Speaker 1: The game is over, New York Jef, you play to
Speaker 1: win the game. He's got a Jets lots down, can't.
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Official New York Jets Podcast, a
Speaker 1: Jets three sixty production. What's Up Everybody? Ethan Greenberg Eric
Speaker 1: Allen back in studio for another edition of the Official
Speaker 1: JEZZ Podcast. This is a very special week for us
Speaker 1: because we have a guest that's long overdue. He's in
Speaker 1: the building every day, or almost every day if he's
Speaker 1: not in New York City being busy somewhere, President of
Speaker 1: the New York Jets and Neil Glad. We will talk
Speaker 1: to him later on the show. He sat down with him.
Speaker 1: First Thing's first d A team one and one now
Speaker 1: after the home opener, very excited to play in Mattlife
Speaker 1: Stadium for the first time since last season, and unfortunately
Speaker 1: came away with a loss. You gotta put that near
Speaker 1: rear view mirror almost immediately because this is a short week.
Speaker 1: I thought the effort was fine, and there were a
Speaker 1: number of times when I really thought the Jets were
Speaker 1: going to seize momentum away from Miami Dolphins. I know
Speaker 1: that sounds crazy, because they were facing a twenty to
Speaker 1: nothing deficit at halftime, but they came out took the
Speaker 1: ball at the beginning of the third quarter at Sam
Speaker 1: Donald let him right down the field and blah, Paul
Speaker 1: puts on a nice move. I think it was twenty
Speaker 1: eight yards out on that pitching catch and all of
Speaker 1: a sudden it's six. The very next play from scrimmage,
Speaker 1: Ryan Tannehill looks at Jordan Jenkins and said, whoa and
Speaker 1: losing the ball in the process, and JJ is right there.
Speaker 1: You got the ball at the twelve yard line, and
Speaker 1: you think in this place is ready to explode. It's
Speaker 1: going to be twenty to thirteen and there are still
Speaker 1: ten minutes left in the third quarter. Unfortunately, Sam Donald's
Speaker 1: first path after the takeaway was intercepted by Xavien Howard
Speaker 1: and it was a tough road from there. For me,
Speaker 1: that was the turning point of the game is just
Speaker 1: because like what you said, is the place was ready
Speaker 1: to erupt, and uh, I think just on the Jordan
Speaker 1: Jenkins plays, it was kind of reminiscent of the Thursday
Speaker 1: Night Bill's game this year. Yeah, except kept the ball.
Speaker 1: Tyrone got destroyed. Yeah, I mean Jordan Jenkins sack Tyrod
Speaker 1: and it was nearly a safety. You can't have fool
Speaker 1: hid with the boot too many. Yeah, I know, I've
Speaker 1: been very impressed with that. But we talked, You talked
Speaker 1: about putting it in the rear view so that game
Speaker 1: see it. We're moving ahead now because yeah, and I
Speaker 1: would just want to say is that it's very difficult
Speaker 1: in this leak to overcome twenty to nothing, defice it,
Speaker 1: and you gotta play complimentary football. And that's what the
Speaker 1: Jets are going to have to return to Thursday night.
Speaker 1: So let's talk about Thursday night. For second. Here is
Speaker 1: this is a Browns team that is oh one and
Speaker 1: one and they tied against the Steelers in Week one,
Speaker 1: probably should have won that game, could have at least
Speaker 1: tied against the Saints. What was the final that game?
Speaker 1: The Saints on eighteen and the Browns field goal kicker
Speaker 1: at the times A Gonzalez, who, if you recall, I
Speaker 1: believe missed at least one, if not two field goals
Speaker 1: against the Jets last year in Cleveland, missed an extra point,
Speaker 1: a game tying field goal to tie the game with
Speaker 1: zero seconds left for making so then the lead against
Speaker 1: New Orleans for most of y and they played that
Speaker 1: game at the super Dome. You're looking at or you're
Speaker 1: looking at a Browns team that easily could be two
Speaker 1: and all. The thing for for them now, Greens is mentally,
Speaker 1: where are you at? Because that team didn't win a
Speaker 1: ballgame last year? This is a dangerous opponent to your
Speaker 1: point that they easily could be two in all, but
Speaker 1: you know, the Jets gonna have to have a great
Speaker 1: week of preparation and I get ready for a team
Speaker 1: that frankly has a lot of playmakers. All right, well,
Speaker 1: just quickly here, if you're a Jets fan and you
Speaker 1: know a little bit about the Browns, Let's say you
Speaker 1: haven't watched Hard Knocks, so you know just the fact
Speaker 1: that there one in thirty one in the past two seasons.
Speaker 1: They're all one in one now. But you talked about
Speaker 1: them being a dangerous team. Is who's one guy on
Speaker 1: offense and one guy on defense that you're you're saying, Okay,
Speaker 1: I gotta watch out for those guys. If you're a
Speaker 1: Jets fan, Jarvis Juice Landry, the former Miami Dolphin who
Speaker 1: didn't play obviously Sunday because he's now in Cleveland East
Speaker 1: tough as now you can run all the routes. He
Speaker 1: is an energy guy. He's like a small que for
Speaker 1: the Jets, you know. And I'm not saying that Noon
Speaker 1: was ever put up the numbers that Jarvis has. By
Speaker 1: the way, I think Quincy is gonna have a big
Speaker 1: number season. Maybe we'll talk about that later because after
Speaker 1: two weeks he's got like thirteen catches already. But I
Speaker 1: digress Juice Landry and then on the opposite side of
Speaker 1: the ball, Miles Garrett is an absolute freak. Yeah, I
Speaker 1: was gonna say, on defense, you gotta pay attention to Garrett.
Speaker 1: He played his first NFL game last year against the
Speaker 1: Jets and I'm pretty sure he had two sacks in
Speaker 1: that game. But of Josh mcconnyeah, Yeah, this dude is
Speaker 1: a freak. I mean, he's a monster. So it doesn't
Speaker 1: get any easier after facing Robert Quinn and Cameron Wake
Speaker 1: because this guy can bring it and the Browns, uh,
Speaker 1: they're they're kind of dirty and a nasty way on defense,
Speaker 1: and then it was just looking ahead here a little
Speaker 1: bit is then you play in Jacksonville against the front
Speaker 1: seven that maybe the best in the league. So it
Speaker 1: gets no, it gets did you see any of that game,
Speaker 1: I guess they pounded the Patriots. I didn't see any
Speaker 1: of it. Which let's not overreact, every buddy. I'm not
Speaker 1: a Patriots apologist, actually on the opposite. But we've seen
Speaker 1: New England. We've seen New England before. I lose a
Speaker 1: couple of games early. Okay, let's let's not say it's
Speaker 1: the end uh for New England or anything like that.
Speaker 1: Just that just speaks to how good Jacksonville is. But
Speaker 1: for the Jets, you cannot worry about the Jaguars at all.
Speaker 1: Otherwise you're gonna be one and two and then I
Speaker 1: have to go to Jacksonville. For the Jets, it's put
Speaker 1: Miami behind you, concentrating on the task at hand, get
Speaker 1: back to playing complimentary football, take care of the ball,
Speaker 1: and get off the field when you can defensively, and
Speaker 1: and scratch out a win because this is going, this
Speaker 1: is going, no pun intended. Yeah, alright, real quick here
Speaker 1: on the Brownes, you talked about Juice Landerie. For me,
Speaker 1: on offense, it's Tyrod or Tyrod, however you want to
Speaker 1: pronounce it, because only he tells people. It's Tyrod and Tarrod,
Speaker 1: So you can't go wrong there. But the Jets did
Speaker 1: a very good job against Taylor when he was a
Speaker 1: member of the Buffalo Bills last season, and I think
Speaker 1: in order to have similar success, you have to be
Speaker 1: on your p's and ques against Tyrod this week on
Speaker 1: Thursday night. Because he's mobile, he doesn't turn the ball
Speaker 1: over a lot. But what the Jets did last year
Speaker 1: is they collapsed the pocket, meaning that the pocket just
Speaker 1: shrunk and he had nowhere to go, so he had
Speaker 1: to throw it. And that's how the Jets had success
Speaker 1: last year. So I would look for that, and not
Speaker 1: to mention, the Browns don't have Joe Thomas anymore, so
Speaker 1: send the house and we'll see what happens. But now
Speaker 1: we talked about it before Neil Glatt came in studio,
Speaker 1: sat down with him. This is our talk with the
Speaker 1: president of New York Jets. All right, this is a
Speaker 1: very special time on the Official Jets Podcast. You know
Speaker 1: e A and I are always here. Now we have
Speaker 1: Neil Glatt, the president of the New York Jets, in
Speaker 1: the studio. Thank you for coming, no, thanks for having me.
Speaker 1: It's great to be here. Well, you are a loyal listener.
Speaker 1: It is overdue for us to have you on the podcast, Neil,
Speaker 1: You've a president of the Jets for more than six years.
Speaker 1: His time flown, but it does fly, It does fly.
Speaker 1: But it's great to be part of the Jets. It's
Speaker 1: great to deal with Jet fans. They are terrific, they're loyal.
Speaker 1: Uh And UH, every game is different, every season is different,
Speaker 1: so no days are dull? What is for people that
Speaker 1: don't know? As you started out in the league, so
Speaker 1: what what was intriguing to you about going from a
Speaker 1: league perspective to a team perspective? So I think at
Speaker 1: the league you're dealing with a lot of league level
Speaker 1: strategic issues that implicate all thirty two clubs. When you
Speaker 1: come to UH, the Jets are come to an individual team.
Speaker 1: You're all in. It's one team. It's all about winning
Speaker 1: on the football field. I spend more of my time
Speaker 1: thinking about how do we enhance the fan experience and
Speaker 1: how do how do we do great things off the field. Uh,
Speaker 1: And it's just being part of a small, nimble group.
Speaker 1: The league experience was terrific and fantastic and I wouldn't
Speaker 1: trade it for anything. Those issues are big, broad issues
Speaker 1: and you read about a lot of those in the
Speaker 1: paper as well. As what you read about at the Jets.
Speaker 1: But for me, it was the opportunity to be part
Speaker 1: of the organization that Woody Johnson already built and hopefully
Speaker 1: contribute in some way. How different is it for you
Speaker 1: coming into work on a Tuesday morning after the Jets
Speaker 1: beat the Detroit Lines on Monday night football, and now
Speaker 1: on Monday morning after the Jets lose their home opener
Speaker 1: to the Miami Dolphins, as opposed to just coming into
Speaker 1: office at the league office. It Uh. You know, when
Speaker 1: I was at the League office, people would always say,
Speaker 1: don't call a club after a loss. Don't call him
Speaker 1: that Monday and or that Tuesday. And you you knew
Speaker 1: it kind of intellectually, but you didn't feel it the
Speaker 1: same way that that that you do at a club.
Speaker 1: You didn't really understood it, and you can kind of
Speaker 1: articulate it, but until you've lived through it, you don't know. Look,
Speaker 1: we're we're we want to win. Everyone in the organization
Speaker 1: is rowing in the same direction. Whether you're a player
Speaker 1: or coach, or somebody in the front office or somebody
Speaker 1: working on the business side. You're you're here to win. Uh,
Speaker 1: this is what you come into the office to do.
Speaker 1: Every day and so the highs are really high. The lows, unfortunately,
Speaker 1: are are low. But also you have to be a
Speaker 1: professional and really kind of by noon the after after
Speaker 1: a win or loss, you kind of got to get
Speaker 1: ready for the next one and get ready for the
Speaker 1: next event at the stadium, get ready for the next game,
Speaker 1: whatever it might be. It's like it's like the one
Speaker 1: game or the one day rule that the players have.
Speaker 1: But it's the business side. On the business side, I
Speaker 1: think to me, it's it's really by noon, Yeah, let's
Speaker 1: let's let's let's let's go guys. And but you know,
Speaker 1: part of it is that next day, Um, you're interacting
Speaker 1: with fans. Fans are calling into the office, and so
Speaker 1: you have to be prepared for for for a winner
Speaker 1: or loss. Well, what's a day in the life like
Speaker 1: for you, not you know outside of it in on
Speaker 1: a Monday, just for fans that don't know you talked
Speaker 1: about that you're thinking about ways to enhance the fan experience. Well,
Speaker 1: what what is the day in the life of Neil
Speaker 1: Glad in the office? Life? Every day really is different. Um,
Speaker 1: we're in a business that there's a lot of uh
Speaker 1: intensity to the business. Fans are incredibly engaged. So it
Speaker 1: could be after a game. You could be dealing with
Speaker 1: things that went well on game day, things that didn't
Speaker 1: go well, how do we address it so by the
Speaker 1: next game. If there was something that happened, uh at
Speaker 1: the stadium that you want to improve upon. If there
Speaker 1: was something on the scoreboard that a feature that worked, well,
Speaker 1: let's do more of it. If there was something that
Speaker 1: we didn't think we got this the fan reaction want
Speaker 1: peop well, let's let's let's think about it. So after
Speaker 1: a game, there's always a lot of recaps and strategizing
Speaker 1: and planning. Uh. It could be something that is in
Speaker 1: the media. It could be something involving working with the
Speaker 1: players on a community relations issue, so you really don't know.
Speaker 1: It could be a sponsor is looking to activate in
Speaker 1: a different way. So the great thing is, uh, you know,
Speaker 1: it keeps it extreme incredibly exciting. Is the variety. Um,
Speaker 1: but it is a singular focus on a winning football game.
Speaker 1: So anyway that we focusing on the business, I can
Speaker 1: help the football team and then obviously the fans, well
Speaker 1: you you keep us on point. And I always tell
Speaker 1: folks about this because when you have an opportunity to
Speaker 1: meet Neil and maybe express concern or also express hope
Speaker 1: or optimism or happiness with something that's going on. Neil
Speaker 1: always relays things on two people within the organization. So
Speaker 1: with that being said, if somebody comes up to you
Speaker 1: and say, hey, you know, I saw something at the
Speaker 1: stadium that didn't look right, you follow up immediately with
Speaker 1: within whatever department you have to reach. You have that
Speaker 1: personal interaction, and I think that's a great quality to
Speaker 1: have because you don't let it go either. Anytime you
Speaker 1: speak too fit you said, I've been this. I'm going
Speaker 1: into my seventh season. I've been at the Jets over
Speaker 1: six years. Uh. When I came in, it was impressive
Speaker 1: how much people cared. And so if if you see
Speaker 1: people who work for the Jets on game day or
Speaker 1: at an event throughout the year and they hear something
Speaker 1: from a fan or a business partner that's not working, well,
Speaker 1: they're not gonna say it's not my job. Uh. And
Speaker 1: that and that starts with me. If there's something that
Speaker 1: we can do better, we're going to try and do better.
Speaker 1: We will follow up on it. We have uh, you know,
Speaker 1: every three to six months, we'll have a fan of
Speaker 1: what we call a fan advisory board will invite anywhere
Speaker 1: from twenty to fifty fans. Usually we'll do it here
Speaker 1: at the at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center. Often
Speaker 1: they'll have a chance they'll be an impromptu stop by
Speaker 1: by by coach Bowls or or or by Mike mcagnet,
Speaker 1: so they get a little bit of of fun football stuff.
Speaker 1: But we're really it's serious business for us at that
Speaker 1: fan advisory board. We really want their feedback on what's working,
Speaker 1: what's not working. And you'll see, including me, everyone's taking
Speaker 1: notes um because we certainly want to get their perspective
Speaker 1: on what's working and what's not working and uh and
Speaker 1: those conversations are critically important. And what they don't see
Speaker 1: after that meeting is there will be a number of
Speaker 1: follow up meetings where we're just going through it to
Speaker 1: do list and a checklist based on what that fan.
Speaker 1: And speaking of that, you just came out of a
Speaker 1: meeting where you guys did basically you're after action report
Speaker 1: or what happened at the season opener? Yes, and we
Speaker 1: do that after every game and can leave me do
Speaker 1: it after every event. So when we finished training camp,
Speaker 1: what worked well at training camp? What worked well? At
Speaker 1: Green and White, and then what would you do differently
Speaker 1: next year? Because the season is fast and furious, the
Speaker 1: offseason fast and furious. So if you don't really take
Speaker 1: that time when it's fresh in your mind on how
Speaker 1: do we improve sometimes that gets lost in translation. Come
Speaker 1: next year when you're ready to do it again. You
Speaker 1: have such a before we jump topics here. I think
Speaker 1: you have a really unique perspective now after six seasons
Speaker 1: here and then fifteen at the least, So you're talking
Speaker 1: about just kind of what goes on through your head
Speaker 1: on our game days at MetLife Stadium. Well, I want
Speaker 1: to know when you're on the road, are you looking
Speaker 1: at what different stadiums and organizations due to potentially enhance
Speaker 1: the fan experience? Like you talked about before, like how
Speaker 1: how do you take in a game? Not at MetLife Stadium.
Speaker 1: It's exactly what you said. We are looking at what
Speaker 1: they are doing, so what kind of music are they
Speaker 1: playing before and during the game. We will look at
Speaker 1: what their concession offerings are. We will look at their
Speaker 1: prices to see how we compare to their prices. We
Speaker 1: have a new initiative that we call our Bump fifty
Speaker 1: fifty where fans can buy essentially raffle tickets and win
Speaker 1: some jackpots. Well, the choit's done a great job of that,
Speaker 1: so we were out in Detroit. That was something we
Speaker 1: kept our eye on. So for us, the great thing
Speaker 1: is everyone competes in the NFL pretty intensively on the field,
Speaker 1: but off the field, it's pretty collaborative organization, and so
Speaker 1: clubs all want to get better. We want to get better.
Speaker 1: So if they're working on something, uh, we're gonna go
Speaker 1: out there and ask a lot of questions and look around. Similarly,
Speaker 1: we rolled that when we rolled out our rewards program
Speaker 1: and our digital ticketing solutions for five years ago. Every
Speaker 1: club that came in was asking us how it went.
Speaker 1: We gave them tours. Uh, and you know, we're happy
Speaker 1: to help other clubs in the league similar to the
Speaker 1: way they're helping us. All Right, so much to get
Speaker 1: to because we got to talk about what's new on
Speaker 1: game day at Motley Stadium. If you're our Jets fan,
Speaker 1: are you gonna be attending Jets game this season? And
Speaker 1: we want to talk about the new uniforms. But first
Speaker 1: we gotta ask about Christopher Johnson. Whatdy Johnson of course,
Speaker 1: serving as the us and pastor of Great Britain in
Speaker 1: Northern Ireland. What has Christopher been like? It's the CEO
Speaker 1: and your interactions been like with him. For people on
Speaker 1: the outside, they see Christopher and he's a likable sort,
Speaker 1: but you have an intimate knowledge. It's his passion. I
Speaker 1: think the fans have heard from him and seeing his
Speaker 1: passion for football but also his passion for the fan experience.
Speaker 1: So Christopher's out in the parking lots a lot, similar
Speaker 1: to our fan advisory board. He's talking to a constantly
Speaker 1: and similar to us taking notes. When fans raise issues,
Speaker 1: he will act upon it either directly or share that
Speaker 1: with others in the organization and get us going on it.
Speaker 1: It's been a fairly smooth transition. Uh. You know, he's
Speaker 1: a terrific person and you know first and foremost, but
Speaker 1: as somebody to work for, he can have a conversation
Speaker 1: with him, you can problem solve with him, and so, uh,
Speaker 1: you know, nothing but kudos in price. He's on top
Speaker 1: of a number of things organizationally, but also he's also
Speaker 1: into the latest workouts and a sharp dresser. Christopher Johnson,
Speaker 1: you gotta he gotta get a lot of He's got
Speaker 1: a lot of passions um and in terms of a
Speaker 1: lot of things we're doing with the players, in terms
Speaker 1: of off the field issues, He's developed a great rapport
Speaker 1: with the players and so we're working with them on
Speaker 1: a number of social initiatives and other community initiatives, and
Speaker 1: Chris's leadership in that area has been terrific. There was
Speaker 1: a great photo last week of Christopher down on one
Speaker 1: knee and Jamal Adams down on one knee and those
Speaker 1: two just talking at PRAC. This is pretty cool. Actually,
Speaker 1: before that, Christopher Johnson, as the team was stretching, he
Speaker 1: was on one of the bikes always he was getting
Speaker 1: to workout and while watching practice, he's putting pressure on
Speaker 1: all of us exactly. Okay, so we've talked about game
Speaker 1: day a little bit. Here is just to dive into
Speaker 1: it is, if you're going to the Jets game this year,
Speaker 1: what is new about the season? From the experienced standpoint? Summer, subtle, um,
Speaker 1: but more dramatic. So a couple of years ago we
Speaker 1: put out what we call pilot Vision, so we understand
Speaker 1: that fans are coming out, they want to see the
Speaker 1: action on the field, they want to see the highlights
Speaker 1: and the replays of the game that's going on, but
Speaker 1: we then have pilot vision. They also want stats. They
Speaker 1: also want to see the out of town scores. They
Speaker 1: also want to see the red zone from time to time.
Speaker 1: So how we program that. We're always trying to think
Speaker 1: what is the fan today? How do they want to
Speaker 1: consume the game when they come out of the stadium.
Speaker 1: But it's different. You have eighty thou people out there.
Speaker 1: Some want to be on their smartphones a lot, others don't.
Speaker 1: Some grew up, you know, sitting in an upper deck
Speaker 1: listening on a transistor radio. Others don't know what I'm
Speaker 1: talking about when I mentioned a transistor radio. So you
Speaker 1: try and strike that balance. And uh so a lot
Speaker 1: of it is the scoreboard features. So those are those
Speaker 1: are new and different this year. We're also doing, uh
Speaker 1: some different things with music. Um so we announced probably
Speaker 1: about a month ago we have a partnership with Deaf
Speaker 1: Jam Recordings and they're great partners. So that's you said
Speaker 1: mentioned the stadium. So the runout song uh was done
Speaker 1: by some of their artists and so that's been a
Speaker 1: lot of fun. We in fact had Marcus May and
Speaker 1: Jamal Adams going to the studio with Jada kiss Um
Speaker 1: and they were working on some some music opportunities together
Speaker 1: and what we call our hype videos. So when we
Speaker 1: get videos out on social media and Instagram and the
Speaker 1: like on a Friday before a game, a lot of
Speaker 1: that's going to involve def Jam Recordings and I'm in
Speaker 1: the studio of Jets three sixty Productions, so a lot
Speaker 1: of that's produced by by the excellent guys and women
Speaker 1: in this organization who produced that content, including the two
Speaker 1: of you. So that's that's gonna be a lot of fun.
Speaker 1: We also are having a kid today coming up on
Speaker 1: October seven against the Broncos, and so we're gonna have
Speaker 1: a lot of fun things for the kids, including w
Speaker 1: w E and they bring some of their superstars out
Speaker 1: and their terrific entertainers and there are a lot of
Speaker 1: fun And we had the miss at our what we
Speaker 1: call our upfront where we kind of introduced a lot
Speaker 1: of our our new events and new activities, and these
Speaker 1: guys just have a lot of fun and the kids
Speaker 1: will have a lot of fun with them, and we'll
Speaker 1: do some of that before the game and during the game.
Speaker 1: The last one our game against the Vikings, we're doing
Speaker 1: some things with Marble and so that's obviously an amazing
Speaker 1: entertainment company and we're thrilled to be working with them.
Speaker 1: So the first number of people coming in the building
Speaker 1: and get a bobblehead. Coincidentally, maybe not that coincidentally, we're
Speaker 1: playing the Vikings, so it's kind of going to be
Speaker 1: Holp versus four. So we're doing a little bit of that.
Speaker 1: So we we spent a lot of time thinking about
Speaker 1: we know what the action on the field is, what
Speaker 1: people really care about, but anything we can do just
Speaker 1: have a little bit more fun when you come out.
Speaker 1: We we know people investing a lot of their time,
Speaker 1: so we try and get creative and some of that
Speaker 1: we do on our own, and some of that is
Speaker 1: doing with some of the great partners that I just mentioned.
Speaker 1: There are a ton of exciting um game day themes
Speaker 1: before the Jets throughout the two thousand and eighteen season.
Speaker 1: What is the genesis of the new uniforms? Everybody's asking
Speaker 1: the genesis uniform? Why like the hottest button it when
Speaker 1: we have the man himself, It starts with us and
Speaker 1: his vision for wanting to do something different with the
Speaker 1: uniform and so, uh, you know, he put together a
Speaker 1: working group internally, but working closely with people at the
Speaker 1: league who have worked through a number of uniform changes
Speaker 1: over the past x years. And so this is years
Speaker 1: in the making. This is years in the making, and
Speaker 1: also working with Nike and they do terrific work. And uh,
Speaker 1: it's a real iterative process. I mean it's been it
Speaker 1: really has been years in the making, and it's looking
Speaker 1: at everything for all kinds of different designs, all different
Speaker 1: kind of logos and other things that might go on
Speaker 1: the uniform and uniform changes are subjective. Uh. Ownership loved it. Um.
Speaker 1: Some of the people on the you know, on the
Speaker 1: football side who have seen it love it. And but
Speaker 1: hopefully the fans will love it. And so it'll probably
Speaker 1: be officially launched in March, um, and we're gonna try
Speaker 1: and make a little bit of hoopla out of that. Um. Uh.
Speaker 1: Again it's subjective, so just one man's opinion, but that
Speaker 1: I think the fans will like it. I do think
Speaker 1: you're gonna see the Jets go through basically all their
Speaker 1: uniform combinations here in two thousand and eighteen, because you've
Speaker 1: already seen the all white with the white face masks
Speaker 1: against the Detroit lines, you're going all white against lets
Speaker 1: we know that we got the I thin it's the
Speaker 1: great Dapes mask. Also for the cold scam. Yeah yeah.
Speaker 1: And we had the green out, like we mentioned against
Speaker 1: the Minnesota Vikings, the traditional green and white against the
Speaker 1: Miami Dolphins for the home opener. I know we'll see
Speaker 1: the green pants and the green out's gonna have the
Speaker 1: color Rush uniforms. So then the one that we originally
Speaker 1: was rolled out on Thursday nights that pop I think
Speaker 1: would we played against the Bills a couple of times
Speaker 1: with that. Um, those decisions, you know, are really made
Speaker 1: by coach. Interestingly Coach, you know, I think he's always
Speaker 1: trying to anticipate what's what's the best kind of He's
Speaker 1: got his little private label down there. He's got the heads.
Speaker 1: Sometimes I see coach on that's we gotta get that,
Speaker 1: you know, we got we gotta get that to fans,
Speaker 1: we gotta get that to other people the building. He
Speaker 1: has some great stuff. He's watching the press conferences and
Speaker 1: he you know, he always comes up to me. He says, Yep,
Speaker 1: coach got a new label today. Yea, yeah, people are
Speaker 1: asking me about we respect his style? Yeah, like it
Speaker 1: and so I think I think he'll have I think
Speaker 1: he'll have a lot of fun with the new uniform. Also,
Speaker 1: we gotta go off, Yeah, we gotta go off the field.
Speaker 1: And we know you're big into movies, into TV shows.
Speaker 1: So for fans that don't know, one, what is your
Speaker 1: favorite all time TV show and movie? And two is well,
Speaker 1: what are you look? What are you watching now? My
Speaker 1: all time favorite TV show it probably a Seinfeld? Um.
Speaker 1: Do you still watch it in syndication? Watch it every night?
Speaker 1: I do? Well, I do. I actually record him and
Speaker 1: I watched him in bulk, you know, at the times
Speaker 1: and uh, you know, so I might be watching not
Speaker 1: a Jet game of sporting event. I'll pause it for
Speaker 1: a little bit and go watch an episode and and
Speaker 1: then come back and catch up on the game. What
Speaker 1: was your conversations like with Larry David when he came around?
Speaker 1: You know, just listen he You could just see the brilliance. Honestly,
Speaker 1: you could see the creativity. He is laid back, relaxed, um,
Speaker 1: and he's actually he's an enormous Jet fan. Yeah, I know,
Speaker 1: but he's funny. He was very impressed with how clean
Speaker 1: the launch area was downstairs, and you could just see
Speaker 1: he'd be you know, he's one of those guys. Pull up,
Speaker 1: pull up a seat and you'll you'll enjoy yourself. Yeah.
Speaker 1: What about what about the movie? The movie? Uh, Gladiator
Speaker 1: is probably that's one of those movies. Whenever it's on,
Speaker 1: you know, I'll get sucked in for a half hour.
Speaker 1: What's been on a lot lately? As Good Fellas? You
Speaker 1: can kind of see kind of my my demo at
Speaker 1: work here, but kind of good action oriented. Are you
Speaker 1: big Russell Crowe fan? I like Russell Crowe? Yeah, yeah,
Speaker 1: he's great. And Gladiator, Yeah, Gladiator. I actually saw both
Speaker 1: of those movies for the first time like two years ago.
Speaker 1: Behind the April. Yeah it's great. Yeah, a little history,
Speaker 1: little dramatization, good action, get your ready, run through a wall,
Speaker 1: kind of every emotional state you can get. Okay, how
Speaker 1: about streaming series? We sometimes, Neil, we'll go on a
Speaker 1: plane and you'll catch up on something and you'll get
Speaker 1: into a series. What's going and some of the coach
Speaker 1: that some of the coaches will recommend some shows at times. Uh,
Speaker 1: this summer I did Sneaky Pete. Okay, this series I'm
Speaker 1: waiting to come back in October is ray Don, Yeah,
Speaker 1: you're gonna I've always seen a couple of right the games,
Speaker 1: So it's Green's top shows. Yeah, and he's a real gentleman.
Speaker 1: And he's the voice of Hot Knocks. Yes, so he
Speaker 1: I'm among the other. Yeah, but he's got a lot
Speaker 1: of the HBO sports stuff and when you hear his voice,
Speaker 1: it's one of those great voices. It is. So what
Speaker 1: were you about that? Yeah? What what do you guys? Streaming?
Speaker 1: I'm always kind of what what could mean? What what
Speaker 1: can we stream in the offseason? Kind of gets in
Speaker 1: the busy season. I think I've told you about this before.
Speaker 1: Is peeky Blinders Netflix a big peaky I'm just fan
Speaker 1: that your culture. It's like ninth turn of the century British,
Speaker 1: you know, none of this pretty Los Angeles. He's like
Speaker 1: our Sam Donald here. He's an old soul, right. I
Speaker 1: hear great things about that. I'm all in on Peaky Blinders. Um.
Speaker 1: I watched in college The Sopranos and I like that
Speaker 1: a lot. Believe it or not, I have not done
Speaker 1: the entire Sopranos. I've kind of probably seen a season
Speaker 1: and a half. Of people have said to me, I
Speaker 1: wish I could replicate watching it again when you get
Speaker 1: the chance to watch it. So I'm looking for I
Speaker 1: asked him about the ending when he started to mentioned,
Speaker 1: but we'll have to I did see the last episode.
Speaker 1: What was your thought? So I just saw the diner scene,
Speaker 1: and you know, I don't I didn't know enough. I
Speaker 1: didn't have the same investment yet because I didn't commit
Speaker 1: the number of years to the show yet. Neil, let's
Speaker 1: bring a full circle come back to the Jets here.
Speaker 1: You talked about it. It's all about what happens on
Speaker 1: the field, and we're trying to enhance that. Um deal
Speaker 1: like what you're seeing as far as this team coming together,
Speaker 1: having some young pieces, drafting a quarterbacks performed well early
Speaker 1: on in his career and Sam Donald and you know
Speaker 1: you're set up salary cap wise. I believe Mike has
Speaker 1: said it. You get the most cap broom, so you
Speaker 1: got the financial flexibility following this season, we think about
Speaker 1: some young pieces on defense, whether that be Jamal Adams
Speaker 1: or Leonard Williams or Darren Lee. An offensively, Quincy and
Speaker 1: Noon went back and yeah, do you like what you're
Speaker 1: seeing out of this team and the way, uh it's
Speaker 1: set up for the future. I'm always an optimist, Um,
Speaker 1: but absolutely, Um, you know, you saw some of that
Speaker 1: potential on Monday night and uh, you know he certainly
Speaker 1: got a lot of turnovers and and and and got
Speaker 1: you know, some breaks, but it was outstand ending. Um.
Speaker 1: And you see, uh, when that team can play and
Speaker 1: the talent that they have. And to your point, Um,
Speaker 1: the coaches are only making guys better. And uh, we
Speaker 1: have a little bit more cap room this year. If
Speaker 1: it's not spent this year, then it rolls over to
Speaker 1: next year. And then then Mike and his team sitting
Speaker 1: down with coach bowls, can prioritize how do they continue
Speaker 1: to upgrade the roster. So, um, you know, I'm looking
Speaker 1: forward to an exciting season and and the fans that
Speaker 1: we've spoken to, uh, you know, similarly share that sentiment. Yeah,
Speaker 1: I'd agree with that. So three games in eleven days
Speaker 1: Cleveland Brown's Thursday Night, another time for the team to
Speaker 1: be playing in front of the nation, So a good
Speaker 1: opportunity here. And then ten days are prepared for the
Speaker 1: Jacksonville Jaguars, a short week, so I know that's tough
Speaker 1: on the guys and uh, and then hopefully we come
Speaker 1: out victorious, and then they kind of get that many
Speaker 1: buy and some guys who are dealing with some you know,
Speaker 1: injuries and other things hopefully get healthy. And then you
Speaker 1: go down to Jacksonville and then you get that three
Speaker 1: game homestand which is very unique in the national four
Speaker 1: three games in October one o'clock games. And we're expecting
Speaker 1: great crowds for that. And as you told me to
Speaker 1: what should I tell the fans is, you know, we're
Speaker 1: looking to do some great things. So hopefully we'll see
Speaker 1: as many people who are listening to this podcast out
Speaker 1: of the stadium as possible. This was a thank you guys.
Speaker 1: We talked about movies with Neil. He talked about The
Speaker 1: Sopranos ending have you seen the end? Yeah? Okay, Well
Speaker 1: for so what happens? Well, what what's your take on it?
Speaker 1: I think he lives. I think that the whole idea
Speaker 1: is that you're supposed to feel like you're always watching
Speaker 1: behind you, looking around, like who who's gonna like it's
Speaker 1: this guy gonna off me? Is this guy coming from
Speaker 1: my head? But I think that in the end, because
Speaker 1: of what had transpired in the episodes earlier and who
Speaker 1: had died and who was no longer there around. I
Speaker 1: think that means that he isn't the clear. He's always
Speaker 1: watching his back. Okay, So if you're my thing is,
Speaker 1: if you're the director or creator of the show, is
Speaker 1: the thought process to obviously it's the number one is
Speaker 1: to leave you hanging. But for them, what I would
Speaker 1: like to know is that do is that their only goal?
Speaker 1: Or did they have something in mind whereas they in
Speaker 1: their mind had him killed or the family was taken
Speaker 1: care of, or to your point, he's just going through
Speaker 1: this process of taking a look who's coming through the door,
Speaker 1: and there's a strange man there and all that other stuff.
Speaker 1: So I don't know how that all works. Okay, So
Speaker 1: just just tying things up here is I know that
Speaker 1: we mentioned Juice Tyrod and Miles Garrett, but the Browns
Speaker 1: also have some other weapons on offense. Who you want
Speaker 1: to talk about? Do I? I don't know, carlos On.
Speaker 1: I thought you wanted to talk about Najoku I did. Yeah,
Speaker 1: Kellaway is an interesting rookie who had some issues off
Speaker 1: the field at Florida and yes on hard knocks and
Speaker 1: we all witnessed that for those of the folks at
Speaker 1: home and watch hard knocks like us. But yeah, na
Speaker 1: Joko is he is a dangerous tight end and kellaway.
Speaker 1: If he stays on the straight and narrow path, he
Speaker 1: could be a big time weapon in the National Football League.
Speaker 1: Carlos High came over from San Francisco in free agency
Speaker 1: and then another guy Defensively, they surprise a lot of
Speaker 1: people not going with the pass rusher to pair him
Speaker 1: up with Garrett there, you could have went with Bradley Chubb.
Speaker 1: And they pulled the string on Den's award and everybody's like, oh,
Speaker 1: Den's award. But came in Week one. Two interceptions of
Speaker 1: Ben Roethlis not a bad start, right, Ye had two
Speaker 1: picks in his collegiate career, so I immediately tied that
Speaker 1: in Game one. The other thing is, and you know,
Speaker 1: this is going to be like a super Bowl the
Speaker 1: Thursday night in Cleveland. And I don't say that out
Speaker 1: of disrespect. My meaning here is that this city loves
Speaker 1: or football team. They haven't tasted victory in so long,
Speaker 1: and also the National spot night will be on them,
Speaker 1: so they are going to come ready to play in
Speaker 1: that atmosphere, and that it's gonna be election. Well, what
Speaker 1: I will say is though no offense, no, no. But
Speaker 1: what I will say is being in the locker room
Speaker 1: after Sunday's game, the Jets locker room, is that you
Speaker 1: could tell how upset the players were, how upset the
Speaker 1: Jets players were. So I think moving forward, I think
Speaker 1: this team is gonna be ready to play, although it
Speaker 1: will be a dog fight, like you said, And just
Speaker 1: another guy on defense is probably that a Pro Bowl
Speaker 1: linebacker last year that nobody talks about. That's Joe Schobert
Speaker 1: and Christian Curtsey led the NFL and tackles a couple
Speaker 1: of years ago. Oh yeah, they're linebackers move all over
Speaker 1: the place. So I think it's this is not your
Speaker 1: your brown's evol. This is this is a tough game
Speaker 1: and it's a short week. And if you're I don't
Speaker 1: know where to tune in, I'll tell you right now
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