Inside the Jets with Bart Scott, EA & Marcus Maye (10/2)

their suggestions for our podcast name. We have a tentative place holder, the Landing Gear Podcast. Oh that's a good one. Yeah, that's cool. You think about that. That's a solid name. You know, it's funny because there's no here's so many like you know, it's like you want to use something built in with a jet, right, like you know, something like that. And you know, I was trying to come up with one for my potty. I was like, man, there's like it's just so hard to find work. But

I like that. Check yours good. That's a good one. It's okay, So landing Gear we'll see if it's the keeper we'll see if the fans like it, Uh, Anthony. Throughout the year, we're gonna be talking about the Jets, the National Football League. We're gonna dive into some college football as well. I know Bart wants to talk about pop culture, so you're gonna be up on that. Well, okay, yeah, I get something. I'm gonna have to look at some TikTok's and snapchats and stuff like that and figured it

all out. Uh. First things first, it's midweek here at one Jets Drive. You're down at Tampa UM four Jets fans. The world is falling apart right now because of what happened in Week one. You used to be a player. You were in the locker room before. What's the temperature right now there? And how quickly do you have to Okay, it's one game, fellas, let's go. Yeah. I mean, you know, from the fans perspective, and that's how we kind of look at it now. Me being a former player, you

you know, you should be disappointing. You want you were excited. You know, every team that's out there had a crazy offseason. You know, they didn't have the full gamut of opportunities, and and and preseason and all that stuff. And then there were some teams that went out there and and had great weeks, right, and then there were some there

were a lot that people were surprised about. You know, one thing about that is, as you say, yeah, but you gotta kind of you know, level out as far as what you think this team will be off of sixty five snaps, right, that that's not how it works in the league. I say this all the time when I talk about NFL games. Whatever you did the week before doesn't guarantee you anything the next week. And that's good and bad, right, So you always have an opportunity

to improve. Now, when I look at the Jets and I watched their film, do I see ways that they can improve or could have been better in that football game where next week they can automatically just you know, put up more yards and do better thing. Absolutely? You know, catching football's right, is not a you know, end of the season situation that that gets better. Uh. You know, accuracy in the pocket, seeing things after one game when you didn't have any live action, that's fixable and that

can be better the next week. I thought the offensive line, nice start for them. You know, it's a good start for the offensive line. Uh, can it be better? Absolutely that there's still cohesion and cohesive that it has to be bound together. That takes a couple of weeks. And that's everybody. Now. The the end result, you know, being down to twenty one nothing, all those things that happened

in the game. That's not ideal, it's not it's not great for the the eyeballs, right, But I think what happens is from a player's perspective, is you're very critical of yourself on the film. I think the coaches should be very critical of the players on the field because you know, there were plays in the game that Adam Gates called that if they were ex secute it, they're good place right, and vice versa. I'm sure Adam wants to have some plays back that he could call differently.

But that's how it works in the week the week process, I find things out. It's funny. I talked to him about that this week we're taping for his show, Adam Gay Show, which airs locally in New York m CBS. UH. He said the flow of a game can change just by a couple of plays because instead of back to back or three consecutive three and ounce you're on the

field for additional three plays. And there are a couple of plays early in that game where Sam Donald's got Brishad Perriman open and he hits that ball nine times out of ten. And does that change the outcome of

the game. I'm not saying that, but it changes the temperature of that game, the temple of that game early because the Bills just took off where the Jets canna get a stop early and the Bills just consecutive drives over and over in the ends on your down twenty one nothing, and then your game plan has to shift. You're right, And I think you know you're you are talking. You know, when you start a game, you have a

certain script of plays in your mind. You know, I don't know if Adam has you know when we played, when I played, you know with Gruden, he'd have fifteen places scripted out and it wasn't in that order, but you wanted to get these fifteen in. Guys read it overnight. They knew it was to expect. But that changes, right like you said, uh, you know, you get down a couple of scores, or you have a couple of three owns or maybe the runs that you thought were gonna

be really good versus that front don't pan out. So now what what's the alternative and can you figure it out quick enough before a crazy situation happens where oh man, all of a sudden you're down twenty one nothing. So, you know, I think it's overall too it's it's defense, get you know, getting off the field on third down, you know, not giving up drives. I mean, look, the Bills had a good game plan. It worked. Everybody comes in with a thought of a good game plan, but

you have to execute it. And you know that the Jets have an opportunity to be better at that, and I think they can. You know, this is not the super Bowl team coming in next week that played the Super Bowl for We're not is a bit different when we get to that, but you can definitely get better on a lot of the things. There's a lot of improvement right for the for the Jets to happen that

this week. Mike Dyson always used to say that it's great to have a game plan until somebody punches you in the face, no doubt, and then you got to adjust on the fly. And right now, the Jets took a punch in week one, There's no doubt about it. But what were you most encouraged about. We saw Marcus may stat stuff for what ten tackles, two sacks, two past defenses of forced fumble. You mentioned the offensive line.

Adam seemed very pleased with the play of that front overall, and rookie McKay Beckton is getting a lot of love out there in social media circles from people. People study the tape and watch the All twenty two. You're right, you know, Look, it was a good star for McKay. Went against a formidable opponent a few guys. You know, Jerry hughes good players on the edge. He had a really nice finishing pancake block to the second level you got. You love seeing those things, and we talked about this

in our in the pregame. You know, this kid loves playing the position. He gets amped up to do it. You can see his passion on the field. Now, what are the things that normal high end rookies coming in plane left tackle? There aren't many right that that start day one. What are the things that they need to get better? Right? Well, McKay said it after the game. He said the speed of the game will Okay, we hear that from the quarterbacks perspective. We hear that from

running backs and wide receivers. But what he's talking about is, Okay, when you know you got an outside defensive end and they come up the field, stick they foot in the ground and they immediately cross your face and then there's other some movement and there's other movement around you, you have to react better and that becomes something that you see, right, You kind of get that sense you your moved to a little quicker and you know if it's something from

a standpoint of another player where it's across and a linebacker comes off the edge anticipation, So that's nothing to do with he's slow and he can't do it. What he's saying is, it's this man on Sunday's game day, which they haven't had. He hasn't had. It's it's old last man. You gotta go and be ready for it. Yeah, you have taken a look at the San Francisco forty Niners obviously advanced the Super Bowl last year, disappointing an outcome for them at home where I thought they had

opportunities to put maybe Arizona away early. I thought they did a better the play early in that game against the Cardinals, but Kyler Murray got it going on the ground. What do you see thirty thousand foot view as we look ahead to the forty Niners in this matchup. Yeah, I mentioned that you don't look like the same team from the Super Bowl and uh not because they haven't got a lot of work together. I mean they're banged

up number one. Uh they really don't have a legitimate one slash even two receiver on the field right now. Deebo Samuels is on I R he's out, Travis Benjamin uh Covid out, so he decided to opt out to the season. Uh so they're they're they're really utilizing some players there there. May yeah, he may be back, but I mean again, he's gampy, hasn't played an NFL game yet. And Kittle coming out of that game when I watched it,

he got his a knee injury. He came back and played, but again, you know, how did that field during the week. So and Garoppolo did not look um as clean as maybe I've seen him in the past. And he doesn't get a lot of credit for what he does he's a game manager specifically because that's how their offense is run. That the key for their offense right now that they're utilizing, and I gotta think it will amp up even more is the backs. Tevin Coleman is a guy that's got great,

great speed, elite speed. He gets the ball, you see it immediately. He's not messing around the line of scrimmage. He's trying to take every opportunity to get through and break a big one. And he has that potential. So gap sound defensive lineman is gonna be h huge in

this game. Also, you know their run style. You think about the old Broncos right with Tarrell Terrell Davis, that outside zone, all the linemen going left and right in the back, you know, he kind of feels it, sticks his foot and goes either goes outside, he goes inside, or he cuts back. So discipline on the back side is gonna be well big as well. So you know, I think they're gonna lean heavy on a run game. Uh with his Jerick Jed excuse me, Mary McKinnon back

and a Raheem Monster is another guy. He had a huge game so offensively, I think from a defensive perspective for the Jets, they should feel good about the opportunities. What they're gonna see on film, how they did it against Arizona, and what they're gonna be on So there's gonna be some things, and you know the game plan will be different. A lot more guys are dropping in coverage versus the Bills. I anticipate a little more aggression in this football game. You can get some more guys

in the box. You've got three receivers that will be on the field for for the forty niners that had four catches total. So and those are those who considered their ones and twos and threes right now, So that's not good. So they're heavy run at running back, heavy tight end offense, defensive line. Now that for forty nine, that's a different ball game, right Osa Armstead d Ford is there. I mean, these guys are legit. You know, Kwan Alexander one of the best fastest linebackers in the NFL.

So those core guys are good. But when you if you can get a little protection and hold them off, now you're talking about a second level. No, Richard Sherman, they got a bunch of cornerbacks that are injured their best cornerback. Excuse me there, Their best leading tackle in the game was a cornerback. Not a good formula for success for a defense. I think they're corner Uh Coleman was his name. He got fifteen tackles in the game

at the cornerback position. So not a good deal. Either he's given up a lot of plays or he's got to be in support. So again, there's opportunities on the field for the for the Jets to have a positive game on both offensive defense. Jests. Jets historically hip and very good against the run. And I know Josh Allen did damage last week and I'm gonna talk about that in a little bit. But Jimmy Garoppolo, you don't have to worry about him running Uh some r p o s.

That's that's not their deal. There. You mentioned that wide zone run scheme, and interesting part of that, like you mentioned, is everybody thinks that automatically means they running wide. No, they're moving wide and that running back has an option to cut it back inside and a lot of times

they're cutting it right back up the middle. But um, like you said, for the Jets, I actually think this is a better opponent for them to maybe prepare for defensively, because Allen puts so much pressure on you because it becomes a numbers problem. Right. Yeah, you know his legs clearly last season in game one again reared its ugly head in Game two, Game two obviously Game one this year, um and us and he got into a really nice

groove passing. I don't think anybody expected him to to throw the ball with the consistency and accuracy that he did in that football game. You you dropped, you know, eight guys because you feel like he's not gonna be able to read the zones and do good things against

against your pest defense. But you know he was able to check down, do something short, open it up a little bit, and you know that that ultimately with the the ability to rout, move with his legs and run that that that you're right, that is a tough combination. And look, the Jets are gonna face teams that have those similar situations from a quarterback position. So it's good tape for them to learn from. But there you have to figure out how to stop that. It's a division opponent.

You gotta get better at it. And again, even though Garoppolo isn't a guy that does those kind of things. When you got running backs that can cut back at any moment, every guy up front has to be in their gaps. So again, a lot of emphasis is going to be on the defensive line play and you're hitting the nail on the head Noble Hewitt and everybody's talked this week has stressed I dis a plan. I think I've heard it more lean up to this ball game that maybe all of last year, just because of the

way San Francisco approaches this. Um. You know, Neville made a reference elephants on parade. Yeah, you don't hear that too often, but the forty Niners that they're gonna put some stress on you kittle real quickly on him. What do you do? What do you do defensively? Uh? Two? Negate or not negate him to contain him even though he's banged up. He's a unique player, Anthony, you played

the position. This is a guy the last two years who said between eighty and ninety catches over a thousand yards receiving intent total touchdowns, and he's a great run blocker. So what do you do against Kim? Well, you get you don't let him beat you in the past game. He is really really fast up into his routes on the football field. He can get across the field better than anybody. And what he does in his pass routes with the speed is he has unique technique, unique technique,

so again understanding leverage breaking points. He has a great mix of that. Usually you have tight ends that have good speed and they run and they just kind of run by guys, and you have like a Witten who's not very fast, but he just understands how to find windows and runoff guys, so he always has space. He's a combination guy, so to me, and we talked about such a weak receiving corps for the forty nins, you got to bracket him. Always have two eyes on this guy,

all right. That that's kind of the plan going into the football game. And don't let him beat you. And then put the pressure on your corners or somebody else, whether it's one on one coverage to defend everybody else. You know, let um, you know, Pettis the receiver beat you. Let these guys go out, Trent Taylor, let these guys be the guys, make force them to be good. After coming off the game with only four total catches between the three ride receivers. So that that's kind know what

I would do. Okay, that's and you know, Greg Williams isn't isn't dumb. He sees this. He knows who were the guys you gotta take away their their top guys. But the problem is this, the backs out of the backfield negate a little bit of those bracket things you can do with linebackers because you gotta have eyes on backs, and uh, one route that you know I want Jets fans to be alert on is the back out of

the backfield. So they'll start on the backfield on the quarterback he runs out on an angle and then he comes back in. Well that was heavily Yeah, that was heavily thrown the game. But the issue is if the backer now sits on that, he has another he has an option he can go in or he can take it up the scene. So it's a difficult route to defend, especially now when you're talking about you've got tight ends

and stuff like that that are really good. So, uh, it's gonna be a lot of stress on the linebackers when you have backs and tight ends that can do those kind of things. I mean, it's it takes unique work during the week, which you don't have a lot of at a high, high tempo rate. And of course film study, which is only one but again, these are things that are on tape in the past. So just

here and you talk right now. I'm wondering if the Jets want to employ maybe some three safety looks this week because Ashton Davis is a very good athlete, and you would I would think he's one of the faster players on the Jets defense. Again, this is so early in his career. And the other point of this is you got Brandley McDougald, but Marcus May was so effective in the box, but he is also a rangeing guy who can cover. So how do you use your safeties

this week? Yeah, you're right. You know, Marcus was kind of all over the field, multiple positions, attacking positions, which were good. You know, we need that, and he showed out big. I mean, I think we talked about he would have been an FC player, the defensive player of the week if the Jets have won that game. So, um, you know, it's it's interesting. You know, you want to be aggressive because you're right, Garoppo is not a guy

that has a lot of movement. He's got good awareness though, he's got good internal clock in the pocket, so he's good at at and but you know, when you have the backs and the quick things that they're able to hit and get out of the hand quickly, then you're like, okay, well you don't want to get caught in space with the back and the linebacker. So it is a chess game, right that. That's that's what it is. You know, Greg

Williams is that that he's a great chess player. And this will be good because Kyle Shanahan, like I've known Kyle for a long time, Kyle from when he was a ball boy with his dad and Denver, when he's pouring coffee and drawing cards with me and Tampa. This guy's elevated quickly. But he understands matchups. He's very good at that, and that's something that he's going to try to utilize. Even though he's he's he's undermanned offensively as far as firepower. He's gonna find where he can get

those little matchups and take advantage of him. You all have to watch Pregame Central for more analysis from Anthony packed about Jets forty nine ers that it's eleven thirty Sunday. Lastly on this game, before we start talking a little bit more about the entire division. Do they move the guys up front when they moved both an, when they move Armstead around, when they move forward around? Because in particular I'm thinking about Beck, then who is he mostly

going to be matched up with this week? It's gonna probably Bosa, Yeah, you know. Look and and then here's the difficulty. Okay, when you watch the game, they have wide nines all day long, So that means that the the defensive ends will be about a full body and a half outside the tackle, and then they'll be angled, so feet will be kind of cocked out, hand helmet shooting towards the quarterback, and they'll be in low stances. So him and Armstead will be coming off that edge hard.

So what it gives them it gives the im ability to get some some momentum forward. And then if they're really good and they have multiple pass rush kind of moves, then now now you're like, okay, you can get the tackle on an islands, how can I beat them? And that's kind of what they did against Arizona. Now Humphries DJ Humphreys are tackle did a decent job, but look at he took his his bumps and he's been in the league for a couple of years and he's a highly paid guy. The Boast on one on one with

any tackle the league is a tough deal. So how do you counter that? You know, what do you do? You do you have a back okay, do you have a back chip? Do you have the tight end kind of you know, get in space? You know you normally sometimes you don't have to even touch the guy, being

at he's a wide nine. If you just have the tight end standing there and just being in the spot, and he can make him hesitate for a second, even if he doesn't touch him, that maybe give that gives the tackle enough time as well to kind of get locked in and shut him down a little bit. Of course, the extra tenth of five tenths of a second the quarterback needs. So he'll be challenged this week. I mean, you know, he's there's a ton of film. It's not like he's gotta go back fifteen games to figure out

how he does his stuff. You know, Boast is aggressive, He's got a quick inside move and he's got a motor that doesn't quit. The guy does not stop. It's a unique deal because usually guys that are premier pass rushers, they take off some snaps right there. Just not this guy. Dude had heavy run, he goes heavy pass. It's gonna be an all day challenge. I'm looking forward to. Man, it's gonna be good. Might as well do it early.

Do it early to be fun. Because he goes against Jerry Hughes last week, and Hughes still a very effective player at thirty two years old. Now you're facing a guy in Bossa who had nine sacks, is a rookie and he can bring it off the edge. And you know, the spotlights on Frank Gore this week. But we'll talk about that in a pregame central. Uh. Let's let's continue, uh talking about quarterbacks now in the fc S. What do you think about Cam Newton? What you saw out

of him first appearance of the New England Patriots. They take down the Miami Dolphins. A much different offensive attack with Newton at the controls because a lot of called runs for the new quarterback. Yeah, I mean, well, you know, look at what Josh Allen very similar, but you know better, right, they utilize them even more. Um. Look, it's tough to defend that. You know, they had two hundred fifteen or

sixteen yards rushing overall between backs and quarterback. The one thing that I did see as Cam Newton took a lot of shots. And that's one thing that you know, if if if you're looking from the outside in, you're worrying about that. Okay, yeah, it looks good. It's it's great when you get those yards and it's it's it puts defense in a in a stream. But man, you know you're one hit away from a guy, you know, you know, cracking a rib or you know, five brews.

I mean, he's not a little dude, he's not squirty. I mean you watch a guy like Kyler Murray this weekend rush for ninety five yards. Nobody even touched the guy, right, He's he's so quick and elusive and he gets out of bounds. It's just hard to get shots. Cam is like, okay, he saw him run into the end zone. He's not as like, you know, nimble, and he dives in and two guys just railroad them outside of the out of bounds.

I mean, so uh, you know, those things will add up over time, and I think that's where the problems will start happening. Okay, like you know through the week when he's banged up, like, how okay, we gotta pull back a little bit on this, or they just say, you know, we're just gonna ride it out and just see how it goes. Who knows what with with Belichick

and those guys think. But I think from from a from a standpoint of the long chevy of his of the season, I can't imagine that's gonna be a game plan that's gonna work weekend and we got so how does what's the counter? Right? The passing game is okay, but it wasn't great, So they're gonna have their issues as the season goes on. I don't think they can maintain but early on, I mean, listen, that's it's tough

to defend that Patriots, great organization, elite coaching staff. The roster took some hits in offseason, especially on the defensive side of the ball, and they look a lot differently offensively. They're always going to be competitive, are they still? With Newton the team to beat in the division. They've won seventeen in the last nineteen AFC East Championships. Um, where

do you land with them now? And it's more than just Cam, but you know, I'm just looking at the landscape from the quarterback position and how different this team is now. Well, they're gonna learn and understand the attributes that can bring to the table. Um. You know, Cam obviously is gonna have a chip on his shoulder this year,

Uh to to do some thing great. You know, Listen, you gotta give the Patriots the benefit of the doubt because regardless of the guys that opted out on defense or this or that, they're well coached, well disciplined, and really that takes and Trump's a lot of talent sometimes we've always seen in the last couple of years, they have a lot of talent at certain positions, but they

still find ways to win well. Their discipline, they understand their technique, they're in the right spots, and that's that's put on a high demand, you know, across the league. It's not like that everywhere, It really isn't. It's that that's the difference between what they've been able to do for the last twenty years compared to what teams are have aspirations to do because you know influx of different players, you know free agency, you know high end players that

kind of do it their way. That the guys that are on that roster do it their way, that the coaching staff's way, and that's how they teach it. So when you see them on Sundays, it gives them a better chance to win football games or at least keeps them innute because of that, And that's the reason why you lean on that for them to be the favorite. So where are you on Josh Allen? Polarizing figure. There's a lot of people can't stand him, don't think he's

ever gonna be accurate enough. There are other people think that, hey, this is a guy who's continued to get better from year one to year two, when he started year three with a very good game that first time in his NFL career where he passed for more than three hundred yards. A great athlete. Uh, I don't know how you want

to describe him, Anthony. Some people would say, this is a fantastic athlete who plays quarterback, but you know, is the game changing whereas maybe Josh Allen didn't work at ten fifteen years ago, but his style is right for the NFL right now, Yeah, again, you know, it's it's that kind of happy medium. How do you want to utilize him? Yeah, he ran the ball quite a bit. I don't I don't recall him taking too many shots, but he did on the fumble early on the game,

he almost got flipped over. I mean, listen, those those things are dangerous. I mean it's always surprising, you know. I remember when h Jon Gruden was on the Fired Coaches Association in Tampa. I used to go to a office and we used to watch film and that year r G three was a quarterback that was doing a lot of this stuff for for Washington and he made a cut up. I think it was like halfway through the season. He made a cut up of r G

three And this is the year they went to the playoffs. Uh. He had like a hundred and seventeen hits and he put them all in one film and it's like man like, dude, he and he showed me these He's like, how does your quarterback sustained this for the air And obviously what happened he didn't. He got hurt. Uh. So it's it's just amazing to me. Again, it is the ultimate extra guy if your quarterback and do it. But man, there's there's it's it's like high risk, high reward with that.

So uh now the passing side of it, Yeah, that was a little bit of surprise. Now did he throw anything deep down the field? Things? You know, where he needed to make a big play? You there's a lot of it was in within ten yards. I'd say I didn't see anything crazy. I mean, look, perfect example of what Josh Allen is sometimes is that that goal line situation when he rolled out to the left and the guy I think it was Brown, was wide open and he threw with fifteen feet over his head. So you know,

does he still have a little bit of that in him? Yes? Do you hope you pick a day when you're playing him that he does that, of course, but that that's still there. The biggest thing I think for the Bills that they tell him every week, probably in the meeting room, is look, just just don't don't turn the ball over, and if it's not there, just just get rid of it.

I Mean, they have a good defense, they can sustain, they want, they want to be in the game in the fourth quarter and then roll the roll the dice and That's what I think. There's continuing to ask him along with trying to grow him through the season. Yeah, he looks like a Sunday player to me. And now that's a small sample size that first game against the New York Jets, but his accuracy, the way he's scanning the field, Um, the athletics has always been there, right,

So he's gonna be one to watch. He's matching up with the Miami Dolphins this week, and that's what I wanted to ask you about their quarterback situation. Ryan Fitzpatrick. Tough day at the office in Week one against the Patriots, but uh, interesting situation because it's a delicate balance there. Fitz played very well for the Dolphins last year, but you got to uh, and you know, at what point do you start thinking about possibly putting in your rookie

rookie quarterback? Well, you know, I think from what we're hearing, and what I'm hearing is it's it's it's straight medical. So regardless of what Fitzpatrick does, Um, you know, if he's not ready to go medically, they're going to try to buy as much time as possible. Now are medically

is he okay? And they're just trying to push it as much as they can, so if that moment comes that fits he just you know, has ten interceptions in first four games or something like that, and they say, okay, well he's ready medically, we're just buying time to get him more acclimated. We're gonna put him in. You know, he was dressed in the game. Um, you know, I don't know what their situation is. I don't know how to how to you know, you dictate what that injury

will do. I think that's what what they keep in mind. And you know, is there gonna be a point where they feel like they need to play them, they will, Yeah, absolutely, because again Fitz he has those kind of games. It's not you're not gonna win ball again. They've also seen another side of fits where he can come out and throw for foreign receptions before touchdown. So if they can get them more of those early on, then they can delay the process. I mean, they want to win games.

You know, there's no tanking, and we get that, but um, you know, I think they just would like to try to get through this season without playing him if possible, And I think that they're going to try to keep that as much as much are you. Are you surprised by some of the love out there for the Miami Dolphins. Peter King, Uh, tremendous reporter. You know we all read them, uh you know throughout the years for decades now. He actually picked the Miami Dolphins to win the an FC

East this year. Yes, no, Look, Peter King has been reporting for a long time. He does a good thing. You know, there's a lot of good things, and he's got great sources, which is great. But I would say that that's they got a nucleus of players that's promising for sure. There's no doubt they've accumulated draft picks. They've gotten some guys. It takes time. I mean, you know two is not gonna come in and just wow you.

I mean, look at Joe Barrow did a decent job but still just showed a lot of rookie uh inconsistency. So um, you know, the sky is bright for for those guys, there's no doubt. But I mean this year, I just don't see. Maybe he's looking at the division overall and thinks there's an opportunity there. They may not win a lot of games, but they can keep it close.

But to me, I just not this season. Okay, so we're on during a week two right now, who is your pick to when they see East Well, I mean, coming out of just the first week of what I've seen, I'd say the Bills would be the leader in the clubhouse. Uh you know, yeah, I do know. The Patriots played well, but they won eleven against Miami at home, so it

wasn't like they knocked the doors off these guys. So I would say that, you know, for me, Buffalo looked really good and uh, you know, they really haven't tipped the iceberg as far as utilizing some of their weapons, and know Cole Beasley really do anything in the game, didn't need to utilize him. He's gonna be a big gup factor for them on third downs. We'll see what he brings the table. And Diggs got warmed up, but they didn't try to take any shots with him. So again,

I I foresee them that they can get better. Even though you know, we feel like because Josh Josh had a three D game, they may have maxed out. I don't think they did. So right now, they're they're the leaders in the clubhouse. Who are you rooting for? If you're a Jets fans Sunday night. Hopefully the Green and White secure the home opener against the Forts. But it's the New England Patriots versus the Seattle Seahawks. Obviously, the Jets made a big trade with the Seahawks in the offseason.

Every time the Seahawks lose, that's a good thing for the Jets because they have their first round pick, not only one, but two. But you know, their record is going to be important come April for the Jets because that's the second first round pick they have. And you know, and Jets fans, we know what they think about New England. So what are you rooting for that? Well, let's I mean, let's let's be honest. Seattle is a good team. I mean, if we're rooting for Seattle to go four and twelve,

you're forget about it. It's not happening. I mean, you know, if you watch any of the Falcons uh Seahawks game this past weekend, you're like, man, like, these dudes are good. Like, you know, Russell Wilson's like the real deal and he continues to shine. Just put any quarterback in the league, maybe except my homes but on a lot of days I think he's just as good as bat Mahomes, just a different well. And then to go back, who am I rooting for? I'm rooting for Seattle. I mean, listen,

we're playing this season. We need we need, we need to patch to lose games. I mean that that's just what it is. That the Jets want the Patriots to lose. I would want the Patriots the Patriots to lose as well. You'll figure out the draft pick and all that stuff, like, you know, the draft is is different. You can you you find guys and you do your homework regardless of where they're drafted. You know, you expect all your draft

picks to be good regardless of where they are. So if a guy's draft that in the high second or low second, you know, you do your homework and get the right player that's gonna help you, You're gonna be fine. Whereas you know, look this season, man, it's it's about wins and losses. So I would say that Joe Douglas and company and then the rest of the staff, and even though they may have some animossy and they want to see a guy lou you know, louse, they want

Seattle to win this game. Okay, fair enough, and I think Seattle is going to win that game because Russell wil said, I don't know what the Seattle's record was in one possession games last year, but it was ridiculous. And people, you know, they go up and down the roster and say, well, Seattle's roster so much more talented than a number of other rosters in National Football League. Well maybe the answer is no. But the quarterback is just on a different level than most players in this league,

most quarterbacks in this league. And he doesn't make mistakes. He he doesn't make mistakes. He doesn't punch your team in a bad spot for in completions last week, you know, and he's continuing drives the defense not on the field long time. They don't have to worry about a lot. I mean that that's kind of the key. I mean, you know, he's you know quarterbacks that that cut down on their mistakes. Your team has a chance to win every week. That I don't care if you're Miami, it

doesn't matter who you are. So that's that's key and instrumental. And then if he can play at a high level like he does, so he doesn't make mistakes, but yet he can still throw for three plus yards and four touchdowns. I mean, man, that's like it's hard to find. Man, you just don't get that. Who You got Buffalo going down to Miami, and we're taking a look at inside the division here, So let's let's finish it up with

that matchup. Yeah. I like, Uh, I like Buffalo. I mean, you know Miami's you know, I think they're gonna be up and down all over the place this year, that you're not gonna get a good read on them. I think they're gonna be a team that you know, could play well and then the next two weeks they be you know, they just vanished and then once in a while up and down. You know, Buffalo, I I I'm pretty confident. I think everybody sees what they have. You know,

they're improving. You talked about Alan, you like you see him ascending. He definitely, you know, coming off his best game his career. You know, there'll be some confidence. You know, it doesn't guarantee them anything, but uh, you know, from a quarterback position, sometimes feeling good about yourself having that confidence rolling in the game too, that that can that can help you. Uh. Talk about this on the pregame show. But how does Adam get Sam Donald into a rhythm

early this week? Are there plays where you can scheme things up whereas and maybe an easy completion or to get him on the move. What would you do just so that because Sam said it himself, listen, I gotta take a deep breath, you know, set myself in the pocket and you know, get comfortable out there. Yeah, you know he he looked a little antsy to me, just kind of like Bama. You know it just it's worse.

And we talked about the pregame show. Where Sam's gonna make his biggest strides at the quarterback position and where the great ones make their strides is pre snap analysis right now. Pre snap analysis is great because you're envisioning what's gonna go on and where to go because where the defense dictates you to throw the football. But you also have a tap to trust and have the uh, the the cohesion with the with the receivers or the tight end whoever that is. You know, Breshad Perryman is

a new receiver. Okay, he's he's he's gonna watch the film. He's gonna see things that Perriman did that were really good that maybe he missed and now when those plays come back around, he's gonna feel better about it if the defense that he gets dictates him getting the football. But you know, again, it's just it's it's having patients, but it's in a timely manner because you don't have a lot of time either, right, So again it's just

processing information fast. Like the quarterbacks that can leave the huddle see things guys are getting lined up, and then in those four or five seconds, if that can process that information to give them the best chance to succeed, they'll have good games. So, uh, you know, Sam can bounce back, you can you can call slants and you can call hitches and those things are great. And if that's something that maybe you feel that quarterback needs and

go with the conversation because that's what you saw. Then find it looked like it's a little bit of an accuracy thing for for Sam. So maybe he needed a couple of wrinkles Game one to kind of get his his kind of uh confidence going early in the football game. Now, can he not make those throws that he threw to start a football game? Absolutely not, that's not the case. It's just that Game one kind of that's just how it kind of played out for him. So and the

run game can help, you know. Play action passes are easy passes to down the field, you know when when you get guys kind of you know, falling down going for the run fake because you're running the ball effectively. So, uh, you know, there's a lot of things that they can do. I would expect Adam to try to get him in a groove early on in this football game. All right, listen, I want to get to college. But we're gonna have to do that next week when the mad backer Bart

Scott joins us. I just want to get your thoughts as a former player, a guy who's covered both the National Football League and college for a while. Now, you watching the game, what's your sense of the environment on the field, do you think that has any impact on the players? And this this is is this all odd that you look and you see the cameras band throughout the stadium and there is absolutely nobody there. Yeah, I mean from from an audience perspective, I don't think there was.

You couldn't tell. I mean, you know, they're pumping noise in um, you're hearing those things which which you know, you normally hear, so it's to me, it's the same from a player's perspective. You know, we talked about it. Uh, you know, guys kind of emotionally get into games because of you know, when big players happen, they hear the crowd, they feed off the energy. You know, you don't you

don't really have that. But on on the other end, guys aren't really like relying on the crowd to help them play better, right, So it's you know, there's some noise in the in the in the in the stadium that they hear, so there's there's an effect of it. But um, you know, like situational stuff just gets harder, like third downs, keith third downs, fourth goal line and stuff where you would have an advantage if you were home and say you were the defense defending the Bills

at your place into the goal line. The Bills would wouldn't have a big deal trying to hear things and operate and operate where they would if if they were on the road and trying in those situations. So I think that's how it affects that the players is you know, even though it's not a big deal, you're not hearing that kind of stuff. It's super loud the other team does.

So it's it's now they don't have that that you don't have the luxury on defense or offense, whatever that scenario is, that you can like, oh man, you know they may jump off size that. There's so many things that can go wrong for a team on the road. Uh, you know when there are in those critical situations because of the crowd, you're not gonna have that. So again, it puts more stress on defense. I would assume just from a numbers perspective, third down conversions in general, I

don't know what they were. Somebody some stack I will probably come up with this, but they're probably a little better, right, a little better than than Week one last year. I would say nothing two of eleven last week. Who's that? I just think it's it's going to be odd Sunday Jets home opener. And you know this fan base, how pump they get, and they used to they typically we'd be out there at My Life, me and you, and we'd see thousands of people out there in the parking

lot tail gaining things like that. So it's just odd having a home opener and knowing that your fans aren't going to be there. It's gonna be different. But listen, you got a game on your belt. These guys are all professionals, bless Austin told us the other day that, hey man, when I was on the field, I'm so locked in, I don't even know what the hell is happening elsewhere. So I gotta imagine that's the way it

is for most professionals. But we're gonna miss the fans out there, no doubt about that, because that's one of the it's one of the top things of the year opening day, you know, and you celebrated that with the Green and White Faithful many times over the course of your playing career. Well more fans will watch Pregame Central with us right at eleven am when the games are at one, which is great. So we look to double or triple our viewership on those platforms, and and and

and and again. It's it is tough. I mean, even from a fans perspective, people want to go to the games, they want to tailgate. They know this is like you know, think about you know, every when I go drive to the stadium every game and come over there, I mean I see the same RV the same kind of people. They're out there. This is part of their life, right that people look forward to this, uh, every single season, and it stinks for the fans. You're right, so it

plays on both ends of it. But you know from a player's perspective, you can get past it from a fan and and from like everybody else or it's just well it's it's not man, no fans like it's empty, eighties thousand seats, stadiums empty. It's just it's it's mind boggling. Pre game Central airs at eleven. You're gonna be here and a lot more from this guy, Anthony back to Eric Coleman is going to join me here at once Jets Drive. Our linebacker was absent today, but the mad

backer is going to join us next week. Right now, our podcast has the name of E. A. A B. Embarked Scott Landing Gear Podcast. But if people want to change that, send in some suggestions. Yeah, because right now we are an open book. Uh fifteen seconds you're down there in Tampa. Tom Brady's opener was what fifteen seconds? Okay, okay, yeah, it'll be it'll be better. It'll be better. They'll get better.

They need some time. The man, the guy has been in the same system for twenty years, same players, same operation. It's different now. I mean, hecky, he's never been called out by a coach, and a coach called him out, and what he shouldn't have called him out because it wasn't his fault. So he's dealing with those things and that's new. So uh, they'll bounce back. But man, you h tough loss for them. Well, great start on the pod today. We'll see you next week right here, but

pregame Central eleven am Sunday. Thanks. One thing I can say is I probably won't speak as much with Bart coming on the broadcast, So this is about the magnitude of what I'll be saying. It would be our first episode. Yeah, you've got you've got your worries and if I have a good one, brother,