Speaker 1: Like game on the world. You played to win the
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Speaker 1: podcast Jets three sixty production. The end of the regular
Speaker 1: season is near. Ethan Greenberg and Eric Allen here in
Speaker 1: studio for the final time, bringing you the Jets Official
Speaker 1: Podcast game preview. Let me tell you something, Oh tell
Speaker 1: me tell me. I have no problem with the good
Speaker 1: people of New England. With that being said, I can't
Speaker 1: wait to get home the Jets Patriots at Gillette Stadium
Speaker 1: New Year's Eve, but I want to spend the New
Speaker 1: year back home. Glatz Stadium is not the place where
Speaker 1: I want to end short. Yes, when the Patriots, I
Speaker 1: mean the Patriots don't really rest their players any way
Speaker 1: in previous years when they locked it up, but they
Speaker 1: still have something to play for. We are the twelve
Speaker 1: and three. I think someone said that this is the
Speaker 1: eighth consecutive year in which the Patriots have won twelve
Speaker 1: or more games. Very impressive. There are any call is
Speaker 1: gonna go against the New England Patriots. I don't know.
Speaker 1: That's a good question. That's a wait and see games.
Speaker 1: So we're in the press box on Sunday. I'm looking
Speaker 1: up it sure look like Buffalo Bills wide receiver Televin
Speaker 1: Benjamin had a touchdown, but that was overrolled and Jets
Speaker 1: fans know a thing or two about that, But I digress.
Speaker 1: And Steelers fans know a thing or two about that
Speaker 1: as well from the previous week. But we're not here
Speaker 1: to talk about Patriots, the Steelers, the Bills. We're here
Speaker 1: to talk about the New York Jets. E A. When
Speaker 1: you take a second and and look back and almost
Speaker 1: reflect on this season, It's been a very interesting season
Speaker 1: for me because I think if you're a fan, you know,
Speaker 1: expectations from the outside we're not high, and early on
Speaker 1: in the season this team exceeded those expectations. I still
Speaker 1: think they exceeded those expectations. But when you look at
Speaker 1: the next level, there's a lot of reason for Jets
Speaker 1: fans to be excited moving forward. Well, I think externally
Speaker 1: the expectations were very low. I don't think the expectations
Speaker 1: were low inside this building. Remember the Jets, after recovering
Speaker 1: from an only too start, they won three in a row,
Speaker 1: number three and two, and uh, you know, unfortunately for
Speaker 1: the Green and White, Josh McCown went down in Denver,
Speaker 1: and right now they're five and time. Last year, um,
Speaker 1: they finished up with a five and eleven record, and
Speaker 1: even if they lose to the Patriots this Sunday, this
Speaker 1: is this season has a completely different feel. I think
Speaker 1: the Jets are building something here. Chemistry and culture are
Speaker 1: very important in the National Football League. Can't win without
Speaker 1: those two things, and we've seen that from the Jets
Speaker 1: throughout this season. Again last Sunday against the l A Chargers,
Speaker 1: who will remain in the playoff race. The Jets were
Speaker 1: in that ball game to the very end. I think
Speaker 1: they proved an even beggar point green and the loss
Speaker 1: against the New Orleans Saints where they went in there,
Speaker 1: they forced three takeaways. It was twenty four nineteen in
Speaker 1: the final moments. The Jets can play with anybody, including
Speaker 1: they forementioned New England Patriots. The next step for them
Speaker 1: in two thousand and eighteen is winning a few of
Speaker 1: those games that went the other way. The Jets wrapped
Speaker 1: up there four and four slate at MetLife Stadium. There
Speaker 1: was an average of seven points that they lost by
Speaker 1: at MetLife Stadium. Yeah, yeah, they're those all one score games, right.
Speaker 1: If you look back Carolina in Atlanta on New England
Speaker 1: and in l A and all four of which have
Speaker 1: the potential to be playoff teams, and the Jets have
Speaker 1: played very well at home. We talked about this, but
Speaker 1: and you just mentioned that that moving forward, Um, this
Speaker 1: team really sets something. And I think you can see that.
Speaker 1: And obviously you don't want to think in these terms,
Speaker 1: but I think it's a different ballgame in New Orleans
Speaker 1: and at home last weekend if McCown is playing and
Speaker 1: he's healthy, because the offense was clicking on all cylinders
Speaker 1: at the time he went down the or the week
Speaker 1: before he went Deny the anomaly of the season. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I agree with that. I think the Denver game was
Speaker 1: the Jets worst performance. I think you ask anybody inside
Speaker 1: the building, they do all like all those sentiments. With
Speaker 1: that being said, McCown was tremendous this season for the
Speaker 1: Jet sixties seven percent past or amassed twenty three touchdowns. Uh.
Speaker 1: He was a leader in the locker room. Uh. Bryce
Speaker 1: Patty is making good plays at times and then at
Speaker 1: times he's missing throws and you feel his frustration. We
Speaker 1: saw that Sunday in the postgame news conference. You know, Yeah,
Speaker 1: it's frustrating, it's it's it's really frustrating. I think that
Speaker 1: um mentally, I know exactly where I want to go
Speaker 1: with the ball and and it's just my my feet
Speaker 1: are are faster. Um, they're not as relaxed as my mind.
Speaker 1: Is that that makes sense? So you know his team
Speaker 1: is there's better as offenses, there's better and and I
Speaker 1: know I can make those plays. And so um, you
Speaker 1: know we got next week and uh, you know I'm
Speaker 1: gonna grow from this, learn from this, um just like
Speaker 1: always do and and takes positive with the positive and
Speaker 1: and and work on the things that I need to
Speaker 1: work on them. And what makes it tough is that
Speaker 1: Petty prepares hard. He's not a guy just comes in
Speaker 1: and you know, punches his time card in and out.
Speaker 1: He's a guy who it means so much to him
Speaker 1: right now. So I'd really like, from a personal standpoint
Speaker 1: and from an organizational standpoint, I'd like for him to
Speaker 1: go out and play well against the New England Patriots.
Speaker 1: Let's go down in Kentucky and bring in Chad Pennington. Chad,
Speaker 1: did you have a nice, warm Christmas down self? Wonderful
Speaker 1: Christmas farek Carol when you really enjoyed it? Um, Well,
Speaker 1: We've had a lot of fun, and I have some
Speaker 1: family in going good more family, so always good, wonderful
Speaker 1: well wishes to you and everybody down there, of course,
Speaker 1: and Robin and the boys. Let's start off right here,
Speaker 1: big picture, How difficult week is this for Todd bullis
Speaker 1: to prepare his guys knowing that, hey, listen, the end
Speaker 1: is only a few days away. You're out of playoff
Speaker 1: contention and you're going in there and playing the Patriots.
Speaker 1: This week reminds me Eric of two thousand and three
Speaker 1: or six and nine and going down to Miami with
Speaker 1: no playoff implications at all. And I remember talking to
Speaker 1: the team that day before we walked out on the field,
Speaker 1: and really, what this week bulls down to, uh, has
Speaker 1: nothing to do with football. Um. It has to do
Speaker 1: with you as an individual man and and taking pride
Speaker 1: in your craft and plane and what you put out
Speaker 1: there on film, and playing with each other and enjoying
Speaker 1: playing the game of football and trying to get a win.
Speaker 1: That's what it bulls down to. So that's that's what
Speaker 1: you gotta do. Going on the road, is trying to
Speaker 1: eke out of victory and feel good about to work
Speaker 1: you put in brace potty much of the same and
Speaker 1: start to as you saw in New Orleans. Uh, this
Speaker 1: past game against the Chargers, what do you think, Because
Speaker 1: I was watching the game from the press box here
Speaker 1: with Green's at my Life Stadium, I thought to myself,
Speaker 1: there's a few passes again where Chad is going to say,
Speaker 1: those are gimmes. Those are passes you have to make
Speaker 1: in a national football league. There's no questions. Uh, there's
Speaker 1: four to six passes there that. Um, those passes are completed.
Speaker 1: And we're not talking about passes that are high level
Speaker 1: passes or reads or big time plays that have to
Speaker 1: be made by the receiver. Just simple, not easy, but
Speaker 1: simple completions to be made that certainly make the road
Speaker 1: to scoring a little bit easier for your offense. Extend
Speaker 1: drives give you some breathing room. And then I thought,
Speaker 1: at the end of the game, you know, there was
Speaker 1: a chance to get Robby Anderson on the back shoulder.
Speaker 1: There where possible tie touchdown there at the end of
Speaker 1: the game. So I did like Bryce with his mobility
Speaker 1: being able to move out of pockets and times, UM,
Speaker 1: I would like to see him recognize that a little
Speaker 1: bit earlier before the pocket completely collapses on him. To
Speaker 1: be able to get out when you know there's not
Speaker 1: much there um and then just be able to hit
Speaker 1: those simple passes. I think you know, for the most part,
Speaker 1: it looked like the reads were pretty consistent. But it's
Speaker 1: just about being able to execute all the way through
Speaker 1: to the completion real quick. Where does that ball have
Speaker 1: to go? Judge Trail in fourteen seven fourth down, you're
Speaker 1: saying and Bryce side and after the game that that's
Speaker 1: a pass. He's got a hit, Robbie Anderson, Where and
Speaker 1: when does that ball have to go? I thought the
Speaker 1: timing of the throw and the read was correct. Uh,
Speaker 1: the defensive back was about two yards on top of Robbie,
Speaker 1: So Robbie knew in his mind that it needed to
Speaker 1: be a back shoulder throw, and so it could almost
Speaker 1: be one of those throws where he actually stopped Robbie
Speaker 1: in his tracks. He catches it and then he gets
Speaker 1: the first down, or he leaps into the end zone,
Speaker 1: dives in the enzone for a touchdown. But it's it's
Speaker 1: certainly what we call a back shoulder throw, meaning you
Speaker 1: put it to the sideline, you put it on his
Speaker 1: shoulder closest to you, not his upfield shall order, but
Speaker 1: his backfield shoulder being able to stop him let him
Speaker 1: make it. Because the defensive back had his eyes turned
Speaker 1: towards Robbie, he could not see the throw being made
Speaker 1: at all by Bryce. And so the last place you
Speaker 1: want to put that is low and away inside where
Speaker 1: your receiver doesn't have a chance to catch it. What
Speaker 1: do you like about the performance from the Jets defense
Speaker 1: that held the number seven ranks overall offense only fourteen points.
Speaker 1: I thought the defensive play um was close to being outstanding.
Speaker 1: I thought if we had the nick picked the defense
Speaker 1: a little bit, I would say that there were a
Speaker 1: couple of explosion plays that they would like to have
Speaker 1: back um. But what they eliminated was they eliminated uh
Speaker 1: Philip rivers and the charges of offense being able just
Speaker 1: to collect first downs and gain that momentum. They only
Speaker 1: had two drives, which were both scoring drives. But other
Speaker 1: than that, uh, they were able to get off the
Speaker 1: field on third down. They kept the rivers from just
Speaker 1: collecting first downs and building some rhythm and tempo. Uh
Speaker 1: it was. I thought it was a pretty good defensive
Speaker 1: performance on the Jets, no doubt about it. Anything belal
Speaker 1: Paul does anymore surprise you, not at all. I think
Speaker 1: he has become probably my favorite. Uh just watching him
Speaker 1: play with the attitude and passion how he runs football. Uh,
Speaker 1: he's just he's been so stable in such a constant
Speaker 1: force for them. Uh, it's it's been nice to see him,
Speaker 1: to see him break down. I thought the offensive line
Speaker 1: did a relatively good job of controlling the line of
Speaker 1: scrimmage and creating some scenes for him. Really impressed by
Speaker 1: the center running downfield on the on the Jonathan Harrison
Speaker 1: on the yard touchdown, of being able to get out front. Unbelievable. There.
Speaker 1: You gotta you gotta love that. So Balal had hundred
Speaker 1: forty five yards on nineteen carries. He's now got a
Speaker 1: season career high in terms of rushing and also rushed
Speaker 1: touchdowns with five. So again, that guy continues to produce.
Speaker 1: Big picture Jamal Adams, what have you seen from him
Speaker 1: through fifth team games? What do you like and where
Speaker 1: might you have to improve? Well, let's put both of
Speaker 1: those rookies in their safeties. Just I mean to to
Speaker 1: be able to for those both of those guys to
Speaker 1: come in mayn Adams and play as consistent of they
Speaker 1: as they have played as rookies. UH a lot on
Speaker 1: their play mentally, being able to transfer the mental from
Speaker 1: the chalk board in the classroom into the physical and
Speaker 1: also play that mental game on the field as well.
Speaker 1: I've been really really impressed. Uh. First of all, I'm
Speaker 1: impressed with their aggressiveness. Typically, sometimes when you see younger
Speaker 1: players get that action that early in the year and
Speaker 1: in their career, although they may have the ability because
Speaker 1: they're thinking so much, it really slows them down and
Speaker 1: how they play. But these guys, for the most part,
Speaker 1: have played aggressive from day one. They've played fast. Although
Speaker 1: they know they're going to make mistakes, it doesn't seem
Speaker 1: to follow them as much. They just try to learn
Speaker 1: through those mistakes and play through those mistakes. And so
Speaker 1: I think, UM, from an evaluation standpoint, although I haven't
Speaker 1: just sat down and looked at them in depth, both
Speaker 1: of those rookie safeties have played extremely well. May It's
Speaker 1: been a phenomenal coming up and playing the run as
Speaker 1: as Adams. I know, UH Jamal was getting questions about
Speaker 1: getting beat by Antonio Gates. A lot of people have
Speaker 1: gotten beat by Antonio Gates throughout his career. UM, and
Speaker 1: I think in time, you're gonna see him. Maybe there
Speaker 1: were a couple of times this year where he was
Speaker 1: maybe a half to step away. Maybe maybe he's there
Speaker 1: to make those plays in the future. Well, there's no
Speaker 1: question if you look at the Gates touchdown. First of all,
Speaker 1: that was the perfect row and it was an amazing catch.
Speaker 1: Even though it looked simple and easy, it really wasn't.
Speaker 1: It was exactly where the ball needed to be and
Speaker 1: the only place that could be. It was pretty decent coverage.
Speaker 1: He slightly got beat by about six inches, but when
Speaker 1: you have two Hall of Famers in Gates and rivers,
Speaker 1: six inches mean the tuchdown. And so I think, um,
Speaker 1: when you look at coverage skills for safeties, that's really
Speaker 1: a craft that has learned when you're in the NFL,
Speaker 1: because the safeties really have to do a lot more
Speaker 1: one on one man demand covering and have a lot
Speaker 1: more responsibilities, uh in the NFL compared to college where
Speaker 1: they can just kind of roam free, and I have
Speaker 1: to worry about quarterbacks that really know what they're doing
Speaker 1: with their eyes and their reads. So that's something that
Speaker 1: will come through experience and repetition. That's our standing point,
Speaker 1: right there Green's Chad, What do you expect from these
Speaker 1: two safeties in the final week of the two thousand
Speaker 1: seventeen season, because they've had three very tough tests and
Speaker 1: Drew Brees, Philip Rivers and now Tom Brady for the
Speaker 1: second matchup in consecutive weeks. And not only that, but
Speaker 1: what do you expect from an effort perspective from this
Speaker 1: Jets team to close out the season. I think their
Speaker 1: effort will be outstanding. I have not had any problem
Speaker 1: or issue with their effort all year, and I think
Speaker 1: that as a testament to coach Bowls and his staff
Speaker 1: how they prepare this team. Regardless of the circumstances in
Speaker 1: the situation um there, effort will will be there and
Speaker 1: they will do everything in their power to try to
Speaker 1: win this football game. Uh So, I don't think we're
Speaker 1: gonna watch a team that will lay down and quit.
Speaker 1: If they do, I will be extremely surprised and very disappointed.
Speaker 1: I just don't think this is the makeup of this team,
Speaker 1: nor this staff, and so I expect a great effort. Um. Obviously,
Speaker 1: these safeties will be stressed once again facing Tom Brady
Speaker 1: New England Patriots, Rob Bronkowski, all of that they will
Speaker 1: be stressed and what you would like to see. You'd
Speaker 1: like to see like these two young safeties go back,
Speaker 1: look at their notebook and what they learned from their
Speaker 1: first matchup, and then see if they can improve. Knowing
Speaker 1: that there will be some plays that will be made,
Speaker 1: there's no question about it, that's inevitable, But can they improve?
Speaker 1: And you hope as a staff and for coach Bowls
Speaker 1: that these two safeties and really all of your players,
Speaker 1: but especially like two guys like this, they should have
Speaker 1: mounds of notebooks already piled up just from this season
Speaker 1: and the notes that they should have been taken learning
Speaker 1: how to be better than learning from their mistakes, because
Speaker 1: they certainly have a chance to be outstanding in the future.
Speaker 1: Plenty on the line for the Patriots at Gillette Stadium.
Speaker 1: If they win, they clinch number one seed in the
Speaker 1: a f C. No law lost between these two teams.
Speaker 1: And Chad Pennington notes, Chad, happy new Year to you
Speaker 1: and your family. We look forward to recapping not only
Speaker 1: weeks seventeen next week in two thousand and eighteen, but
Speaker 1: looking ahead to the future. Absolutely, guys, Happy new year,
Speaker 1: all right, always good hearing from CP. Later in the podcast,
Speaker 1: we're actually gonna be joined by the voice of the Jets,
Speaker 1: Bob was Shusen Greens. I think Pennington was on the
Speaker 1: market again with his analysis saying that this is a
Speaker 1: test of manhood this week. Who are you as a
Speaker 1: man and as a professional. The Jets don't need any motivation.
Speaker 1: They're playing the Patriots enough set. This is one of
Speaker 1: the classic a f C East battles Jets Patriots, I
Speaker 1: mean throughout the years when you think about it, and
Speaker 1: for anyone that was on this team last season, which
Speaker 1: is a handful of guys, there's a pretty sour taste
Speaker 1: from the last time the Green and White made their
Speaker 1: way up to Foxborough, especially for Brice exactly because I
Speaker 1: heard in that game brace Petty's season two thousand sixteen
Speaker 1: season where he made four stars appear in six games
Speaker 1: it ended at Giltte Stadium. See, you know this is
Speaker 1: gonna mean a lot to him. So let's see if
Speaker 1: the Jet can get some offensive momentum going against the
Speaker 1: Patriots defense. Who I'll tell you what. They don't jump
Speaker 1: off the screen etch as far as anything they do,
Speaker 1: but they tend not to give up a lot of points.
Speaker 1: It's the classic bend but don't break defense. Well, when
Speaker 1: you look at the Patriots defensively the twenty nine overall
Speaker 1: in the league. But you could also make the argument
Speaker 1: that other teams are playing from behind vote for the
Speaker 1: majority of the time, so they're giving up a lot
Speaker 1: of yards and from that aspect, that's the ben but
Speaker 1: don't break defense. But the Patriots have a talented secondary.
Speaker 1: I don't think there's a doubt about that. When you
Speaker 1: look at Malcolm Butler's Stefan Gilmore, who has underperformed in
Speaker 1: his first season, Well, you're just looking at it from
Speaker 1: the money value. I think he's at ups and downs.
Speaker 1: I don't know. I think a lot of people if
Speaker 1: you ask him Buffalo how he played last year, a
Speaker 1: lot of people would say didn't play that well. So
Speaker 1: at some point we're gonna be looking at Gilmore and
Speaker 1: saying he is who we thought he was. Yeah. Well,
Speaker 1: the one guy in the Patriots secondary that goes overlooked
Speaker 1: maybe in the national I is Patrick Chung and I
Speaker 1: think that he's one of the guys that you just
Speaker 1: have to look out for because he can cover, he
Speaker 1: can stop the run. Well, he's he's done a good job.
Speaker 1: Of course, they know the system. But regardless, I think
Speaker 1: that you'll end up seeing a lot of ground game
Speaker 1: this week because the Patriots have yielded a hundred fifteen
Speaker 1: yards on the ground per games. Well, all that the
Speaker 1: old that is just Bill Belichick tries to take away
Speaker 1: what you do, Bust. And right now, if you're watching
Speaker 1: the Jets offensively, it's bloop yards rushing against the Chargers
Speaker 1: on nineteen carries. He's up to a season career high.
Speaker 1: I think he's got seven four yards rushing, five touchdowns
Speaker 1: on the ground, and he's all of a sudden averaging
Speaker 1: four point three yards of pop. So I wouldn'nticipate the
Speaker 1: Patriots loan knack box and trying to have Petty beat him.
Speaker 1: He's someone that knows a thing or two about the
Speaker 1: Patriots and a thing or two about this Jets team.
Speaker 1: Bob was shoes in Big Game, Bob, So let's catch
Speaker 1: up with him while he makes his debut on the
Speaker 1: official Jets podcast game Preview before he takes on some
Speaker 1: college games this week. Choose. Hey, hey buddy, it's E. A. Greenberg. Hey,
Speaker 1: Bob good Man, how are you people call the complex?
Speaker 1: This is the voice they here that is true. I'm
Speaker 1: the voice of Hold the Voice, the Hold the Voice
Speaker 1: on ESPN, one of the most beloved Jets within the
Speaker 1: entire organization. Bob without a doubt. All right, Bob, let's
Speaker 1: dive into a week seventeen. Here Jets travel up to
Speaker 1: Gillette Stadium to Foxboro to take on the Patriots, who
Speaker 1: still have something to play for. How tough of a
Speaker 1: test do you think this is? And what kind of
Speaker 1: effort do you expect from this Jets team that's given
Speaker 1: each team their best shot each week? Um, you know,
Speaker 1: one more opportunity to play a game, and there's no
Speaker 1: team that I think anybody in the NFL much less.
Speaker 1: The Jets enjoys beating more of the Patriots. So if
Speaker 1: they could pull off what will be a monumental upset,
Speaker 1: be a fun way to end the season. Patriots, course,
Speaker 1: if they beat the Jets secure the one seed, they
Speaker 1: have every reason to play hard in this game. Shows
Speaker 1: what do you make a Bryce Potty two starts here
Speaker 1: in two thousand seventeen. You know, he looks like a
Speaker 1: guy that he is very smart. He is a great
Speaker 1: guy in the locker room. He's exactly the kind of
Speaker 1: guy you want on your team, but he is inexperienced.
Speaker 1: I understand from his standpoint, he probably thinks it comes
Speaker 1: from playing time. It comes with opportunities. But the question
Speaker 1: is how much of those opportunities can you afford to
Speaker 1: give a growing quarterback. So I think the bottom line
Speaker 1: is gift to get through this last game and Bryce
Speaker 1: gets one more opportunity to do what we all grow
Speaker 1: up dreaming that you get a chance to do, and
Speaker 1: that is play in the NFL, and he'll have a
Speaker 1: chance to put something on tape, either for the Jets
Speaker 1: or maybe for a different team. But I think the
Speaker 1: wide angle lens is the Jets need a different story
Speaker 1: to tell next year at quarterback. How do you think
Speaker 1: the Jets attack this Patriots team on offense last week
Speaker 1: and the week before in New Orleans really got the
Speaker 1: ground game going? Yeah, they have to run the ball.
Speaker 1: I mean, the only chance you have with Bryce Petiot
Speaker 1: quarterback is off of play action. And the only chance
Speaker 1: you have for play action to work is if you
Speaker 1: have a running game that is threatening the other team.
Speaker 1: So I mean, personally, I would like to see a
Speaker 1: lot more below Pal. I think Pal at this point
Speaker 1: has earned to be the seventy percent of the game
Speaker 1: running back. He's the one guy that has shown an
Speaker 1: explosive quality. Um. You know, he's made some big plays
Speaker 1: and so you know, I would I would think that
Speaker 1: that that's kind of the twofold answer A. You have
Speaker 1: to run the ball, and to run the ball, it
Speaker 1: should be put Speaking of explosive players, offensively, Robby Anderson
Speaker 1: averages fifteen point one yards reception. He's sixty one yard
Speaker 1: shy of a thousand yards. If I had told you
Speaker 1: before the season that Robby Anderson was going to be
Speaker 1: in position for a thousand yards season before weeks seventeen,
Speaker 1: what do you have been surprised? I would have been stunned. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, at the start of the year, remember that
Speaker 1: the weakest part of their offense was supposed to be
Speaker 1: the wide receiver room, and that's why they went out
Speaker 1: and got Jeremy Curley and Jemain Curse. Uh, Curse has
Speaker 1: been a one or full edition. But even with Quincy
Speaker 1: and then we're going down. Quincy was supposed to be
Speaker 1: the number one receiver and then you think it would
Speaker 1: be Curse easily the number one, if not the number
Speaker 1: two behind Quincy and Numba, and then um, you know,
Speaker 1: Robby Anderson has proven to be their number one receiver.
Speaker 1: And you know, for an undrafted free agent out of Temple,
Speaker 1: you know, you see Robbie Anderson with his pads off,
Speaker 1: and I think the last thing you would ever think
Speaker 1: that he was was is a professional football player, maybe
Speaker 1: a pro basketball player. You know. I mean, everybody in
Speaker 1: the NBA is skinny as a rail. Um. You know,
Speaker 1: certainly he looks like an NBA two guard. So yeah,
Speaker 1: I mean, he's the fact that he not only has
Speaker 1: made it through the season, but has been a productive
Speaker 1: player literally from Week one all the way to this
Speaker 1: point and is now I think a legitimate complete route runner.
Speaker 1: I think that's the thing most impressive to me. Um.
Speaker 1: You know, he was obviously a guy whose role when
Speaker 1: this team had Eric Decker and Brandon Marshall and Quincy
Speaker 1: and them, what he was the every now and then
Speaker 1: on the old guy who would run along way in
Speaker 1: a straight line and they would throw the ball deep
Speaker 1: to him once in a while. Um, and you wondered
Speaker 1: if he could become anything more than that. Well, he
Speaker 1: has clearly become a lot more than that. If you're
Speaker 1: a Jets fan, you gotta be excited about the receiver
Speaker 1: position because if a Noonha comes back and he's healthy,
Speaker 1: you're pairing him up with Curse who's been very productive,
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson and his emergence, Chad Hanson is flash. You're
Speaker 1: still hoping our Darius Stewart comes along in a second
Speaker 1: professional season. So that's a very talented position. And like
Speaker 1: you mentioned, shoes entering two thousand and seventeen, that was
Speaker 1: a monster question mark. Let me let me go to
Speaker 1: the defensive side of the ball. How far away is
Speaker 1: this unit from being one of the better defenses in
Speaker 1: the National Football League? And I know it's not simple
Speaker 1: as far as getting that speed pass rusher and getting
Speaker 1: another cornerback, but are they pretty close? Yeah? There are
Speaker 1: some guys that I thought were place folder players that
Speaker 1: I think have played well enough to make a case
Speaker 1: that they ought to be back. And by bringing them back,
Speaker 1: it actually allows you to address some other positions that
Speaker 1: I didn't think they were going to have an opportunity
Speaker 1: to address. Mc goose without saying that the safeties are
Speaker 1: you know, probably two of their three best players defensively. Um,
Speaker 1: you know, the defensive line needs to be better, needs
Speaker 1: to be more impactful. But I think the linebackers like
Speaker 1: Da Mario Davis has had a year that I never
Speaker 1: expected that he would have, and he has been a
Speaker 1: legit tackle machine in the middle of the defense. UM
Speaker 1: and mc claiborne has stayed healthy for entire year. We
Speaker 1: always said about him when he was with Dallas, guys
Speaker 1: that guy could ever just stay on the field and
Speaker 1: play sixteen games. He obviously has the ability to be
Speaker 1: a you know, if not a clear cut number one,
Speaker 1: kind of a one, a number two corner. Well, he
Speaker 1: has been a number one corner this year because he
Speaker 1: stayed healthy all year. Now, if you're sitting in the
Speaker 1: room kind of analyzing your defense, you're Mike macagnant looking
Speaker 1: at it next year, going, you know, maybe we keep
Speaker 1: the smoke Clayborn guy. You know, maybe he stays here
Speaker 1: and he is we just compliment him with a lower
Speaker 1: priced guy on the other side of the field. Maybe
Speaker 1: you can look at edge rusher in free agency, or
Speaker 1: you look at edge rusher and there are some really
Speaker 1: good ones this year in this draft. You know, they've
Speaker 1: got some flexibility now on defense, I think because of
Speaker 1: some surprising performances by guys that I think you thought,
Speaker 1: we're just kind of you know that old Bill Parcels
Speaker 1: hold the four guy, and now you might think you're
Speaker 1: gonna keep here longer term than we expect at the
Speaker 1: start of the year. You know, the Jets obviously have
Speaker 1: to play the Patriots this week. But if you're a fan,
Speaker 1: don't you have cautious reason for optimism considering there is
Speaker 1: a lot of money to spend free agency. I don't
Speaker 1: think I don't buy into the philosophy that you win
Speaker 1: championships in the spring, but you can fill some holes there.
Speaker 1: And also you're probably most likely looking at a top ten,
Speaker 1: top eight draft pick. Well, they're definitely gonna have I mean,
Speaker 1: barring a monumental upset, it's an up till climb that
Speaker 1: they're gonna win on Sunday. So if they end up
Speaker 1: five and eleven, you're gonna draft no worse than eight.
Speaker 1: You may draft seventh, you may draft six, depending on
Speaker 1: what happens in front of you with these other teams
Speaker 1: that are kind of right in your pocket of the draft,
Speaker 1: and whether or not you know they win or lose
Speaker 1: games this weekend, but who knows last weekend of the season.
Speaker 1: You know, teams sometimes don't have anything to play for.
Speaker 1: Sometimes teams, you know, kind of rise up in a
Speaker 1: dead atmosphere and win a game you never expected them
Speaker 1: to win. Um, they've got options and uh. And I
Speaker 1: think that's the best thing that you can say about
Speaker 1: where they're going to be drafting. Well, Bob was susan
Speaker 1: they'll be calling the cotton Ball Classic Friday night USC
Speaker 1: in Ohio State eight thirty start on ESPN, and that
Speaker 1: he'll make his way with the team to Gilatte Stadium
Speaker 1: on Sunday for a little New Year's Eve Jets Patriots
Speaker 1: class is always shoots me. Pre shit. Bob was shoosing
Speaker 1: the voice of the Jets something. I didn't know the
Speaker 1: voice of hold here at one Jet You didn't know
Speaker 1: that you never called the switchboard no ever, that's stunning
Speaker 1: to the voice of hold here at one Jets Drive. Yeah,
Speaker 1: you get a highlighter two from Bob was shusing one
Speaker 1: of the finest broadcasters in the game, and I think
Speaker 1: he doesn't tremendous job on college basketball and college football.
Speaker 1: If you need any advice for probably food sightseeing across America,
Speaker 1: I think Bob has you covered. Listen. He's been to
Speaker 1: a lot of places he's up in their Remember that
Speaker 1: movie with George Clooney. I do, Yeah, I did see them. Yeah.
Speaker 1: So Boba Shusan is a guy you want to get
Speaker 1: stranded with inside an airport because he knows, he knows
Speaker 1: the spots, he knows the spots where we're gonna go,
Speaker 1: how to get up there at the front of the
Speaker 1: line and things like that. So with Schusing, this is
Speaker 1: gonna be a busy time for him because I don't
Speaker 1: make his way with the team to Gillette Stadium and
Speaker 1: then it's college basketball season and or way we go.
Speaker 1: Something that Bob said that I just want to highlight
Speaker 1: here is the effort from this Jets team. And I
Speaker 1: know we talked about it with Chad Pennington, but no
Speaker 1: matter what has transpired throughout this season, the Jets have
Speaker 1: always come out on Sunday and put their best foot forward.
Speaker 1: And you've got to give credit to the coaching staff
Speaker 1: and the players for coming out each and every week,
Speaker 1: no matter what happened last Sunday short week. I know
Speaker 1: there's a twenty four hour rule winter loss that has
Speaker 1: been installed here and it's really shown on Sunday. Well,
Speaker 1: it's just a professional approach. I mean This is the
Speaker 1: bottom line, from the top on down. It starts with
Speaker 1: Todd Bowles and what he instilled in this team back
Speaker 1: in the spring. With that being said, nobody's happy that
Speaker 1: they're going into New England with a five and ten record. UM,
Speaker 1: but Shoes is right. There's only one game you can
Speaker 1: point to in the two thousand seventeen seasons said who
Speaker 1: they weren't in it, they didn't have a chance, and
Speaker 1: that was Denver and that game was an anomaly for
Speaker 1: the Jets this season. With that being said, uh, you're
Speaker 1: seeing some young guys developed in front of your eyes.
Speaker 1: We've talked about it numerous times here in the podcast.
Speaker 1: Robbie Anderson sixty nine yards away from his first thousand
Speaker 1: yards season. It's gonna be tough against the Patriots because
Speaker 1: you talked about their secondary before. The safeties are growing
Speaker 1: up before our eyes, and Marcus May and Jamal Adams,
Speaker 1: Eli McGuire is contributed in the backfield. And we'd also
Speaker 1: be remiss if we didn't mention the offensive lined up
Speaker 1: because last week West Johnson did not start. Jonathan Harrison
Speaker 1: did a great job up front, Brunt Quality filled in
Speaker 1: at right tackle for Brandon Shall and how about the
Speaker 1: coda does are stepping in at right guard for Brian Winter.
Speaker 1: How about Jonathan Harrison leading the way on blouse fifty
Speaker 1: seven yard top Colvin Beacham calls him Harry said, Harry
Speaker 1: was leading away. That's what I call m. I also
Speaker 1: just want to throw in a couple more names that
Speaker 1: you talk. It's about talking about Anderson the safeties and
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams marks may. How about someone to me like
Speaker 1: Jordan Jenkins because last season he came on at the
Speaker 1: end of the season, in the final four games, and
Speaker 1: he said when he was cleaning out his locker and
Speaker 1: he spoke to the media, which is about a year ago,
Speaker 1: a little over a year ago to date, is that
Speaker 1: towards the end of the season he started getting a
Speaker 1: little nastier, a little meaner. And then he gets a
Speaker 1: new position coach and Kevin Green this year and the
Speaker 1: Bulldog has taken off in his second year and a
Speaker 1: lot of the things that he does I don't think
Speaker 1: show up in a statue sheet. But you know what
Speaker 1: you're gonna get out of him, and he's he gives
Speaker 1: a ten percent every play and you gotta I admire
Speaker 1: that for he plays a tough position. He's a guy
Speaker 1: who's typically set in the edge, playing over the tight end.
Speaker 1: He's done a fine job. He's stout against the run,
Speaker 1: turning things inside. The Jets have been a better rushed
Speaker 1: defense throughout the year. They played very well against the
Speaker 1: run against the Chargers. UH Darren Ly has made steps
Speaker 1: in second season. Those are two guys who are part
Speaker 1: part of this foundation moving forward. You talked about McCown before. Offensively,
Speaker 1: we'll have to see what happens with him in the
Speaker 1: off season. With she was an address the quarterback position
Speaker 1: to Mario O'Davis is another guy who's contract is up
Speaker 1: who came in and played awfully while for this team.
Speaker 1: Mike mcagnet got him in a swap for Colvin Prior.
Speaker 1: I don't think Calvin Prior is even with the team
Speaker 1: right now. I know he's not with the Browns. Calvin
Speaker 1: Prior was released from the Jaguars injured reserve right and
Speaker 1: then the defensive line right now. The Jets. UH decided
Speaker 1: to sit Mohammed Wokerson for second consecutive game coach's decision,
Speaker 1: but UH and Leonard Williams went down for a second
Speaker 1: consecutive week against the Saints was a concussion. Against the
Speaker 1: Chargers was lower back injury. But guys like Xavier Cooper
Speaker 1: and Mike Panell I think they're quitting themselves well, and
Speaker 1: we'll have to see what happens this Sunday where the
Speaker 1: Jets season comes to an end of again Jets Patriots,
Speaker 1: Gillette Stadium, one pm on New Year's Eve. I mean, well,
Speaker 1: what else did you ask for? It's crazy that the
Speaker 1: football season is coming to you know, if you're you're
Speaker 1: if you're a Jets fan, your eye is already appointed
Speaker 1: to the off season with Tad Bowls. Will put these
Speaker 1: guys through a good week of practice, they'll be ready
Speaker 1: to go. Uh, and I anticipate a good effort win
Speaker 1: or loss. But then if you're a Jets fan, you
Speaker 1: can turn the page and we're gonna talk about it
Speaker 1: next week on the podcast Greens. There's so many things
Speaker 1: will look forward to. Uh. The Jets have financial flexibility,
Speaker 1: They'll be in a good position in the draft to
Speaker 1: have a number of early draft picks in two thousand
Speaker 1: and eighteen in April coming up, So there's so much
Speaker 1: to get to next week. But yeah, but we'll save
Speaker 1: it from next week. That's a little teas. Yeah, you
Speaker 1: better make sure to tune in next week because even
Speaker 1: though the game previews are coming to a close, we
Speaker 1: don't stop here on the Official Jets Podcast. But again
Speaker 1: for the final time, signing off from a game preview again,
Speaker 1: Jets Patriots this Sunday, one pm, Gillette Stadium, putting a
Speaker 1: bow on two thousand seven year, Everybody, New Year, and
Speaker 1: Ferreric Allen, I'm Ethan Greenberg can see in the bott