Hey, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick and you are listening to the e A podcast with Eric Allen. Take it away. All right, we're taping here on Cyber Monday. Does Bart Scott participate in any Cyber Monday deals? What is oh buying stuff online? But I stayed in the city because I had to do the Turkey show, so I stayed there with the family. And you know, I'm done. I'm done, You're done it. I'm done. Really, I mean, I ain't nobody other than what my nieces and my nieces may want.
I just tell their parents go uh find it or I'll you know, pay for get certificate toys and Rust and then they go at the toys of Rust where they're at and they pick up the kids stuff, and my kids are done. Y'all started with my daughter, you know, maybe in September because I got tired of the whole rust. I always say I'm going to go. And then you know, December, from Thanksgiving to December goes fast. Once those two weeks
you met, you think you have time. You look up Christmas right around the corner, and I don't feel like fighting the people in the lines of stuff and going on those crazy crowds. So I went and I got I went the Microsoft and I got some stuff. I got the virtual reality stuff for my daughter, me for
my for the kids. Then my son is young, so I when he got the f one clip on string wheel, the real one that jerks, you know what I mean, they have like a Xbox when you clip it on, but it gives you that torque like when you're sitting at the games or the at the at the arcade, so you're thinking those racing games. Yeah, But then it's good for my son because now I can I can put the string with at his height and he can
actually touch the pedals. What happens is, you know when we have arcade game and Nickelodeon one, but it's too far because he's only three. But now I can set the table as low as I want. He can drive and have fun and play all the race card games that come on Xbox. So you guys, when you were in the city and you taped on Thursday, you were on then take me through the day Thursday night with the family, Well, well, you know, we just hung out
this time. I mean, you know, we usually have a big thing of the family, but you know, we want to just try something different. Let's hang out in the city, Let's do some fun stuff, let's go splori the city, and um, you know, it was fun. It was different. Um you know, next year we may go back, but we'd like to, you know, keep it fun, keep it exciting.
I mean sometimes, you know, when you live here, sometimes your family, you know, where you're from, kind of gets jealous if mom always comes down for Thanksgiving with me and always spends with me. So I gave everybody and let let the mom spend time with the family this time. Next time, if you come back with me, kind of alternate holidays and we're trying something different. We're trying to
really find our new tradition in our family. I think I'm going to do like a pre Christmas like invite people over, like on, uh, what's the Chevy Chase movie? We come over in the Squirrels in the Christmas Street? Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah. Naturally put one of those things like let's let's I'm trying to get my Wiley in the beat game on do you do? Are you one of those guys too? Because you got a nice
house here Injurorse. We're not gonna tell people where it is, But do you decorate uh the outside with crazy amount of Christmas. Now, I'm not that guy. Man like, I'm not gonna get up. I'm too busy. Um, but I do go all in with the Christmas tree. The Christmas tree is usually a minimum of fourteen feet, you know what I mean. I put every bulb and on there. So it's a process, you know, I mean I do that. I'll do the inside. I'm a real Christmas tree guy.
To man, I don't do the fake Christmas tree because you know, my mother never got a fake Christmas tree. And I love the smell of the fresh Christmas tree. And you can imat the fourteen foot Christmas tree, you know the aroma that it pushed throughout the house. Just put lights on or sometimes sometimes my wife likes to white sometimes, so this is what happened a lot of times. Sometimes we do the white. We got to like the glass bulks, the real glass buffs, not that fake classic
stuff from home depot. We got like the pure one different, like squirrels and animals made out of glass, very delicate. So now because I have a three year old, we had to start like those a little higher outfite reach. So we may start that at like four feet, so we got ten feet of glass, and at the bottom we do the candy caves. We'll put a couple of plastic ones from home deep pole in there just to kind of fill it up because he'll come grab it off.
He wants to grab all the animals. He wants to eat all the candy canes off the tree and all that stuff. So, you know, we keep it that way. But you know, and sometimes the kids love the likes. You know, they don't understand moms wants the tree to be it's a it's a it's a style thing, moms, you know what I mean. So sometimes we get a second Christmas tree and we put in a corner and we put all the kids gifts there and we let them decorate however they want to do it. And that's
usually about an eight foot tree. Do you put's on the fourte Yeah, it's man hundreds now you get up onder, yes, And sometimes putting the star because I don't have a I have like a tin foot ladder, you know, so then you know, you gotta think the tree is super full of fourteen ft tree, so I have to reach you know, tin foot you know, I'm my wingspan is eight feet, right, but when you up on the top, you have to reach forward, so you gotta count for
that feet because the distance is usually about two ft away from the ladder when it's that tall, right, because you know you're at the top of the try the triangle and you know, I had a couple of close calls. Yeah, but I tell you what. The industrial stand is so strong that if I had to jump and grab the tree, it will hold me up to like the standards. Ridiculous. Man. It's like a heavy duty stand and it has like the really thick support beings for the anti flipping that
you have to like boat on. So like the base is super wide already, but then you boat on the four like lakes if there's a fourteen foot oh my ceiling, yeah by about forty. Wow, you know what we got? We got, we got the space. Did you not see the tree in the city They do that, They do that Wednesday coming up because what I passed Rocks Center last week. Yeah, they got it all lit up, but they don't do the official lighting of the tree till Wednesday.
And it was actually which is my wife's birthday, which was nice and romantic moment. Yeah. Yeah, Passler's Rocks Center, and they were getting all prepared for the tree because the tree is there, right. It takes forever. Yeah, of course takes forever to do that tree man. You have to test it out a couple of times. I actually interviewed the Commissioner Gandell the other day because we have a Brandon commercial feature that is going to be on Jet Life Saturday. He's a busy man. Yeah, um, But
Roger has gotten close with Brandon over the years. You know. Uh, two thousand and six, Brandon was a rookie in the National Football League, and keep forgetting that may seem so much older than it was. It seems like he's been around forever. Man. It seems like, you know, like he was in Denver with them ugly socks, you know what I mean, when he's wearing the throwbacks like forever. And that was the Commissioner's first year, two thousand and six, so that was before the bear hug, before we start
hugging everybody. Right, you don't like the bear hug. It's cool, you know what I mean. That's it's intimate, you know what I mean. But maybe the last time you want to hug the commissioner. Don't you get them? Fine? You might want you you lastly want to do with a
hug if he finds like some of your money. But Brandon is a great story, I think for a lot of young renaissance young guys because two thousand and eight sus finding a lot off the field trouble and two thousand and eleven he checked himself in the McLean hospital, got the help he needed, dignosed with borderline personality disorder, then found his platform, his cause that he wanted to help people, and he's championed in in in a tremendous way.
You know, he's very involved. He's a very articulate, very thoughtful, um individual. You see that sometimes when you see the inside the NFL, and you know, to be able to work on his post career during his career, I think he's the first player that ever dared to have that conversation to use italize his off his his off day
to really you know work. And I think that was part of the pill of coming here with the New York Jets so that he can shoot that show because the year before he was flying in and do it and um, you know, he's a renaissance man. He talked about a guy who has you know, training facilities. You know, he tried to start his own agency. I mean, you want somebody that's always thinking about the next move. And he's definitely a chess player. You know. I respect him
a lot. I wonder what he was like when he was a young guy, because the thing about the thing about Brandon though that I don't think people maybe on outside realizes that he's like you in the sciense that really bright. He understands a lot of things in different areas and he gets it and I think sometimes he gets it, but sometimes he was having lapses in judgment because of the undiagnosed, you know, mental and when people here, it's really really taboo in the Black community to really
admit mental health issues. And it's different degrees of it. A lot of us are bipolar. We have no idea until we get diagnosed, and sometimes we have these starts. It takes a real man to look at itself and say, listen, I need help. I don't know what's wrong, but I'm I am dedicated to figuring out what's wrong, and not only to champion it for yourself, but to make sure you make other people aware of your process of what you did to liberate them to feel comfortable enough to
go out. I'm sure he's inspired a lot of people that wouldn't have gotten diagnosed and winning. You know, um talk to some my body being a therapist anything if he hadn't stepped out, or a young player, no matter what. Sometimes that can be a lonely feeling, you know, for you to be wake up and be depressed and not really be understand why or why you make some of the decisions you make or why you feel the way you feel it. You know, for me it was a
real issue because my my nieces bipolar. And sometimes you don't recognize the people to say, oh, he's just she's just bad. It's so dismissed. Of the easiest thing to do is just to say or that person is crazy without really trying to understand what the issue is. And a lot of times it is an issue, but we don't want to diagnose it. We want don't want to accept that something will be wrong with our child, that everything may not be correct, and it's small things that
we can do to correct it. Be a therapy, be it medication, you know, being anything. There's a lot of different techniques, but it has to be a lonely feeling to have these feelings that people to be dismissive of it, you know, I mean I I applaud him. I applaud him for going out and not only getting it self checked out, but liberating others to do the same. Um Inside the NFUL, I was flipping through the station's last week and you made an appearance on the inside Nful.
But they called they called in wild Thing because it was the bye week, and they was like, listen, let's calling wild Thing. We know he's gonna stir the pot, you know, but we need a stir to pote Brandon Marshall. Because of the bye week, they have practice on Tuesday. So I was like, hey, you know, I'll go in. I stirred the pot. May feel really uncomfortable, you know what I mean? You know, have some fun and it
was a great experience. Did you like it? It's something that you'll do in the future, you know what I feel. I feel like inside the NFL, which I talked to Brandon about this. When we were young. I had to watch that show because that's the only that is the only show where you can get highlights of every game. I used to watch with my father either Friday night at seven pm or Saturday morning. They had it. I am right, Nick, Bonacannie, Len Dawson, Colin's Worth came later,
but it's Bonacannie and d Awesome. Yeah, man, I tell you what, man. And you know, it's a great show. It's a legacy show. Is just one of the staples of the NFL. When you think about it, you think about the voice of the person, you know, talking and breaking it down. You know, it's like one of those voices like the James Earl Jones and it's classic. You know, people look for the voice of God. Yeah, exactly, godfread snaughter here are you know, And it was It's funny,
you know. And I've done a lot of that throughout the years, even when I was a player. You know, I've had a lot of experience on the inside the NFL. Even before I ever got hired by CBS, I've probably been on inside the NFL maybe about six or seven times, you know. So it was comfortable. And just think it's the guys I work with anyway, But no, no, it's not.
They just they just needed somebody to come in it's a totally different producer, and um, you know, I'm always I love to be able to get in that environment because I'm a little bit less restricted because I could it's cable and I could beat myself a little bit more. But even I make them uncomfortable. I like rallying in the cage, you know, but I don't know if inside the NFL is ready for me every week. How would challenging you think that? I don't think you could have
done it when you're a player, like what Brandon's doing. Yeah, I mean he was cutting edge and now he he kind of sets the blueprint for other players to be able to have those conversations. Would you like to see more guys? It's listen. It's a very very fine line because you're a player, but you're criticizing players at the same time and potentially could be criticized your teammates or being asked questions with your teammates. But they Pete radovitch
Is is the producer over there. He does a great job and making sure that you watch that walk that tight rope. Yeah, we had a chance to go watch him. That's the part of the feature that will appear on Jet Life will also have some sneak previews on all our social platforms, and you'll see it on New York Jets dot com and things like that because we spend it. Did they did? They check out my David Harris Jets dot com and that's going up on New York Just not up yet. No, it's not going on New York
just dot com. You were on the TV this weekend. Us said, dude, this is Bart Scott New York Set Thursday. Here, here's your rundown. Thursday, you're on Live for Thanksgiving. It's Minnesota and Dallas, so you're there pregame, halftime and closing thoughts. Then Saturday night you're on Jet Life with your sit down interview with your boy, your good friend, David Harris.
Sunday morning you are with us on um Jet Jets Plan doing the video, and then you're back on NFL Today on Sunday just trying to catch And then that was after a week where we saw you on Inside Down the Phone. You're all over the place, and you're also gonna find you on the Jets podcast. Not work me. This is where we get it, popping it right here each and every week. So uh, we're gonna We're gonna switches to to like a call in podcast with fans. I like that. I mean, we're gonna be open to
the seven. We gotta we gotta get like a Jacobe and Kobe and Jal, and we need to go all that. We might need to go in all year. We might have to get some special permission from the Jets to make sure that we can just make it about everything. We might need to get our own podcast where they might have to liberate you to be able to do your own things like fair time, so we can really cut down to the chase, really break everything down from hockey to baseball to sports. People calling and we give
them the business. I like to call in aspect of the show. And I do think he's on the toes, just like we started way back in the day barking with Part. I had you and Marcus. You probably don't even remember this. I had you a bag deal and Marcus Douglins will come up to do a radio interview with us at Cortland. And then I begged you. I said, Part, you know, I would really like you to do a radio show, and you said, yeah, I think about it.
I'll think about it. Then we did it, and we taped it audio wise, and I said, well, let's just make it. Let's just bring out the cameras and make this a show. And then barking what Bart was born and then and I found Network, which just started out at the time, said oh, this is so good. We gotta take up. We gotta make a separate segment off
of this each week. Remember, and it's funny because Drew Kaliski, who was my producer now he always says barking with Bart because he was working for Inside at Me for the NFL Network at that time, barking with part. Yeah. So listen, I'm talking to our executive producer, Chris Gargano about more TV opportunities for Bart Scott in two thousand and seven teen us. Yeah, we're package. I like that. I like that. Hey, uh, did you watch Michigan State
and not Michigan State. I'm sorry, Michigan over time? Now? Was it a class? I missed a double overtime? But it was one of those ones that goes with the rivalry. Think about David Boston and Woodson going out of thorn open hand punches. You know, it's one of those things I wish Michigan would have won, because you know, I got a lot of you know friends that coach on that coaching staff. But also yeah, yeah, you know um B Smith he's there. Yeah, he works when he works there.
Smith's former Jets assistant for a long time, so he got jet Fish right there too. He was the coordinator. He was the quarterbacks coach when I was in Baltimore. You have Greg Madison who was my linebacker coach with the Ravens, and then he was the coordinator defense coordinator for one year with the Ravens. Then he went back to Michigan. He was coordinated from Michigan, but now he's the D line coach there. Me and Tyrone Wheeley are friends.
You got hardball. You know, I'm friends with the Hardball family because I played for his right so I was always around those guys. His dad, you know, we compete against each o. His dad's a long time head coach at the D one double A level for the Western Kentucky Hilltoppers, who's now like D one now, but he was there for that time. So I'm very connected with the Michigan program. How come all over the place, man?
He really? How good of a code. And you told us before, so New Yorkers can rest it easy tonight that he's never leaving New York. Yeah, I'm here. He loves it. He's Detroit born Brad, but he's a New Yorker now. Now, um, how good of a coach is hardball because when you think about what he did at
the clear years, not just Michigan though. Yeah, but I'm just saying right now two years Michigan was a joke two years ago, you know, you think about I think it was Riguez or something like that, a right rich Ryan and last year if it went for a fluky uh punch situation from Briscan State, there would have been a national championship the first year. Now they're knocking on the door. They may find themselves on the outside, you know. Now their fifth But he's a rare Guy's done it
at both levels. San Diego State was the was the first. It wasn't even San Diego State, it was like San Diego. I think it was the University California, san Diego. San Diego State was I looked at up. I think the light Lowry came. Larry came from the blue and Yellow team, but he was in San Diego State. I think the place where Marshall farms. No, no, no, no, it's I think it's and then it was Stanford, right then it
was San Francisco, and now it's Michigan. And listen. It takes a very unique coach to be successful on both levels. University of San Diego two thousand and four and two thousand six. Yeah, yeah, he god can coach man, you know. But he's one of those guys. You know, he's perfect for college because he can't wear y'at as fast. And
the dude is like NonStop. He goes goals, goals, um, but he can't wear y'all as much there as he can, you know in college, because what happens is right when you get tired of ready to have some confrontation with him, you graduate, you know, I mean sometimes the pros, you know, you hear that mess for ten years. He's a very demanding coach, you know, and he can wear his assistance. I was sometimes he can wear his players out. He is amazing and main man, he's crazy. He was crazy
as a player. He has and he has an energy and passion and enthusiasm. But you know who's the craziest. The live is one their dad. I don't know what to dude. Then he reminds me of the juice Man. Remember the juice Man, Like we got the fresh juice, Remember he had. It's like his eyebrows always grew. He's built all the Informerciyes, he had to jump suit. His dad's like the juice Man. Just go sometimes his dad used to speak to us, Man, I swear the guy
that was like, what's the kid? Um? What's the comedian that used to smash the the watermelon? No? No, the other guy. It was a guy where he was boy head. He had the long hair of the big mustache. He's just smash. Oh, I know you're talking about been in the front row. Listen to his dad talking like that. You're gonna get wet because he's gonna be salive all over the plate. He's swinging thron punches. Yeah, Gallagher, he's you don't get wet up, you know what I mean.
But you might want to bring your rain coat because he's gonna spit on everybody. What's the brother like John? John? And John is a little bit more measured, but he's just as intense. Uh, he's funny. You know, but you know those two guys over the top, he's the comments of the two. He's the Colm one. And anybody knows knows, uh, Jim, you know, they know that. You know John, you know they know that. He's fiery too, the former special team coach, so he kind of has that fired passion like that.
He has appreciation for the bottom of the of the roster as well, you know. But he's one of those guys too. Man. He's very demanded, don't He's very demanded that whole who got a better? Like they're crazy, man, But you gotta love it. Gallagher. Gallagher is funny, okay, So we'll think about the hard Buss Like Gallagher. I all of them are spinners, though, you just got you can't sit in the front row. I don't know if they got starbursts a mile or what. Man, it's just
spit everywhere. Hardball and Irban Meyer were born at the same hospital. No, I did not. It's amazing, man, the six degrees of separation. Now those two guys. That's great for that for that conference too. It's great college license. Um. And then Hardball had success at the pro level, and then what are you thinking about what Saban's doing in Alabama, and do you think he'd ever returned to He can't. He's not built for that. Some guys aren't built for
the NFL, and Saban can't. Why can't hardball succeed at the NFL? But save me, he couldn't. Well, you want that's the easy course because he played, so he can connect with the player because he's telling you do something he did. He's lived that life, so he has a certain amount of respect. Saban can't handle the one thing that all college coaches, I mean college coaches to go
to the pros must handle the why. Yeah, certain guys can't handle the y because when you go when you talk to a college student, it's just sir, we talked to a professional. You want to do it that way. But why explain to me why? Because I'm here because I've been successful and I'm great at what I do. So now we're gonna do something in a certain way. You gotta explain to me why. And some coaches can't handle that. They want to say because I said so,
but they don't understand. At the pro level, my success and your success are linked. First they may cut me and then they're gonna fire you, or the players are more empowered in the pros, they may fire you, right Yo, Buck ain't getting fired, but gootta will get fired. So some coaches can't handle the y. Bobby Petrino couldn't handle the y. You know what, let me go down to these eighteen year olds that I can hold this nugget over their head and say, listen, I'll bet your butt
and you don't have to drop down and transfer. Can't scare a professional like that, right, because that's what my career can goes longer than four years. So you can't. You can't hold that, or I won't play you, and then you gotta transfer. In his heart you to go somewhere else to play, and then you will miss out of your career, miss your opportunity. Will you ever go back? You think, yeah, he ain't ready for that. Life, can't handle that, You can't handle it. Will ever take another
both that? You think you'd ever take another college coaching job? You know what I was thinking about, Yeah, he's one of those guys that wear out it. He needs a challenge. You know what I was thinking about when all this stuff was going on with Texas is that if you're Texas and you had so much money and you decided you're gonna let go with Charlie Strong. Why not keept
saving a call and say, hey, ten million a year. Well, he he has to be too many a year because it has to be more than hardball who makes an I million a year. But you know, um and Herman's it's just very interesting in the way it works with college. I think her I think they see the future with Herman, right. You know, Nix Haveban had to bring a Kiffen to try and monornize their offense, right because he's great defensively, but he's kind of out of touch with the trains
to Chip Kelly. You know, you can't be as you know, like Chip Kelly or like Billy, but you want to have a system that has some of those elements in it. Right, So you think that was a key hire for him. Oh yeah, it's perfect because for them, Look what he's done with Houston. So you get him better athletes doing the same philosophy. How quick he was able to turn Houston around. Now they're saying, okay, we here's a guy that's been in the living rooms in Texas. Parents his
high schools have that connection because he's been recruiting. You know, I was saying about Kiffing, but yeah, Herman is definitely Herman. Hermann. Herman is definitely a good fit of Texas. I mean that one guy on the interior defensive line, I believe his name was at Oliver. He was like a five star recruit who went to Houston and no knock on anybody. Yeah, if you can recruit guys to play Houston, you can recruit guys to play ut. And he's got the Ohio
state background, hes coordinator for there as well. I don't take him. Won't take them long, you don't think so take him two years, two years. It would be the same time around, like hardball going there because at offense, we know they can get the athletes. Now it's dynamic. You know, it's not hard to sell the university that kids and parents dreamed about going to. It's hard to
sell Houston. They're hard to say. Okay, well, Ricky Williams win here, Earl Campbell, win here, bench young within here. This is blah blah blah blah blah blah. Look at the state and look all this money, Look what we got. You want to go there? And so you can do the hook of horns. From what everybody says is that Roster has built the wind now and you can out athlete people at ut and things like that. So he's coming in inheriting a program that Charlie recruited while and
just having found a wayduction right. So but holy in on his feet. He seems like a good guy, so widely respected. For all you hear people talking about Charlie Strong, you know, but everybody is tough to be head coaching and and too you know, supervise everything. Some guys are just you know, you look at Way for Lips. He was great. He was decent as a as a head coach,
but special as a coordinator. All right, So Sunday morning, like I said, you'll be back Jets flight Plan thirty am and we will be breaking down Darren Lee, who I think played very well against the Patriots. It's just not about tackles. So I just thought he was very active from the linebacker. You need that energy the light
bulbs on. Yeah, but just give fans a little sneak preview of what they can check out on Sunday because late in that game, it's the fourth and four and we went to the illustrator here and broke it down for like a half an hour, different angles, and you were you were bringing the light man because from you played inside linebacker in the National Football and you know exactly what it takes. And you looked at a play where Tom Brady lined up and gone fourth and four.
The Jets got a chance to get off the field to get about four and a half yur or five as um darrenly got over and made the tackle, just not in time. That's about the details, right, It's about interest, And it's funny you think about any given sunday, it's about interest the game and interest and about twenty interest costs Culture Jets opportunity. Right man, It's not about the inability to make the play. It's about the technique and awareness.
This thing is mental. We know he has athleticism and row ability, but now we just have to fine tune in and polish up that diamond. And that comes with time, yeah, and and experience, and sometimes you get that experience in the game, get that experience in practice. This is his first time going to gets tom Brady. Now he understands what he's dealing with, and he understands he has to think on the next level. You gotta think, not just react.
You gotta be proactive, not reactive. I mean. And if he wants me to tutor him, if he wants to learn from me, you know, I'm always open. I'm a jet for life, baby, and up in you know, can I can do? I can be a part time coach, all right? Job, angles and leverage are so important. And being around you more this year than the past a couple of years is that. That's one thing that I'm repeatedly reminded of each and every week. You get up there and say, where's the angle, where's the leverage? Is
coming inside coming outside? What are you showing? What is that tipping off to somebody like a guy like Brady pre snap recognition, understanding your own scouting report? What do they say you can't do right? And you have to understand situational football. And that's something that comes with being
around tremendous teachers and learning and it's a process. But you want to speed that process up so that you can improve as a player and so that you can help your team win, and that you can elevate your status in your respect around the league. You know, I never wanted to be. I never cared about being popular with fan basis right. I don't care about the popularity contest.
But what I wanted to do is for my you know, my opponents to turn on the film and say, hey, this guy is a high percentage decision maker and he's a real man. So I don't care what people think because I tell people all the time the easiest thing to get in life is numbers. But who are you willing to sell out to get them? Right? And the fans may respect somebody that gets the numbers, but the players respect the guy that's willing to sacrifice for his
brother and do the heavy lifting. Sometimes just is to bing, just excited about my teammates success as I am about minds, and sometimes we all have to jump on the grenade to let our teammates shine. And what some of these players understand that, you know, that's when you get a team, that's when you get a bond. That's when you can say, hey, David, who doesn't talk to anybody, I want to do an interview for Jet Life. And he says, no problem, that's earned,
that's not given respect across this league. Return on the film and you see a guy coming down and hitting the god squaring the eyes and saying that was good. I want some more, or let's do it again. That's fun and it's one of those competitive things. At the end of the day. You may not like playing against them, but you respect them, like you know what, that's a man right. There no moral victories in the National Football
each other three and eight. But did you like the spirit and the energy they play with coming off the boy? It's natural and I'm not giving them any They have had a lot of energy. They play with a lot of passion. They were excited. I mean, this was a game that you get up for no matter what. When I'd rather I was here or I was in Baltimore
when it was pittsburgher Patriot Week. It's one of those weeks is special, especially when you play somebody all the time and it's such a familiarity there that you know, you know it's gonna come down to play here or play there. Sometimes you win, sometimes they win, but it's always fun in the process because it is not about what place I am in a division. It's about going
about against somebody that you hate but you respect. Now, the key for these guys in the locker room right now is they obviously respond to the Todd Bols, and I anticipate they're gonna play well down stretch and get a couple of wins here. But they got a bottle that up. Now play Monday night against the Colts and get get an opponent. They don't face a lot and say, hey, listen, it's Monday night football. It's time. We just gotta get a one day night man. Like you're playing in front
of your peers, like this is where you get their respect. Like, man, you see this? Why man, I haven't had a time because we play at the same time of really what this tool base? He's a stretched out brand. He's a stretched out and Kwinboden same arm size, though, Man, I'm not gonna slice. You know. He may be taller than Twine, but no, no, not not, yeah, I'm talking about Yeah, the arms are the same. They both got a gun show. They both can put on a gun show. And you
the way you played. Gotta love the way a new approaches offensive game because he's so excitable and you can feel the stadium and energy gravitate towards him and his teammates. When we were breaking down that film when he beat Malcolm Butler in the first half on on one on one, you saw Sheldon Richardson right on the sideline, right there,
clapping in his face. You you, you always have teammates like that, And I was one of those guys man that like trying to make everything fun, play with an energy and a passion that you know, it was contagious, you know. And sometimes energy and passion and go a long way, especially on the defensive side of the ball, when it's not so much about the X and knows, it's about the effort in the pursuit can cover up a lot of sins. And we'll actually Jets play Andrew Luck.
They got a week to prepare for him. But I don't want to get too much into the excess and knows and that matchup rather what you just talked about physical and this dude. This dude has been softened up for years. You know, last year he had a last rated organ. This year, you know he's out for the concussion. You gotta let him know there's gonna be a long day. And he's a guy that's resilient, but he has started to show kinks in the army. He's taking a lot
of hits. No quarterback has been hitting more, I believe in the last three years. And Andrew look, and they got to make sure that this one maybe the all time hits record. And ain't about sacks, is about getting him off his spot and knocking him down. Can they take anything away from the way they played defensively against the Patriots, because yes, they gave up the late score, but Earl, they were very good on third down throughout that ballgame. Part they also got pressure at times. I
know they didn't have the sack numbers. And people always about about hits on the quarterback and their body blows. And what they're gonna have to do is make sure because they're they're dealing with a different beast. This guy is a guy that's mobile. Brady won't take off. This guy to take off. So you gotta be disciplined in your rush lanes. You can't present short edges or open edges or lanes for him to throw through. You gotta make sure that you know your your sound and discipline
in your pass rush. Make sure that you keep them and make them have the thought from from a phone bull. And then when you get an opportunity, you gotta put him on the ground, and you got to soften them up some more and hopefully, you know, he starts to see the pass rush and not looking so much down to field, and then that's when you got him. Once he starts to see the pass rush, he's gonna miss open guys. So now it takes a lot of pressure
off your off your coverage units because he's looking. And even when you're not coming, you know, with pressure or all of blitz or a four man rush, you dropping, you're only rushing three. That internal clock in his head is telling him I've been hit so many times. He's starting to hear the steps even though they may not exist. Yeah, I ain't just play. A great effort from the Jets, and I think they're gonna win this game and then we'll see what happens from there. Uh. Just wanting to
get your thoughts. Uh. Lastly, Uh, your final four playoff teams, what's gonna happen this weekend? By the time we get here next week, who are you going to be your final four? And that's a because we talked a little bit about college football today with Ohio State in Michigan Alabama, and regardless of what they do against Florida, and I want to Florida, but I don't think the Gators have That would be a monster US upset. So Alabama's in.
Alabama's in Clemsons and oh so Clemson will be a tricky game with Virginia Tucker or No, it would be tough. But you know, they got experience, and you know they don't always win pretty. But you know, I think that I think they're in so Clemsons in. It's interesting is this Ohio State thing? Man? So, yeah, Ohio State does not play this week. They're not in the big time title game. That's State wiscons And now we have a tough decision. That's going to be interesting what the committee sees.
You know, because State won, they head to head, they win the conference championship, they got the same record. Why wouldn't they be one of the best teams. Okay, well, before we get that Washington beat up on Washington State. You're not a listen. I had to do it, and listen, I think I was the third team grade. I really didn't go to college, so I got no horse in the race. You know. But okay, so if Washington beats Colorado, are they in? Man? They got a light schedule. Man,
who's Colorado like Strepord schedule? Like? Who have they beaten? I know, but it's the Colorado is gonna enter that game. A top ten team putting boys has to be in. I mean, hell, last year watching it didn't didn't didn't Houston go undefeated last year? Hasn't Bailor going undefeated before? No Belers always lost the game. I've always lost the game. We've had an undefeated team before. I mean, hell, that's what we're gonna start talking about Western Michigan. But you
think Penn State. No, right, that just but it's a tough decision because of what are you saying. You say you don't value conference championships, you don't value head to head. We got the same record, I beat you. Then that automatically means that before Penn State has two losses and so does Ohio State. State is one. They lost the Penn State. Ohio State is one loss. Penn State lost the pit and they got beat up by Michigan. Oh they didn't. Didn't Pitt beat Ohio State. No, No, Pitt
two big team teams Pitpie Clemson. Oh, That's what I'm saying. Not at Pitt loss are the same as bad. No, but it's still two losses. So you don't know, yeah, do you? I don't know, and I don't get paid to know, so I'm not gonna stress myself about it. But you almost made me have an aneurysm trying to figure this thing out. That's fine, we'll talk about it next week. That's part Scott. We'll see. We'll just talk about how they messed up no matter what, they can't right