Early Impressions of Training Camp (8/1)

talking about Brandy camps calling. No, I mean it's football. I'm not talking about seasons. I'm just talking. This is like a very exciting time because you see everything that transpires for like six months start to come to fruition and then not to mention the training camp battles and the position death and you can go a position by position and be intrigued by what's gonna happen and what's

gonna transpire over these twenty eight days. For the first couple of days though, it's really not football because Gode Bowls would tell you it's still shorts and T shirts. Jamal Adams previewed what's ahead for this coming week Here with the pads. It's time. It's real football, and now we're gonna start to see people try to separate themselves. But it's early on the camp and I think the

Jets are feeling plenty good. Jermaine Johnson, a newcomer signing free agency the Big Ticket Edition, talked about that during his media availability first day here, saying that you know, he was a part of a Rams team that struggled and they made the playoffs last season, and he said this Jets team has the potential to make the playoffs. All eyes always on the quarterbacks every year. We've talked about it at length that this is one of the

most unique quarterback rooms in the league. It's only been a couple of days, but what what do you like what you've seen out of Josh mccounty and Teddy Bridgewater, Because there, at least through my eyes, have had pretty good camps so far, and they both look like they're splitting the reps pretty evenly. They're splitting them evenly, but right now, I would say Greens, I haven't seen Teddy take any first team reps right now. It's all Josh taking all the first team reps. But those guys are

getting plenty of work and they'll take it. I think McCown said, what do you say after the first day that h he could he because he had the extra reps, he would indulge in some ice cream. Oh wait, wait, hold on, I gotta talk about ice cream real quick. Have you ever heard of Martha's and Lake George? Have you ever been to Lake George? No? No, never. It's a basically is there ice cream? It's soft serve. It's supersized,

so a kittie is like off the cone. But soft serve isn't the stuff you scoop up, correct, No, it's the thing out of the machine for people, for people coming to training camp. And there's still a couple of practices left. I think open to the public. There might be a cap on the number because after this weekend there's just two more open practices. And and sorry, folks, but the Jets are going down and they're gonna practice with the Redskins down in Richmond, Virginia, so they kind

of split up training camp a little bit. But come out to Rutgers Saturday night for the Green and White. Just relating to ice cream, I'm getting there, Okay, I didn't know. I didn't know. For the people who are definitely coming out here to Flooring Park, stopped by Madison, go to the cools. That's the spot. Mccool's is the spot. And what is the ice cream flavor of choice for there? There are any number of flavors, But I'm like a chocolate, peanut butter cookie dog kind of guy. And are you

coner cup? I do come like the comb because it can get to uh, it can get a little bit messy. Yeah, and in the heat, specifically in the summer, I feel like it's a race to eat the ice cream for drips on and gets on your hand. Yeah, But I'm a guy gets the ice cream, puts it in a bag and I go eat it at home. I don't have to eat it right there. And I don't want to eat it outside. You don't like a nice stroll

in Madison eating your ice No, I don't. Okay, Well, going back to going back to mark is real quick. The reason why I brought it up is because they had something I've never heard of before, and it was mint chocolate sprinkles s. Back in the day when I was a kid that you either called them sprinkles or jimmy. Do you hear that? Yeah? My mom calls him, Jimmy, all right, let's get this back on track here. Alright. Fine, that was a little ice cream diversion there, that was

that was a break. But Josh m count said, he indulged in some ice cream and I want to move on from the quarterbacks. I know, crazy idea, crazy idea. No, we should go. Well, we'll get back there at some point. Yeah, yeah, there there's plenty. There's plenty of time left. It's a marathon training camp. But I wanted to know, e A, give me a position or two that you're most excited to see as training camp transpired. Maybe it's a battle. Maybe if you just curious, have the depth chart. It's

sight is your buzz word today. You really pumped up, aren't you. I'm excited. Yeah, Wide receiver position because you have Quincy and Nona who the first day had repenny on. Then he was able to take that penny off, uh and participate in team drills. And then on the third day when the Jets went to pads, he had the penny back on. So the Jets gonna take the cautious

approach with him. But he looks like his old self as far as exploding in and out of breaks and he was really coming into his zone before he got hurt last year at the Green and White at Motlife Stadium. And then Terrell Prior is another guy that we have to continue to monitor because here's a guy who is a veteran. This league started out his quarterback jer Maine Curse talked about the last time I was a teammated

this guy, he was a quarterback in Seattle. But Prior, you know, as we mentioned many times before, was coming into his own in Cleveland, and then he was banged up all last year Washington and he had to boot on throughout the spring. He's been able to do some things in individual drills. He's trusting in the process. He's saying he's feeling as good as he has in a long time. But if you add those two Jermaine Curse and possibly a budding star here and Robbie Anderson, this

wide receiver group could really be something I agree. And something that Quincy tweeted was that the receiving room has four people that have had at least eight hundred yards one season in their career, and that's Robbie Quincy, Germaine, and Terrelle Pryor also Terrell Prior, just so I know, he is huge. He is very very big, very very tall, and he's someone that I forgot about this. I think he has the NFL's longest touchdown run as a quarterback, not only three yards in Oakland. And then so I'm

gonna ask you a question. I'm gonna go to the defensive line to him. So I'm gonna switch back to the defense. And it's easy to say cornerback. But the couple of guys who jumped out to me, there are some rookies who quietly made a couple of plays here early. I think fans should be really excited here. I'm gonna use your word. The fans should be really excited about

Nathan Shepherd. He flashes. There was a one on one drill that we were watching offensive line, first defensive line, big carp out there, one of the Jets better offensive linemen, and ship, Wow, you put on a move, showcased his power and he was in the backfield and heartbeat and everybody on the sideline was like whoa, yeah, yeah, and then four lines of photocos. He's also getting some reps in there in the first team. Henry Anderson is a

guy who's got some starting experience with Indianapolis Colts. Leonard Williams has talked about first day camp when he reported said, Hey, the thing I gotta do is late in games, since I'm a bigger guys, keep that pad level down. But Leonard is the guy up there. Who are the guys who are going to be fixtures and staples along with him? Shep is the guy who Todd Bowles really likes because in the hands and we'd be remiss if we didn't

match it. Steve McClendon, who you know, in addition to being the philosopher on the team, the guy who's almost he talks like it's almost like a Sunday sermon sometimes because he's emotional, he's driven, he's passionate. You love that kind of guy. I feel like whatever he speaks to the media, I feel like I'm in the game huddle, right And so he's ready to go. And you know, and he at thirty two, I think he's the second oldest player in the roster. But McClendon gives you good

snaps up there, particularly against the run. But how are all these other guys up front going to take the next steps here in the next few weeks. But this Shepherd guy and he got some first team raps too, and he was doing something as well. I got two things. One is Shepherd. If you remember in the Senior Bowl everyone raved about he broke his hand at the Senior Bowl when everyone raved that he was dominating Will Hernandez,

who's now the Giants offensive lineman. And well, Hernandez was regarded as one of the top linemen in the draft. And then not only that, but Bowles mentioned after the Jets drafted him, he just kept talking about his heavy hands and you saw it when he lined up against carp And the other thing is, here's a piece of Jets roster trivia this year. You said McClendon is the second oldest player on the team. Believe there are three

players thirty or older. You know it's McCowen, McClendon. Can you name the third or can Jets Nation also named the third? Well, Blog is gonna turn thirty in October, so it's not him yet. And by the way, two, niness looking fine. Yeah, he is looking pretty good, like on wine vintage wine down there? Um the third over thirty offensive line Dodd do do don receiver do do do do the food linebackers. Welcome back to Double Jeopardy Daily,

Andre Roberts. That's a good call, okay, So Andre robertson, you know, that's something that the fans don't here too much about, and that's gonna develop over time during training camp. But the guys back there who returns at the return spot we're gonna battle is Andre Roberts you just mentioned, also Trent and Cannon, the rookie from Virginia State. But he's getting a lot of run and team rops and we're gonna get the running back here in just a second.

Eli McGuire not gonna be part of I need that return competition right now, and then the other guy in the mix as well as Lucky Whitehead. So let's make the transition right there to Eli McGuire. I feel really bad for him. Strong spring first day camp, non contact tracts foot so Toddles didn't give a timetable here at the time, but he'll be out for a little bit right Adam Schefter tweeted he's gonna get he meaning McGuire is gonna get surgery should be at least three to

six weeks. Okay, that's what Chefter said, but I'm just telling absolutely okay, So we'll go by that, and you know what it means for the running backs is that you know you brought up Chefty. So then we'll go down and outworking and talking. And Rappaport he said that the Jets worked out of Ulford Morris and former Giant. Yeah, there you go. But the guy immediately this week when we're talking here on the podcast who's gonna get more opportunity is a guy who had some success in Seattle.

That's Thomas Rawls. Because if you're looking at a dub Charter goes one ballah to Isaiah Crow three Eli. Wait, take Eli out of the equation. Thomas Rawls will get some more run. And the guy who I think is probably getting a lot of ice best here early is in it because Cannon's getting a lot of work. He is Thomas Rawls. Also, I mean, he had some good moments there in Seattle, and he's not a bad running back whatsoever. In fact, I'd say he's more talented than

you may think. But before we wrap up here, you know we can talk about training camp battles every day, all day, every podcast, all podcasts. Is there anything else that you want to talk about before we get into this old on, I want to throw it. You want questions on Twitter, because I'm telling you to use the Twitter more, use the Twitter and as the Twitter and and ask people, you know, ask people to be part

of the program. I do ask people people don't want to be a part of I tweeted out they don't answer. Just by the way, shameless pluck follow him at e Allen Jet. You can follow me at e Greenberg Allen Jets on Instagram too, because I'm trying to pump up the product there, all right, trying to improve the product, I promise. Uh. Justin writes in how do you feel about the Jets acquiring Isaiah Role? I like to move. I think how old is he? Like twenty five or

something like that. Yeah, right, so he's young. He's a bully when he runs, but he can also catch out of the backfield, and I think that he's a nice compliment, especially compared to Bilal and Eli. I think you have three backs that are similar, but I think bilal and Eli when he's back or more similar than Isaiah. So a lot of fans, I think, enjoy the bully runner and when Chris Ivory was here. He was that guy.

But I think Isaiah Crowell's a little more versatile think Chris Ivory, and he's younger, and he has less tread on the tires, and he put up pretty good numbers in Cleveland. He did. He put up very good numbers and I think his average was over four, right, So just watching him individual drills and he got into the end zone a lot. And I think where you might see him a bunch is maybe some short yard situations.

Maybe if the third on you decide you want to you want to get that one yard, maybe go two tights. You're bringing a big alte that's Lawrence Thomas, and give the ball to crawl. Maybe he's the guy right there, but he thinks his versatility wasn't used as much as it could have been in Cleveland. And he's not not

going to Browns or anything like that. But the one thing you do notice, Green's when we're standing on the sideline each and every day, hydrating on that sideline while the sun beats down on us, is Isaac Rowell has good hands. He does. He has good hands, and you know he catch the ball out of the back field too, So that stood out to me. So moving on, Greg writes in what are some differences you've noticed between Jeremy

Bates office and John Morton's. Also how our second year receivers are Darri Stewart and Chad Hands And looking first thing I'll say about Bates this so early in camp right now, the thing that Todd Bole said when he made the change he promoted Jeremy Bates is I think, and you just from Calvin Beacham too, I think the Jets want to be a little bit more balanced this year as far as the run game is concerned. But

Jeremy Bates is Mr Energy. Really liked his approach on the field again, tremendous job with Josh McConnell last year, career year. They have that good relationship and everybody has been positive about Jeremy so far. But it's been early on in the process. But I would just anticipate from a philosophical position, Todd Bowles thinking when we were running

a little bit more here this year. This is something that you just have to see what it looks like on game day and then you know, practice is so hard to tell, especially like you talked about before, you're installing things and installing things. But to the second half of that question, how our second year receivers Chad Hanson

and our Darius Stewart. Well, Hanson had a very good spring, and something that we've talked about is I think it will be interesting to see how he adjust wants the pads come on, and how he adjust to contact, because you don't really have that in the spring. It's the light contact. You can't really hit. But I'm very intrigued to see that step that Chad will take. And I'm very interested because the thing is everyone said, okay he and he even he said, my legs got stronger. I

understand how to set guys up more. Okay, Well, then once the paths come on, you can really tell. Stewart had he closed the first practice on a forty yard bomb from Teddy Bridgewater. And he's someone that you know is very aggressive with the ball in his hands, and last year he flashed at times of the Titans. I

actually think he'll be better with pads. Yeah, oh yeah, absolutely he And so in the preseason against the Titans, he had that nasty stiff arm and he had that one handed catch against the Dolphins in Week three where he go over the middle, So I'm interested to see how he does too. I'm I'm not gonna lie. I'm a big sucker for the second year guys because I'm

always curious to see how they do. I'm always optimistic about their progress to break for start suspended for the first two into the season, but that means more opportunities for other guys, like the Hands of the World, because that at that battle, after those top guys receiver, that's gonna be something that's gonna be something we're gonna be talking about over the next couple of weeks. Yeah, you want to break down the news here, Yeah, let's break it.

Break it down man. Coming in two thousand nineteen, on a date that has yet to be determined, Ladies and gentlemen, the New York Jets are unveiling new uniforms. Okay, number one is this uniforms the Jets currently wear and they will wear in two thousand eighteen. The current jersey state this season was an outstanding uniform. I think, uh paying homage to the Super Bowl team in the past, really

traditional vintage. With that being said, my interaction with people on social media on me that a lot of folks really desired to change uniforms, and you're seeing that all over the place nowadays. Titans this year. Yeah, I think the Rams are gonna have the Jaguars changed our helmets. Thank God, that God, that gold, that Matt Gold was not doing it for me. I'm talking about the Jets

uniforms here. Let me give you some facts here. The Jets, of course, started as the Titans in New York Navy golden white back from nineteen sixteen and nineteen sixty two. That and those three years you were in that was kindergarten, the second grade for you, greens. Uh. Then nineteen sixty three the Jets become the Jets, the Titans transition to the Jets. Uh. And then we see the Kelly green and white becoming synonymous with up stars from the American

Football League Greens. Three major uniform changes since, including prior to Bill parselves over saw a color change from Kelly green to Hunter green, removing black as an excent color. Painting homage that Super Bowl three championship team with the modified version of that over on the helmet that was used from sixty five to the nineteen seven. So you have favorite uniform, I don't know favorite helmet, do you because they're old school. I like the Kelly Green with

the lettering Jets on the side. I do like those, but I think that'd be a sweet alternate jersey. One of my favorite uniforms were actually the Color Rush because he got the white face mask when when when the Jets go all white, it's a night game, and he got the white face mass that is clean. Yeah, the Jets have had a couple of white outs with the white face masks, but the Color Rush game in Buffalo, that's when you're talking about Yeah wait too, yeah, yeah,

that was an exciting game to two sixteen. I guess that would be two thousand six. So we have to stress this. The Jets will be in their current uniform throughout the two thousand eighteen season one on mission though Week seven against the Minnesota Vikings at My Life Stadium, Green Out, the Jets will be wearing their quote unquote Color Rush uniforms Green on Green Week seven against the Color Rush like the okay, and so does that mean that the Thursday game against I don't think. I don't

think the Jets will not. I believe the Jets are not in Color Rush for that game. Oh they're not. Maybe you sure, maybe it's I was thinking maybe that's the all white. I don't know. I know for certain that I think a lot of people. Listen, here's the thing. We don't know the details, so we can't comment on the new uniform, so we can't break it down for you. Oh this color this or that logo this or that jersey this or that pant stripe or whatever. We don't know.

But uh, Jets did a nice on veil on Sunday night. Pretty cool, I guess. Uh. The Fellas in social media decided to do like a word puzzle or something I didn't play with that. I didn't play with that, so I wrote the article and I know, I know the Fellas did a nice job with going through the uniforms over the years. So check that out in the UK dot com and all our social media properties. That is something that I think fans are going to react enthusiastic too.

And by the way, when we get the spring, they're going on something. There's always gonna be some people don't like it. Because you have a section of people who don't like anything, you know, you can tell them, you know, it doesn't matter what it is. They're just they're hey, you're a hater. Uh. There'll be other people like I don't know, maybe this is too much of a throwback, or maybe it's too fashion forward for me or things like that, but I think when you put Nike together,

you put people in eternally together. As far as people are looking out for the uniforms, I have complete belief that they're gonna come up with the nice design that the majority of people will like. I'm gonna second that. And on that note, come out to training camp green and White Saturday, Rutgers. Well, green and White. You that's your best opportunity, I think right now. And that's the first for the Jets. Uh. And that's always a nice fun family event there. It is the Official Jets Podcast,

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