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dot com and on Facebook right now. Um, we have been moved to the kids table after Thanksgiving, the kids picnic table. They need to give us the stywer foam cups and or sippy cup or juice box. Man, what happened to our table? Left our set? Eli feel horrible about this because typically Inside the Jets starts off with us at a big table and you're looking down right now. We have been brought down to earth, so my apologies.

They might as well gave us folding chairs and I'm just surprised the gables the real chair with the cushion on it. But it's all good. We're gonna do. We're gonna do what we could do. So Eli, uh, sixth round pick out of Louisiana Lafayette. You're eleven games into your first NFL season. How do you feel physically? Because a lot of guys at this time that hurt talk about hitting that rookie wall. Well, really, I'm I'm like fifteen games then, including a preseason. Yeah that's right, but

know those are unofficial. We don't come right. But I get a lot of playing time in pretty much. Um. But at this this the season, physically, I'm feeling great because you know, I don't get that many reps. Um. I just be ready with my my number is called, and uh, when my number is called, I just do whatever I do. I can do the healthy team. So I'm feeling pretty good at this point right now. So not just talking about your body, of course, you know, because you say your body is fresh, it feels good.

But how's the game slowing down? And how are you seeing the field? You know, what's the difference between week one or a week two and now how are you seeing the feel different? It's the game slowing down for you most definitely, it's slowing up a lot. Um. When I first started, everything was just moving fast paced. I didn't know what was going on. But now on that I'm eleven weeks in, I'm watching more film, and uh, I know what's going on. Uh it's slowed up a lot.

Our player guest segment here on Inside the Jets is presented by M ANDT Bank, the official community bank of your New York Jets. How about working in the backfield with consummate professionals like Blah Paul and Matt Forte. How much have you enjoyed that? Man, it's been eight man, I couldn't pick two better guys. Have been a room with two veteran guys has been in the leading alone time and I just learned a lot. I've just been been a sponsor to those guys and just soaking up

every knowledge that I can. And those guys are great teachers, and it's my job to listen to those guys, and it's been great. Listen to him. When you say listen to that, I mean get the doughnuts and bring the pop Eyes chicken for him as well. Now they haven't anything crazy like that yet. You don't have to get chicken, so part what you used to have to do as a rookie. They call it the bart special. Man. They had my stuff ready. Yeah, I've seen rookies missed the

plane because they relate with the chicken. They're still in line. That's why you gotta place your order before practice and have it ready at the time. And also I had to get steak and eggs. Man, I cannot believe wait till I talked to Matt Ford Tambo. Man, things are gonna change for the end of the season. Man, you're gonna get You're gonna get brought in the right way. So how did they welcome you into that running back real? Uh? Just with open arms. Uh let me come in and

just try to learn everything that I can. Just listen and uh, just's be a great listener. See, I don't think you undertood the court. You're not talking about the nice stuff. He said, what that they told you? Like, you know, do you have to carry the pad? Do you have to carry the pass? Anything? We want to know about the rockie experience? Are you telling me the rookie experience is now like being in the penthouse. Those

guys haven't really told me to do anything crazy. I didn't carry the pass one time in camp one time, one time, one time, not bad. Uh. Inside the Jets presented by e Why Building a Better Working World? How were you able Eli McGuire and your first professional season to have your offensive coordinator John Morton be so confident in you know, because a lot of guys who come into the National Football League who are six round picks, who are behind the Matt Forte and balal Paul, they

wouldn't get the amount of work that you're getting. But John Morton said, Hey, this guy is like a veteran the way he approaches this game. It's just being versatile when you can run, can't catch out the backfield. Uh, it's just great. It's hard to find those guys these days. So when you have three running backs, they could do different things. Uh, you gotta use them in some kind of way. You gotta use them. Now, what how would you describe your style to somebody who's never seen you

run the football before? Are you a one cut guy or are you a scat back? You? Are you shady or your trail datas? I'm shady? You shady? Okay? Okay? Yeah? And the cutback it's how you got the long touchdown and run against the Jacksonville j wors. All right, your first touchdown in the NFL. Can you describe that play for us? Well, yeah, it was. It was an outside zone to the left, and uh, on the outside zone, you gotta get everybody to flow right. So that's what happened.

Everybody flowed to one side to cut off the field while I was going, while I was supposed to go, and they had a big, big lane like right in the middle. So the offensive lot did a great job to get on the blocks. I did a great job of pressing a hole, setting it up and found the crease backside and made and got missed and took it

to took it. So I gotta follow up here because in the locker room after that game, when the Jets beat the jack Wars, I asked, you, lie, so, what's that feeling like when you hit the second level and you know you're about to take it to the house? And he said, oh, you can cancel Christmas. Is that a line that if you used before? And and the

meeting behind that, Now, that was my first time. But the reason I said that because when you ain't open field like that, and you've got nothing but green grass, and you running an open field and you've got people chasing you. Your goal is not to get caught, and that's just my goal, not to get caught. And I approached as as the dog is behind me. Yeah, when you when the dog is behind you, you don't know

nothing about that. You gotta explain. You gotta set it up like in the hood, right you got a lot of straight dogs, a lot of bucks. And at any time you can turn the corner where you're walking back from the store, you're going from playing basketball in the street, dogs just come up again. So apparently I've never been in the hood. This is what we're saying right now. And I just want to say too, I just adopted a dog from kill Shelter Donn in Kentucky, So all right,

he used to be a strike. You're a great guy, man, Thank you, Thank you very much. That that that that straight dogs don't trace you. Okay, So Eli, right now, the Jets four and seven after a loving games. Um, lately, you've been having trouble difficulty closing games in the fourth quarter. We think about Miami, we think about Atlanta and most recently Carolina. What do you think is happening right now

to this team in the fourth quarter? Why you're not able to make those plays at a critical time that would give you a victory. Well, in this past game, just had we played well for three quarters, but in the fourth quarter we heard ourselves with penalties and they made more plays than we did. A special team play. They made the punt return, oh, obviously a special teams as he was in his league, and they made more plays than we did, and we heard ours. So pen

is putting ourselves in the home. What's the locker room like when you get there on a Monday. Because Jermaine Curse fetching receiver who we've had here on this show, who I want to tell you career high and catches yesterday Barton and went over a hundred yards receiving, like I said, like we've said all year, Eli, No, I haven't told him yet. Tell him, Eli, good things happen to people come here on inside the Jets. So fantasy advice for those at home, Eli McGuire, pick him up

on drag creen. That's money. You might have to pick him up this week as the Jets face the Kansas City Chiefs at Life Stadium. But Jermaine Curse said, hey, listen, our confidence is not shaken right now. You still have a lot of confidence in the room, even though you've

lost five out of six accurate. Oh, it's just it's not confidence is not where we wanted to be because we had intentions on winning this game and that was our goal coming out of how time we was up to I think, and that's right, Well the score you're up. Don't worry about your and uh, we just knew that we would come out with a different game planer just running the ball, trying to trying to punch the ball down they throat and uh. But we heard ourselves with

repent of this. And it's hard to get yourself out a whole when you when you've got a lot of positive plays and then you get set back with negative So it's hard and it's hard. Let me said to say, so what did you do? Let's do let's let's regress with something a little less heavy. You don't want to talk about the feeling and how mad he is all that stuff. Hey, listen, how did you enjoy your first bye week? And being able to kind of enjoy the fruits of your labor or the bye week was great? Man?

You know, I haven't I haven't been home in like four months, so it was. It was good to get back to family and uh, see my mom them, just to spend time with them for a few days before I get back to the job. So it was great, man, it was. It was fun to say, my family, if they've been able to come up here and watch you. They haven't, but they came to the first game. They came to Buffalo, so it was great for them to

come to the first game. Any plans coming up here, maybe perhaps in December where your family would have an opportunity to see you, well, it would be in New Orleans because while I'm from my left fortified minutes away from New Orleans, so they'll be They'll be pretty deep in New Orleans. And how special is that gonna be for you in a few weeks when you go back and play the Saints, it'll be special. But planning the

dome is nothing new for me. When I was in college, we went to the New Orleans Bowl four years in a row, but I only been there three times. So it was it's great. I can't wait. Let me give you some advice because you know what some people may not know is I do a financial liturgy program with Morgan Stanley. We talked about your finances. You know what I mean. You're going back your six round draft pick. You're going back to New Orleans. You're gonna get take

a request from your your elementary gym coach principal. You gotta find your back cop. You're always good cop. You gotta find your bad cop because will be looking up in your What people don't realize out there is we pay for tickets. We get too free tickets. Everything else is directly taken out of your check. So if you don't want to like check because almost Christmas time, let your mom be bad hoop and only get your mama tickets. Just my advice. I haven't I haven't did anythink they

got their own They got their own stuff. So you got a good family, everything, good fan growing up. No, I wasn't nobody growing Okay, let's talk about your Twitter handle? Uh at Mr Adversity, Why did you pick that? Well? The reason behind that is I lost my dad at twelve, and when my dad passed, I just wanted to quit everything. I just want to stop going to school, stop playing sports. But the people I had around me, they picked me up.

So I had to face that adversity and just get back on my feet and doing what I love to do. What do you think your dad was think of you now being a National Football League after Uh, you know how much work you've put in along the way, and then you were drafted of course in April. Not only are you on this team, but you're a contributor on this offense. Man, I believe help you to have this man on his earth because, Uh, when I was young playing sports, he he didn't miss no games. If he

had to leave work earlier, he was there. So I think he'll be pretty pretty happy. I knew he happened now spiritually, so I'm just trying to continue to make him proud. You know what my father told me one thing, um when I when I made it, he said, son, you don't owe me anything but bragging rights. And um, I'm sure your father would say the same. And I'm sure he's up in heaven bragging with his chest out like a peacock. You know that's the only thing we

all our parents and them. You've done a tremendous job and that you know, people don't understand how hard it is to be a six round draft pick, to come in this league and try and make a name for themself because your opportunities are limited. So it speaks to your maturity the fact that the limited the limited opportunities you got, you obviously took full advantage of him that they trust you to give you opportunity of the game. So your congratulations to you, man. I'm sure your pop

is really really proud of you. Appreciate Eli. What do you like about this offense? Uh, as far as the West Coast and from a running backs perspective, because obviously to play for John Morton, you gotta be able to run the football, no doubt, but you gotta be a dept at catching out of the backfield and you gotta be one on the block as well. Right, what's my first time in the West Coast offense? Uh, my four years in college, I was I was used to a

new hotel and getting the signals from the sideline. Uh, just huddling stuff is new to me. But being in the West Coast offense, Uh, it's I think it's great, man, because you give the running back a lot of opportunities to get messed up with a linebacker and trying to win any one on ones. So I think that's what's the greatest thing about his offense. That's the one thing I noticed about this guy, Eli McGuire and training camp was not only can you run the football, but he's

got good hands, solid hands. That's the first thing that popped out at me during training camp about you, Eli, that you have a game that is complete and you're only gonna get better in the National Football League. What about the verbiage of the offense, because we had Chad Hanson on a couple of weeks ago, the rookie receiver from Cal and he said, hey, it's like a paragraph each play from your perspective, what what was it like learning the terminology? And I agree with Chad, it is

it is like a paragraph. It's it's so complex. The fans so they can get up. I'd like to hear one. I can't even do it because when I was learning the offense, and I was I was looking at the playbook and I was reading one of the plays and I've seen alert another player did kill another player, Like, oh man, I don't know how I'm gonna do this. So it's like it's like three players in the huddle

at one time. So you got to know everything. You just listen to your part, right right about the other whatever, right, the double pumps it overwhelming the first the first night you get the camp maybe or you're at rookie UH camp rocky minicamp, and you look at this thing and you're like, whoa, it was man, Because I was I was so afraid of just um I was. I was so afraid of messing up or making a mistake. And that's that's the quickest way to get out this league.

So I had to get in my playbook and just learn everything that I can and put it in the best way that I that I know how, and just apply and just executed on the field. When you start getting the game plan for the Chiefs, it's Monday right now. You guys come into the complex, you look at your mistakes, you put uh Sunday's game away. But when do you start looking ahead individually at the chiefski fix. Oh, we I'll start. I'll probably start tomorrow. Yeah, on Tuesday, you know,

the all day. Um, I go in in the morning and get a little treatment, take care of my body, and go home, just watch some film, and then on on Wednesday, just get the game plan and just go from there. What does the running back and have to pay attention to a special relie because I'm thinking about guys like him. A linebacker, you gotta be looking at how a linebacker and the safeties are coming down on those run plays and also what they're doing in coverage.

Right as a running back, when I watched film, uh, if it's a run play, I look at the technique of the defensive linement, uh, just to know where the ball might hit. And then in the past game, I look at the linebackers they depp the safety's the corners, and when the bit, when the linebacker bits, I look at what they like to do their bull guy or there for this guy. What's what's your personal goals for

the rest of the season to finish strong? What what goals have you set for yourself before the season and what goals have you set now? I haven't said any goals really, but for the rest of the season, I just want to be better than I was five minutes ago. And I just wanted to be, uh, the best guy and the best man that I can be in life. Guys got a great attitude. That's Jets rookie running back Eli McGuire. Thank you so much for joining us. We

will come right back here on Inside the Jets. Welcome back to Inside the Jets Sarah Gallen and Bart Scott here at Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits inside the Windham Hamilton's Park. Um FanDuel Fantasy and Analysis brought to you by FanDuel have all the fantasy that football has to offer. So the fantasy advice for the folks at home this week is get Ela McGuire, Eli McGuire. He's probably h out there in free agency. Maybe you need a backup running

back on your fantasy team. Eli McGuire might punch it in to the end zone this week against the Kansas City Chiefs. Well, let's talk about Jets Carolina Panthers. Jets do a lot of good things. Why weren't they able to come home with the victory? I think it's a lack of discipline and um, you know, you think about some of the untimely penalties and not really understanding how to to finish. You know. One example of that is I know that the special team coached not call a

kick down the middle. That is a cardinal sin. You never kick a punt down the middle because what happens is if they have a left return on or middle return on or right return on. You give them an opportunity to run that play, you kick it to a side and try and pin them to a side. Got you gotta take away some of the fields, right exactly. It's just like anything like when you're defending a somebody on a pass route or running back out of the backfield, you always have to declare a side to give them

one way to exit. They kick the ball right down the middle of the field and they paid the price because what happens is everything times out Because as a punt team, when you end coverage, what happens is you're you're taught to spread out and fan out to your landmarks. But then when you fan out to your landmarks, of course people are getting out at different times. So what happens is now you have people that are running down

the field on different levels. So what happens is if somebody hits it straight up the middle, you can't recover from that because nobody to overlap because everybody's at different levels and getting out at different times. And that's why when he hit it up the middle of nobody had seemed like he was untouched. Where if you're on a side, then you have guys from two that has angles because they can see where the return is going, they can retreat. Cardinals.

Very uncharacteristic of the Jets this year because they've been covering kicks and punts very well. Locklan Edwards has had a great season to date, not only in terms of yards per punt, but net yards. And you being a former special teams performer yourself earlier in your career, that's how you made your market. The National Football League know that knows that net is the most important number when you're talking about punting. Unfortunately, Lockland Iwards put that one

out in the middle. Kitlin Clay takes it to the house, but before that, Josh McCown gets pressured. There's a breakdown in protection. He's trying to dirt the ball. Unfortunately not able to get the ball out and with a forward throw instead it's a fumble. Luke kick Lee takes it the other way, and all of a sudden you have a fifteen point run from the Panthers, and and and

that's what's so demoralizing. What happens is you're playing, you know, so great, and then two plays or fifteen seconds and you're down, you know, fifteen points, you know it scored on the board, and you've been battling to get that, you know, get that, get that lead, and you lose it that fast. And what happens is, you know, the

game is about evan flows. You know, momentum, it changes on the dime, and when it gets it, you have to try and play discipline and lean on your fundamentals to try and get momentum to swing back your way. And I feel like Josh McCown in that instance, instead of just saying, Okay, we're playing good defensively, we're in the game. Let's just eat the sack and there to fight another day, he's trying to dirt it while he's already being engulfed by a defender, and you never know,

he comes up with an empty hand. He's trying to throw it all and even if he was going to make the past and in the past is gonna go forward, it's still with a great hospibility of probably going to be tipped or because he's been thrown back, it's going to be intercepted. So you know, it's just one of those things. They keep taking turns and having bad plays.

You know, you think about you know, Jordan Jenkins. You think about the off side, the roughing, roughing the pastor from Mike pinal Lay in that ball game, right, and at some point, you know, one of the best things I've seen I saw yesterday was after the game Marcus made crime. Right. It's because we're defined by our losses, right, because the pain that he feels now is going to propel him in the off season become a better player.

It's also are part of the scar tissue that all great football teams have, especially when you're a young football team. It's a lot of pain. There's a lot of you know, losing. And then what happens is when everybody starts to pay attention when you're successful, they forget the journey. They forget to Seattle Seahawks journey before they got Russell Wilson, when they were coming of age, when they were learning those lessons. Yeah, but they were when it's having eight games a year.

And remember they went into free agency signed a guy by the name of Matt Flynn. They gave him a lot of money and said, well, he's gonna be our quarterback maybe. And oh, by the way, they took a quarterback out of Wisconsin in the third round, a little guy by the name of Russell Wilson who just be can become a monster in the National Football League. And I think, you know, I think this is these are gonna be the things that they remember their land a foundation.

But they have to start learning from their mistakes. You know. We don't want to see them coming up and and and beating themselves in tight games. And that's what that's what hurt the most because they came out, they looked fresh, They played with a lot of energy, they played with a lot of poise. But there's a lot of missed opportunities out there. We both we were talking off the air about Sainfarren Jenkins. Okay, the one of the drops were controversial, right because you know, I believe that he

had possession of I believe it's a touchdown. I don't know what it catches in the NFL anymore. Well, I don't know either, and I need somebody to uh define a catch for me, and we might have to have somebody on uh from the National Football Yeah, maybe we'll bring in Dean He doesn't work for the NFL anymore, but he never caught a ball before in his life, and he was he's enforcing the rules. He he he wrote some of those rules. He taught the person that's

that's that's interpreted in the rules. So you mentioned as J he manned up after the game he said, I have to make that catch in the Jets first possession where John Morton had a tremendous play call and McCown put the ball on Sj's hands. Unfortunately he wasn't able to corral it. And then, like you're mentioning, then late in the game again, God, Austin, I don't know what he's doing the officials, but it feels like they got

they got it out for him. Um, and everybody's talking about the play calling there, uh with the Jets and John Morton, first and goal at the one and complete, but reality says second and goal at the one. You throw the fade, it's a touchdown. Yeah, and you got thinking and then nobody question in the play calling at that point. You have a six five two d and sixty pound tight end against a corner. It's a mismatch.

It's the same thing that we see with Jimmy Graham, is the same thing that we see with Rob Gronkowski. You have to put the fran Jenkins in that same breath. He's that talented, and he's a guy that was brought in and drafted in the first round because of those talents, and you gotta put him in a position and he made the play. In my opinion, he made the catch, you know, but you know, they just didn't get the end result, which was the seven points on the board,

which would have been huge. And you have to, you know, figure out to make sure that you make that catch more definitively. All right, we're gonna come back here and said that put the Carolina game to bed. We will look ahead to the Kansas City Chiefs coming to Malife Stadium this week and bringing is it still rivers Eislands at Vas Darrell Rivas And we have plenty more to talk about. Will be right back, Well back to inside the Jets, Eric Ellen and Bart Scott here at Vanderbilts

Sports and Spirits inside kind of Hamilton's Park. Yes, the folks are excited that you are here, the mad packer, all three of them. Uh, you know what, It's just a table. I think people were scared off they saw the table had changed. So I feel like I did up the room. Man. I had to go sit at its kid table. I don't know. I don't know if there's been any announcements Bart Scott lately, I don't know. I mean, I haven't been following what's been happening anything

like that. Um, Bart, let's put a rap on this Carolina ballgame. How how did the Jets now have to respond to this? Because this has happened to them, not just a couple of times, it's happened to them on three occasions, as they've lost five out of six. Now, I think it has to be a point of focus. Um, maybe even getting some type of embolic object so that they can come to the sideline and it's a constant reminder, and you know, it's becomes a force of a point

of emphasis because what happens there. Sometimes you go in and say, hey, we're gonna play clean game, we're gonna play smart, and then you lose focus because you focused from play to play and you forget about what the theme of the game is all about. You know, sometimes you know you're going to game, say okay, we're gonna physicality all weeks, physicality, physicality, and you're if you remember, you remember back in the day, the New Orleans Saints

they had the back. Some guys in Jacksonville, they had the acts. Maybe maybe putting something on the sideline a reminder, yeah, put a care bear or something out there. Man's something I don't know, something that they that can remind them that when they come to the sideline that hey, we're gonna play smart. I'm dating myself manies. It could have been Christmas in a couple of weeks. But I don't

know about anybody's doing. But put a little pull a little a little bit pull the baby Einstein or something on on the over bench so when they come back, they see, you gotta play smart, baby? Exactly do you like to turnover? Change? I like to turnover chage is it's like good karma. And when you when you when you when you focus on something so much, it starts to happen. You start to believe, and you get the first one, then you believe that you can get the

second one, and then what happens. It's all about positive thinking, you know. So what happens is it's fun. So guys are out there and they're they're thinking about when I'm out here, Okay, let me really go and try and knock the ball. Out, Let's not just make the tackle because we got to turnover chain. And that's what I'm talking about. Sometimes things symbols, you know, remind us to go out and focus on certain things, not just go for the big head or hey, let's try and get

the ball out. You know we used to do that before. Well, I can't mention you're not gonna go there wherever you're going, but prest pause on that right now. Just just cash prizes and if you get certain things, you know what I mean? All right, So, um, great job, I thought. By first, Clay Born and Buster Screen had one of his better games, and Jets got their hands on a lot of footballs. I believe Cam Newton just eleven and twenty eight. Did you like what you saw from the

Jets corners by and large because they weren't perfect. Nobody's perfect. Devin Functious got free for over a hundred and that was the first receiver the Jets had played this year that had a hundred receiver. I mean, but that's just one, you know what I mean? That was Cam's go to guy, and um, he made some good plays. But you know, the other team, you know, gets paid to you know,

I like that you know, Buster was disciplined. You you talk about the tennis balls and not grabbing and things like that, and I think, you know, because once again something that made you focus on your job and not doing something that sometimes can become instinctive, you know. So I thought they did a great job. And and listen, they played good enough to win the game, you know,

and I know they're tied up going there. And what happens on Monday when you lose the game, You know, they talk about all the good stuff, and then they put the five plays that cost you the game, and it's never one, but it's it's two or three. There

really are pivotal in the outcome of the game. And I thought that the missed opportunities for the touchdown catches were one to punt down the middle of the football field and trying to throw the ball while you were being sacked where the game that were the biggest players in the game that contributed to the loss. You take those games those plays away. Then you punt the ball, you make Cam have to earn it, and maybe you

have a different outcome. I I still think people are not giving the Jets enough credit for the talent inside the building third definite holes on this roster that they're gonna have to take a look at in the off season, whether pro free agency or the draft and make some improvements. But with that being said, we're talking about seven eight plays during the game, and they lost by five points. Five points, so the marginal error is small. I agreed

to a certain extent. But we can look at seven or eight of these plays and say if they happened the Jets winning. See, the greatest thing about this season, e. A. Is that you're developing a culture, a culture of accountability, a culture of hard work, a culture of passion. You can see when they're out there, they're playing with a lot of energy that earlier that the Jets came out and they played with juice off the break. Some teams would come off a break and even though that they

were at home, to be a little lethargic. Early Todd Bulls has these guys ready to roll each and every week. Last year, this was a team that frankly was lacking the juice right exactly. And let me tell you something, the rest of the league are paying attention. It's not about the wins of losses this year, right the rest of the league is paying attention, and guys that would say, you know what, maybe I wouldn't want to come to

New York. Now they're saying, you know what, they're on the they're on the come up there, and I can be part of something. I could be a part of something. They have a good culture. We see this. I'm watching on the screens here. I'm watching the Knicks because of the way they play together. Their record isn't great, but because they way they play together, other creators are going to say, you know what, I'll come and play for the Knicks now. And that's what happens. We all watched.

We want to win, but we want to have fun and we want to enjoy our work environment. And when you watch these young boys play, you see they play with a lot of passion, a lot of emotion, and they care about their teammates. Is not a selfish team. So now the future is right because you're gonna have guys that may take less money to come play here. Where they would have said, you know what, I crushed,

I crushed. Yeah, they might have looked at this situation before and said, you know what, I don't know what's happening there. I don't want to be part of it. But like you're saying, the Jets will hide it into this offseason with a lot of money. They still want to build this team through the draft, but they've set themselves up to pro free the agency if they want to address some of their young guys in the house, but they also can address some holes with some younger

players in pro free agency. I don't expect Mike mccagnan to go out there with the crazy spending because that's not going to be the answer. We talk about teams each spring who wins and that team never does anything the following year. Well, you know, Mcanney has made the mistake already right when he went out and he paid Revers. He went out and got Marshall and you know, tried to win that year, and but those guys produced early on.

But but no, But what I'm saying is it did It didn't work out with Decker right when you remember, uh is it had a lot of sellar cap space, and they went on and they spent it in two years and they had to blow it all up again this time. You want to build it more through the draft, more consistently, just because you have the cash doesn't mean

you have to spend all of it. You know, you have to spend the part that the NFL says you have to spend, but you can spend it over more players and just dumping a lot of money on one or two play right. And the other thing is about when you look at a roster in the National Football League over the courses, sixteen games, you guys put your bodies on the line. Not everybody's playing sixteen games. And now we look at rosters at this point in December.

You have to depend on people, or not just your starters, but the guy behind him. And that's how you build a roster. And that's the beauty of this year because a lot of these guys won't be household names going forward. But what happened is now they have experience, and maybe you're bringing somebody that's gonna start above them and they become the backup. But now you have confidence in your backups. So what happens is you're only as strong as your

weakest links. So what happens is a guy go down, you plug a guy in, and guess what, you're still still rolling because they understand how to play and they've had that experience. Well, guess what we have another segment here we do inside part Scott. We'll be right back here from Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits. All right, we're back here at Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits Circle and Part Scott A part. I would say, the drive at the game, the drip, uh excuse me, the trip of the game

is brought to you by Antigua and Barbuda. The beach is just the beginning. I give it to John Morton and the Jets offense. Down thirty two to twenty in the fourth quarter, they responded with a must score possession and Morton was patient. He stuck to the run game and then eventually went upstairs to Jermaine Curse and Josh McCollum culminated that possession with the three yard scoring pass to Curse. I thought that was a great drive because

Morton did not panic. The Jets were down twelve after that run from the Panthers, and he stuck to the ground, remained patient against the Carolina Panthers. They went down the field and they gave themselves a chance to get back in the ball game. I think he's a he's a great play call. I think he had the the feel of the team, in the in the the way that the game is starting to take take shape, and understanding that.

You know, of course the first couple of plays that you know, when you're trying to come back, they're playing for the big play. Yeah, and you can't get twelve points in one play exactly. So what happens is if they're giving away the big run, you know, they're getting a light box and you take it. And then what happens is they gotta show their hand because they started to realize, okay, we're giving up ten ten yard chunks, you know, so let's let's let's put an eighth man

in the box. And when that when that opportunity presents itself, do you go up top? The other the other thing that Morton did against the Panthers that I really liked this He exploited the weaknesses because Carolina went in that game, if you really looked at it, solid at all three levels, but they had some cornerback issues. Captain Munterland not in the ballgame. Shack Thompson a wonderful athlete, he was playing inside a lot. So the Jets took advantage of Jermaine Curse.

I also thought. We're seeing Robby Anderson continue to develop. The jets are moving them all over the place, and we're seeing what he can do. Both Robbie Anderson and Jeremine curse Gold for over a hundred yards against Carolina. I mean, I think when you really, you know, break down the Russian numbers two, they weren't as bad as people thought. You know, they were spread out over three players, but if you add them all up, I believe it

was a hundred and twenty one yard. You know, if you want to ask at Jash mcconound of carries, that's not too bad, you know. But I think, um, definitely, Robbie Anderson is coming into his owner. He's playing with a lot of confidence. I like to see him show a little bit more maturity than not talk about the Pro Bowl, understanding that's not the right time to talk about that. Bulls didn't dress that. He said that. Robbie and I talked about it. I don't think that's gonna

happen again. Yeah, but you know that that that showed that that that can be um, you know, seeing as selfish, you know, so I think he'll learn from that and understanding that. Listen, he has a long way to go before he gets there, you know, and you know when when when you're a pro bowler, you don't have to campaign for it. The other thing that gets overlooked in all this is that Jets third down defense was tremendous. I believe leave Carolina finished three or fourteen on third down.

That was the NFL's number one ranked offense on third down. So hopefully they can build on that this week against the Kansas City Chiefs. Well, you know why because they won and they were successful in trying to slow down to run. You never stopped to run, you know. Carolina Pathers are very physical football team, talented and with the read option, you know, Cam Newtons gives them a different

dimension that the defense. But what I would like to see them do though, is really figure out, you know, this offset back stuff, because I saw that, you know, a couple of times, the linebackers are still getting you know, tricked with the formation recognition, and they have to come up with some type of scheme schematically where you can call to get help either from the d N or you're gonna have to pass those routes because they were

getting picked, you know. And even though the last one, you know to McCaffrey was a little bit too far. He still was open. So it's just's things like that you're gonna have to learn. And I think they'll do that. They'll see that this week because you know, you talk about one of the best play callers in the game and Andy Reid, and he's going to see that. Kareem

Hunt is struggling. Um, he talked about somebody starting well, so so can Todd Bowls take anything from the Buffalo Bill's defensive game plan where they played nickel the whole game, predominantly putting an extra man in the box and played zone in the back end. Well, I think so, man. I think right now, Alex Smith is starting to feel the pressure. You know, we talk about you know, Mahomes, you know, you know, breathing on his heels, and now people are talking about maybe you know, he needs to

to be benched. You know, after he started off pushing the ball down the field. Now I think he's starting to to to to really be scared to push the ball down the field because now he's afraid of mistakes. And now when you start thinking about it, so he's not playing well, he's turning the football over. You talk about that costly pick that he had yesterday where he basically threw it to a wide open defender that was

just sitting there doubling. You know, if you can take away Kelsey and and try and limit, you know, can't let Tyreek Heill, he'll get loose. But I think you talked about somebody hitting the rookie wall. I think Kareem Hunt, and Kareem Hunt, even though he may not be the best player, he's the most important player because he's a guy that's easier to get the ball too, because like how to do is turn around and give it to him.

You just gotta turn things back inside for him. And where I think the Jets going to this ball game much like last week. It's a little bit different because Cam Newton far different quarterback than Alex Smith. But I think the Jets have a big time advantage up front, their their defensive line going against the Chief's offensive line. You talked about the lack of depth again because they have so many players that make so much money. You talk about Houston, You talked about Alex Smith, you talked

about Eric Berry. You know a lot of guys that you know there are in the top one or two in their in their respective positions. And what happens is they have that lack of depth, and they've had a lot of injuries, and now you're starting to see that they don't have the depth, and now they're trying to supplement guys and trying and figure out different ways. But

they can't do what they did earlier season. What the Jets have to do is make sure that they don't get healthy against them, they don't get confidence against it, because they're gonna be facing a very, very desperate football team, because the Chargers are on their hills and things can turn around quickly. In the National Football League. We saw the Jets put the Buffalo Bills in a towel spin.

But then a Buffalo team who you thought would get run out of the stadium at Arrowhead went into Kansas City and they were the desperate team and they took care of business with a good defensive effort. Defensively, were you surprised that your former coach Bob Sutton and the rest of the Chiefs organization decided to pick up the Roll Reeves because he could be playing opposite one of

the game's top cornerbacks and Marcus Peters this weekend. Marcus Peterson, you gotta love him and reminded me a lot of Delta O'Neill because he'll he'll jump anything. Man. He asked the preme confidence in itself, but he'll give up the big player as well. And I think that Reeves is a security, uh blanket that they want to have for the playoffs. I don't know if you see Reeves in the first three of four weeks of him being there.

They got to get him up to game speed. And what you would hate to do is give him a two year contract and have him pull his hamstring because no matter what he's been doing in Miami and training, and I'm sure he's been preparing. So you don't think we're gonna see a lot of them this week, I don't think so. I think you know they'll maybe working in week three as they try and maybe working into a Nickel package things like that, because what happens is

you saw it happen with Lebyan Belle. You see it all the time when guys come in mid season late, they try and play a game speed and they're not a depth to it because they haven't really ramped themselves up and they pull a hamstrings, have soft tissue injuries and the other thing people are asking about whether he's gonna be working a slot. I just can't see that. For Darrell Reeves, that was never his deal, even in

the prime of his career. Well he did that against Wells Walker, um when he shoutowed West Walker and Wes Welker always went to the slot. You know what, people don't realize the fact that Reeves hasn't played in a while has allowed a lot of those little nagging injuries that somebody who retired those nagging injuries to heal up. So if he's a healthy Reeves, then he's worked his way to go because he can help you because now he's gonna be going against the second and third receiver

because they have a number one corner and people. But the thing that Kansas City does that's interesting. On the defensive side, they don't move, they won't shadow like Darrell when he was here back in the day. We know we have watched Rex Ryan Uh at times. You know, send him with with with the opponent. The top receiver, um Marcus Peter is gonna stay to his side predominantly. That's the way they're doing in Kansas City. Yeah, absolutely,

But Bob Sutton knows Reevers very well. So if Peters has to move because Reevers is more comfortable here, I think he'll share Reevings up for success, because when you're the number one corner, you have to travel. We saw that happen later in Richard Sherman's career too, you know, later in a couple of years when he was a shot down the corner that always played on the left side. If we need you to move that way, you know

you want this money, you'll move. Fascinating matchup, but you think the Jets has to be prepared for a wounded animal in the Kansas City Chiefs that's desperate. You talk about their sputtering out of control. You have a veteran who knows that he's probably not gonna be there next year. He knows that he has up his resume so that he can go to the to the to the highest bidder next year, and he knows that he the time is now. This may be his last opportunity to win

a Super Bowl. We got about forty five seconds left. Tier on inside the Jets, Bark, Scott and I will be at MetLife Stadium for the Madden go back, there will be here. We don't. We don't want to see that because there's somebody on the cover. We don't really like. That's cool. We get to blow that up out the words, we get the pope. We can put mustache on it, we can put Bookers in his nose, all that kind of stuff. You go kill. We're not even gonna tell you he's on the cover. But are you excited for

Wednesday night at MetLife Stadium? Do you? Did you ever played man ever? I played Madden until I got into the NFL, and Matten didn't put me on the game for the first three years, and I thought he knew something that I didn't know, that I was gonna get cut or something because he never put my actual face on. I was just number fifty seven, disrespect all right, We'll see not Life Stadium Wednesday night. Thanks for everybody too, came out tonight.