Speaker 1: The game on the world. You played to win the
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Speaker 1: left in the two thousand seventeen NFL season, Ethan Greenberg
Speaker 1: and Eric Allen here bringing you another installment of the
Speaker 1: Official Jets Podcast. Game for you This Sunday e a
Speaker 1: Jet Chargers, but let's talk about last Sunday for a moment.
Speaker 1: The Jets fall in the big easy but great effort
Speaker 1: down there, great efford, great fight. This is something we've
Speaker 1: seen from Todd Bowls Club throughout the two thousand seventeen season.
Speaker 1: I think that a lot of people were wandering after
Speaker 1: the Jets went to Denver and we're shut out twenty
Speaker 1: three and nothing on the one side of the affair
Speaker 1: where the wheel about to fall off, And know they
Speaker 1: weren't because Todd Bull said all week I got confidence
Speaker 1: on my guys were gonna go out there and we're
Speaker 1: going down there to get a victory. And indeed the
Speaker 1: Jets had an opportunity to secure a victory. But that's
Speaker 1: a tough place to win it. That is a very
Speaker 1: good football team, that is a Hall of Fame quarterback
Speaker 1: and ultimately they fell short. Outside of weeks two and
Speaker 1: fourteen against the Denver Broncos and the Buffalo Bills in
Speaker 1: Week two, the Jets have lost by an average of
Speaker 1: seven points per game. So go one possession games, right,
Speaker 1: So you're five and nine, and then we're gonna look
Speaker 1: back at the season a couple of weeks on this podcast,
Speaker 1: and we're gonna say the Jets very easily could have
Speaker 1: been maybe nine and seven or eight and eight or whatever.
Speaker 1: But with all that being said, I think there is
Speaker 1: a confidence building within the locker room after the game.
Speaker 1: You could feel it, you could sense it, you could
Speaker 1: hear it. Jermaine Curse, That's something that I'm always going
Speaker 1: to come back to. All he said, one more five games.
Speaker 1: You surpassed your guys expectations, and I think the biggest
Speaker 1: thing is for us then I'd be a fluid by that,
Speaker 1: you know, So, like we gotta our standard and expectation
Speaker 1: has gotta be higher, and we gotta open hold ourselves
Speaker 1: to the expectation of standard. But when you look at
Speaker 1: game film on Monday and you watched the Jets play
Speaker 1: the Saints, you say, there were a lot of good
Speaker 1: things that happened in this game, and you can immediately
Speaker 1: point to the three turnovers on defense. Leonard Williams recorded
Speaker 1: his first career in exception dr Crows Drew Brees under pressure.
Speaker 1: Here does he pros over the it's intercepted, picked up
Speaker 1: Leonard Williams against Drew Brees. Jamal Adams with a force fumble.
Speaker 1: Three strops to throw, looks like Throse wh Comba makes
Speaker 1: the catch up the ten, The ball pops out Jaball
Speaker 1: Adams force the fumble, The Jets up the ball recovered
Speaker 1: by Jordan Jenkins and Buster Screen with another force fumble
Speaker 1: and he recovered that. Well, let's not bury the lead here.
Speaker 1: Let's talk about Bryce Petty for a moment, because this
Speaker 1: was his first start of the two thousand seventeen season,
Speaker 1: his fifth career start. How do you think he fared
Speaker 1: and what do you see out of him from a
Speaker 1: growth perspective from last year to this year? And I
Speaker 1: think it's tough to say what did you see from
Speaker 1: him as far as a growth perspective because it's been
Speaker 1: such a small sample size for one game and a
Speaker 1: tough place to play, Yeah, a tough place to play,
Speaker 1: And I think he did some good thing. I think
Speaker 1: he missed some passes that he would like to have back.
Speaker 1: He's said that. I think he talks about footwork and
Speaker 1: at times that, hey, there are certain throws that I
Speaker 1: have to be on the money with a hundred percent
Speaker 1: of the time, and he missed a few of those.
Speaker 1: He didn't make a couple of beautiful throws. A play
Speaker 1: down the sideline to Eli McGuire, back to throws, Bryce
Speaker 1: Petty looks right, throws a bomb down the right side,
Speaker 1: look for McGuire, He's got it. H'side the fifteen Brice
Speaker 1: Petty throws it right down the chip. Then late in
Speaker 1: the game, the throw to Chad Hanson. Petty back to thront,
Speaker 1: pumps once, looks left, throws down the sideline for Hanson
Speaker 1: and somehow he made the catch. What a catch by
Speaker 1: the rookie chat Hanson. So there were times where Bryce flashed, uh.
Speaker 1: There were other times where you would say he's struggling
Speaker 1: a little bit. I think it's hard to evaluate Bryce
Speaker 1: and make a definitive judgment on what he is or
Speaker 1: what he isn't based on one game Greece. What I
Speaker 1: liked from Bryce Petty and he said this is that
Speaker 1: he felt a lot more confident, and I thought you
Speaker 1: could see that watching him Sunday. I in particular, I
Speaker 1: think about his first down scramble for thirteen yards back
Speaker 1: to throw his price, Petty steps up in the pocket,
Speaker 1: He'll take off and run. He's got the first rounded
Speaker 1: more to the forty to and the Jets have a
Speaker 1: first step. When he felt a little bit of pressure,
Speaker 1: he stepped up and out of the pocket and he
Speaker 1: took off. And that was decisive on his part. And
Speaker 1: last year something that I took aways He tended to
Speaker 1: almost pump fake and second guess himself, and I think
Speaker 1: he would tell you the same thing. So I liked
Speaker 1: seeing that and then moving forward now he ate a
Speaker 1: Sunday is what are you expecting from him? Now that
Speaker 1: he has a week under his belt, And I think
Speaker 1: it'll be better against the Chargers. I think the Jets
Speaker 1: will be better this week, and I thought they played
Speaker 1: pretty well in New Orleans. They have proven to be
Speaker 1: a better home team this season, There's no doubt about it.
Speaker 1: You just look at the records. The Jets are four
Speaker 1: and three at My Life Stadium, and they're not one
Speaker 1: and six on the road. I think that the Jets
Speaker 1: will open up the playbook a little bit. The other
Speaker 1: thing that Bryce has to do, Bryce, but he has
Speaker 1: to do this week is that he can't get so
Speaker 1: many balls bedded down at the line. Cameron Jordan's had
Speaker 1: and he's a great player, but he he had four
Speaker 1: pds and you think of the one on the two
Speaker 1: point conversion that really squandered an opportunity. So you have
Speaker 1: to make sure the throwing lane is there. While the
Speaker 1: Saints had one guy where you're like, wow, he's really
Speaker 1: Ellion disrupt her off the edge. The Chargers hif too.
Speaker 1: They got Joey Bosa, NonStop motor of physical freak, and
Speaker 1: then Melvin Igraham's not bad in his own right. So
Speaker 1: the Jets tackles have a big time assignment this week.
Speaker 1: But I think there's gonna be a time this week
Speaker 1: that Petty will have an opportunity to get the ball
Speaker 1: down the field of Robby Anderson. Twelve targets is five
Speaker 1: catches against the Saints. I would not be surprised if
Speaker 1: they hit on a long one this week. And stemming
Speaker 1: back to last preseason, Petty and Anderson have Anderson led
Speaker 1: the NFL in preseason yards from primarily with Petty throwing
Speaker 1: him the rock. And then when Petty first started in
Speaker 1: Week ten last season, Robby Anderson had that fifty two
Speaker 1: yard reception up the sidelines. So we'll have to see
Speaker 1: what happens in Bryce Petty's first home start. Since we're
Speaker 1: talking a lot about Bryce Petty here on the Official
Speaker 1: Jets Podcast game preview, Chad penny ten, it's time to
Speaker 1: bring you in. What did you think about Petty's for
Speaker 1: start of two thousand seventeen, the fifth start of his career. Well, Eric,
Speaker 1: I thought it was kind of difficult to evaluate. I
Speaker 1: just when I look at the performance, I do see
Speaker 1: some opportunities there for the Jet to really makes um
Speaker 1: some hay and do some damage there. In seventeen ball game,
Speaker 1: you have to uncharacteristic Saints turnovers and the offense was
Speaker 1: able to produce points in that time period, and that
Speaker 1: to me was the difference in the ball game. And
Speaker 1: when I watched Bryce play, I see some good things.
Speaker 1: One thing I'm still concerned about is just the accuracy
Speaker 1: being able to hit those easy ones. There's probably four
Speaker 1: or five easy passes to make easy completions that some
Speaker 1: of them had actually happened on first down. It creates
Speaker 1: easier second and third down opportunities. Uh, keeps drives alive,
Speaker 1: just kind of makes things a little bit smoother. When
Speaker 1: you're unable to make those makes it so difficult. You
Speaker 1: do see, Bryce makes some good throws down the field,
Speaker 1: some macu throws down the field. Players making plays on
Speaker 1: the field, but those are sporadic. When you don't hit
Speaker 1: your gimmes, you've gotta be able to be a dent
Speaker 1: on your gimmes with them, make those bigger plays down
Speaker 1: the field much more meaningful and impactful. Bryce talks about
Speaker 1: improving his footwork for this weekend's match up against the Chargers.
Speaker 1: What did you see out of his footwork and what
Speaker 1: is the importance of footwork, especially on game day? Well,
Speaker 1: the most important aspect of your footwork is timing. The
Speaker 1: quarterback must listen to his feet, which allows him to
Speaker 1: move through his progression and doesn't keep him on a
Speaker 1: receiver too long or get off of a receiver too quickly.
Speaker 1: And so when I think about footwork, I think about
Speaker 1: a quarterback being able to listen to their feet, move
Speaker 1: through their progressions efficiently, and being able to deliver the football.
Speaker 1: And I can see exactly what Bryce is saying as
Speaker 1: far as footworks and not his footwork and tell him
Speaker 1: to move off of it. Uh, And he's getting to
Speaker 1: his next progression a little bit late because he's not
Speaker 1: allowing his feet to work for him. That's that's a
Speaker 1: struggle for him because typic Clee and the system like
Speaker 1: he played uh in Baylor, if it works, really not
Speaker 1: that important in my opinion, And so when you get
Speaker 1: into the NFL, so it work is extremely important because
Speaker 1: of the pass rush, because of the windows closing down
Speaker 1: so quickly. Your feet really help you out in your
Speaker 1: decision making. Do you anticipate a better performance this week? Now,
Speaker 1: have his second full week of practice, getting the reps,
Speaker 1: having that continual communication with John Morton and Jeremy Bates
Speaker 1: and other weeks to go through the game plan. Now
Speaker 1: he gets an opportunity to play at home the Jets
Speaker 1: throughout the year, as you know, you had have played
Speaker 1: it very well, not Life Stadium. First of all, I
Speaker 1: would hope that the team would come out with the energy.
Speaker 1: I felt like they came out with a really good energy. Um,
Speaker 1: I guess the Saints and played some solid football. Certainly
Speaker 1: wasn't a team that was looking to pack it in
Speaker 1: or anything like that, and you hope that the team
Speaker 1: does the same thing this week, uh facing the Chargers
Speaker 1: team that does have playoffs hopes, and this is another
Speaker 1: good measuring stick game of for the Jets and and
Speaker 1: for Bryson to be able to make some improvement in
Speaker 1: a lot of different areas. Being at home certainly helps,
Speaker 1: and you would hope to see some improvement and really
Speaker 1: see a Jets team kind of take control of a
Speaker 1: ball game. What do you think of the Jets defensive
Speaker 1: efforts down in the Big easy because coming into Sunday's game,
Speaker 1: the Saints were tied for fourth and giveaways. Drew Brees
Speaker 1: only had six interceptions on the year, and the Jets
Speaker 1: defense forced three takeaways. Well, I thought it was a
Speaker 1: a winnable performance. I wouldn't call it a win performance
Speaker 1: because it wasn't com thirty one. Of course, the last
Speaker 1: touchdown you could say didn't count. But it was a
Speaker 1: winnable performance, meaning that they performed well enough to give
Speaker 1: the just a chance to win. And I felt like
Speaker 1: the offense didn't compliment those three turnovers and being able
Speaker 1: to turn those into points, especially there in the third quarter.
Speaker 1: That was the chance for the Jet to really put
Speaker 1: the Saints on their heels, make them nervous. Uh, And
Speaker 1: they just weren't able to do that, and so that
Speaker 1: that was disappointing. UM. I still think that there are
Speaker 1: some mistakes being made that are allowing some plays that
Speaker 1: should be just some screens and things like that that
Speaker 1: maybe seven eight yard games turned into big games, and
Speaker 1: so that's that's something that has to be cleaned up.
Speaker 1: But there's still some really good things happening. I thought
Speaker 1: Leonard Williams play was unbelievable. What a great athletic play.
Speaker 1: He just continues to show his worth. Uh. Game after game.
Speaker 1: Safeties are very aggressive and run support and making really
Speaker 1: good plays there. And so as far as the team
Speaker 1: defensive effort, uh, they certainly did some things to keep
Speaker 1: the Jets in the ball game and and allow this
Speaker 1: game to go to into the fourth quarter with a
Speaker 1: chance to win. I want to get your thoughts on
Speaker 1: tie bowls here. He said after the game that we're
Speaker 1: gonna keep fighting. Obviously this is gonna turn. I believe
Speaker 1: we have a good core group. We just gotta eliminate
Speaker 1: some of the mistakes and some of the situational football
Speaker 1: things and We're gonna be okay. With that being said,
Speaker 1: I wanted to get your thoughts on that. Also, the
Speaker 1: Jets waving Jeremy Curley, he was suspended four games, eligible
Speaker 1: to come off suspension for getting some more playing time
Speaker 1: for Chad Hanson and our Darius Stewart. And then finally
Speaker 1: Mohammad Wilkerson did not make the trip to New Orleans
Speaker 1: with the team. Todd Bull said, we're dealing with that
Speaker 1: as an internal matter. I can let you know later on.
Speaker 1: So a few things all involving a coach Bulls in
Speaker 1: what he's trying to establish here with the culture. Well,
Speaker 1: I think as a Jet fan, I think you have
Speaker 1: to respect how coach Bowls conducts his business internally externally
Speaker 1: on the field. He is extremely consistent, and I think
Speaker 1: when you're looking at an organization and you're looking for
Speaker 1: stability and long term success, that's what you're looking for.
Speaker 1: To head coach. He's not going to ride an emotional
Speaker 1: role coaster and it's very easy to do that in
Speaker 1: this market and he has resisted that and so I
Speaker 1: respect him for that. Um, you know, the NFL, like
Speaker 1: Coach Parcels used to say, the train that keeps moving
Speaker 1: and you're either on it or you're off up it.
Speaker 1: And so when it comes to players like Wilkerson, what
Speaker 1: comes players like Curly If you're not handling your business
Speaker 1: off fulfilled, this train is leaving. That's how professional sports works,
Speaker 1: especially in the NFL. But I when I look at
Speaker 1: Coach Bowls and what he's been able to do, I
Speaker 1: look at the first two years of his three year stint,
Speaker 1: where the Jet three able to win ten games, and
Speaker 1: then the second year just kind of blew up. He
Speaker 1: did what he needed to do, the organization did what
Speaker 1: they needed to do as far as push the reset
Speaker 1: buttons um and revamp this roster. And so when I
Speaker 1: look at it, I look at this is really year
Speaker 1: one for Coach Bowls and rebuilding this team and creating
Speaker 1: a playoff contender. I don't really look at this year
Speaker 1: as combining it with the first two years. I pushed
Speaker 1: the reset button and see where the team is, the
Speaker 1: organization is, and I think it's on an upward trend.
Speaker 1: And Uh, I feel really good about where Coach Bowles is,
Speaker 1: where what he's done, how this team is playing, how
Speaker 1: they respond to him. Uh, the pieces that he has
Speaker 1: in place with his staff, as well as the pieces
Speaker 1: that are in place with the team. UM. And it's
Speaker 1: not based upon setimo expectations. I don't look at and go, well,
Speaker 1: they were expected only to win one or two games
Speaker 1: and they beat It has nothing to do with that.
Speaker 1: It has to do with the work that's been put
Speaker 1: in the games that have been played, the effort that's there,
Speaker 1: and and you look at the plays that have been made,
Speaker 1: and so that's what I believe. How do you expect
Speaker 1: this team to rebound this weekend against the Los Angeles
Speaker 1: Chargers team that's come across country in week sixteen, and
Speaker 1: how do you go about attacking these guys? Well, I
Speaker 1: think the charges of ball. He's struggled on the East Coast, UM,
Speaker 1: and I think this is a winnable game to focus on.
Speaker 1: Melvin Gordon and Keenan Allen Rivers had a you know,
Speaker 1: struggled last week and three interceptions against the Chiefs. UM.
Speaker 1: You would like to see the Jets be able to
Speaker 1: create a couple more turnovers. They did a good job
Speaker 1: that against the SATs. If they can do that, they
Speaker 1: certainly have a chance to win this ball game. And finally, Chad,
Speaker 1: I talked to Todd Bowls about this week, and he said,
Speaker 1: Philip Rivers one of the smartest competitors I face. From
Speaker 1: a defensive play calling standpoint, himself and Casey Rogers, what
Speaker 1: do you like most about Rivers and what can the
Speaker 1: Jets take advantage of, specifically with his aggressiveness at times. Well,
Speaker 1: what I've always liked about Rivers, Number one is he's
Speaker 1: always been able to succeed and be successful with an
Speaker 1: unorthodox type of throwing motion. And the throwing motion people
Speaker 1: said he couldn't be successful with, He's always been Philip
Speaker 1: Rivers and he's never changing that. To me, I respect that. Secondly,
Speaker 1: I really respect his toughness. He is a guy that's
Speaker 1: going to stand in that pocket and regardless of what
Speaker 1: is in front of his face, he has the ability
Speaker 1: to make throws all over the field with under a
Speaker 1: lot of durests and pressure. And so it's one thing
Speaker 1: to get to a guy, but when you're going trying
Speaker 1: to get to a guy that's that tough, he can
Speaker 1: make you pay. And so the Jets gonna have to
Speaker 1: be judicious on how they defend Rivers and this Chargers
Speaker 1: offense because he does a really good job under pressure.
Speaker 1: He throws with anticipation, he throws with timing. Uh, He's
Speaker 1: he's a passer, He's a true passer and he's that's
Speaker 1: why he's had such a great career. So it's a
Speaker 1: big time challenge for this young defense. Merry Christmas to
Speaker 1: you and your family. We'll talk to you next week. Absolutely, Eric,
Speaker 1: Thank you guys. Brien's is always good getting a quarterbacks
Speaker 1: perspective on the play of a quarterback. So uh, Pennington
Speaker 1: is emphasized this continually, is that you gotta make the
Speaker 1: passes that are considered gimmes. And in National Football League,
Speaker 1: let's see if Petty can do this this week and
Speaker 1: has the Chargers. Yeah, and the Chargers aren't really known
Speaker 1: for their secondary you mentioned it before. Melvin Ingram and
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa lead the way up front. And last week
Speaker 1: when the Chargers travel to Arrowhead Stadium, the Chiefs really
Speaker 1: utilized their ground game with Kareem Hunt, who rushed for
Speaker 1: a hundred fifty five yards. And we saw the Jets
Speaker 1: try to established the run and have success on the
Speaker 1: ground early in New Orleans. Well, then touchdown drive in
Speaker 1: the first half of the great drive. Is that you
Speaker 1: had the stats on that wealth plays, ten of which
Speaker 1: were rushes, and then blal Pal got the two yard
Speaker 1: touchdown after that todown run. Focusing on the Chargers now
Speaker 1: for a second. Is earlier when we talked about the
Speaker 1: Chiefs on the Official Chess Podcast game preview, they were
Speaker 1: really hot, then really cold. The Chargers are quite the opposite.
Speaker 1: They were really cold Owen four, relocation to Los Angeles,
Speaker 1: new head coach, and then they were one of the
Speaker 1: hottest teams in football. And right now they've gone from
Speaker 1: Owen four to seven and seven and that offense runs
Speaker 1: through Philip Rivers and Keenan Allen. Time to hit the phone. Hello,
Speaker 1: Nick hig, It's Ethan Greenberg and Eric Allen with the Jets.
Speaker 1: How's it going, guys? Good? Thank you Nick Hardwick. You
Speaker 1: can follow him on Twitter at hardwin or if you
Speaker 1: want to pronounce it hardwin a you can do either
Speaker 1: or Nick. Thanks so much for Joe winning us right now. Guys,
Speaker 1: thanks for having me. I appreciate it. So can you
Speaker 1: just kind of take us through the ebbs and flows
Speaker 1: of this Los Angeles Charger season? Yeah? Absolutely. It was
Speaker 1: a wild start to the season. First off, with the relocation,
Speaker 1: having a new head coach, having a defensive coordinator change,
Speaker 1: a lot of staff changes, getting comfortable in a new city,
Speaker 1: I to be locating, new training camp location, all of it.
Speaker 1: Amidst all of that, the team got off to a
Speaker 1: very rocky start, going Owen four to start it off,
Speaker 1: and then they got on the road and went to
Speaker 1: New York and had a fourth quarter come from behind
Speaker 1: victory over another oh and four football team, the New
Speaker 1: York Giants, and that really started turning the season around.
Speaker 1: Went on to beat the Raiders and the Broncos before
Speaker 1: losing the Paths. And at the beginning of the season,
Speaker 1: you've got head coach Anthony Lynn coming in and he
Speaker 1: came from Buffalo. They had the number one rush attack
Speaker 1: of the National Football League with Lyshawn McCoy, and you
Speaker 1: can tell right away that he was trying to hose
Speaker 1: that offense onto the Chargers Ken Wizz and Hunt offensive
Speaker 1: coordinator Philip Rivers, and he wanted it to be a
Speaker 1: run first offense, and you could tell first second down
Speaker 1: they were running the football. At one point in this season,
Speaker 1: it was like of their first down plays were runs,
Speaker 1: and then it would put the team behind the sticks
Speaker 1: because everybody seemed to know, they said, all right, if
Speaker 1: we're gonna do this, we've got to get the keys
Speaker 1: to the car. Back to Philip Rivers Keenan Allen finally
Speaker 1: appeared healthy for the first time all season, and he
Speaker 1: became virtually unstoppable. Over a four game span, Keenan had
Speaker 1: thirty nine catches, five seven yards, four touchdowns. I mean,
Speaker 1: he was remarkable in that time period. And they figured
Speaker 1: out that it needs to be a pass first offense
Speaker 1: that they're going to have any success. The defense started
Speaker 1: finding themselves. Gus Bradley came in new defensive coordinator, former
Speaker 1: coach of the Jacksonville Jaguars. But last week they kind
Speaker 1: of fell on their faces in a playoff light game
Speaker 1: at Arrowhead Saturday night, and it was a real disappointed
Speaker 1: loss for the guys. They look young, they look nervous
Speaker 1: for the first time in a long time in a
Speaker 1: game that had a lot writing on it, they failed
Speaker 1: to show up completely. Nick, what can you say about
Speaker 1: the job that Anthony Lynn has done there this year?
Speaker 1: An assistant here under Rex Ryan running backs coach, very well,
Speaker 1: aliked with an organization, and he was very successful for
Speaker 1: Rex is an offensive coordinator with the Bills. How has
Speaker 1: he been able to keep the ship afloat the thing
Speaker 1: that Anthony Lynn has done so well to me as
Speaker 1: he stayed true to himself. He's unabashed about his comments
Speaker 1: towards the guys. He's very direct, not afraid to say
Speaker 1: what he thinks, and he's very even killed. And when
Speaker 1: you're even killed, you have a good chance to get
Speaker 1: through those downtimes. What I want to know is, how
Speaker 1: does Anthony Lynn prevent this loss becoming two losses or
Speaker 1: three losses? How much did it take out of this team?
Speaker 1: How do they prevent that moving forward as they go
Speaker 1: and play a Jets team who has played well at
Speaker 1: home so far this year. Yeah, exactly they have. And
Speaker 1: that's what Anthony Lynn. I've asked him before about trap games.
Speaker 1: Got done beaten the Dallas Cowboys and had the Cleveland
Speaker 1: Browns the next week, and I said, coaches their potential
Speaker 1: for a trap game, and he laughed at me, right
Speaker 1: in my face on the post game interview and he goes, Nick,
Speaker 1: we're five and six. We don't have time for a
Speaker 1: trap game. He's like, we're still trying to prove that
Speaker 1: we're a good football team. I do believe their confidence
Speaker 1: was maybe shaking a touch last week against Kansas City
Speaker 1: because they were the betting favorite. They were one of
Speaker 1: the Darling's. As you're working later into the season that
Speaker 1: you could hear the national conversation go and this Chargers team,
Speaker 1: they've got a chance to be Pittsburgh, lookout New England.
Speaker 1: This team's hot. They got a good day, they got
Speaker 1: a great quarterback, and then they fell on their faces
Speaker 1: and they've got to regain that confidence. I don't at
Speaker 1: all believe this will be a trap game. I take
Speaker 1: the playoff implications are still on the line for them.
Speaker 1: It's a very clear picture as to what has to
Speaker 1: happen for the Chargers to make the playoffs. On the
Speaker 1: defensive side of the ball, Nick, what kind of changes
Speaker 1: has Gus Bradley installed in his first year? And upfront?
Speaker 1: Joey Bosa had a tremendous rookie season. What have you
Speaker 1: seen from him in his progressions in year two? Both
Speaker 1: as a monster, He's an absolute freak show of a
Speaker 1: human as far as the way he's put together. I
Speaker 1: described him before as the moose, and we say the
Speaker 1: moose is loose when he gets going. His techniques are
Speaker 1: derived on what the offensive lineman. Their techniques are how
Speaker 1: they plan to attack you. He's not flashy's not jump around.
Speaker 1: He is going to bul rush you and use his
Speaker 1: hands so effectively to capture the edge. And the thing
Speaker 1: about him is he's got as much talented as anybody
Speaker 1: in the league, but he hustles as much as anybody
Speaker 1: in the league. And that's how you take talent and
Speaker 1: take it to an elite level. And that's what Joey
Speaker 1: Bosa has been at to do. Jets moved the ball
Speaker 1: pretty well on the ground against the New Orleans Saints.
Speaker 1: Ran a lot of twelve personnel packages with two tight ends,
Speaker 1: brought in an extra alignement and said we're gonna come
Speaker 1: right at you. New Orleans played a lot of coverage
Speaker 1: trying to take away Bryce Petty going deep to guys
Speaker 1: like Robbie Anderson. But do you think potentially the Jets
Speaker 1: could have some success running a football against the Chargers
Speaker 1: team who at times has been suspected against the run. Oh,
Speaker 1: I would absolutely expect that. Yeah, Chargers coming into this
Speaker 1: contest are going to be twenty nine in the league
Speaker 1: and rushing yards allowed. So if I'm the Jets, the
Speaker 1: thing I would absolutely look to do is bring in
Speaker 1: twelve personnel bringing bait packages and try to run it
Speaker 1: down their throat. And while you're doing that, if you could,
Speaker 1: you know on the field you can wear them down.
Speaker 1: You're also keeping Philip rivers off at the field, which
Speaker 1: is a pretty good tool to use. I want to
Speaker 1: know about Keenan Allen and the weapons around him, because
Speaker 1: Keenan Allen is a guy that's been often injured and
Speaker 1: then the season he breaks out. If Keenan Allen's having
Speaker 1: a successful day, it's very difficult to slow the chargers down.
Speaker 1: If he's able to be contained what he was last week,
Speaker 1: he was contained to get the City Chiefs, then you
Speaker 1: got a good chance to slow the other guys down.
Speaker 1: The Tyrrelle Williams the Travis Benjamin do. You would think Travis,
Speaker 1: with his small stature, would be a possession receiver, but
Speaker 1: he's anything but a possession receiver. He's a deep threat.
Speaker 1: He's a vertical guys take the lid off the defense,
Speaker 1: and Tyrelle Williams is kind of a long striding receiver,
Speaker 1: incredibly fast when he gets in the open field. He's
Speaker 1: good on crossing routes both shallow and deep, but those two.
Speaker 1: Both of them aren't really guys that beat man pressed.
Speaker 1: Keenan's the man press meter. So if teams want to
Speaker 1: beat the Chargers, I think what what happened last week
Speaker 1: is Bob Sutton, defensive coordinator for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Speaker 1: They like to play a two man look with two
Speaker 1: deep safeties and press across the board. Get a chance
Speaker 1: to go either inside out with coverage on Keenan and
Speaker 1: sometimes put three on him and make the other guys
Speaker 1: beat man pressed because they're not very good at it,
Speaker 1: to be honest, all right, So we've gotta ask one
Speaker 1: question about Philip Rivers. What's different about the ultra competitive
Speaker 1: Rivers here is he continues to be so productive late
Speaker 1: in his career and it doesn't get any easier for
Speaker 1: the Jets over this final three game strategy just finished
Speaker 1: up with Drew Brees and no, no, here they go.
Speaker 1: They got a deal with Philip Rivers, and then they
Speaker 1: finished up the season with a guy in New England
Speaker 1: by the name of Tom Brady. Right, yeah, good luck
Speaker 1: with those quarterbacks there, Philip Rivers. The difference to me
Speaker 1: this year when he's having success is that he's being patient.
Speaker 1: I only have to preface that with having success, because
Speaker 1: last week got intercepted three times and two of them
Speaker 1: were in the attempt to make a comeback, and he's
Speaker 1: a guy who's gonna go down swing and he didn't
Speaker 1: really care so much about his statistics. But the thing
Speaker 1: about him when he was having success and you were
Speaker 1: starting to hear his name coming to the m v
Speaker 1: P conversation is that he's been patient and he's picked
Speaker 1: his spots and he's really just dictated to the defense
Speaker 1: that I'm going to make the completion or you're not
Speaker 1: going to get the ball. He's been very mindful of
Speaker 1: taking care of the ball. Lost that patience last week
Speaker 1: because it kind of turned into a shootout with the
Speaker 1: Kansas City Chiefs. But why he's able to be patient
Speaker 1: is because his defense has been so strong today they
Speaker 1: had going into the Kansas City Chiefs game, they had
Speaker 1: the number two scoring defense in the National Football League,
Speaker 1: and that has allowed him to trust them and he
Speaker 1: doesn't feel like he needs to go out and put
Speaker 1: seven points on the board every single time the offense
Speaker 1: takes the field, which when you're running that engine that hot,
Speaker 1: eventually something's going to break down. And so now he's
Speaker 1: able to just kind of pick his spot to burst
Speaker 1: off from the top light, if you will. But most
Speaker 1: of the time he's just driving that f two fifty
Speaker 1: down the road, kind of at a casual pace, listening
Speaker 1: to some country music, picking it all in and when
Speaker 1: he's in command, that's kind of what he's doing. All right.
Speaker 1: That's Nick Hardwick, a former San Diego Charger now covering
Speaker 1: the Los Angeles Chargers. You can follow him on Twitter
Speaker 1: at Hardwinner or hardwin A. That's with one end. Thank
Speaker 1: you so much for joining us, and we'll see a Sunday,
Speaker 1: all right, Thank you so much, guys. Alrighty, A couple
Speaker 1: of things stick out to me, but I want to
Speaker 1: touch on what Nick Hardwick had to say about the
Speaker 1: receiver's opposite, Keenan Allen, and we talked about it a
Speaker 1: little bit. But outside of Keenan Allen, that's what the
Speaker 1: chiefs did. They kind of took him out of the
Speaker 1: game and then they said, hey, Phil, may you throw
Speaker 1: to the other guys and they couldn't climb over that hume.
Speaker 1: If you know, Philly maybe fail maybe Philly p Ribs,
Speaker 1: whatever you want to call him. But except you have
Speaker 1: to remember this is that Mike Williams, the Clemson wide
Speaker 1: receiver from last year. He's been hurt almost all years,
Speaker 1: so he hasn't really seen a lot of the field.
Speaker 1: Maybe he's that piece that the Chargers are missing. Yeah,
Speaker 1: but we won't we won't be playing on Sunday. Well
Speaker 1: to see how that progresses for the Chargers. They're a
Speaker 1: dangerous team. But again, as Nick Hardwick said, Anthony Lynn
Speaker 1: has done a tremendous job because a lot of teams
Speaker 1: would have folded their tents after starting zero on four,
Speaker 1: after having uh been forced to move the third tents
Speaker 1: up north in southern California from San Diego to l A,
Speaker 1: going to a new headquarters, playing in a new stadium
Speaker 1: that seats on their thirty thousand people where a lot
Speaker 1: of times that look like the environment was a practical
Speaker 1: road game for the Chargers, But they rebounded, they rallied,
Speaker 1: and here they are still in a position to compete
Speaker 1: for a playoff birth but this is definitely gonna be
Speaker 1: a big time test for their medal in their character.
Speaker 1: Where do you think the Jets go from a game
Speaker 1: plan perspective to attack this Chargers defense and vice versa,
Speaker 1: How do you expect the Jets to attack Phil Rivers. Well,
Speaker 1: I think you want Petty to get in some rhythm early.
Speaker 1: I think you want to have some success on first
Speaker 1: and second down. That's one area. The other thing is
Speaker 1: you got to make sure those defensive ends don't get off.
Speaker 1: I think balance is going to be the key for
Speaker 1: the Jets offense. I think the running backs could have
Speaker 1: a big day against the Chargers. Switch over the defensive
Speaker 1: side of the ball. I think you gotta take away Gordon,
Speaker 1: you gotta take away Keena now and make other guys
Speaker 1: beat you on that game. And that's all we have
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