Hey, this is Ryan Fitzpatrick and you are listening to the e A Podcast with Eric Allen. Take it away. Thanks for that, it's appreciate. Okay, we're back here on the A Podcast, Part Scott in studio. Before we talked New York Jets football. There was something on television this week that a four million people watched the presidential debate between Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Did you watch part Scott? You know what's crazy. I watched. I wanted. I didn't
watch football. I watched the debate. It was entertaining. Man, I'll tell you what you know. I don't know about the body chemistry experts and all that stuff, but it was awkward watching Donald Trump and his spirits split screen. You know, he couldn't be able his best behavior for the entire time. Man, you heard you heard some some glory. He was thirsty, his throat was dry, he was he
was disruptive, you know. And that's him on his good behavior, you know, on the on the Republican primaries, and even crazy because then it's kind of hard for him. He's between the rock and Hart Pleace. He can't really insult, insult a lady, you know, he can't really call it a little Marie, you know, a little ruby o and all that type of stuff. So he was trying to build his best behavior. But you could see that she was poking a bear and getting underneath the skin. It
was it was hilarious. It was fun to watch. But you know, it's what what was was interesting to me. I don't know how you said, is how the difference between the way sin then covers it and the difference between Fox. Now listen to me watching, I think he lost. He didn't do a great job. He may have had a couple of moments where he was more informed than others,
but he didn't come off presidential to me. But you talk to them, they're like, oh my god, like like he was like Martin Luther King or something like he galvanized the world or something like. It was like it was amazing. Then you turn the center, didn't turn to sit and then they're like, man, that's the worst debate. He lost, blah blah blah. But there's no middle ground, never a middle cround. So I was always searching the television, and I used to watch CNN a lot, and sometimes
I sometimes they go down on my son BC. But again those are not worth. It's that I have a left leaning and I'll say it right now. We're not gonna get two potter. But I'm an independent, so that's how I feel. I don't know what I listened. I lit, I judge based on the person and listen. If I had a choice, I wouldn't vote for anybody that I would go none of the above. I forgot what movie
that was when you vote none of the above. I think it was something with no no. I think it was Eddie Murphy when the guy died, um and he was maybe he died and he was the Uh, yeah, it was Eddie Murphy. The guy died, he used his name. And people are just so used to just voting for the person in name that something Jefferson. They always vote for the name, so they never even looked a pat attention to the ballot. You know, let me let me look this up here. But I'll tell you what, man
like Jesus God. Now, there's a lot of people who say that people would react differently if they turned it down. I mean, I'm not one of those guys who are gonna watch you with the sound up and then see how I feel about it just by watching their facial gestures. But there are folks to say they react differently to
it by hearing what they say and then their facial reactions. Yeah, I mean, you got these body language experts to come in and say that you know, he was drinking because he was getting nervous and he was anxious and had anxiety, and you say she was you know, you can tell when he when he brought up the emails, how that
you know she started blinking, you know, rapidly blinking. So so what I'm trying to do is figure out how I can use these But when I'm trying to get out of something with my wife, how can I use my body language? Sure, because if you start blinking, you know something that's going on, or you scratch. Why are they against water? I like water? You know me, I'm
always drinking. They tell you to drink a hundred ounces a day with this guy in a couple of SIPs of water, and they're like different times, he had eleven different times, And in their little glasses, I think somebody's under that refilling them. And then you know, I think
they say he interrupted her seventy times. You can get away with that and be loud and bragg your doshes and like over over, you know, over talk, you know in the in the Republican primary, right right, right, He's kind of like, you know, it's a show, but when it's just two people, it comes off as annoying and arrogant. And what do you think about what do you think about the crowd though, because they tell people to come
in there and be silent. But my counter would be, we used to work at Hofstra back in the day. Uh that's where the Jets home was and I worked there from two thousand one to two thousand and eight when this building started. But they tell people in that auditorium to come in and don't say anything. But then why do they want him there? You know what I'm saying exactly. We don't even have the show them. Yeah,
I guess for atmosphere. You know, they like the handshakes at that I guess you know, everybody's gotta claim victory and then there's that awkward handshake at the you know, like the little lea you just talk stuff about me, And they even talked about the handshake. They talked about that he invaded her personal space as he put her in, and he patted her on the back, but they say she should have looked at there's what are you supposed
to do? I hate him. He's talking about he's been talking crap about my about my husband and talking about threatening to bringing Cheetah. She's bringing in, you know, Mark Cuban, you know, to come in somebody. I don't agree with she. She's making all these uh ads about him and his past. It's so hard when it gets personal. How would you handle that if you were a presidential candidate? Somebody was talking because he went at her for going at Barack Obama,
but then he went after everybody in his party. But now they became friends. So now you hear uh Christie like Ben Carson's, they're like, man, what are you doing? Man? The funniest thing for me is uh and I you know, I do a radio show with CPS and I was just so Paul last week when I saw Don King come out and listen. If Don King wants to support Donald Trump, I'm fine. But whoever is advises Donald Trump.
The fact that they thought that bringing Don King was gonna bring it in the black boat have got to be has to have lost their mind and be crazy. Like I said before on my show. I said, listen, black people don't like Don King. You can't find find
people in their family that like Don King. And I said that Don King has ribbed more Black people than Omar from the wire, like I brought up all five of the lawsuits that he had, from Tim Witherspoon to Muhammad Lead to Muhammed to Mike Tyson to George Form, all the people that have sued him in court. And you think that's gonna bring the black boat. You just lost the black boat. You want the black you better get Oprah on your side. Don King is pretty old.
Old people like that don't die. We lose all the good ones, all the shakes, and criminals and crooks live forever. And then again, Muhammad Lee died on a Palmer die before we gotta Sunday was tough. You wake up in the morning, you hear about a year old kids who dies in a boating accident. And then we fly home from Kansas City and you hear about Arnold Palmer dying.
Just a legend eighty seven years old. And I know he lived a tremendous life, but it just gives you cause for pause when you have a day like that. Came out of nowhere. Listen, listen to who we lost this year. We lost mohamedan leader this year, one of the biggest, you know, most recognizable athletes in the world. Forget athlete, most recognizable person in the world. You know, it's amazing that, you know, we're losing all the great guys. You know, Prince died this year. You know we're losing
all our heroes are dying. It's time and I don't really see where it's being replenished, where those great figures in sports and society are being replaced. Where's the next great leaders? Right? Don't see him. I did feel like and I don't know how you do, because you've been in the public eye for so long now during your playing career and now you're on CBS and you're a national presence, you are a national brand. I feel like these folks, the way we cover things nowadays is they
don't allow anybody to be a hero. And when I say that, I mean with Twitter and the Ultimate responses, everybody has a flaw and we are going to crush you. Like Mohammed Ali, I feel like and stuff like that with de humanized. During his time, he got a lot of backlash for the stands he took, and then it took decades for people to say, hey, really, this guy did a lot of good and he stood by his principles and what he believed in, and then he got
credit for it. I feel like if Muhammad Ali lived in a time like today, he would be vilified when they put him in jail. I don't know how much more then with the Twitter, you know, let's telling something. What have us now? Even if you think about one of the most famous athletes in the world, Lebron James, he's too assessible. She used to be that our stars were so unaccessible. We didn't really know much about them,
so we put him on a pedestal. But now what happens is it's just like when you meet somebody famous, right, and that they're your hero, and the more you're around, the more normal they become. Right, So you take them off of that pedestal, they become normal to you. And that's what's happening with our stars. We look at Lebron like just a regular guy. He got problems or you know this happened, or we're looking for so many flaws. Oh my god, he's chewing his nails on the batch.
That means that look at look at his hairline. He's not gonna be able to take control. Oh he didn't take the shot at that of the game. It's Lebron is a perfect example of that because he does not he doesn't have Jordan's personality, right Like Jordan's was a killer. He was a cold blooded killer, and Lebron is a tremendous player, but his personality is different. It's how society has changed, right. So it used to be like when you're my enemy, we weren't friend on the court. We
want friends off the court. Now what happens is a lot of these kids that grow up going through the the AUTH circuit, so they're around each other, so they become friends, so they can be competitive and and play. But it's not that killer instinct, you know. You think about you know, I think about Bird and the Pistons, I think about Magic and the Celtics. I think about I think about Jordan. Listen, Jordan's kept Isaia off the off the uh off the Olympic team, and it was
coached by his coach. So his coach couldn't get Isaiah on the on the Olympic team because Jordan hated Isaiah that bad that you wouldn't allow him to get an opportunity to become a Gold Mellist. When you try and tell me that he wasn't one of the best players at that time in the game, Come on, man, we love Stockton, but come on, man, what do you think Christian Lachner wouldn't had a spot? No? Well later was that? Yeah, the great college players, so they had to put him
in there. Uh you just mentioned in the Pistons and Jordan's which goes you can you imagine the bad boys now the bad boys in today's era, they would be so villafied changed the rules. Yeah, they did it. But when those guys walked off the court when Jordan finally beat them, you're a competitor, and sometimes you were high and sometimes you were low, and you were all over the place. So when do you think about that because
you grew up in Detroit. Well, well, I think they were the Pittons were conditioned to do that because that had happened to them when the Celtics they finally beat the Celtics. Remember the Celtics walked off the court too, So they were just doing what they thought great organizations did, like, you know, they walked off early, like, yeah, we lost, but we're not gonna give you satisfaction. We're not gonna give you the the appreciation or saying, you know, we're
not comming. So it was it was a lack of it. But yeah, it was a lack of respect. We still hate you forget y'all. I hope you'll lose, you know what I mean. Where there was no passing the door. They never said it's all about we're giving it to you, now go get that. They said it was our fault. He took up. Whatever we're doing, right, we're not going quietly into the night. And remember when the Celtics finally lost, remember because Isaiah threw the ball in and it got
stolen by bird and gave to Dennis Johnson. Yeah, well so that was like that was like eighty seven. The Pistons came back and finally beat them as they were getting older and eighty and as the Pistons were getting older, you know, and Jordan's finally got help because remember the year before, uh, Scotty got ill because he took a b to have migraints. He couldn't help. In Game seven, the Pistons came back and one when they went back
to back. But you know, like the only person that could gratulate the Pistons when they finally beat the uh aging Celtics team was Kevin McKell. Remember the famous high five that he kind of gave to Isaiah before and they went and wanted, Um, that's just the way it's changed. It's the kids don't have that killer instinct and it's no right way wrong way because it's a different situation how they're growing up. You know, they're growing up together.
So how can Carmelo hay Lebrown when they played against each other in college me in um the auth circuit and it was all over the world hanging out, probably playing video games. All of a sudden, I was supposed to hate you. You know, it's not like that. And and sometimes you get the old time talking about back in my day. But things change. I'm sure you know
the people that things do change. But it is tough. Listen, me, Havan in this business now close to two decades, and you do sometimes and I know I sound like an old guy when I said that's what you do. Say. Well, back in the early nineties, you had dynasty teams in the National Football League or late eighties, you saw the forty Niners come up, and you know, the Bills want the four straight Super Bowls and that will never happen again.
New England. New England's the only team who's had to back in a fifteen year run where you know they're gonna be in the playoffs. Right, Well, that's the difference things. You gotta understand. Free agency is different, you know what I mean? Agency changed everything, But you bunch of malone. It was Reeve, his uncle who was one of the right, who was very instrumental in that, and it gave gave
the players flexibility, ga the players more power. You know, you talk you talk about you know, the early Dallas Cowboys. Those guys couldn't go anywhere, and you talk about you're talking about the Still Curtain in the seventies. Those guys are on the contract basically lifetime contracts. They couldn't go anywhere they wanted to. But then again, they couldn't get the financial benefits of being a free agent going to the free market. So it's a good thing for the players.
It may not be a good thing for the fan base because they lose some of their stars. What do you think about it? I mean, as a fan, you have to understand, Like I always laugh when people want to criticize Kevin Durant, you know. And he finally came out and said, listen, we understand. You'all don't care about me. You don't care about my interests. All you care about is me and what I can do for your team. But also that you don't care about me. You don't care if I want to live in a city where
I can go fishing. You don't care if I live in a city where I want to live in for the rest of my life. Or you don't care if I want to raise my family in a different place or something like that. You don't care. All you care about what I can do for you as soon as I'm not yours anymore. Now you hate me and you talk more? Could former fans talk more crap? How about Cleveland Burners Jersey? You come back? Now you love him again?
But you like put his name through them, even the owner right, and then he left came back and now you now you love me. I don't have a problem with what Duranting, you know, because he thought this situation was past for him. And like you're saying it's free ency. Now, would I prefer in the in a dream world that he and Washbrook were an okay see for a long time. Yeah, but but I don't have a problem. Nobody cried when James Harden left. Nobody cry when Ibaka left. Nobody Abaka
actually traded. You don't hear anybody criticizing him or burning his jersey. And Durant seems like a nice guy. It seems like one of the nice guys he left there from Seattle. It's his right to be a phrase. It's the second time he's a free agent. If he sees his trending, he wants to play, you only get one one go around at the same ben an athlete. I mean, it's no senior citizen circuit for for basketball players. If he wants to go play somewhere, that's his that's his prerocative.
He gave you everything he had when he was there. You can't say didn't play her. You didn't say he didn't perform at a high level. If he decides to leave, that's his prerogative. How many how many people you know, those same people that are criticizing him, how many of those people would stay at the same job, offered a better, more tractive job. How many people, okay, see if they would offer the same job and up in a in a raising pay in l A would say no, I
love Oklahoma. So we always asked our athletes to do something we wouldn't do in our lives. That we asked him to take less money. You asked him to not move, not to take their family considerations into into account, not not not not pay attention to markets or anything like that. But they wouldn't do it in their life. Oh, he's greedy. He shouldn't. He shouldn't want his money. So your boss tell you get this money, you're gonna say no, yeah, yeah, But you expect athletes to do it right. It's it's
it's it's crazy hypocrisy. It is fascinating. Let's talk a little, Jets, let's do it. Uh. Green and White have to flush this out of their system quick, just like the Cincinnati Bengals game, because after that week, Todd Pole said a short week, we gotta move on the Buffalo and they did, indeed do just that. They loses Kansas City Turnover Festival. Ryan Fitzpatrick struggled. He admits to trying to do too
much at times. Obviously that's what happens when you have a six interception game, you're still only lose by twenty one, which is saying something in itself. But now, how do you move quickly from that ball game to Seattle? Well,
what happens there's snowballs, right. And sometimes when you you watch teams when they have a bad week, they come back and have a better week and people like, oh, well, why didn't they play with the same passion, because it's something about being desperate, and you gotta think they were facing a desperate team in the Kanda City Chiefs. What happened to them the week before they lost in Houston? Absolutely so they were so they were more in their
game that they went. They had more attention to detail and practice. It probably got m MEF in practice in film room, they probably you know, were rolled up and they used the emotion of the crowd. Tony Richardson went into the Hall of Fame that day right in their ring, a lot of it was a lot of emotions there
and the guys performed at a high level. And what happens is when you have mistakes, and if you want to talk about ran Fitzpatrick and the six interceptions only give him credit for three of them, you know, two deflective balls and the and the last one was just trying to take a shot and trying to get back in the game with a will route. But you gotta take your hats off to the defense because really the defense on the game up. All those turn off the
defense on the game up ten points. You know, one was a fun ball and special teams or intercepted, I don't know what you want to say, because he caught it and went right into the guy's hands. That you know that one, and then I believe what was the other? It was after fence the first interception, which is Marcus Peters say, the thirty five drive and they catched in with the touchdown on Now, yeah, that's the only drive that they the other ones, am I am? I correct?
Didn't they score two touchdowns, one on defense and one on offense. Yeah, Derrick Johnson scored So yeah, I mean, you're the thirty five yard drive off the turnover, you had Johnson's return for the touchdown and then teams return for a touchdown, So that's fourteen points point So it's ten points and seven of those came off thirty five yard drive. My point. So you know, as a defense, you gotta say listen and and you know we can't give up the thirty five yards no matter what. You know,
you you strive for perfection. You always you're you're always you're always gonna fall short, but you always strive for perfection. Now listen, it's a lot of positives that go in when you want to give up ten points. You didn't hang your hat, you didn't point to finger at the offense. The team stayed together, you know, and you just move
forward from there. You know what, you have to just weather this storm, this tough patch of your this tough stretch of your schedule, and make sure that you're peeking in November December playing the bestball. And you want to be in contention. You want to be in striking this far. Do you buy that because fans can watch a game and sometimes say team looks flat or they look lest less. You, as a former player, do you buy into any of that? Of course that can happen. But like you were saying,
defense didn't give up too much. You just didn't have a big play to get you going right. You're just waiting for that that you know, the football guys you know usually bless you. Usually what happens is it's like you know, it swings back and forth, right, So sometimes like all the bombs go to to to you in the first half and use it goes to the other team in the second half. Well, it never went the other way. For for the Jets, they didn't get that
big turnover, they didn't get that easy score. You know, they didn't get that momentum change in type of play. You know, they didn't get that. It just didn't happen. And sometimes it happens. And what happens is you try and stay within yourself and not pressed. But at some point you say maybe it's not gonna happen, you start pressing. So I think that Ryan fits practory because things weren't happening.
Were trying to press, trying to get the big play, you know, trying to make sure that you continue to take the big shots to try and get the easy score. You want to get the easy score. Just think that the Kansas City Chiefs got two easy scores, like two scores. They didn't have to work for one play. Bam over
with you know what I mean. So the Jets. We're looking for that one easy score just kind of change it to put the pressure back on Kansas City because the defense was playing well, if you could have put the pressure back on it, but you needed a big play, an easy score, a score that didn't take, you know, a six minute drive or seven minute drive. You need a thirty second score, a fumble or return from star
press harder than the NFL. And you guys always say this to drive eight yards stuff when you're Nickelin and Diamond down the field and the big explosion, and they were forcing them to the justice stay patient, and you know when you play patient, eventually you have to try and take a shot and stay aggressive. And they capitalized when they were trying to be aggressive. How can they match up offensively with the Seattle's defense. We talked about it on our film review that people can watch it.
Jet's flight plans. We're trying to get an immy Sunday and then twelve o'clock you'll be on with the Fellows with your big national show that NFL today the Matt Backer. But how can no offense match up with this defense that's been together for a number of years. And you talked about it on our film review. They got a loaded secondary still guys who have a lot of chemistry
back there. And when I think about Seattle's defense, I think of all levels because of course Richard Sherman, Chancellor and the Earl Thomas, but Michael Bennett is one of the better defensive lineman and the national football game, Bobby Wecht is one of the top liner. He's disruptive, you know, talking about Benny, He's disruptive and they use him everywhere.
They'll isolate him on guards. I expect them to try and get him match up on one of the guards because he's you know, he's a smaller guy if you put him inside, but he's so quick and he's so exposed and powerful that he can get early pressure on the quarterback and flush him out. You know, they do a great job and that you know, but we all know that to see how the Seahawks really play cover three. So what you wanna do is much like teams you
just try and do with Polamalu. You know, you want to try and get him isolated with formation, with shifts and in motions to try and get him matched up and force him to cover cam Chancler not not to cover and and and um not to cover in space in his zone, but you want to force him to try and carry you long, so all zones become man and man after a certain amount of time. So they play cover three. So if you run a vertical route four birds which cover three, you only have three dep
that means somebody underneath has to carry. Well. A lot of times that's gonna be uh Cam Chancellor, and he struggles in coverage and a lot of teams last year. You think about last year when the Carolina Panthers beat him, they use ocean right up the scene, right, And that's what you wanna do. You want to try and get him out of his comfort zone, make him have to cover and covering space against one of your better guys. And you can do that because you understand that a
lot of times they don't match up Richard Sherman. If it's covered three his own, he's going to be outside and you you can put your your your studs inside and that matches them up against either Wagner or matches them up against Cam Chancellor, Earl Bennett, which Earl Thomas, which I think is an advantage to the Jets because they have so much depth that they can go for receivers and force those guys that have to cover. This is the podcast that is Bart Scott is it is
no As you mentioned, Jen Galile's got some options. He could put Dr Air Marshall inside and Richard Sherman a lot of times, it's gonna stay outside no matter who is inside. Who do you think it makes? Makes it all go back there when you say I've spent saying for years now you're more of an expert than me. But I've been saying for years at secondaries all about Earl Thomas, Well, Earl Thomas is uh. He's explosive. He's one of the better you know, to me, the two
young you know studs at that position. You know some people I like Tyson Gibson a little bit, but he's he's going to get lost down there in Axonville. You know Eric Berry and you talk about Earl Thomas, two of the younger, most explosive playmaking type of um safeties. You know, when I think about Thomas, I think of Bob Sanders and he's a physical guy. He can close, he can cover a lot of ground, and he's very physical at the point of attack. He's going to cut
your legs out. He's gonna, you know, get there. He's even though he's small, he plays big, you know. So he's the guy that you have to count Ford Camas like the devastate, He's like the Marshall Lench. He sets the temple for them. He gets the big that gets everybody ready to go, like right with Marsha right exactly, or like when Chris Ivey come down and run somebody over. It energies the entire team, you know, so you have to make sure that you get him down and not
feeling great. But also if you get an opportunity with Thomas, I take that. I'll take that match up against Thomas and Decker or Thomas and Marshall every day of the week, even Thomas in the now while because he's a smaller guy. He's short, so you know, the catch rateers is larger than his defense raiders. So he's right. So you throw the ball up top. He can't get there, you know. All he can hope is to try and strip it out your head. You catch at as highest point. He
can't climb that high part. Scott is telling you the Jets gotta attack offensively, saying four verticals and that's what we saw a lot against the Buffalo Bills, and the Jets took advantage of that. So they'll be a comeback mode offensively this week. We know that a great challenge I had Robby Anderson made a couple of catches and the kid could fly. Maybe they'll use him a little bit outside this week. He can, he can stretch his own.
But what's going to be important is they have to keep their eye on Tiler Lock It not so much. You know, you gotta watch him in the in the in the passing game, but you can't have let downs because he's special returning the ball. He can't you can't allow him to to flip the field position and establish you know, feel you know, great field position for the for the team because he's able to flip the flip the field quickly because he's really electric. He's one of
the better young returners. So if you can you know, I know a lot of people are doing these blue kicks and things like that, just kick the ball. A lot of ends on. Give him the ball at the five, don't give him an opportunity to make a big impact play. I like him a lot. He made a lot of plays in Kansas State and he got knocked four size. That's why he goes a little bit later in the draft. But he's just a good football player. He can make plays as a receiver to Locket's explosive Yeah, and you
matchin Yeah, and you talked about Yeah, Jimmy Graham. You know, last year, I think they really couldn't find a rhythm. They didn't know how to use them, and their offense took off when he got hurt. But last week you talked about him elite tight end, a past receiving tight and you don't have to worry about him much in the run game. So very much like Kelsey because he said the same thing as Kelsey last week. Not not a guy who's gonna be an imposing blocker. Right, They're
gonna move him around. They're gonna move him around, get get the matchups. And also they're gonna they're gonna see if the Jets made the corrections. You know what what they did last week? They run you know, clear house and they kind of let Kelsey sneak out, you know, behind because everybody knows that the Jets, you know, play
a lot of man to man defense. So now what happens is you run over routes and guys can get caught up in the trash, and you get a guy like Jimmy Graham, you know, who doesn't run as well after the catch as Kelsey, but he can make the catch and get a couple of yards afterwards. Kelsey is
the guy who wants he catches it. He's one of the better, you know, run after the catch tight ends, but you still have the same post, the same problem because Jimmy Graham can high point the ball and if you're if you plan that, you're gonna have to communicate with the linebackers and say, hey, give me some help. Or if you have the running back and you're running
back stays in. You see Jimmy Graham coming underneath shallow underneath the linebackers, you know, and I have a man of man, give me, give me the hamburger helper, give him a chip on the way out, slow him down so I can catch up. And you said communication will be key again this week, especially if they're trying to get Jimmy Graham involved in this game early between the
linebackers and the secondary. Russell Wilson loves going to Doug Baldwin, who's not a prototypical number one receiver, but he's just a productive dude, scrappy he were reminds me of this. This receiving staff reminds me of the Patriots old staff with Branch, Patton and Troy Brown. Brown. You know what I'm saying. You can put Tyler Locketted Troy Brown. You could put Balling to replace Patton and Curse to replace Branch. You know, they just play well together. They're scrappy group.
They're not a highly decorated group. But you talk about last year. You know, nobody had more touchdowns in the second half of the year than you know, Russell to Balling, you know, he's really scrappy. He's competitive because he had to fight for everything that that he's gotten and they rewarded him with a lucrative deal. But he's still bringing that same type of passion. And with Russell, you broken down. Great on film is that he breaks contained and you're done.
You're done because he's either getting fifteen or twenty on the ground and not taking the big hit, or he's going out top vertically because his small stature. The funny thing about him coming out was people are like the arms strength. I don't know about the arms strength. He he throws in the game on a rope, on a rope, you know. I know Flacco would say a little bit about that. But you know, Russell Wilson what makes him
so special. He's able to buy time. But he's not a guy that's going to panic in the pocket and just run and start looking to run immediately. His eyes are always downfield and they understand. Much like Ben Roethlisberger. When he gets out, everybody turns their routes and they go vertical, and he's able to find him. But what happens is when he turned vertical, if you're in a zone, sometimes you lose your guy because he's running vertical and that's not your zone anymore. But the guy that's deep
is gone because everybody's turning up. So you saw it last week when he bought time that he was able to find Jimmy Graham because once it was a zone, people clear his own. Now his zones expand, you know, and he's able to buy time because he's a dual threat and he doesn't take big hits. He always slides. You know, he's great baseball players, so he knows how to slide get down early, but he kills you and
that's what happens. And he usually waits to the second half when the game is on the line to do that. He's Injured's gonna be important for the Jets not to get past We talked about rushing the edges. We talked about never getting past quarterback debt, because when you get past quarterback depth, you allowed the quarterback to step up
and step out. You want him to be able to throw, have to throw the ball from a phone bull if you want him contain where He's not the tallest guy, so he needs lanes to see through and to throw through the same lanes that he throw through he run through. But if you keep them bottled up, now he has to try and throw over the top. You guys love that.
As players, we hear that all this week is maintained rush. Yeah, and we always we always use that against Michael Vick because Michael Vick wasn't tossor you know, like Brady, like Peyton, like uh even Luck or Cam Newton who can throw over the defense because they're they're actually just as tall as their linement, so they can throw over. You want to try and start the pocket and destroy his vision to make him have to move left or right. In our paper that Jets shouldn't be able to do that.
I'm not taking anything away. It's not great offensive line. Yeah, we're not taking shots here, but this is the unit that is struggle and keep it really going wrong. Any are you looking at Muhammad Welkers since Sheldon Richardson who you're sitting down with on Friday, I'm excited to watch that one. Um. Leonard Williams is a beast in the second season. Steve McLean has been a nice pick up.
I'm saying on paper, the Jets defensive line could make this a long afternoon for Russell Wilson because while Michael has got some nice numbers, no Mars Shawn Lynch there anymore. In Seattle's games, they're still trying to figure it out right who they're going to be this year. And you know, I like how they use Lee last last week against
Alex Smith, who's an underrated athletic guy. But you know, you also can use with some of the same principles right with him spine as well, So when he does do that, you put the pressure on him to make him have to make a decision earlier, can allow him to go dit back there, because he'll he'll he'll pivot, he'll know speed turned lose ground and come up, you know,
and run around out back there. But your force your corners to have the cover for six seven seconds and he'll find somebody event, you know, So you put the spy on him, so as soon as he breaks contain, you got somebody right there in his face, making him have to make a decision. Styles make fights. Do you like the matchup for the Jets? I like this matchup.
I like this matchup a lot um. Also, I think it's important that they jump on him early and make sure that they set the tone early with getting to get into Russell Wilson. You know, you watch steal Um, You watch how Miami got out thro the when they went out there and the rams they always the random But we're talking but then, but what's up front exact?
Combinate with the defensive line exact? Why that's what makes them different cause they don't have to blitz because they have a great front four that can beat their line. So the Jets, you know, I would say, you know, you talk about the best you know front four, you would have to say that the Rams and the Jets are pretty similar. I would give the edge to the Jets. You know, so playing a lot of four three this year too, because you're getting your best players on the field.
Last week we saw a lot of David Harrison in the middle flanked by two rookie line packers, and I thought both of them showed uh, showed up. Yeah. Yeah. Jordan Jenkins, I think he's got old man strength. Their third round pick from Georgia. He just comes in there and he's got a lot of young guys. You can tell they gotta put on weight and things like that. I think he kind of has it and then Lee uh ways to go. But he's showing that a lesson
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