EA Podcast: Episode 19 with Bart Scott

me here. Listen, man, I told you footprints when there's only one set of a footprints in the saying, is then that I carried you? Okay, Matt Backer. Saturday night you were at MSG. People are walking by you in the hallways here at one Jets Drive and saying, yes, I saw you. Apparently the UFC event for the first time New York City at the world's most famous arena. And then that sounds like a commercial right there. And Bart Scott was in the house to watch the Notorious One. Yeah,

well it was. It was a mismatch though. You know, he was a lot taller, naturally taller, bigger than than the kid I think Alvarez is his name. But he put on a great show. He's a great personality. Um. For the first time ever in New York. You know, I didn't think it did It didn't disappoint um. But next time, I think they're gonna have to have a more exciting uh contest. You know. The thing is about those fights, they're so short, um that sometimes a fan

can lead with a dissatisfiedation. Math you kind of want to see some blood and guts. But it was. It was a good show, you know, UM. And I think you know what I didn't like about it is that it was so late. I mean I walked out of that stadium at two o'clock. I mean, like, come on now, at two o'clock, it's time. It's night, night time. Are you walking down the street to your hotel at that time and you got car service waiting for you at the door? No? No, no, you know I don't mind

being amongst the pizza. You know. I went out and at Ubert home, I I walked came out of the seventh, seventh Avenue, um, and then I walked down to eight you know, men and wife he went and you know, get her out the crisip you know, show something different, you know, having some fun. Many date night. What is the messig think about Ultimate Fighting Joe, She's she's cool with combat, you know sometimes you know, you know there's a lot of blood in there. You kids catch them

out of the elbow. It's a lot of blood everywhere. But she didn't mind, you know. I mean she's from the streets of your choice. She got a little good bobble. So the arena. What's the UFC crowd like? Is there any different than like a boxing crowd? Different? It's more like soccer. It's more like soccer. You know. It's a different crowd as well. You know, a lot of people that's attracted to UFC may not particularly be you know, the boxing fan. Boxing fan is a little bit more

of a casual fan. A lot of times they want to be part of the moment, you know. Like UFC is like a I don't want to say cold following because that's a bad word, but I want I want to say it's more like a like Red Bulls crowd. It's a different, different demographic, you know. I mean, they go hard and a lot of these fighters in the UFC are from different countries, you know, so you get that element as well. You get the soccer like environment.

You know, a lot of energy there. You're a lot of che and a lot of you know, coaches from the sideline. I found myself, you know, spitting out advice from the crowd too, because it kind of rubbed off on me. Yeah, and I kind of telling the guy circling to the wrong side, oh yeah, you got into it. And my wife was like, listen, but she was like then, you hate when people scream, fans screen stuff to you from the stands, like you're you're that guy right now?

I said, you know what, you're right, shut up. Just like a wife. I always put you back in now, you said, the chance they sing songs like some of that. And then you remember like when Ricky Hatten used come on and he said Ricky, so they got like they got their little set chance. You know these guys, you know, there are a lot of people from Ireland. Are you think it wasn't it? It wasn't as many as I thought.

It wasn't as many as I thought. You know, I thought it was gonna be like Ricky Hatton when he used to come over. You know, you have like you know sometimes some of the Mexican fighters come over. You have a following people come and get on the plane, especially from New York. You would think because it's close, you know, from top in the here maybe six six and a half and then then it's an international airport where it seemed like it would have been easier. But

you know, maybe they they're waiting for something greater too. Now, Connor McGregor, he is a master marketer. Uh, do you think that is something because you brought a lot of personality to the game when you wanted to bring the juice,

you brought the juice yourself. Do you think that is something you are born with or is that something that a guy like that grows up in Ireland, he becomes a fighter and then he sees away and says, I can be a professional fighter, but I also know I can make it really big by making this persona Do you think that that part of that is who he

is or is that all him? Well, it has to be part of who you are to be willing to step out there and take that risk, you know, because what happens is you're gonna be loved and hated at the same time. You know you're gonna be loved by the people that support you, especially if you can back it up. You give them more feel the more ammo to kind of support you and what you say. But then you're gonna be hated by something that want you to have some humble I want you to be modest

and things like that. It's a lot harder to step out there because when you step out there, everybody's waiting for you, hoping that you're getting knocked out, and they're waiting for that day to day your demise, you know. So it's harder because you're going to get the best because you're hated by the opponent as well. But also, like I said, the squeaky wheel gets the oil. If you're able to be successful with doing that, it's a lot of money involved in and that's how you, you know,

build up a fan base. Whether they love you, hate you, they're gonna follow you. Do you have a sense of how much of that is character, how much of that is showman from him? Because I'm sure you don't know personal level, but we've seen that with Diana, right. Dan created Prime Time because it was something to sell, you see Dennis Robbing, he was a massive marketer of it.

So but sometimes you can, you know, you have to produce and We've seen guys that try to come out and be personalities that failed because they weren't able to put up the numbers. They weren't able to be successful. You know, I see right now a guy in the Crossroads is trying to be that massive marketer um that has had some setbacks in his life. Is Adrian Broner. You see a guy that is trying to take a

page out of the Floyd Mayweather playbook. But you know what may Floyd Mayweather loves and hated and also you know, a great draw whenever it came to an event, with the fact that no matter how much you hated him, he still won, you know, and people still want to come up because they wanted to say they were there the day he got his big mouth shut. How big do you think he is mc gregor as far as on a national scene here in the United States, he's I think he's the biggest thing in USC right now.

Him and Randa Rousey. You know, you never know, like why was Tebow, you know, arguably the biggest star in the NFL without having a lot of production, obviously one of the biggest you know, you never know what fans are gonna gravitate to what people are gonna see. I think, you know, in certain aspects, people when they look at those guys, they see themselves, you know what I mean, Or they see how they would be if they were in that position, They see their provido, how they would respond.

So I think a lot of times that's when people start following guys like Connor. But but does he like a transcendent star already, like on a level crossover sports like a Lebron James, or he started where Rhonda Rous is right, if we see her in movies, she's one of the highest pay athletes. You know, her fights are sold out even more than men and things like that. But then she got knocked out, you know, you know, I think that set her back. But she went and

shot a movie. I think she was in Bond or something like that, and she was in some movie I forgot I saw. But she made a step to the big stage. And that's what you see. You want to see the people that that's able to transcend. You look at when she was in the Entourage movie as well, right, yeah, yeah, and you see like Rihanna, you know, people that cross over the different markets, different genres um and I think she's that. I think he's on the cusp of being

that he has to make sure they stays clean. I get knocked out. I think before that a guy who was kind of crossing over where people were paying attention to other sports with bone Jones, you know, but he's had so many personal setbacks that he's not able to take that next step because marketers don't trust them, so they're not going to give him their products to trust. You're not gonna see him with a watch company. You're

not gonna see him with a skin line. You're not gonna see him out and commercials because they can't trust them. You said, Hugh Jackman was at the Light the other night. Yeah, Yeah, Wolverine was at the at the UH at the event, I saw Beckham. I think Beckham was backstage with McGregor. You know. I think Beckham is one of those guys is kind of trying to make that transition over to to to Beckham has got to be a smaller guy, right, he played soccer. Yeah, but yeah, but Beckham was a

lot bigger than McGregor. He's probably like they don't really these people don't realize how big these guys. Yeah, McGregor's tiny man. Yeah, like he probably got baby fist, junior wapper hands. Yeah, yeah, he's a little dude, but five nine. But yeah, I'll tell you why Hugh Jackman is a big dude. He's well over six fot is he he gets jacked up my mount and do whenever he's planning is his roverine roll to. I wonder what kind of special diety respect that? Yeah, what kind of special diet

they tape? Because he look at his other ones, he's flat. Yeah, I mean I think they got secret sauce and uh, you know you look at the guy that did softball, you know, I mean, oh yeah, yeah, man, they got a special shake for the US athletes. Can't take that shake. Uh that's Bert Scott here on the e A podcast. Listen, Um, did you practice you uh impersonations when you watch guys? You were such a mad wrestling fan growing up, so guys like Hogan and Rowdy Piper and you know ultimate Warrior.

Remember I remember I got my first whooping, right, I mean not my first whopan. Remember my mom was whooping me and I dipped into my ultimate Warrior. Um on your mom my mom? What but how did that go. So she's whooping me, right, And I mean, when did you say whooping me? You mean she did take the I was getting disciplined. Yeah, and I think I said something like the powers I haven't sighed. The only man that can hurt me as the one that created me.

That's God Almighty, because I am the ultimate Warrior. She said, Oh, you the ultimate warrior. Huh, we'll take this ultimate a warrior. She just gave you more. She just gave you more. You really pulled an ultimate your mother while she was hitting you with a belt. Yeah, so it was so it was a whopping. So I got a whooping and Ultimate Warrior got a whopping at the same time. When when you pull out of Hogan? When when you pull

out of Hogan? Growing up, I mean I used to just love it, man like, even though he fell off because I didn't I didn't like the racist remarks he made. He like, no nobody liked. He lost me as a fan. But growing up, I mean in the eighties, that was the biggest thing. You know, it was Hawk Hogan. Um, you know, Jordan was coming into you know, the eighties is kind of rude by wrestling, especially the late but I love Roddie Pipers, the begetting to WrestleManias. You know,

Piper's pet was classic. The scene with him and Jimmy Superfly Snicker. Oh yeah, oh my god, broke the coconut on his head. Yes, Piper's Pitts. Snucker was crazy, like what do you say? He had the most incoherent like interviews, like but he could splash off the top rope. Snuck was an super I always wanted to be ripped up

like him too. So when you go like best bodies ever in wrestling, you put I put Snooker, I put Mr. Wonderful Rabbitship Rick Rude because he had he had the skinniest torso, but he had like a twenty pack Rabbitship Rick Rude, Lex Luthor Lex Luthor was a monster total package, like six eight. And then for some reason I think like Big Papa Pump got stuck with the special Shake because remember he was like he was Rick Steiner, Rickens and Scott stuck and they had the Michigan jackets. He

wasn't looking like. Then he came back his Big Papa Puff and he had a double muscle like hold up man. Not only had double that, he was the veins were just anywhere everywhere, Big Papa pump Man, like he he got that mutant DNA not but listen, for me, it was always Piper, and I always rooted for the bad guys, kind of like when Hogan the steaming up with Mr Teen and stuff like that. You didn't like the corner. No, I was rooting for Piper and that stuff. You know

what I'm saying. So so till means, who's your favorite tag team all the time? Favorite you from eighties? Yeah, definitely. Then it could only be one, it could only be two. It was only too great. Okay, well demolition is up there. No, uh, okay, British Bulldogs right. Oh see that's another one. Yeah, British Bulldogs were nasty, dangerous dance spite me. Uh David Kid, David boy Smith. The British Bulldogs were pretty nasty. Um, it's a couple. You can go with the Rockers, Sean Michael. So, yeah,

you can go with Aren't Anderson and Old Anderson? Yeah? Well, but it was only one that was like above them all. Trying to remember the Four Horsemen used to have a couple of tag teams and that you Yeah, the four got Terry Funk and uh, you know that you had that that rest of but they never stuck together. I'm talking about long term tag team fans. You go to

Hard Foundation. They were great, Bret Hart and I always like that when the Iron Chek got tagged up with the boy No no, no, no no, Nikolai Bo he used to come out of classy Freddy Blassie. Yeah, and you can go with Slick was one of my favorites. But you can go. You can like who coo? Can you say? Um? I trying to think who Jimmy Hart had he had the Hard Foundation and uh, Bobby the brain Heenden had a couple, but they didn't stick together. But to me, it's only one. You got the British Bulldogs,

that was fine. You had the Rockers margin Eddie and that was fine. But to me, you talk about demolition, you talk about crush uh acts and smash Yeah, but who were they? They were a bootleg? What who is this? The legion of Animal? Yeah, I put you on, put you on the shoulders, closing night off the top, rope hawking Animal come on, Man's number one of all times. All right, I'll give you that. You know their fights with the Skyscrapers, Vicious and Dangers. Dan Spidey was epic.

You know what. I grew up in Buffalo, so on Saturday nights, I'd always watched c F t O, which was a station out of Toronto, the Maple Leaf Gardens wrestling Saturday nights, Saturday night. And you know he used to fight all the time on this This is a guy that nobody would even recognize except maybe you s D. Jones special delivery job. He used to be the guy

they he brilliant. No, he wasn't the league guy, but he'd always be one of those he'd be he'd be on the card and he always lose to like somebody beg you know, but we'll get him, get it, get him early on and Jones, well, well you have to look at who was so every every wrestling uh uh network had their that guy. So for w w F, I don't say w w W W w w F notw They called w E Entertainment. But it used to be the Brooklyn Barrel of Brooklyn Brawler Cokey coo be

where he has come out with his parents get jacked up. Man. Uh. You know one of my favorites too, is I loved when I was a kid who loved the junk yard draw dog j y D Man. Do you know his real name, real name his big well, well his uh his first wrestling name is Big Daddy Ritter. Really. Yeah. He was a defensive linement for Green Bay. Yeah, he was a football player, j y D. He was of my favorites. He was a fan. That's what you're talking about.

You always want to talk about like the great personalities, you know, I mean you think about the guys who could sell stuff the best. You know, people like Hogan. You know, he wasn't my best interview. I think the Nature Boy was much better, um than than Hogan And to me, my favorite interview all time, the person that gave you the best stuff with the macho man like you never know what he was. Oh yeah, you know what, you want to come down to me. Yeah, we're gonna

come down, mill, Yeah, we're gonna go down. We're gonna get him down. We're gonna be brother. Well little get my robe. I mean, Gene would give that look to the camera, You just give that look to the camera like he should be in ar wrestling of all of fame. Man, he's not you know what he may be, but I think he was the best. You know what I mean? People think, do you remember Monday and there wasn't. Uh, there's a show on Monday Night on the USA Network.

It wasn't Monday Night Raw was Um? Was it called Prime Time Wrestling? It was mean gene Oakerland and Gorilla Monsoon. Do you remember every one's while Guerrilla would come out of Wressell every like ten years, come out his old school can't come Bundy outfit and trying to gorillas. Oh my god, those are golden years. Oh man, that's that's when life was simple, man. Life. Um, alright, So the election is over. Donald Trump is the president, and we're

not going to talk too much politics here. But after after, after watching The Apprentice a few years back, I would have never thought this could have been possible. You never would have thought Schwarz would have been a governor California either, Jesse Venturing the governor in Minnesota. I just think the establishment was fed up and good luck, be careful. What you wished for should be a wild ride and we'll

see what happens. Now. You were at the fight. Uh, you were at the fight Saturday night, So you did not see Saturday Night Live. And I don't typically watch Saturday Night Live anyway, but Dave Chappelle was on Saturday Night Live. Now he is he is brilliant, he is edgy time he was farting, but he was also touching at the same time. You know, you know, and Chappell, I think you can make people feel uncomfortable too. You

know what I'm saying. Show he can get he can go into that sketch comedy, yes, and he can go places that other people do. I need to go back and watch it. You have to watch the open. Yes, yeah, he ended it. I will say this that he ended it with that, basically saying that, um, black people have been disenfranchised for a long time. And what basically said was, you know, I'm willing to give you a chance if

you're willing to give us a chance. He said that at that But he had some jokes and he had some skits in there that I never thought would be on the n Okay. So, yes, you have to watch. I gotta check it out. But you know what, comedians have always had a place, I think in the healing of a country because they can make they can take these uncomfortable topics that they can make them lighthearted but still get the point through at the same time. You know who does a great job of that is Chris Rock.

I think he's the best and really bringing politics and what it's going on in society now to the stage. Everybody can't do that. Everybody can't be like Kevin Hart. Kevin Harden doesn't really bring any social issues because I don't know if he's willing to offend anybody and really turn off anybody from the fan base. But Chris Rock has always done that seamlessly and where people still get the message and they feel, you know, entertained and not

offended at the same time. Now, paraphrasing a little bit, Kim Martin from Newsday Good reporter who covers the Jets daily, caught up a Brandon Marshall about it, and she said, they're basically talking about social issues right now, and Brandon, uh, again, I'm paraphrasing, but he said that I think sometimes guys feel like pressured now to have a stance on everything when it shouldn't be that way. You, as a former athlete and as a guy out there all the time,

how do you feel about that? Because we grew up. We're talking about the eighties. We grew up early nineties, late eighties. Michael Jordan was always the guy that they get on all the time who was never say anything k right. And now it seems like there's been a shift where people are saying you have to take a

stance on something. And I want to get your view on that, because my thing is and I'm not an athlete, but I think Brandon is right on that is that if you don't know enough about something, you should not have to feel like educated you have the responsibility to take a stance on everything. There should be some things that you definitely should have opinions about, and everybody should have freedom of speech. But I almost feel like there's too much weight being put on some people in the

public eye. Well, I think if you don't feel comfortable answering something, I think you should be able at least to articulate that. Like they said, I don't know enough about that, I'm still learning about it on research, and I think that's fine. But to say you have nothing to say, I think you can't go out there because people too many people look up to you, you know what I mean, And you know you talk about being

a leader in the role model. Well, people want to know what you think and how they should react, because a lot of times they react on how you react, you know, because they believe in you and they trust in your opinion. You know, I mean no different from you believing in your pastor you believe in in anybody that you look at as a role model. You know, back in the day, it used to be that way. People to Jim Brown, people look to lu Al Sender, People look to these type of athletes because they knew

that they were on the forefront. And you know, athletics has a different, you know, stance in life because you may not like you know, I mean, I'm assuming and and I'm not. It may not be correct, but I'm assumed that a lot of people that are bigger than in racist, you know, still cheer for a black athlete if he's helping his football team and what I'm saying of helping his team win, you know, he's a good whatever,

you know what I mean. But you know, sports of a always been on the forefront of edgy issues in society. You talk about, you know, uh, the first gay player, you talk about, the first black player, you talked about a lot of first was in sports, and then I think it gave society, um gave society the the liberty to to to accept it as well, because these strong athletes. How can you not accept something that your hero accepts.

So if if if white players were comfortable with playing with Jackie Robinson and standing up for him and his rights, and it helped ease detention. You know, we all have stereotypes about each other, but sports have always been an equalizer because we only have one goal. And I think you know, whether you're Republican or a Democrat, it still should be one goal. It should be what's best for

the people, what's best for the country. And until we can put our political parties aside and quit trying to do it our way and understand that we have to work with each other and and appreciate other people's points of views, we can't take the next step, but we can't act like you know, things aren't the way they are. But we have to. We have to talk about it. We have to have a conversation, to open honest conversation. And you still can believe what you believe. I still

can believe, but I believe. But we got to say, Okay, how can we find common ground and start building from there? How how do you, as a successful young black man, I'm still calling you young hope getting up there. I'll another year before you, guys stop and a guy who grew up from Detroit and you've lived in different areas. They lived in Baltimore. Obviously you've spent a lot of

time up here in the New York area as well. Uh, you know, and I know this is a big topic, but how do you view race relations in the country right now? I think I think, you know, I think this election proved you know what, I believe a lot of black athletes, black people believed anyway we already knew no black personal minority was was. I believe shocked by the outcome of the election, and even with all the things that were set, you know, all the racesnogynists. I

think this mess I just bushered that word monogynists. Um, bigger than type of statements, you know, separate. I think the politics about separating the country, UM. I think it just brought it to the forefront. It brought the conversation up at least we know and now other people. I think that's what some of the outrage is about that people. You don't think people were aware of just how deep it was like, you know, but you know, I don't think people were. We're as aware of just how deep

this stuff goes. And you know, for the same thing that happened. I believe when Barack ran, you know, people want to change something different. I think people in rural America wanted the same and they found a candidate that they thought would speak to them and what was best for them, and they voted on it. And the people that you know came out and voted the other way before didn't come out because they weren't inspired, you know. So you know, listen, I'm willing go ahead and take

your shot. You know, if the people that voted for Donald Trump um believe in him, and let's see, you know. But for me, it's hard to believe that a man that always had his own self interest at heart for seventy years can change and start thinking about other people first. You know, that's tough, But I hope he can because I think we need it. Yeah, but I think that I wouldn't I wouldn't hold my breath and better on it. Hopefully the rhetoric, as you said, it gets better across

or across everything, dude. And that I'm not talking social platforms away people even talk about the presidency. I believe that. And this is not a nobody watching is working together. Nobody's working together. Like you know, just because you have a you know, just because you're one party of me, you can't cooperate. It's like it's almost like if one party has a president and the other party wants that party to fail. Yeah, it's like that's not the way

it's supposed to the way it's supposed to be. You're always gonna work with people with different views than you and like you go back, you know Ronald Reagan and uh tip O'Neill. Tip O'Neil was the leader of the Democrats at the time, but and Ronald Reagan was a very conservative Republican who got a lot of things done and a lot of things accomplished. But that's because they worked together, and they worked with both of their partners. You gotta do that, I mean do like, let's this

is a sports show. Let's talk about Goodell and the Moore Smith. Come on, man, Like we're not getting stuff done, you know what I mean, Like we have to work together, you know, for the good of the game, and no different than you know, we have to work together for the good of the country, you know. But the thing is, you can't. You can't speak the way you speak during your campaign and think that you can just talk softer and say, oh Obama is a nice man, or say

oh Hillary is a pleasant woman. She fall hard, and think that all it's gonna be forgiven because now, to us or to me, that's the act during your campaign, when the stakes were high, that was the real you. So you can't come back and say, no, we're gonna work together. No, it doesn't work that way, because that's the that's the whole thing, especially we talk about minorities. That's what they're used to seeing. They're used to people hiding behind their racist views and then acting like they

get along. Then soon you're out of their face. They talk bad about you. See, but Donald Trump did a reverse. She talked bad about you. Now he's trying to take it back. But now you've already exposed and show who you are, what you believe in and core principles, and now you're trying to take it back and you can't. So it's just gonna be one of those things. Man unfortunately would like the country to get together, but I think we're more separated than ever. Oh all right, that

sucks for three and seven Jets. By uh, just real quickly, part what does the coaching staff have to do now before they get so much needed time off? I remember when you played here on the racks, everybody always used to talk about the coaching staff would always come together during this week and self scout. So what does that mean?

This is the first time for you to take a deep breath, self Scott, see what we do well, what we do wrong, and focus on what we do well and do more of that and try and improve what you do bad. And I think the Jets have to take a look at how other teams view them, do a self scouting report as if they were their own opponent, and say, okay, if I was going against this team, this unit, what would I do against it? And you know, now you figure out that, so you know self awareness.

Now you go back and you're trying to prove that and throw some things out if they need to be thrown out. Change the game planning things, change some tendencies up. If you have some telling telling Tennessee to be it formations, be it down to distance um places on the field, because how do you go from being one of the best red zone offenses to be one of the worst. You know, it's because teams have scoutled you and see what you like to do in the red zone. So

now you have to adjudge. That's the thing about you know, sports, you always have to be able to to counter, you know what I mean, because you know, it's very few teams that can go in and say this is what we do, stop it. A lot of us they adjudge. You adjusted, it's a chess match, and I think the Jets have to really figure out what their next moves are.

Playing for pride, people always say that, And I had discussion with somebody and they said, I don't know if you want to say, you know, I don't know how athletes feel about playing for pride. But I thought to Tony Richardson about this this week in Mount Life Stadium, said, you're always playing for pride. You always play for pride. You want to play for the playoffs, you want to win this ultimate goal, but you're always that's always there, right,

I've always played for the respect of by peers. Um that, which is basically pride. So what happens is when you're in this situation and it's going to sound weird, but you know you stopped playing so much for the name in front of the jersey as the name in the back, right, because at the end of the day, you want to say, man, when people say bart Scott, what do they think? You know? Right now it's hard to think about Okay, the jets, right, you want to think about yourself because now at this

point a lot of people think about self preservation. They're like, man, you know, we had a losing season. A lot of us are gonna get fired. So what you wanna do? You want to put great film out there so that you can survive, so that you can still have an opportunity to play. So now you want to make sure you represent yourself. You want to make sure that in an adverse situation, you rose to the cage and you didn't succumb to your circumstances. That now you have to

make sure that you even work even harder. So when people say that, man, this dude is playing his but he's playing hard. He has nothing to play for. Yes, I do after play for my brand I'm paying for my name on my back, the people that support me, to people that believe in me, to say that he's not a guy that quits. He's not a quitter. Anybody can play hard and be a front runner. But if you find out a lot about people when hit adversity,

how do they respond. Do they succumb to their circumstances, they give into it, or do they rise up and say I'm beyond, I'm greater than my circumstances. And we're talking about it before. This is a great opportunity for a lot of young players because you as an organization have to find out exactly what you have here heading into two thousand and seventeen and beyond as a young as a young player, man, I'm like, yo, you know I might not have a got this opportunity. Robby Anderson,

you know, Decker is healthy. You know, may not have got this opportunity. You in the middle of a playoff run. You might not have got that. But now you've got an opportunity to put good film out there, not only for the Jets, but for everybody in the NFL, so you can continue your dream. Um, what do you think about Petty? I know it's a small sample size and he made his first career start. But is there anything

you can take away from that? You were at the NFL today, uh studio, you watched our game a little bit and things like that. Much you can take away from just watching him and once start. But I thought he was poised for the most part. I don't think he like ran out of there, you know, took a bunch of unnecessary sacks. Yeah. I think he just was inaccurate. I think you know he said, and he saw him do it a couple of times where he over anxious over gripping the ball. Well, yeah, and at times maybe

he was overthinking it because he's a double clutch. Yeah, afraid he's afraid to believe what he sees because what happens is you have you have practice speed game speed. So he's been practicing against his own team and he sees impractice speed. Now he's in a real game, and now he's going against people that he don't know. He don't know the defense that they run. When you go against the guys on his team. He sees his defense all the time, so he understands what they're doing. Who

does what? But now he's going to get the team that he doesn't know who's who, and they're playing at a different speed. So now his eyes and his process has to go greater because in practice you don't get hit. In this game, you know, you get hit and it can hurt. So now that slows his process down. He becomes over anxious, he throws the ball, you know, too much juice on and not enough touch because he's speeding

up his process in his head. So now you know, for young players, you have to try and slow the game down. And I think for him it is you know, for him, and there's no by week. He needs to be in here. He can't take a vacation. He needs to catch up so he can show he can represent himself better than he did this week and show improvement and make sure that he's gonna make the same mistakes that he made last week. What would you like to

see from the Jets when they come back. We can talk about it next week, but just real quickly, is Todd Bowls after the game said that he's not going to commit to a quarterback right now, We're gonna see him. Ryan Fitzpatrick continues to heal up. I'm gonna evaluate the film from Bryce. Just you maybe taking a fans perspective or analysis analysis perspective on this. Would you like to see Patty again? Uh? When the Jets come back to

play against the Patriots. I mean, I think it's safe to say that, Ryan, if this pactually won't be your quarterback next year, UM, so you might as well see what you have, you know, um, evaluate what you have, see what pieces you want to keep, who you can build around, who's a couple of years away from being a major contributor. And you only do that by letting young guys play. And you know, veterans don't like that because they say, see that you're maybe giving up on

the season. But every season isn't going to end in a winning season. Nobody has, you know, winning seasons every year. But what can be done is getting an identity and establishing the identity, establishing a level of play, a commitment to a certain type of style, a certain type of effort. And you only get that sometimes by letting young guys play, you know what I mean, because the reality is the

young guy as a cheat. So if they can produce at the same level somewhat close to some of the veteran players, and it gives you cat flexibility to go out and find your elite players at certain positions. You got any surprise questions for David Harris is an interview that we all eagerly anticipate to watch on Jet Life and on New York Jets dot com. I'm just going to inform him that I don't want any to answers to to tour answers, you know. But you know, me

and David has has a great relationship. We had a great planning relationship. We still maintain contact, you know after after um, you know, our planning days. So people, some people inside the building actually said that he was more chatty than you know, actually inside the medium rooms at times. Is that true? Well, I can get it out of him, I can. You know, I can make him like talk crap, you may joke a little bit, you know. Him and Beat we had a good room that was able to

we were close. We're a close group, so we're able to to to inspire day. But speak more because you know, I always have something to say. So he he got tired of me talking, so he started talking back. All well, we're looking forward to that. I have a good week, brother, I appreciate it. You you get that infection cleaned up. M