and where the
Speaker 1: future of the Jets are going to go because they're
Speaker 1: bringing in their players. Last year they had to coach
Speaker 1: somebody else's players and unfortunately, you know, going seven and nine,
Speaker 1: you have to restructure the The NFL team will never
Speaker 1: be the same as it was last year, is constant changing.
Speaker 1: I'm excited about it. I'm decided to get to know
Speaker 1: some of these new faces. You know, you you read
Speaker 1: about the players coming in and you've built relationship with
Speaker 1: players from last year and they're no longer there. And
Speaker 1: and we've seen a lot of rotation of players over
Speaker 1: the last nineteen years, but to see Jordan Jenkins get
Speaker 1: resigned and I I will always really enjoyed watching you know,
Speaker 1: was James Burgess. They're going to bring him back, so
Speaker 1: you know, you're excited about, uh seeing what they can
Speaker 1: do with a whole new roster and making the perfect
Speaker 1: example of one of those guys. There's a cultural effect
Speaker 1: to having him in the locker room that unless you're
Speaker 1: around Jordan Jenkins and you hear him, you know, you
Speaker 1: hear him talk yere I was, teammates react to him,
Speaker 1: you know, you you see the role that he plays
Speaker 1: from a leadership standpoint on that team, You just you
Speaker 1: don't totally get it um because I mean, he may
Speaker 1: not be an All Pro on the field, but there's
Speaker 1: a trickle down effect on that defense happening there. There
Speaker 1: just is well, you know, if Bobby I think he
Speaker 1: would be an All Pro player if they didn't go
Speaker 1: seven and nine. You know, Unfortunately, unfortunately a lot of
Speaker 1: players fly underneath the radar and they're not getting voted
Speaker 1: into the Pro Bowl because of the team record. Um,
Speaker 1: so I think Jordan can. He can definitely go out
Speaker 1: there and perform like that. And I think if the
Speaker 1: Jets go maybe eleven and five or ten and six,
Speaker 1: you'll see him out of Pro Bowl And it will
Speaker 1: be interesting to see if Avery Williamson can come back. Yea,
Speaker 1: and yeah, it's it'll be they They should have some
Speaker 1: pieces on defense this year that they didn't have last year,
Speaker 1: or at least on the front seven. Hopefully they can
Speaker 1: stay healthy and hopefully we'll get a chance to do
Speaker 1: this again, Marty. So I want Jet fans out there
Speaker 1: to understand that COVID nineteen has forced the cancelation of
Speaker 1: some of your foundations biggest fundraisers. So go to the
Speaker 1: Marty Lyons Foundation and give what you can, because Marty's
Speaker 1: trying to make these wishes come true for these families
Speaker 1: and these kids that desperately needs everybody's help. And you know,
Speaker 1: we just were not able right now to have the
Speaker 1: events that would normally raise the funds to make these
Speaker 1: wishes come true. You can certainly go to go fund
Speaker 1: me and search my name and hopefully my name will
Speaker 1: pop up and you can donate some money, um to
Speaker 1: my go fund me because we are going to continue
Speaker 1: to deliver food from takeout spots to hospitals in New
Speaker 1: Jersey and in suburban New York City to get some
Speaker 1: meals to the front line workers who are fighting this
Speaker 1: battle for us UM. And one of the spots actually
Speaker 1: that I'm delivering food to next Thursday is going to
Speaker 1: be the testing site where my wife Julie, who joined
Speaker 1: us earlier on the podcast, will will be there doing
Speaker 1: the drive up testing. So we're all trying to do
Speaker 1: our part, Marty and uh and hopefully folks will understand
Speaker 1: that they need to get to the Marty Lions Foundation
Speaker 1: website and give some money because this is this is
Speaker 1: the time you needed. Well. The big thing too is,
Speaker 1: you know, let everybody know that uh, you know, I
Speaker 1: said that on the last podcast that we did, Bob
Speaker 1: that you know what, when you're sitting there doing enough
Speaker 1: and take out your roll decks, take out your phone,
Speaker 1: call somebody that you have and talked to in a
Speaker 1: while and just see how they're doing one. You know,
Speaker 1: that means a great deal to the person on the
Speaker 1: other end of the phone because you know what, maybe
Speaker 1: you haven't had a uh conversation with him in any year,
Speaker 1: two years, three years, maybe you had a little bit
Speaker 1: of a falling out and you just call him up.
Speaker 1: You say I was thinking about you today, and you
Speaker 1: hang up the phone and trust me, you'll feel a
Speaker 1: lot better that you did it. And on the other
Speaker 1: end they're gonna be shaking their head, going, wow, I
Speaker 1: wish I had done it first. Yep, absolutely well, it
Speaker 1: was great talk to your partner and hopefully we'll get
Speaker 1: a chance to do this again soon and Jet fans,
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Speaker 1: will be under better circumstances as we move on through
Speaker 1: this offseason. Jet fans, stay healthy and stay safe. F