Speaker 1: Hey, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick and you are listening to
Speaker 1: the e A podcast with Eric Allen. Take it away
Speaker 1: A thanks, fitz I can't tell you how excited I
Speaker 1: am for another football season. Two thousand sixteen is here.
Speaker 1: What's next for the New York Jets after a ten
Speaker 1: win campaign in year one of Todd Bowles and Mike
Speaker 1: mcagnant under their direction. I'm joining the studio today by
Speaker 1: a special guest who has made his return. He got
Speaker 1: a little bit of experience doing this way back in
Speaker 1: the day on New York Jets dot COM's Barking with Bart,
Speaker 1: the Mad Backer. Bart Scott has returned to the studio
Speaker 1: and it's gonna be part of this podcast throughout the
Speaker 1: two thousand sixteen season. How do you feel about that?
Speaker 1: I feel good, man. It's good to be back home.
Speaker 1: It's good to see so many familiar faces within the building,
Speaker 1: see some of the new faces and watch the Jets.
Speaker 1: You'll try to put together another solid campaign and get
Speaker 1: to the playoffs and make that run. It all starts
Speaker 1: this week against a great opponent, and it's gonna be
Speaker 1: exciting to watch, you know. When you look at the
Speaker 1: beginning of their schedule, UM some would say it's tough.
Speaker 1: I think that's an understatement. But what happens is when
Speaker 1: you play a tough schedule, if you can find your
Speaker 1: way on the other side, it makes you a better
Speaker 1: football team because of the level of competition of what
Speaker 1: you're going against. It it makes you sharp and steel
Speaker 1: sharpen and steel and um. If they can make it
Speaker 1: out of this first six seven games with a pretty
Speaker 1: good record and to some people consider some upsets, I
Speaker 1: think that you know it bowls well for late in
Speaker 1: the season and also for a playoff run. Well, Bar,
Speaker 1: you just put your analyst hat on already, and we
Speaker 1: watch you CBS each Sunday when when we have an opportunity,
Speaker 1: but you just put the analysts had on by saying
Speaker 1: it looks like a tough schedule. The opening six games,
Speaker 1: the Jets hosts the Cincinnati Bengals. That in week two,
Speaker 1: it's a short week and playing your former head coach
Speaker 1: Rex Ryan on the Buffalo Else on Thursday night. Then
Speaker 1: the Jets will stay in the road ten days Kansas
Speaker 1: City Chiefs in Week three and come home and play
Speaker 1: Seattle on Week four. Then it's a couple of road
Speaker 1: games against the Pittsburgh Steelers and theirs on the colonels.
Speaker 1: But I'm gonna ask you to put your players helmet
Speaker 1: back on. Okay, okay, let me put it on. I
Speaker 1: remember what it feels like. Okay, I got it on.
Speaker 1: Do you really look at it and schedule and said, oh,
Speaker 1: that's tough. You don't you don't think that way? Well,
Speaker 1: what you do is you you get excited. You say, okay,
Speaker 1: well this is a tough game. Um. You look at
Speaker 1: you embrace the challenge. Of course, you believe you can
Speaker 1: win every game. You you you show up every week
Speaker 1: and you say, hey, liten, we're tennis six football team.
Speaker 1: You give yourself an opportunity to shock the world if
Speaker 1: you win these games. You're looking Okay. When we get
Speaker 1: the week seven, you know, we're gonna put the NFL
Speaker 1: on notice. We're gonna show them that we're not to
Speaker 1: be that they're sleeping on us. That's what you say.
Speaker 1: If you're a player, We're gonna show them to they're
Speaker 1: sleeping with us. And if you have success against those
Speaker 1: type of teams, you're talking about being able to set
Speaker 1: yourself up for all the postseason awards. You set yourself
Speaker 1: up against great competition and you get to see and
Speaker 1: you get to measure yourself against the best in the
Speaker 1: division or best in the NFL. All right, so Cincinnati
Speaker 1: the matchup. We've been talking about it here and part
Speaker 1: is also going to be part of our show on
Speaker 1: CBS Sunday mornings as well doing some film reviews that
Speaker 1: airs at eleven thirty on CBS in the Tri State area.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna be all over the place. But we
Speaker 1: were talking about it before that. The Bengals offensively have
Speaker 1: been really dynamic in past years, and all starts with
Speaker 1: a J. Green. But you've been harping about it, harping
Speaker 1: on it all week that A J. Dalton is dealing
Speaker 1: with new receivers all over the place. Isn't it not
Speaker 1: to be the stickler? You know what I mean? But
Speaker 1: I just have to correct you a little. But you
Speaker 1: called him a J. Dalton. I'm just combining them all.
Speaker 1: I was just watching that playoff game, so you know
Speaker 1: it's coming together exactly. That's what happens where you don't
Speaker 1: win playoff games, you know, you know, you don't get
Speaker 1: the respect of getting your whole Take it easy there.
Speaker 1: That's part Scott talking. That's not Eric's the a podcast.
Speaker 1: But let me tell you told me to take my
Speaker 1: take my allan, put my player hat on. You know
Speaker 1: what I mean. You talk about Andy Dunn, he really
Speaker 1: haven't haven't performed well in the big time games. He's
Speaker 1: been dynamic, and Cincinnati Bengals have been dynamic during the
Speaker 1: regular season. You talk about divisional titles, you're talking about
Speaker 1: being in the playoffs, but they haven't got over the hump.
Speaker 1: This team, you know, imploded last year and has shown
Speaker 1: a lack of discipline. You know, you talk about Vanta's
Speaker 1: Bervlick not being available because of the hit last year
Speaker 1: on Antonio Brown which lost them the game. So I
Speaker 1: think if you're the Jet, you want to try and
Speaker 1: be a bit of an agitator. You want to be
Speaker 1: you're harping on them. You want to be impact man's ear.
Speaker 1: You want to be nudging them a little bit to
Speaker 1: see if they can keep their cool. And if you
Speaker 1: can do that and get underneath their skin, that's advantished Jet.
Speaker 1: But the trademark of a Todd Balls football team is
Speaker 1: all about discipline. You've been impressed the way Bowls has
Speaker 1: come in. Here a guy who was successful in the
Speaker 1: National Football League as a player, he won a championship
Speaker 1: with the Washington Redskins. Tremendous mentors when you're thinking about
Speaker 1: guys like Joe Gives and built ourselves and Bruce Arians,
Speaker 1: how impressed have you buy balls? And what do you
Speaker 1: have like to play for a guy like that? No, absolutely,
Speaker 1: you talk about you know a lot of times we
Speaker 1: always speak about you know, teams are a reflection of
Speaker 1: their coach. And you always look at Tod Bowls no
Speaker 1: matter what the situation is on the field, he always
Speaker 1: seems calm, cool and collect And I know I said
Speaker 1: that out of order, so I'm not gonna let it.
Speaker 1: I'm a self correct because I'm not gonna let you
Speaker 1: get on me like I said when you said a
Speaker 1: j Dalton you know, but you know you talk about
Speaker 1: the team. They showed tremendous poison discpla. I think last
Speaker 1: year sometimes you know they lost it, but he was
Speaker 1: always able to riel them back in and teach them
Speaker 1: to have their composure. And what you like to say
Speaker 1: is that a Tod Bowls team don't doesn't beat themselves.
Speaker 1: You know, they're not gonna have a lot of self
Speaker 1: inflicted wounds, and um, you know that's a mark of
Speaker 1: a discipline, mature team. You know, That's what I said.
Speaker 1: If you can get underneath the skin of the Bengals,
Speaker 1: who have shown that they're very emotional and they can
Speaker 1: be kind of, you know, knocked out their rockers, so
Speaker 1: to speak. I think you want to get underneath their skin.
Speaker 1: You want to be a bit of an agitator. I
Speaker 1: don't know who's going to be that guy, but you know,
Speaker 1: early in the game you want to just kind of
Speaker 1: poke the bear a little bit and see if you
Speaker 1: can get them to react. What's your favorite opening day
Speaker 1: memory as a player? Do you have one? Well, you
Speaker 1: know what I would, you know, going all the way back,
Speaker 1: I think too oh six and only because I think
Speaker 1: I had two sacks in the game and if im
Speaker 1: with recovery and it kind of set me on the
Speaker 1: path to um, you know, to to my first Pro
Speaker 1: Bowl and to my you know, all Pro year. And
Speaker 1: it was the I think two thousand and six we
Speaker 1: opened up with Tampa and I remember all week being concerned,
Speaker 1: you know that I was going to be fatigued because
Speaker 1: you you worry about the heat and the thing about
Speaker 1: what fans don't realize, you know, as the roster gets
Speaker 1: you know, whittled down and get small all or you
Speaker 1: get more back to the fifty three. Like practice dramatically
Speaker 1: changes because we're used to have somebody that you're going there.
Speaker 1: You have the three is going there. You're not getting
Speaker 1: that many reps, you know, and then then everybody's cut.
Speaker 1: The final roster is here, and now you're taking reps
Speaker 1: for the first time, so you're extremely exhausted because it's
Speaker 1: the first time that your legs are really getting this
Speaker 1: amount of reps. So it's you know, you're doing special
Speaker 1: teams or you're not doing special teams, or the other
Speaker 1: your backups doing a special team. So now you're getting
Speaker 1: more to you know, you're getting all the snaps and
Speaker 1: practice now. You know. That's a great point that I
Speaker 1: don't even think about yesterday because the Jets open their
Speaker 1: practice week for the Bengals on Monday, the typical Monday.
Speaker 1: But we just went through all spring O, T A S,
Speaker 1: Mini camps and training camp and it's so striking when
Speaker 1: I'm standing there with the media and I look out, well,
Speaker 1: now the field is empty. It's like where is everybody?
Speaker 1: So so conditioning is begging week one. Conditioning is huge
Speaker 1: and what happens is you don't really get in football
Speaker 1: football regular season shape and to about week three. That's
Speaker 1: why you're gonna see guys come in after week one
Speaker 1: on Monday, they're gonna be running win sprints. Right, So
Speaker 1: you pray to God that the first game isn't it
Speaker 1: extremely hot. You hope that you don't get caught in
Speaker 1: a lot of two minutes situations, and you hope that
Speaker 1: the offense holds onto the ball, have long drives and
Speaker 1: time of when, the time of possession, um, you know clock.
Speaker 1: Because what happens is not only that you see it
Speaker 1: happen in college this week, right, you saw a lot
Speaker 1: of guys in the third or fourth quarter, saw guys
Speaker 1: cramping up. So because now you're going at a speed
Speaker 1: that you really haven't went at, and now you're going
Speaker 1: to be responsible for playing seventy eight snaps when in
Speaker 1: the preseason you replied playing the most snaps the number
Speaker 1: one defense. Probably guys, probably I'll be I'll take a
Speaker 1: shot in the dark and say it's probably all right.
Speaker 1: So you were one at night when it's cool, no
Speaker 1: sun out, no doubt it's gonna be one o'clock Sunday
Speaker 1: afternoon September eleven. You were one of the most cerebral
Speaker 1: players in the game when you played. What are the
Speaker 1: challenges in preparing for a team who you don't see
Speaker 1: often week one because most of the time you guys
Speaker 1: are looking at tape from the past three or four games.
Speaker 1: Now you're looking at a little preseason film or last year.
Speaker 1: How does that work? We'll see. But the good thing is,
Speaker 1: you know, this Bengals team have been together for a
Speaker 1: long time, so they're gonna do what they do. So
Speaker 1: you can watch from from last year the year before.
Speaker 1: You know, it's a little bit more difficult for the
Speaker 1: Bengals because you know, the Jets are still developing their identity.
Speaker 1: It's not a lot of film. It's some, but it's
Speaker 1: not a lot of film on on the tie bows erar,
Speaker 1: you know. So now you have to kind of go
Speaker 1: back and kind of see what Todd did in other places, defensively,
Speaker 1: what he did in Arizona, and you want to try
Speaker 1: and put it together that way, and and when you
Speaker 1: get out, you know, the first game is all about
Speaker 1: adjustments because you may think a team is gonna come
Speaker 1: out one way, but what happens is, you know, preseason
Speaker 1: is used to put a lot of misinformation on film
Speaker 1: for your opposing opponent. Everything that you do in the
Speaker 1: preseason is done to trick your first opponent. So then
Speaker 1: when you step out on the field, they have no
Speaker 1: clue what's going on, and you want to try and
Speaker 1: force them to have to prepare for things that they
Speaker 1: haven't seen. So now all the tricks that they've had,
Speaker 1: they're gonna use all those tricks this year this week,
Speaker 1: and Tide is gonna you know, empty the tank, so
Speaker 1: to speaking. He's gonna come out and you're gonna say, okay, wow,
Speaker 1: this is how they are. And then now what happens
Speaker 1: is for the first three weeks, you're never gonna know
Speaker 1: what the team is going to bring to the table.
Speaker 1: And some teams are are very opponent specific, you know.
Speaker 1: So this first game is always the most interesting chess
Speaker 1: match of the of the season because all the things
Speaker 1: you see on on on film he did this, or
Speaker 1: every time he lines up here, he does this. Guess
Speaker 1: what that slot receiver is gonna do. He's been doing
Speaker 1: this every time in the in the preseason, He's gonna
Speaker 1: do something totally different. So so the Jets are gonna
Speaker 1: be successful defensively, if they do water against the Cincinnati
Speaker 1: team who has a Jay Green but does not have
Speaker 1: Tyler Eiffort, and they're gonna be relying on I would
Speaker 1: imagine trying to get the ball to Giovanni Bernard and
Speaker 1: also Jeremy Hell of the backfield. We'll tell you what
Speaker 1: a lot of people remember, Jeremy Hill. Jeremy Hill was
Speaker 1: the running back that fumbled the ball that that gave
Speaker 1: the Pittsburgh Stills the opportunity to win the game. He's
Speaker 1: he's taking full accountabilities. He's put it on him. He's
Speaker 1: been practicing playing like a man possessed. You know. That's
Speaker 1: the good news. The bad news is without Tyler Eiffort,
Speaker 1: without Mohammed Sanu, without Marvin Jones, then now the Jets
Speaker 1: are are in a in a in a position to
Speaker 1: really make them one dimensional. If they can take a
Speaker 1: j Green away, the Bengals are gonna come in. They're
Speaker 1: gonna try and establish the run right, and they're gonna
Speaker 1: they're gonna have run attempts just to have run attempts
Speaker 1: one because they want to keep the clock moving. They
Speaker 1: want to try and get the the offense and in
Speaker 1: favorable you know, manageable down a distances, so they want
Speaker 1: to try and get you know, they want to try
Speaker 1: and get positive yardage. But with that being said, the
Speaker 1: Jets know that their bread and butter is trying to
Speaker 1: go deep to a J Green if they can't hit
Speaker 1: a big play to a J Green to get explosive
Speaker 1: players from a J I see this matchup being a
Speaker 1: drug out brawl, right because both teams like like great fighters.
Speaker 1: Me and you are both boxing fans, are gonna come out.
Speaker 1: They're gonna fully travel out for the first couple of rounds.
Speaker 1: Nobody wants to make a mistake early. Um. But the
Speaker 1: biggest contributor to the outcome of this game. Special teams
Speaker 1: and the Jet special teams have been fantastic throughout the preseason.
Speaker 1: I think the new regime, I think brand Boyer has
Speaker 1: really set a tone here part you're gonna love this
Speaker 1: you set. That's how you established yourself in the National
Speaker 1: Football League. You came in, you weren't starting next to
Speaker 1: Ray Lewis right away, undrafted free agent. That's how you
Speaker 1: made your name. You love Boyer. He always talks about
Speaker 1: these guys going either a hundred miles par or five
Speaker 1: miles par. And we know you like to drive carriage fast. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I tell you what we we played. We played against
Speaker 1: each other. I had an opportunity to meet him at
Speaker 1: the Jets one of our events in the city. But
Speaker 1: special teams is going to play such a big role.
Speaker 1: You saw it again in preseason with with with the
Speaker 1: College chairman. You know why. The reason why they play
Speaker 1: such a prevalent role in the in the first couple
Speaker 1: of weeks is because on offense, how many new starters
Speaker 1: do to Jets have not a ton you you kind
Speaker 1: of knew who was going to be the start. You
Speaker 1: knew it was gonna be starts and the right tackles,
Speaker 1: the one spot where along that offensive line, actually Jets
Speaker 1: are breaking the new new tackles I consider experience, right. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but that that new tackle knew that he was going
Speaker 1: to be the start. We kind of knew who was
Speaker 1: gonna be on on on offense, we know who was
Speaker 1: going to be on defense. Special teams are the people
Speaker 1: that make the roster late in the season, preseason, so
Speaker 1: a lot of these guys are gonna be playing next
Speaker 1: to each other for the first time because in the
Speaker 1: preseason you're mixing matching, right, you're putting guys in positions
Speaker 1: you play this, but now everybody's cut and this team
Speaker 1: doesn't have any chemistry. You have to sit down and
Speaker 1: you have to talk about how we're gonna play certain
Speaker 1: looks because you're gonna see something in preseason that you
Speaker 1: didn't see in preseason the regular season that you didn't see,
Speaker 1: and you're gonna have to think it out with your partner.
Speaker 1: You guys have to be on the same page because
Speaker 1: it's not a lot of verbal communication. There's a lot
Speaker 1: of non verbal communication and special teams seeing a guy
Speaker 1: seeing his mannerisms. Okay, he's gonna do this. Okay, I
Speaker 1: think he's going to do that because you have those
Speaker 1: those reps see but the special teams don't really get
Speaker 1: a lot of reps with the person that's going to
Speaker 1: be to the right of your the left of you say,
Speaker 1: punt return or punt right. Punk was one of the
Speaker 1: biggest things. You see a lot of miscommunication with punk
Speaker 1: blocks early in the seat, and you see a lot
Speaker 1: of field goal blocks early in the season because you
Speaker 1: don't really play with that person. You're having practiced with
Speaker 1: that person over and over again, so you have to
Speaker 1: develop that level of chemistry. So special team coaches understand that.
Speaker 1: So you're gonna see a lot of wist. You're gonna
Speaker 1: see a lot of games. You're gonna see a lot
Speaker 1: of overloads the force. Young guys, and that's in certain
Speaker 1: Moss are breaking in a new rookie punter, seventh round
Speaker 1: pick Blockland out of Words, had a tremendous preseason. The
Speaker 1: guy can really boom the ball, different temple, Different and
Speaker 1: Jayleen Marshall an impressive rookie from Ohio State, one of
Speaker 1: the jets three rookie receivers. He is the return man.
Speaker 1: Do we you know which which team has that guy
Speaker 1: to make the pivotal mistake? Who missed their block? Who
Speaker 1: has a block in the bag you know on a
Speaker 1: huge return, Who musts a punt, Who has a blunt
Speaker 1: punt blocked? Those are all the things that you see
Speaker 1: in the first week of the NFL season. I guarantee
Speaker 1: you this week to be at least two punts block
Speaker 1: somewhere in this in the league. I just hope that's
Speaker 1: not you. The Bengals, how are they going to try
Speaker 1: to defend Brandon Marshall and Eric Ducker. Nobody could stop
Speaker 1: those guys. Last year in terms of receptions. They love
Speaker 1: the National Football League in terms of duos, of course,
Speaker 1: and also total touchdowns. How do they go about trying
Speaker 1: to stop those guys. We'll tell you what. The Bengals
Speaker 1: have been a elite defense for the last five years.
Speaker 1: They've been playing well. It all started with Zimmer, who's
Speaker 1: now the head coach of the Minnesota Vikings. But they've
Speaker 1: been doing it well for a long time. This isn't
Speaker 1: like some overnights and safe. This team has been in
Speaker 1: the playoffs and been winning a very tough division off
Speaker 1: and on for about the last five years. Um jib
Speaker 1: Geno Atkins interior. You talk about eleven sacks, you know
Speaker 1: from from the d tackle and he's still getting his
Speaker 1: legs on him after the a c L surgery. He
Speaker 1: he can create a lot of pressure in the interior
Speaker 1: in an instant, huge mass up. Now we're just talking
Speaker 1: about it before you said they moved Geno Atkins around,
Speaker 1: But if he is at left defensive tackle, Brian Winners
Speaker 1: will see him at times. Well, they put them. They
Speaker 1: put them in matchups much like you know Houston does
Speaker 1: with J. J. Watt and how we do with Mohammed Wilkerson,
Speaker 1: you know, but he's he's a complete package. He's dominant
Speaker 1: in the run. He's not just the overpowering bull rush
Speaker 1: type of guy. He has a lot of agility and
Speaker 1: when we were watching the film, you saw that he can,
Speaker 1: you know, arm over. He has a little shake we
Speaker 1: we call a little wiggle. He has a little wiggle
Speaker 1: inside too. But that sets the stage for like Johnson
Speaker 1: on the outside who kind of comes in. They get
Speaker 1: it done a little differently. You know, you talk about
Speaker 1: a four man front. You know, they're they're beating double
Speaker 1: teams and they're they're winning their one on one matchups.
Speaker 1: That allows them to play pass covers behind. You talk
Speaker 1: about Carlos Dansby, who was addition, you know, you talk
Speaker 1: about nineteen interception forty sacks, Gihnny on the spot. He's
Speaker 1: a guy that's very savvy and that fits his off
Speaker 1: point or off his mark just a little bit. He
Speaker 1: can make you pay because he not only turns the
Speaker 1: ball over and the ball just finds him Jimmy on
Speaker 1: the spot, but he takes it to the house. And
Speaker 1: you think Dansby a lot of times might be matched
Speaker 1: up in man coverage with Matt Forte, one of the
Speaker 1: most accomplished receiving running backs in the history of the game. Well,
Speaker 1: strength on strength, and we talked about you know, most
Speaker 1: of the most of the time chan Gelly is gonna
Speaker 1: look at the opposing teams linebacker and he's gonna say,
Speaker 1: advantage us. But I don't know. You talk about two
Speaker 1: wildly old vetts. You know, they know all the tricks
Speaker 1: of the trade, grumpy old man, you know, to thirty somethings,
Speaker 1: all that you know to thirty somethings. And you know
Speaker 1: it's gonna be pleasant. Guy. You were just falling around
Speaker 1: with them before. And you know, and and and Dan's
Speaker 1: by as well. But you know, you talk about you know,
Speaker 1: when you get over thirty, you know that's considered ancient
Speaker 1: in the NFL. You know, Dan's be a linebacker, you know,
Speaker 1: thirty four, and fort at running back at thirty. You know,
Speaker 1: you talk about the guys that have played. They have
Speaker 1: seen a lot of football, you know, so it's gonna
Speaker 1: be interesting to see which one, you know, has the advantage.
Speaker 1: You know, both of them are very, very capable and
Speaker 1: two of the best of their position. Carlos Dan's we
Speaker 1: were brought in specifically to help defend against the tight
Speaker 1: ends and in the run because of his limp. You
Speaker 1: talk about the guy that six four, you know, very
Speaker 1: very tall middle a linebacker. But you know you talk
Speaker 1: about as well, you know, his his his sacks and
Speaker 1: his interceptions with Matt fourt one of the most accomplished
Speaker 1: past receiving running backs, you know, dual threats in the
Speaker 1: game since he's since he's came from tou lane. Okay,
Speaker 1: so let's get back to us, Marshall and Docker. I
Speaker 1: thinking if pac Man is ready to go, will they
Speaker 1: put pac Man on Marshall? Well, they they mix it
Speaker 1: off back then, well what you have to mix it up,
Speaker 1: you know, but you can mix it up when you're
Speaker 1: only rushing four. When you rushing four, they give you
Speaker 1: another person in pass coverage, so they trying to beat
Speaker 1: you up front, and then they have the play numbers
Speaker 1: in the back. They're gonna play numbers in the back.
Speaker 1: They're gonna try and be physical on the line to
Speaker 1: try and throw off the timing with safety help over
Speaker 1: the top. I think they you know, they go safety
Speaker 1: help over the top, and you gotta think, okay, who
Speaker 1: suggest third receiver? And that's where the one on one
Speaker 1: is gonna come. I don't know if Dark Quest Donard
Speaker 1: is going to be back. You know, but you talk about,
Speaker 1: you know, the Bengal spent heavily and you know in
Speaker 1: the in the draft and in free agency and bring
Speaker 1: and then a lot of quality you know, a lot
Speaker 1: of quality cornerbacks. Yeah, they go, they go four or
Speaker 1: five deep. You know at the cornerback possess. You talk
Speaker 1: about Kirkpatrick will be or one of the starterstrick right,
Speaker 1: and then you talk about dark dark Qus Denard, you
Speaker 1: know who was the first round draft pick I believe
Speaker 1: from the Michigan stay right a couple of years ago.
Speaker 1: You know. So they they're they're fully loaded there to
Speaker 1: to to really handle a spread offense which the jests
Speaker 1: is going to present to do this game well specifically, well,
Speaker 1: once again, he's going to have to hit hit a
Speaker 1: couple of deep balls to get them to to to
Speaker 1: lighten the box. You have to get their respect early
Speaker 1: because you know a lot of teams are believing that
Speaker 1: you know, Fits is a quick decision maker. He gets
Speaker 1: the ball out of his hands. That allows them to
Speaker 1: sit on routes and when you have safety help over
Speaker 1: the top you can take some of those chances, because
Speaker 1: if you if you gamble, you miss, you're you're backed up.
Speaker 1: That's what they call it the safety. It's the lead
Speaker 1: changed a lot since even since you've been out of
Speaker 1: just for a few years. Meaning look at this matchup
Speaker 1: this week, the Bengals at three rookie receivers, the Jets
Speaker 1: at three rookie receivers, and you're talking about maybe the
Speaker 1: Jets taking a shot or two. You could a guy
Speaker 1: like Robbie Anderson, a Temple product who was an undrafted
Speaker 1: free agent, lead the National Football League and preceded receiving
Speaker 1: yards in a preseason. Could he be a factor coming
Speaker 1: in maybe in a four receiver set. Not a factor
Speaker 1: where he's gonna catch seven balls, but a guy to
Speaker 1: take the top off. Well, I'll tell you what, man,
Speaker 1: it's always whenever you have a matchup between good teams,
Speaker 1: it's always the unsun heroes. And I think Anderson sets
Speaker 1: himself up to be an unsund hero because he's not
Speaker 1: going to be paid attention too much. On the Scotting report.
Speaker 1: They're gonna say he runs one route vertical, but you
Speaker 1: still have to stop it, you know. And and there's
Speaker 1: one thing to see something on film is one thing
Speaker 1: to see it in person. And sometimes you can underestimate
Speaker 1: your opponent unders to make the person that you're going against.
Speaker 1: And he surprised you, you know. And I think with
Speaker 1: you know, Marshall and grow on the outside in Matt Forte,
Speaker 1: maybe an empty set, who's the guy that's going to
Speaker 1: get the one on one? A guy like and the
Speaker 1: Jets love and Noon was versatility too because they call
Speaker 1: him high bred. Say, if a linebacker is gonna Matt
Speaker 1: match up with him, he's gonna out run you. You
Speaker 1: put a dB on your right at you. Well what
Speaker 1: that's what what that's what you're doing? You know, we
Speaker 1: we we've seen this with Chan before in Buffalo. I
Speaker 1: believe that the receiver was Nelson. You know, he was
Speaker 1: a six five guy, kind of a tweener. He was
Speaker 1: a guy that sealed the backside, you know, and he
Speaker 1: was a guy that was willing to fight. And it
Speaker 1: was not always about getting a devastating block. It's about
Speaker 1: the willingness to block. And sometimes you just gotta be
Speaker 1: a speed bump. But also every once in a a while,
Speaker 1: Noon while we'll go out and run out of route
Speaker 1: and it's surprised a lot of people because they think
Speaker 1: that he's just gonna sit in and block, but he
Speaker 1: essentially is playing the tight end position, just a hybrid
Speaker 1: version of a tight end. How do you break down
Speaker 1: the FC East right now as we were about to
Speaker 1: enter another season, it's to division the Patriots have controlled.
Speaker 1: The Jets were right there nipping at their heels last year.
Speaker 1: Uh and fortunately three and three in the division. When
Speaker 1: you look back at the Jets season, there were ton
Speaker 1: of three outside the East. Yeah. Absolutely. I mean the
Speaker 1: first goal of the first goal is always to win
Speaker 1: your division. And you talk about having a three outside
Speaker 1: the fcast, I'm sorry, well you talk about you talk
Speaker 1: about being able to to try and win your division
Speaker 1: is always the first goal. Um. The Patriots have been
Speaker 1: at the top of the heat for a long long time,
Speaker 1: and you know, with some of their additions, it's going
Speaker 1: to be tough, you know. So all you can really control,
Speaker 1: you can't control who they beat until they play you.
Speaker 1: If you want them to get some some some some
Speaker 1: losses in the some some losses. The Jets don't play them.
Speaker 1: They don't play them. When Tom Brady suspended, you know
Speaker 1: you'll you'll get a smile out of that's the players
Speaker 1: were asking about this in the locker room. I said, well,
Speaker 1: we expect that we're going to be a good team.
Speaker 1: We're not really worried about them right now. You know,
Speaker 1: you play them in the first four games. Well what,
Speaker 1: they're a complete team, and they always find a way.
Speaker 1: You talk about the additional Martella has been it that
Speaker 1: gives them another dual thread. You talk about you know Hogan,
Speaker 1: who's you know, got the funny name on hard knocks
Speaker 1: at seven to eleven because he's always open. That just
Speaker 1: gives him another weapon. And players seem to become a
Speaker 1: lot better when they're playing with Tom Brady. So and
Speaker 1: you never know, you know, talked about last year. You
Speaker 1: talked about losing to the Buffalo Bills twice. I'm sure
Speaker 1: they had left a sour taste and everybody in his
Speaker 1: building his mouth, you know, because everybody always wants to
Speaker 1: beat your former coach, um, and you know they kept
Speaker 1: him out of playoffs, so it should be some payback,
Speaker 1: you know. You know some guys that really wants some
Speaker 1: payback when they see the Buffalo Bills, and they'll get
Speaker 1: the exercise. Those deams pretty early al right before we
Speaker 1: uh jumped to another subject real quick. I just wanted
Speaker 1: to get your thoughts on it. Do you think it
Speaker 1: sets up nicely for the Jets at the linebacker position
Speaker 1: on the inside because David Harris still playing at a
Speaker 1: high level, but they have a veteran and Aaron Henderson
Speaker 1: who can contribute. They can depend on. David loved playing
Speaker 1: next to him last year. You know that is a
Speaker 1: guy who played that. You guys really love play as
Speaker 1: who understand the game, savvy instinct of study and you
Speaker 1: can see that respect there. That means Darrenly is gonna
Speaker 1: play a lot still and we'll have to see. Todd
Speaker 1: Bull said it, depending on a week, Darrenly could play
Speaker 1: more than Aaron Henderson. But do you think this is
Speaker 1: a perfect set up for Darrenly? Well? I think it
Speaker 1: is because he gets an opportunity not to have all
Speaker 1: the pressure on the where he has to take all
Speaker 1: any all any snaps. This allows him to start off
Speaker 1: in a package and and really you know, focus on
Speaker 1: the specific task whatever thy Bowl says this is going
Speaker 1: to be his role. It allows e J to come
Speaker 1: in on first and second down, so so to speak,
Speaker 1: I'm sorry you thinking, I know I know I'm thinking
Speaker 1: about his brother, but that allows him to kind of
Speaker 1: come in and and really for them to brank him
Speaker 1: along slowly. And we always talk about quarterbacks, you know,
Speaker 1: maybe shouldn't start sometimes, you know, everybody has to adjust
Speaker 1: to the game. I think this allows him a way
Speaker 1: to really learn how to become a professional. If I'm
Speaker 1: putting too much on his plate early on, because you know,
Speaker 1: this Jets team is expecting to do big things, and
Speaker 1: you don't want to be somebody that comes in and
Speaker 1: can't really hold up your end of the bargain. This
Speaker 1: allows him to really mature to the position and really
Speaker 1: watch a true professional in front of them. It's gonna
Speaker 1: be fascinating what happens to outside linebacker too, because the
Speaker 1: Jets expect a big leap from Lorenzo Malden. And then
Speaker 1: we'll have to see who starts on Sunday against the Bengals.
Speaker 1: Could be a rookie third round pick Jordan Jenkins out
Speaker 1: of Georgia, or maybe a guy a veteran like Mike Catapano.
Speaker 1: Will have to see how that rotation works out. You
Speaker 1: mentioned the fight game before. We both love boxing. You're
Speaker 1: in good shape, Stell, You're training. Uh, this weekend, Kelbrook
Speaker 1: has gone up and wait to fight Triple G. Who
Speaker 1: I think is this era is Mike Tyson, who's a
Speaker 1: non heavy way for Roberto Duran Roberto the Hands of Stone. Okay,
Speaker 1: so what do you feel about this fight happening over
Speaker 1: over in England? What Trip G understands that you know,
Speaker 1: Brock has a bigger following right now, you know, because
Speaker 1: Triple G is kind of a nomad, you know what
Speaker 1: I mean, he really does. You know, he's he's made
Speaker 1: New York kind of his base. That's where he really
Speaker 1: made his name, mat but he really doesn't. He's starting
Speaker 1: to draw a lot of people, but he really doesn't
Speaker 1: have that fan base that broadcast. I mean, he's been
Speaker 1: for kel Brook, Yeah, he's been. He's been. He's been
Speaker 1: begging everybody to fight him, Triple G, and nobody wants him.
Speaker 1: I mean, I love Andrew Gordon is a fighter, but
Speaker 1: the Triple G doesn't doesn't duck anybody. I think he's
Speaker 1: setting himself up for for a mega fight, but he
Speaker 1: has to get past a great opponent that's moving up.
Speaker 1: And the coursetion is can Brock take his punches? You know,
Speaker 1: That's the thing. We know he has to hand speed,
Speaker 1: we know he has to skill, and we know he
Speaker 1: has determination. He talked about he you know, he's a champion.
Speaker 1: You know, he's been doing his thing for for a while.
Speaker 1: But Triple G is a different monster. I watched him
Speaker 1: break down fighter after fighter, and I mean, if he
Speaker 1: has to jab you, he has a stiff, stiff jab,
Speaker 1: but also he has to follow up. He can hurt
Speaker 1: you to the body. He always comes in tremendous shape,
Speaker 1: you know. And I think he understands not to be
Speaker 1: looking past Brock, but he understands that there's greater things,
Speaker 1: you know, after this fight if he can pull it off.
Speaker 1: Because the fight with Canelo average talking about two guys
Speaker 1: fighting and their problem. We both talked about Thurman and Porter.
Speaker 1: It didn't disappoint, you know, and you know, I think
Speaker 1: that a fight between Canelo and Triple G won't disappoint either.
Speaker 1: Talk about two fighters in their prime that Cannelo. Cannelo
Speaker 1: said that he will fight at at one sixty and
Speaker 1: he says some very brash things and Mexican that we
Speaker 1: don't duck anybody. We're out afraid of anybody. Am I
Speaker 1: just so will see because I think Triple G is
Speaker 1: calling him out. He's kind of putting a lot of
Speaker 1: pressure on him for him and say that he's this big,
Speaker 1: bad you know, you know what to be able to say, Okay,
Speaker 1: if you're that, then you'll fight. You have cal Brook
Speaker 1: a tremendous amount of credit here part because he's been
Speaker 1: chasing American, his fellow countrymen over there. He wanted to
Speaker 1: fight American for so long he could never get a shot.
Speaker 1: It was it was it when you know how it
Speaker 1: is in a fighting game. You know, for if a
Speaker 1: coin of fight him, it wouldn't be it wouldn't help
Speaker 1: his brand if he beat him. And like, because a
Speaker 1: lot of people really don't know about coll we're starting
Speaker 1: to know a lot more. He's starting to b he's
Speaker 1: a good fighter. I just wonder if he's he's spent
Speaker 1: more than he can show. Well, well, listen, you know,
Speaker 1: the squeaky wheel gets the oil right. So, like, you know,
Speaker 1: even if he comes out and he loses, like we
Speaker 1: expect him to lose, I mean, look look at what
Speaker 1: what he gains by putting on a great show. We're
Speaker 1: speaking of great shows. I gotta ask you about Connor McGregor,
Speaker 1: how much have you got into UFC. I watched the fight,
Speaker 1: and what do you think about him? Is an entertainer
Speaker 1: and as a guy, a big brand in sports nowadays.
Speaker 1: I mean, I mean, I think he's he's taking a
Speaker 1: page out of the money Mayweather, not Floyd Mayweather, not
Speaker 1: pretty boy Floyd. That he's taking a page out of
Speaker 1: money Mayweather. Um really want to come in with disrespect
Speaker 1: his opponent and try and win and and and be
Speaker 1: loud and brash and do it that way, y'all think
Speaker 1: you know, you know, he redeemed itself. He came back
Speaker 1: and you had a tremendous fight playing. I forget the
Speaker 1: he's one of my favorite fighters in UFC. But I
Speaker 1: forget but he pretty much landed those punches with NATed
Speaker 1: as last last the first fight, you know. But what
Speaker 1: I'm concerned with is his his I don't know, because
Speaker 1: he talks so much. He runs out of gas pretty fast.
Speaker 1: And I see him fighting maybe some of these other fights.
Speaker 1: That's tough to be standing and just exchanging. Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 1: But what I'm saying is even Nada seemed like he
Speaker 1: had more in the tank. Even though he landed all
Speaker 1: those punches. He was winning out of the first round
Speaker 1: and had to take a couple of rounds off. In
Speaker 1: the third round, he you know, he took a pretty
Speaker 1: good beating. So when he fights some of these other
Speaker 1: elite fighters within the fight game, I don't see I
Speaker 1: can see, you know, him struggling if they can, you know,
Speaker 1: withstand the early on slot from him. Early you know,
Speaker 1: he shoots, you know, he burned himself out pretty early.
Speaker 1: He's entertain he's very he's very entertaining. He's great smart, Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's great. He's great for printing, he's he's great for
Speaker 1: for for interviews. You know, he's dynamic in that regard.
Speaker 1: He's a word smith, you know. But in the UFC,
Speaker 1: in the fight game, you know, you can be a
Speaker 1: great fighter have six or seven losses, you know, you know,
Speaker 1: it's a little different, you know, so it's hard. You know,
Speaker 1: we're trained to look at that oh if that alway
Speaker 1: isn't there, we kind of look at it differently. I think,
Speaker 1: you know, the fight fans are starting to to to
Speaker 1: to really adjust to the UFC. Okay, say, listen, he's
Speaker 1: he's a dynamic fight he's the best in the game.
Speaker 1: But anybody can be beat on any any given fight
Speaker 1: night in ufc UM. But you know he beat he
Speaker 1: beat Diaz. We'll see if he continues to move up
Speaker 1: and wait, because as you get older, it's gonna be
Speaker 1: harder to hold that weight. You think he's gonna become
Speaker 1: like a rocker or a guy like that. Who I
Speaker 1: can see him screen, you know, I see him in
Speaker 1: Expendables Part twelve or something like that, or you know,
Speaker 1: something like that. I can see him one of those.
Speaker 1: He's one of personalities. I mean, if he's smart, he'll
Speaker 1: build his brand away because what happens is you have
Speaker 1: to be able to sell something after the body breaks down.
Speaker 1: You're talking about college football before? Is it Alabama and
Speaker 1: everybody else? I don't think so, No, you don't. I
Speaker 1: don't think so. I think I think late in the game.
Speaker 1: I think Michigan is going to be around. You do
Speaker 1: think Ohio States always going to be there? Irban Eyre
Speaker 1: always finds a way to to to be um, to
Speaker 1: be productive, So let a playoff. They'll make too many
Speaker 1: conclusions based on based on week one. No, I mean
Speaker 1: it was usc man like, come on, like I think
Speaker 1: they they were. They're based on more on on tradition
Speaker 1: and in pre ranked roles and things like that. You
Speaker 1: never know who's gonna, you know, come up. The creamer
Speaker 1: rides up to the top by Week ten yea. And
Speaker 1: the same thing can be set in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Any of these Week one games. Really, you're gonna be
Speaker 1: watching them all with the crew there in New York
Speaker 1: City Sunday afternoon, US is in the Bengals and New
Speaker 1: York Jets and Cincinnati Bengals. I think is one of
Speaker 1: one of the one of one of the better games
Speaker 1: out there. That's a that's a must see. Um, I'm
Speaker 1: really interested to see how Dak Prescott performs against the Giants.
Speaker 1: You know, I think he was dynamic. I think everybody
Speaker 1: wanted to discredit what he was able to do in
Speaker 1: the preseason, and I was just a preseason. But I
Speaker 1: can remember people saying the same thing about a guy
Speaker 1: named Russell Wilson, you know. So this could be an
Speaker 1: instance where Tony Romo doesn't get his job back, you know,
Speaker 1: because he can't stay healthy. And I think that adds
Speaker 1: that new breed athlete, the guy that's able to beat
Speaker 1: you with your legs and if you dare play cover
Speaker 1: one and everybody turns their back, just take off and
Speaker 1: hurt you with his feet. And he's protected behind the
Speaker 1: best line in the business. So protected by the best
Speaker 1: line of the business, meaning that he's gonna have time
Speaker 1: to process. You talk about rookie sometimes not being able
Speaker 1: to go through the process, Well, he's going to be
Speaker 1: given an extra second just because of the offense. And
Speaker 1: he's got a talent. Said that young running back he's
Speaker 1: working with Ezekiel Alliott. Like you said, he's playing behind
Speaker 1: that offensive line, so he could come on break out.
Speaker 1: I forget the other running back from Washington, but I
Speaker 1: think that was one of the sneakiest UH pickups of
Speaker 1: the off season. You know, I forget his name. He's
Speaker 1: went to the Pro Bowl like twice. Young young, young
Speaker 1: running back for the Skins. No, no, he yeah, front
Speaker 1: he came from when he came over from the Skins.
Speaker 1: I forget his name. But he's with the Cowboys. Yeah,
Speaker 1: he's with the Cowboys. I'm telling you what, man, he
Speaker 1: runs hard. He's the North and South runner and he's
Speaker 1: been doing it well for about four years. And then
Speaker 1: Jets fans are gonna pay attention to New England at Arizona.
Speaker 1: Jimmy Garoppolo gets his start. Uh, Arizona is gonna be
Speaker 1: there's gonna be a tough place to play. Arizona is
Speaker 1: gonna be right there at the end. You know, talked
Speaker 1: about last year he's going on the run. I think
Speaker 1: Carson Palmer's only lost maybe seven games as a Cardinal quarterback.
Speaker 1: You know, we talked about the year before they were
Speaker 1: nine and one, before he blew his knee out. Then
Speaker 1: last year, you know, they had a tremendous record, you know,
Speaker 1: one division. You know, they're they're top to bottom. They
Speaker 1: have Super Bowl aspiration, super Bowler bus there. So it's
Speaker 1: gonna be tough for New England to get off, you know,
Speaker 1: on the start. Well. And this is one thing I
Speaker 1: can proba mus you as we conclude today's podcast, is
Speaker 1: that Barts uh Todd bowls. Bart Scott is not going
Speaker 1: to talk about the Super Bowl at all. The Jet's
Speaker 1: gonna be focused on the Cincinnati Bengals and we one
Speaker 1: one game at a time, That's right, One show at
Speaker 1: a time at a time. Bart Scott in the house,
Speaker 1: Thanks so much, buddy. We're looking for in the season
Speaker 1: or were just getting started