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and called Well New Jersey. Larry Hardisty, Eric Allen. We're here until lay the clock on nine eight seven ESPN. We'll take your calls tonight a little bit later in the show one eight hundred nine, one nine, three, seven, seven six will be joined by Quincy Innuma and also Ta Mario Davis. Yesterday was what I consider as close to a game where everybody played well all three phases. Defense was outstanding, offense was brilliant, especially in the first half.

I guess what even specialty other than the missfield goal special teams. The converence was excellent. It was as good of a win as the Jets have had in the watch. It was a complete thirty minutes of play, no doubt about that, Larry. Uh. The Jets finished against the New York Giants, overcoming a ten point fourth quarter deficit to win a thriller in overtime. But we had talked about it last week, when where the Jets going to play

a complete game. They entered this ball game with a two game winning streak, and a lot of folks during the week said, hey, this is your classic trap game. The Titans coming in here with the rookie quarterback and three wins. Marcus Mariota and the Jets came out, took care of business. That was a sign of a mature football team, a team that is growing, peaking at the right time. They went out and dismantled the Titans in the first half, five scoring drives. They take a twenty

seven and nothing lead at halftime. They come up with the takeaway buster screen with the interception to Mario Davis who just entered. Looks terrific tonight. We'll look at this guy with the suit right now. But you mentioned special teams as well. Uh. They were moving to Mario round defensively a couple of times. I saw him at and they confused Marcus Mario's And then you mentioned special teams.

The coverage units were tremendous. Quincy Andumla did a good job there in the first half, and the offense what I really liked. The balance was there against the Giants, Larry, the Jets had to pass to win, and that's great. They showed another aspect of their game and other facet that they can take care of. But against the Titans, it was all clicking. Chris Ivory rushed for over a

hundred yards. They put a team away early. It was as complete as a third uh uh thirty minutes of play that you've seen from the New York Jets so far this season. They kind of coasted from there, you know, thirty to eight. But now you set yourself up your eight and five. Everybody at home who's listening right now is looking at the Kansas City Chiefs, is looking at the Pittsburgh Steelers. But Todd Bowle said it today, Larry, the only team that I'm rooting for is the New

York Jets. Will look up at that end of the season and see where we are. But they're playing really well right now. You want to keep winning that's your job right now is to continue to win. Let's talk a little bit more about the offense, and before we talk about what Powell did. You mentioned Chris Ivory, the wide receivers again were spectacular, and Eric Decker and Brandon Marshall. But hey, I want to talk about the offensive line

because the offensive line yesterday was outstanding. The time that Ryan Fitzpatrick had yesterday and has had really for most of the season. He hasn't been touched. He has the white jersey almost all the time, no dirt on it, so he's been playing well, and that offensive line has been searching forward. They've done the phenomenal job. Yeah, the offensive line did play very well. We talked about it last week. Is the Titans do have a talented defensive front.

They get after the quarterback. But Fits had time to throw and when he had to make early decisions, as we've seen from him throughout the year, that ball gets out of his hands quickly. You mentioned Decker and Brandon Marshall. Is there a wide receiver tannem in the National Football League better than these two right now? It you'd be hard, are you against? These two combined for twenty touchdowns? Now? Through thirteen games, that already ties the franchise highest season

franchise high as far as those guys are concerned. Decker closing in on a thousand yards, Chris Ivory, you mentioned the run game. He goes for a hundred for the third time this season. He's closing in on a thousand yards for the first time in his career. The New York New York Jets now could have a three thousand yard passer, Ryan Fitzpatrick, two a thousand yard receivers, and Brandon Marshall and Eric Decker in a thousand yard rusher and Chris Ivory and oh, by the way, the defense

is play well. The Roll Reeves comes back in the lineup, one of the NFL's finer cornerbacks, so you add him to the mix, and the Jets are relatively healthy with three games left in this season. Now they go to Dallas, a short week of prep. But uh, you know, you look at that a f C landscape, and we can talk about the Pittsburg Steelers, we can talk about the Kansas City Chiefs, we can talk about the injuries these teams are dealing with. The Denver Broncos are dealing with

the quarterback position. They turned to Osweiler. You know, when is Peyton Manny going to come back back? Andy Dalton goes out yesterday. Now it's a j McCarron. And but for a Jets fan, you got Saturday night, let's see what the Jets can do against the Dallas Cowboys. Then you can look at Pittsburgh Steelers Denver Broncos clash on Sunday afternoon in Pittsburgh. Yeah, absolutely so. Once again, as we said, the Jets know what they have to do,

they know what's in front of them. Just win games and just think about this, Eric, they have already they have doubled the wind told it from last year. They've doubled their win total. And so already you've seen progress already that success your ultimate gold is going to be you know, yeah, and those guys aren't gonna uh, you know, rest on their laurels. Tob Bowls was asked about this a couple of weeks ago. He said, they asked a reporter asked, if you guys don't make the playoffs, do

you consider this season of failure? And he said yes, because this is a guy played eight season in the National Football League. He want to ring with the Washington Redskins. He was a defensive coordinator last year in Arizona, where

that defense carried the Cardinals to the playoffs. So the bottom line is, yes, he wants to coach this team to the postseason, but on a bigger picture, on a macro level, this team did win fourth the four games last season, and Mike mccagnet did a tremendous job helping

UH take her with this roster in the offseason. You think about the trades that he made in a span of a couple of days, acquiring Brandon Marshall from the Chicago Go Bears and then a day later getting Ryan Fitzpatrick for a late conditional pick from the Houston Texans. Little did we know what Ryan Fitzpatrick was gonna give

you this season, UH twenty touchdown passes. He threw three touchdown passes against the Texans, So now now he's up to a career high twenty five touchdown passes and the Jets draft, we can look about what mcagnan did in his first draft. Unfortunately, band news for the Jets today, Devin Smith UH suffered that I believe the A C L tear but and he's likely to go on season ending into reserve. But Leonard Williams had a sack yesterday,

Lorenzo Moulden is playing more time. And then you talk about what this coaching staff has done with the veterans. Moe Wilkerson three sacks yesterday, Larry twelve on the season, Now that's a career high for him. Uh So, I think Todd Bowls has done a tremendous job and assembling his staff. He did a great job by getting a guy like Chan Gaily here who was out of the league for a year or two, but he came in. He really know, he really knows what to do with

an offense. And then you pare him up with Ryan Fitzpatrick and we see these guys working well together, and Todd Bowls and Casey Rogers yesterday they really had Mariota on his heels. And I can't wait to get to Mario Davis up here to talk about some of the looks they were given him, because I was confused just watching it on film. Well that's because listen, the Jets do their homework. They were ready, They knew what to expect from him. And when you look at how Marcus

Mario has played he's really played. He hasn't played bad. He you look at his ability to run with the football. You look at his ability, and coming in they had the great status about what he's done against the Blitz and all the other stuff, and he's done well against that when he's seen it a certain way. Obviously the Jets showed him something they had not seen before. And the other thing about it, we find that he could catch the football yesterday, yeah, you know, and the guys

are not gonna be had be with that. So that prevented the shutout. Right, So the Titans didn't get in the end zone on a halfback pass, but by and large that defense played so well. They continue to get off the field on third down, and conversely, the offense was really good on third down and they continue to convert in the red zone. Fits is always tough on himself, Larry. He scores twenty seven points in the first half, but he's still looking at those drives and I did with

Randy Bullock field goals. I mean, bottom line is, though, you'll take twenty seven points in the first half anytime you line up. Jets did a number of good things. You mentioned bilal Paul before we see him being a factor each and every week in the past game. He's got explosive legs. You pare him up with Ivory right now, there's a lot to like about this football team as they head into Dallas and play against a Dallas Cowboy

team that still has a lot of talent. Really struggled big time in the turnover department, last in the NFL and turnover margin, and they've been battling without Tony Romo. But the Jets will have to be ready for a spirited effort prime time. You know the Cowboys are gonna want to play while in they're in their house, and hopefully you can get this one and just you don't keep these winning ways alive. But this is the first

three three game win streak of the Todd Bowl. Todd Bowls are It's amazing, Eric that Dallas is still not out of it. I mean, even with nine losses, they're still matter. I don't even want to think about that. Even I don't even want to think about unbelievable. Try State Tire Pros your automotive headquarters for great deals on Continental in general tires. To find your local try State Tire Pros dealer. Visit try State tire pros dot com. When we return here at Collagos, Italian Village, we will

talk defense. We will talk with Ta Mario Davis. That's next on Inside the Jets on ESPN. Back to throw Mario to under pressure, flips it right now, it's intercepted, picked up up muster screen, runs left of the party yard line, cuts it back inbounds inside the thirties. No, they'll say, stepped down right about the thirty five yard line. Now back to Inside the Jets on Nutty eight point

seven ESPN. Here's Larry Hardisty and Eric Allen joined the New York Jets and the Institute of Culinary Education for season three of the Jets. Cooking School was presented by Chase. For more information, visits I see dot E d U slash Jets. All right, partner, let's bring in Jets inside linebacker Damario Davis. Who Tomorio Actually, maybe I should introduce you as Jets rush linebacker because he saw you playing an interesting position yesterday. As you guys definitely did confuse

the young quarterback on a couple of those plays. Without giving away state secrets, how were you able to create some chaos upfront against the Titans. Well, every since the season started, I've been very impressed by Todd's third down package. He uses a lot of different people and a lot of different ways on third down, so it's it's hard for the quarterback to identify who the MIC is. If he can't find out who the MIC is, he can't set his protection. Um, and we're generally blissing maybe seventy

eighty percent of the time. So UM, if we can create some kind of confusion, then it helps the bliss of the rush get home. Man. So UM, it's been like that every week. UM, and then it's just one of the weeks where it was really spot on the situation now where you guys are really comfortable with the package overall, and now more and more things start to get added to it where it really makes you even more comfortable with with what the scheme has been. UM. I mean at this at this point of the year,

you're you're pretty comfortable and pretty set on UM. You know how things are going to operate. You know, coming into the year, you have a new coach, new staff, everybody's kind of feeling each other out, getting used to how things UM work. And I think now everybody kind of can anticipate what each week is going to bring UM. So yeah, that does make it UM a little more easy. And I think the coaches are still trying to learn the players or UM or we're still trying to learn

the players and weeks prior. So it kind of made them a little hesitant UM to know how much they could throw with us and UM maybe they want to put in certain things, but they had to kind of pull back because you know that maybe they didn't think the player was ready. But now they know where they have in each player UM and it makes them more comfortable UM and what they can put in during the week tomorrow. What's the feeling like pre snap? Is there

a sense of we got them? When the offensive linemen are trying to point out protections and the quarterback is kind of looking at examining and trying to figure out what's going on. Like you're saying, identifying the mic linebacker and you guys have four lots four which would be typical linebackers are customarily be playing a little bit off the line, but they're sitting right there at the line of scrimmers. What's so, what's the feeling like when you

see the offense kind of scram on up front. Um, you never know, you never really know when you have them until the play happens and you get the sack. You know, it's never um a hundred percent like we got him. What you do get is to where you can understand how they're gonna block and who's gonna block you. And if you know who's gonna block you, then it's it becomes uh a lot easier versus like running into a wildfire. You're like, this guy's blocking me, so all I have to do is beat him and I can

get home. Um, And then when you come to the sideline, everybody's talking. The D line is first is usually the first guys who realize who's blocking and their protection scheme, and once they know, it makes the game a lot easier. So maybe the first drive of the second drive is when they generally get a clue or inkland about who what what type of protections they're doing. But once the D line has it, they uh they passed that around information around everybody else and then we're pretty much set

for our bliss. So has this has injuries made you realize just how deep this defense is, the fact that you guys have been able to go and you haven't really missed the beat, even though people have been out. The reef its has been out, but reached has been out. There's been guys out on the on the the linebacker in the D line spot. Do you realize just how

deep this team is? UM? That was something that identified day one UM in training camp, you know, and I remember I remember earlier in training camp, me and Dave Harris was talking and we were just talking about the difference in this team is so much depth. We never had that before. UM. Every position is two and three dep you know, which which helps us out tremendously because what you need to be able to do is rely on that second and third guy to UH coming if

somebody get hurts. But you also need to be able to bring in that second third guy. Maybe the number one guy doesn't match up as well with a certain type of receive or a certain type of tighten or a certain type of back where you can bring in UM a guy on a certain package, UM, depending on

what type of look the offense is giving you. UM. So you know, being able to bring in UM those guys you know, off the sideline and those packages has really helped us to be more multiple where you uh, certain teams can't be as multiple because they can't rely on that second third guy like they want to. UM. And then of course when you have the injuries, you don't you don't miss a beat when you have guys who can play and have played, and um, you know, we don't just have guys on our on the sideline

who who can play but have never played. We have guys who have proven that they can play on other teams, you know, and prove that they can play and starting roles. How much do you enjoy when you get the opportunity to rush the past or yesterday he came up with the sack and you also had a couple of quarterback hurries as well. UM yeah, I mean I'm always just trying to add to my game. Um, anything that I can do to healthy team, whether it's covering, what is

being a box linebacker? Um, everybody likes to rest the rest of quarterback because it's very simple, just beat demand in front of you and then get to the quarterback. Uh. So that was an interesting dynamic. That was one of the first times my coaches used me in that role where I was just a primarily a pass rusher, and UH, I enjoyed it because, I mean, you kind of get into a game with the tackle, UM and just kind

of um about it. You kind of get to learn what kind of moves he's trying to do to stop you and things like that. So it's interesting. It was very fun and you know, I hope they used me in that role again. That's the bunch of Damario Davis, Larry Harstein, ericallenliveat Collandras here on ninety ESPN. We're listening to Inside the Jets. You have the perfect vantage point to watch this offense. How it's progressed from the beginning

of the season. We talked about it every week, how Fitzpatrick just gets more and more in tune with his wide receivers and Decker and Marshall, the run game and everything from the defensive position. How good is this offense? Uh? Especial this year, A very special. UM. I lay with

a lot of deep different types of offenses. But UM, the thing that they really have is chemistry, you know, and UM, that's that's You can have the weapons, you can have the pieces, but if everybody doesn't um compliment someone else or do something that compliments the system, then it's not gonna work. UM. I think I think Chan does a lot of different things. He understands his players and try to use them UM in ways to to

to help UM to help exploit the defense. UM the way he uses uh Chris Ivory in the run game and and switches the speed up with bringing in Blau uh and run situations and pass situations. UM. And then when they start to crowd the box, you can't leave Decker and uh Marshall one on one, so it opens opens the past game. UH the way they use Quincy and blocking situations and and and uh low routes and

over routes uh. And then how they were using Devon to to stress the team Berkeley like he uses uh uh those eyes and in ways that UM allows them to use your strength and it explores the defense and

puts the defense and compromising positions. So the thing you never want to get into as a defense to me been defensive player, you never want to get into a situation where we're trying to stop one thing and they hit you with something else, and then you try to stop that and they hit you with something else once they Once you get in that situation is like quick slam and it's gonna go down here real fast. Um. So they can't figure out what you can tell that.

The defense can't figure out who and what they want to take out of the game. You know, you try to take Ivory out of the game, and you're gonna leave the receiver's wide open. Um, and you try to take the receivers out of the game, You're gonna leave. You can't do that because you need people in the box to stop Ivory. In the season, he's having UM and I think Ryan Um deserves all the praise because you can have that, but it takes a guy who

can manage that. Um. You can put a lot of people in that situation and they won't be able to manage it as well as he has. Especially these last three weeks, he's went to another level. I don't know if it was cutting a beard or what, but he's

going to another level. Uh. But he's managing the game in a way that he has all my all my period to Mario, ifitzs Locker is right by yours over there, and if you enjoyed having him not just orchestrate the offense, but having him as a team man, and if he got a chance to, you know, uh, share a little bit with him throughout the year. Man. I admire him, Man, I admire him. He's a he's a football mastermind. His mind is always on football. Man. He you know, he

graduates from Harvard and you know he's a brainiact. But when you listen to the conversation that he's having with these guys, um, it's unique to see that. You know, with his intelligence, he's still breaking the game down in a very simple, simple way. But he's always talking football. I mean, uh, you're in the training room listening to him and be Marshall talk. They talked for forty five

minutes about two plays. But then you see, like from the conversation, you see that happened in the game, and it's like, Okay, that's good to see. But his mind is always going and he has those conversations with all those guys, um And and you can just tell the level of respect that all the teammates have for him. And that's that's what you gotta have in the quarterback tomorrow. You mentioned the chemistry that this team has offensively. What

about the chemistry you guys have defensively? And when I think about this defense. All you guys say every week we want to make them one dimensional. Well, the New York Jets have the best run defense in the National Football Weak. Yeah. Man, I mean that's a blessing. Um yeah, I mean the chemistry goes a long way. We all we're all brothers with our family. Um, everybody is comfortable around each other. We joke on each other all the time. And I think that's the type of stuff that carries over,

um onto the field. And then we know what we're gonna expect. Got to each player. Um, the big, the big praise uh for our run defense. Um, and you gotta contribute other guys. But um, the big difference is Damon Harrison. Um. You know I heard when our teammates talking about it. He was like, Damon makes it looks easy, but the nose tackle job is not. It's not easy at all. It's very hard. And I was coming from a guy who plays three techniques, so, um, what he's

doing at the nose tackle position is uh incredible. He's making plays on stretch plays, on power plays, on um on die plays, and he's really disrupting the offense and what they're trying to do, which makes the game easy for backwards to flow over h makes it easy for three takes needs just to set the edge and um and then we have you know, great safeties who who are not afraid to come down and the run fit.

So it just makes it very tough for guys to run the football on us when he's playing at the level that he's playing at tomorrow, have any early thoughts on Dallas. I know you haven't really start to break down yet, but any early thoughts on facing them. It's gonna be a tremendous challenge. It's gonna be a tremendous challenge. They have a very good offensive line. They have guards

and tackles who can run UM. So uh, when you face teams who can run uh stretch plays outside and press plays outside UM and and poor plays their guards can get down field. UM. I don't know if you guys saw the play uh last week what Collins was like thirty yards down the fielding and got a big got a big block on on on the safety for the Packers. I don't know if there was last week or a couple of weeks ago, but it was it was tremendous play. So their lineman can their lineman can

really run. They have h good tight ends who they like to use win, Who's who's been tremendous in this who's had a tremendous career there, And um, you know they've got good receivers, Um guys who are making plays. They can run the ball really well. So I mean it's gonna be a tremendous challenge just from looking at them. They do a lot of different things to keep defense on the toes. It's gonna be it's gonna be a

challenge and pluses at their house. Um, and everybody knows that the Cowboy fans aren't going nowhere, so it's gonna be it's gonna be a tough environment to play in. You have any family going to this ball game, Oh man, it's gonna be crazy. I'm trying to figure out how'm gonna get all the tick is for. Yeah, my mom

and my wife have been scrambling to get. Uh. We usually do like a family trip um every year to a game that's closer, that's that's down south and um, so we wanted to pick this one because it was on a Saturday, So, um, yeah, it gott probably got like eight eight ninety people coming. Wow, So obviously you went to Arkansas State and you grew up. How far from Dallas, Uh, Dallas is maybe six and a half hours from Mississippi. So most people, most of your family

members will make the track. They'll drive. Yeah, we do it like a caravan. So we ran. We ran a bus and travel so we'll be We have a bus and a smaller and two smaller vans. They're traveling like a caravan. So a lot of fifty sixes on the highway at the big Jerry Jones Dome there amongst the hundred thousand folks. Tomorrow is gonna have its own rooting sex.

That's absolutely listen. Thanks for stopping by. Have a great game, good luck and getting all the tickets done, and have a great holiday you and your family's holidays, fellas must be nice, Damario Davis, Ladies and gentle. But Selective Insurance is your home for is your solution for other home business and flood insurance Usinus selective dot com today and find an agent near you. Selective response is everything. When we return, we'll talk offense. We'll be joined by wide

receiver Quincy in noon war. That's next on inside the Jets on ESPN, fits Patrick back to throw well protected, slips it over the middle pile, makes the Cats the fifteen, losing the Tan five, and so touch down a little slip screen of alt pile and he did the rest third down conversion and a touchdown for the Jet. Now back to Inside the Jets on ninety eight point seven ESPN. Here's Larry Hardisty and Eric gallantt you know, he ha most of the Jets. Bob with Susan had a fun

game to broadcast yesterday. He was just yelling and screaming about big play after big play after big play. Was really it was really great to listen to him on the radio yesterday. High Ball highlights, Glora, let's bring in our next guest, Jets wide receiver Quincy and Noi quits Um one reception yesterday for yourself, two special team stops and the Jets rushed for a hundred eighty three yards

and Larry, here's my thing. People asked middle of the season, what's happening with the Jets run game, and they kind of forgot that Quincy was away for a little bit. But he's come back and you're seeing the difference that he makes on the football field, Quitcy. How much of a groove a rhythm were you guys in rushing to football yesterday? Oh yeah, I think we did a really good job out there this week. Um. You know, we tried to get into from packages to kind of give

the defense a different look. That's kind of one of the biggest things we try to do out there. You know, a lot of teams like to run in one uh formation most of the time. We try to switch it up and kind of give them a different look and uh make sure that we are kind of uh surprising them, you know, give them a little sense of surprise right there.

Of course. And how excited were you when the coaching staff came to you and to give you an opportunity to be in a unique position and the challenge of leving that you're kind of like, you know, your wide receiver, you're blocking almost like a tight end. You have a chance to go out in coverage and and you're doing as a direk mentioned olier some special teams work. So how excited were you when you had that opportunity to be a unique cog in this offense? Oh? Yeah, I was.

I was really excited. You know, this has been a dream come true for me. Uh, you know, just growing up high school, middle school, elementary school, you know, you always wanted to kind of get to this level and just to have an opportunity to help a team anyway

I can. It's been really great for me. Um. You know, I really love the uh ability that uh that I've been given to kind of play a tweeter role, you know, go out there and block as well as received, and you know, I'm just kind of tried to make the most of it here. You're young guy in this league. When you see a teammate like Devin Smith go down a cl tear, Todd Bowle said it today that Jets are gonna likely have to put him on season Andy and to reserve. What kind of feelings do you have

and what what do you say to Devin? Yeah, it's it's really really really disheartening, you know, for a guy that kind of started off really rough, you know, with a rib injury, and then to have this happened to him. You know, I kind of just told him to keep

his head up. You know, he's a young guy with tons of talent, and uh, obviously, you know, we've been able to see a little bit of a talent this year, and I know he's been able to do He's able to do so much more than he has so you know, as long as he stays positive, he'll definitely have an opportunity to keep doing what he can do quartect How what's been the emphasis, what's been the work that working

with Brandon Ares, working with Eric Decker? How's that head an effect on you and improving you, helping you work

in your craft. Yeah, it's definitely been big for me, you know, just kind of having our opportunity to work with those two guys and really've done so much in this league, and especially Branding No ten years in the game, he's really uh honed his craft to really know just exactly what he needs to do on the field, and so for me, it's been good to just kind of pick off different things from him, pick off different things from Decker, and it's really helped me become a better

receiver overall. Quits a year a guy who plays the position. When you watch Brandon and Eric, especially in the red zone, what stands out to you? How are these guys able to do it weekend week out, be so productive not only just catching the ball in between the twenties, but finishing. Uh yeah, you know, they really work on our craft during the week and it really shows on the on Sunday. So you know, I really it's really a testament to

their hard work. Um, you know when they go out there every week and work hard, and you know, they're kind of one of the hardest guys, hardest working guys on the team. And that's something that I've been noticing and I just kind of tried to like pick up different things from them as much as I can. Blocking it's key. We talked about it, Chris, every we talked, when we talked to the running backs all the time you gave, they talk about how appreciate that they are

or receives blocking for them downfield. That's how they get their extre yardage. How excited do you with when you're able to block to see the running backs kid that three yardage? Oh, I'm really excited. I think that's one of my favorite things, you know when I'm out there, Uh, just to kind of see them busting big plays, you know, ten yards, twenty yards, dirty yards. Uh, you know, it kind of gets the offensive life. It gives a team life. And so when you can kind of help them do

those type of things. You know, it's really, uh, one of those things that really gets the team going, to the crowd going, and that's always something that you want.

Now with Devin out of the lineup, you play a lot as it is, but you think this is an opportunity for some other guys who are already getting Sometimes the guys like Jeremy Kerry Early and Ken Roll Tompkins Um too step up as well here with Devin out of the lineup, Um going down to stretch because you guys, Devin was getting a lot of run here lately and the Jets liked the way he had developed. Yeah, it's definitely a good opportunity for guys like uh, especially Katie.

You know, he's been a guy that's that kind of picked up some of the slack, you know, when I was gone, And I know he's a very talented receiver. So I know as soon as he gets his opportunity on the field, he's definitely gonna show out. Uh you know, I I heard you know, we're gonna try to go pick up somebody. You know, it's definitely gonna be very helpful to just kind of get somebody in the room to uh help with Devin's loss. You know, we we're

we're all we're really down about him being injured. But at the same time, you know, this is how you know, the the NFL works, you know, so the next man has to come up and step up and do as much as he can. So, uh, you know, I'm gonna do my best to help out, and I know everybody else will as well. We're talking to quickly and knowing what here inside the jets at Colandra's loverry hardesty and Eric Allen on nine yates every the ESPN quich you heard me ask uh da Mario Davis this from the

defensive shot looking at the offense. Let me ask you about the defense When you face that defense every day, how does that defense improve what you do when you're builty to catch and and your builty to block. Oh yeah, it's um, it's definitely something that uh, I've definitely appreciated a lot. You know, none of the guys can say that they face rivas every day from already every day bus just screen every day, Marcus Williams every day. You know. Uh,

It's definitely helped me out a lot. And even now when we don't go against the defense as much. You know, you can still see, you know, the guys flying around making plays, you know, and I try to get on the scout team as much as possible, just so I can kind of get those reps against them, you know, so that when I get in the game, it's almost second nature to know how to beat a d D

you know. Uh. At the same time, my lockers right next to Revas, so I always try to, you know, just kind of pick up small things from him, you know, what what what he's thinking about when he season receiver coming out him. And then on top of that, you know, you have the D line, you have the linebackers always getting pressure of making so many big plays, you know. So it's really good for us, uh, you know, hopefully

we can keep that momentum going into the playoffs. If if Quinci, sorry, did you guys do anything different on special teams yesterday? Coverage wise? You got down there quick a couple of times. The rest of the guys did as well. You know, the kickoff coverage was phenomenal. Did Bobby April change anything up scheme wise? There was a matter of execution. It was definitely execution. I think you know, we tried to keep keep the same things that we've been doing. But this week we just tried tried to

hone our craft. You know. Uh, I think past weeks, you know, we tried to do a little more than uh we needed to. This week, we really tried to keep it simple for us. You know, it was just kind of go out there and fly around and uh for us eleven guys that are on Kickoff. You know, we really just wanted to make a play. You know,

we wanted to make a statement. Uh. You know, Uh, the past few weeks, the coverage to haven't been the greatest, so we really wanted to make sure that we make sure that people knew that we were here and we're gonna make some places the rest of this year. How tough is that? How tough is it being no special teams? I mean, it's so different from your receiving job. It's so different. Yeah, honestly, you know, I really love special teams.

I can't lie about that. Um. You know, it's really an opportunity for you to just have a one on one battle every every play, uh, you know, at receiver at uh, you know, there's a there's a few times where you know, you might not be able to just go against that one guy every time. You know, it might be his zone, he might have some help. But on special teams, it's just one on one physical battle. You know who's a better athlete honestly, and uh, obviously

its keen helps. But you know when you go out there and you can just kind of run as fast as you want, you know, just to kind of get down the field and see who's gonna catch you, it's it's I don't know, it's just kind of exhilarating. Yeah, you gotta have a special mentality teams. And you know what I liked from Quincy yesterday. Not only did he go down there, he make the tackles, but like the celebration. He showed the g yesterday, brought the guns out, flexed

a little bit for the crowd. Got that life, Yeah, I mean that's that's one of the things that I mean, you know, back when I was playing in college at Nebraska, you know, we had a eighty thousand, ninety thousand, So just coming here to MetLife and seeing all these people in green, it's really just, uh, it almost brings you back to Nebraska and kind of makes me feel like, you know, I need to punk these guys up have some fun, you know, because I know they're ready to

have fun. It's like, I am ut any early thoughts about Dallas coming up on Saturday. Um well, honestly, you know, I kind of take the time to watch the film when I get around Decker and b Marsh, you know, so I kind of want to wait till tomorrow, you know, when we when we sit around and really kind of pick pick each other's brains and kind of watch the film and see, you know who our opponent is. Yeah, and how does a short week impact your preparation here?

Like today is a Monday, and typically you guys might come in unless Coach Bowles gives you a victory Monday, which you've been getting a lot of lately. Uh knockout wood. That will continue here as we move forward. But can you kind of take us through the week now, because it seems like with everything sped up, a day like tomorrow is basically a Wednesday for the players. Yeah, definitely,

So that's that's exactly what's gonna be, you know. So tomorrow will be a Wednesday, the next day will be a Thursday, Friday, Saturday, and so on Uh, you know, so it kind of just has it kind of makes us focus that much more. You know, you don't get that extra day to kind of study the opponent, and you have to make sure that you're downed in every day when you come into work. Um, and so that's something we're gonna make sure we do, I know, uh offensively.

You know, we might not put in as much in the package that we might use something from last week, you know, so we're just gonna try to use use as much as we can to kind of be this opponent coming up country. Thanks for a couple of minutes, Thanks for stopping by on your off day, and good luck against Dallas and the rest of the rest. Thank you, Thank you. Vando will try one week Football League on indul today home to more when is than any of the cycle the FanDuel dot Com for your free account.

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on inside the Jets. Hey, Larry, Hey Eric? Hell are you doing great? Good, good, great game yesterday in the last three reech actually really good stuff. But you know, Eric, you mentioned earlier about the special teams, the question that drew up, and uh, I think April made some changes in some of the personnel out there and he got more speed out there, and I think that was part of the improvement in the coverage. But you know, you just look at you. You mentioned the first thirty minutes

of that game. The most fleet I've seen in quite a while. And offensively, I mean the way Jaily is mixing it up. And you know it's funny. When Pal was out of the lineup for three or four games, you can really see how much it hurt the offense because he just gives them a dimension. Now that teams you know, he's basically their third option because they don't play with a tight end, so he basically covered his

for tight end. UH, the middle of the field, and really you just look at going forward, what's coming up. I think Alex could be real tough game Saturday night. I think that offensive line could be challenging. Listen, and you just got to step up, take care of business, and we'll see what it calls for at the end of the year. Just take care of your own business, winning games, and maybe we'll get lucky. Maybe somebody we're losing, we'll be playing, uh, first pick of the postseason. Thanks

for calling, Uh. I agree with you that I do think Dallas is gonna present a number of challenges, and Demario Davis said as much right here. Has a lot of respect for their offensive line, talking about how those big guards can get out and pull. They can run to football Darren mcfenn. They do have a tight end and Jason Witten, who's one of the better receiving targets at that position in the National Football League. Does Bryant need I say more? Their defense has played well in spots.

What I will say about the Dallas Cowboys though they are the worst team in the National Football League in the turnover department. They have only eight takeaways on the year, and I've believe they are minus fifteen and when that happens, you don't win football games. And right now Dallas has struggled throughout the season. The Jets aren't gonna overlook them. I know that for a fact. You heard De Mario

talking about them right now. I ever brings up a good point about blow on offense, But right now, I think everybody's kind of in a rhythm, and it doesn't matter who it is. Quincy A noon Wa who just joined us up here and on set. He he's a guy who stepped up and made some receptions for this ball club. We've seen Jeremy Curley do it at times as well. Ken Brolton Tompkins is also gonna be counted on the Jets could add another receiver, but Chris Ivory, Billah, Paul,

Eric Ducker, Brandon Marshall. You com buying all those guys with the way Fits is playing, and you get complimentary um additions along the way, you're in good shape. A couple that with this defense, Dallas has a smaller so if the Jets can run the football to continue to pound them as you get later in the game, they tend to wear it down a little bit of the games that I've watched them, so things may be easier, maybe easier later, but I think it's something we have

to build on. And listen, once again, this is a Jet team that's doll the phenomenal job in the red zone, and the defense has been able to get off the field for the most part, especially in these last couple of games on third down. If they continue with that combination, listen, it's gonna be a tough game, but the Jets are gonna be tough to be. Todd Bawls and Casey Rogers have been tremendous on third down. They have teams off balance when they're in third and long, and the Jets

continue to get off the field. I will say this these guys. They we talked to a couple of them tonight. You'll listen to Todd Bowls each and every day. The Jets are not looking ahead. With that being said, I was talking about, Hey, maybe this team needs some luck. I will say this that if if the Jets, which they have a lot of work to do, if they went out, I think they will get it. I don't know how the tie breaking scenarios work, Larry, because bottom

line is, things happened in the National Football League. A lot of things happened. There's so much football left to be played. If the Jets went out, they put him themselves in great position at eleven and five. That's the bottom line. They got to take care of what they can control that they can control how they play. Let's go to Corey and pot keeps you on line one, core you go next on inside the Jets. Hey, guys, how are you doing tonight? What's up Corey? Hey? I

love the show. Um, I just want to talk about Ryan Fitzpatrick. What a great guy he is and what a leader he's been for this New York Jets team. And I couldn't be any happier than half him as my quarterback. This year. All right, Corey, thanks for the phone call. Listen. He has gotten progressively better. And remember we weren't sure he was insurance when he was obtained. Derek,

he was a guy that was brought in. He had the leg injury at the start of camp, didn't get a lot of reps, had to wait till he got healthy. And then you can see what the situation with Geno Smith. He comes in, he steps right up and he just played well. And the thing that when I talk to Jet fans and even fans who aren't Jet fans, the thing that they talk about is his toughness, his ability to run, his ability to not slide all the time. Even though the coach listening ran out of bounds yesterday,

so that's a good time. Uh So, just his toughness is the thing that just impresses everybody. You know what bothers me when people talk about the quarterback position in the National Football League, as they say, you need an elite quarterback. And then I asked him, well, who do you think is elite? And they say, well, Aaron Rodgers and Tom Brady. Well, how many teams are in the National Football League They're thirty two, So what do you consider elite. Some people will say Drew Brees is the elite.

Some people you know Peyton Manton. Now Cam Newton has led the Carolina Panthers to a thirteen and old record. He's doing some tremendous things. But before this year started, nobody would have said, hey, Cam Newton's up there in the upper echelontic quarterbacks. They would have said he's a talented player. The bottom line is you can win playing complimentary football, and Ryan Fitzpatrick is a good quarterback. Period. He is a good quarterback. He has thrown twenty touchdown passes.

With four more touchdown passes over the next three games, he will tie Vinny Testaverdies franchise record, which is twenty nine in the season. The caller talked about the leadership qualities. We just heard to Mario Davis talk about this guy. He's always talking football. He knows the system inside and out. Jane Gaily working with them four years now, he's been able to acclimate himself with new surroundings, and what he's done with Marshall and Decker in their first year together

has been nothing short of incredible. Those guys are talented football players. But he's never played with them before. Just the ability of what he did by moving Decker into the slot on some packages and then moving in from out, going back into slide and they're going back and forth outside. Yeah, you know, and uh, Quincy talked about it, and Gaily mixes things up different personnel packages. The Decker touchdown the first touchdown the Jets got yesterday to take a seven

nothing lead over the Tennessee Titans. You know what Brandon Marshall was. He was on the sideline. He was on the sideline. And what goes into a play like that is Fits goes play action to Chris Ivory. Ivory gets a block on Casey. Then it fits looks the safety off, keeps them in the middle of the field, creates one on one coverage, Decker wins leverage and he's in the end zone. So yeah, hey, Fitz has done a great job this year. He's a good quarterback. Period. Absolutely see

next week, partner. All right, there have fun. I will special thanks to Gerald here, also to Brian. They're right back in our studios. That concludes this edition of Inside the Jets. Up next, Trevors Scales hays what you need to know, followed by the Dave Rothelbrokshire one seven ESPN,