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How is your Christmas? Had a great Christmas? So I went to d C and was able to make it back for this great show. Okay, and you have a young daughter. What's her name? And how and how old is she? Know? Grace Elizabeth Screen is five years old? Grace Eliza been Screen is five years old? And you got her special gift this Christmas? Yes, I got her uh teacup teacup Yorkie one and a half pounds one and a half pounds. And what do you think about that?

I love the dog. I never really liked dollars before, but I do love this little dog. And it's Grace. She becoming attached to the dog in the short time she's had. Yeah, she's definitely attached. She didn't play with any of her toys. She played with the dog the whole time, so that was a good part. But the dog didn't have a diary. Oh god, come on, Buster, we're starting off here on Inside the Jets. Our player guest segment is presented by m T Bank Official Community

pack of your New York Jets. Buster, Can you believe it? Uh? Five and ten? One game to go? The season goes fast, doesn't it. Yeah, the season definitely went by fast. But I can tell you even though we are five and ten, I enjoyed the season and building with the teams. What about this season you just talked about it not the results that you wanted, But what about this season did you enjoy? And from your perspective, what's your favorite memory from the season, whether it be on game day or

something behind the scenes. I think my favorite memory from this year would be just guys dancing in practice, always having fun, just being out there as a team. Um. I forgot the rest of the question, but just what what made this year different? Because you talked about in five and gen but it seems to me that you're having fun. The defense is having fun, You're sticking together. What about this team about this season is different from let's say, in years past, Well, this year, I can

tell everybody wants, you know, to prove themselves. We've got a younger team. Guys want to prove themselves, and we actually, you know, have fun as a team trying to win these games and get with five and ten. But every single game we've been in has been a competitive game. It's been right there and there to the fourth quarter. And so you know, once we figure out how to win in the fourth quarter, we're gonna be, you know,

a great team inside. The Jets is supported by selective Insurance responses Everything Eric Ethan Greenberg and Jetts cornerback buster screen here at Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits inside the Windham Hamilton's Park Buster. What's been different about your game your third season with the Jets. I think this is your bust. Yeah, I think it's my best season too. Uh. I was like to get a lot of credits, and my coaches or danar Wilson's taught me a lot since he's been here.

I've been able to play faster, more instinct through uh and I have to think before the place. So a lot of times I line up, I already know what's gonna come, So I give him a lot of credit for the way I've been playing. Lady, what about coach Wilson do you like in particular? And something that you mentioned last week is this season you're even reading the keys from the offensive lineman. What is the difference in your preparation from this year to let's say last year

the year before that. One thing about coach Wilson, He's gonna stand on you regardless how well you're playing, how bad you're playing. He didn't care. He's gonna stay on you. And Uh, I can tell he competes with his self and with the coaches amongst them, who's going to get there first in the morning. Little things like that, It it trickles down on your secondary So just his his work, habits and things like that have helped us out in

the room. Buster. You know what Morris Clayborner told me said, Uh, Coach Wilson, coach d than nerd Wilson, it's all about tough love with him. It was definitely tough love going there. You make a bad play, you have to take the constructors criticism because at the end of that he is right and he's gonna get his point across. So I think that's all in the room. We might get in our feelings sometimes when he gets on this, but it's

all productive criticism. What have you've been able to read differently and diagnose differently at this point in your career than maybe you struggle with earlier. I would say offensive alignment because in our defense and Nichols kind of like a corner and you you can tell the offense is gonna pass or run the ball just by looking at the tackle. Tackles down in the ground hard, then it's gonna be a run. If he's light, then it's gonna

be a pass. So just seeing that one thing that helps me out a lot, just knowing what to expect. You know, it's often in the NFL that we talked about perfecting your craft, and I've noticed that practice. I'm out there, you know, thirty minutes every day while stretches going on in special teams, and you coach Lennard Wilson and Morris Clayborne are always off the side working on something. What are you working on? And how meticulous and how

much of a perfectionist are you? Three? Well, because d always pulls us to the side, and we always working technique. I mean that's first. You can be as athletic as you want to be, but we always go over technique and then we'll go over tennesseees from the receivers in the game. So just hearing those things all throughout the week, once we get in the game, we know what to expect and we remember those technique steps once we get

in the game. I think you have one of the most difficult positions on the Jets because in base you're playing outside the numbers, but all of a sudden, sub packages when you guys are lowing up the fronts of backs on the field, there you are switching on the inside. Um. Now, I know it's become familiar with you later in your career, but just how difficult is that to do. It's definitely different.

When you're playing nickel, you got quicker passes and they usually go after the nickel on third down, so the nickel's not holding up the defense will not get off the field. And when I'm playing corner, it's a bigger receiver. You've got more time to react to the ball. I think playing corner is easier because you can get you can get your hands on the guy right in the line, right right, you can get your hands there. It takes

long for the ball get out there. And when you're a nickel, if you don't re run, and when the pulling guards get to you before you re run, you get smashed. So it's two different worlds, but I enjoy playing book. What's the biggest challenge of playing nickel That maybe when you're watching TV you don't really see when you play nickel, you have to have good eyes because

those are were the quicker receivers are it. So if you lose your eyes, if you look back at the quarterback and not have your eyes on the receiver, that's when either you're gonna get a penalty or they're gonna get away and be a quick catch in the first down. So when you're playing nickel, your eyes have to be

really well. How frustrating is that for you? And frustrating it might not be the right word here, uh inside the Jets, but when you're in that nickel position, when you're lined up inside and the receiver automatically has space before it releases it, it is what it is. It comes with the position, So you've gotta have good feet because when you're on the corner, when you had corner, most of time receivers on the line when nickel receivers

back off the line. So I feel like when you play nickel, you have to have the best feet in the second day, and then just talking about this past week in particular, usually the nickel receiver is, like you said, a quick twitched guy, a little shorter. But sometimes this past weekend, Mike Williams, who's six threes lining up in the slot. How different of an experience is it going up against someone that has a couple inches on you.

When I go against a big receiver, I know one of the things they're gonna do is trying to jump ball with through it like a favor route. But I honestly like guarding big receivers because you can get your hands on they're not very quick. You can now quick them, you know where they're gonna go. They don't have a couple of routes, whereas if you're guarding somebody that's smaller, he can run the whole route. Street. Who's the most

difficult slot receiver you've ever faced? Is that I don't want I'm gonna a curse I'm not giving anybody any credit. Good answer from buster screen here tonight. Um, but the Patriots, how deep are you into film study at this point early in a week. It's just Tuesday. It is Tuesday. I've already watched film. What are you saying the Patriots? What they do is they wait till you mess up. So you have to go into the game super disciplined, like they were in their same place, just thinking dump

all the way down the field. And then when you lose your eyes or you have a technique air or you just have that one second of a lack of focus, that's when they hit you with like a screen or a trick play or something like that that gets to you. So when you play the Patriots, you have to be disciplined. Everybody knows the Patriots. They have a great quarterback and

he makes everybody else around them good. So you have to play two Tom Burties level two, you know, to Tom Brady's level of focus in order to beat them. So without Julian Edelman this year, what have they been doing inside? They still run the quick routes. One thing about the Petris you can't really bliss them because they get the ball out so quick, so you're gonna blitz somebody in the he's gonna dump into the slot. So

Petrires are just doing what they do. They got some different pieces, they got some guys that can take the top off of defense, but they're sticking to what they do. What can you take out of the first match up between these two teams in Week six, because the Jets defense was extremely successful against Tom Brady, he only completed of his passage, which is his second lowest output of the season. Yeah, you're not of a game yourself. I did play well the two takeaways buster screen that first.

But when you play the Patriots, we have a good team and I feel like, man for a man, like our team, we match you up away with them. So, like I said, it's all about the focus. Like one thing we struggled with this year is winning in the fourth quarter. So once this team figures out how to win in the fourth quarter, like, the sky's the limit. So we have a young team. I feel like we have a young, confident team. Everybody believes in the system.

So we want to go out with the band with the pat How about you guys defensively, how are you sticking together as a team because nobody's pointing a finger after that game against the Chargers. Maybe a less mature team would say, hey, defensively, we did our job. Offensively, you guys didn't do your job, but instead you guys were pointing the fingers at yourselves and saying, hey, maybe we gotta come up with the three takeaways we did against the New Orleans Saints to help our team win.

I feel like this year, our locker rooms like a brotherhood, so offense and defense we both get along. Sometimes defense might not play with an offense plays with. Sometimes the defense or the offense might play well and defense might play well. But at the end of the day, we're all the team. Like we all have our families and things like that off the field, but inside that locker room is the true families, true family field. We all want to support our coach and things like that, so

we don't we don't ever point fingers. This Sunday, you have an opportunity to kind of play spoiler against the Patriots. They're still playing for the number one seed this past week. Can playing for spoiler for the Chargers? Do you guys think about that or at this point it's just we're gonna go out there. We're gonna play for the names on the front and the back and just have fun to close out, We're just going out there playing for our sales. Really, like our coach just keep saying we

have to play a full game. Now, I keep saying that, but we wouldn't go out there and play four full quarters of focus Like that's like the number one thing is just focus the whole game. And yet we have a younger team. But if we can sit there and focus the whole game, I know we have something. Space. You can get into the queue here because we're gonna be taking some calls on insaide the Juste ESPN, Eric ellen Ethan Greenberg and just cornerback buster screen here a

Vanderbilts sports and spirits. Um, what's different defensively because what pops out at me and I'm in the press box each and every game between two thousand and seventeen and two thousand and sixteen buster as, I think that there's more energy and also the speed difference is so noticeable. Yeah, we have a lot of packages where there's multiple dbs on the field, not not dying, but I don't even know what you call it. After dime. But we call

the speed package. So is that seven dbs. It's seven dbs, so and then and then and then includes four safety sometimes yeah, seven dbs. You got. I can't even do the raft two d linemen, two linebackers. So we do have the speed packages with Bliss a lot. I think everybody in our secondary has a sack this year. What's different from most teams, but we are playing a lot faster, a lot of our new talent r dbs, So we've used that type. And what does that then allow you

to do? With all the speed on the field. It confuses quarterbacks because he sees so many dbs, he don't know who's dropping into cover. So we can get there just a little bit quicker than whether d line nor a linebacker. Justin merce is playing time is picked up of late because when you guys have gone to sub packages, you be moving inside. He's been going outside the numbers. How is he coming along? I think Justin is doing

a great job. I think the last four games he's only allowed to catchers or something crazy like that, so he's doing a great job. I always thought Justin was a good player. I mean there was a time in the season where you know Darryl Robins got to play a little bit more than him. But just coming there and come back strong was just good to see, just because you know he's a confident guy. What do you see from him? What's the biggest difference from his rookie

year to his second year. He's smarter. I can say the whole secondary is a whole is smarter just because our coach. He he does a lot of the heart, like a lot of the dirty work of film study and founding out tendencies and things like that. Thenard already has it. You guys really enjoyed playing for him. Did you know too much about Thenard before he came over from As I knew he had a good secondary, But I said, maybe it's just the players is the reason

why the secondary is so good. But him as a coach, a good coach. I think it'd be a head coach one day. I give him a lot of credit. You get on my nerves sometimes because it's the tough love that's gone. I respect him. I respect him a lot. Oh why have you and Morris Clayborne got along so well? You guys are the two older members of that secondary at I would say me and him get along, both from them South and we both laid by that type of dude, the opposite of a Jamal. But we just

we just get along. We sit together every day. I mean, we both got families, We got a lot that's in common. Morris seems to have a different switch when you talk to him. Nice guy, like you said, kind of laid back, but you see it in his eyes when it's game time, he just goes to a different level. I think it's the ls SI Jamal. Jamal already an energect person, but then when the game comes is like energizes the bunny.

And then with with Mo, I'll say one thing to him, I say best dvs in the league, and that's it. I'll just leave it there because he's so focused. So I like playing with them guys. They got good energy them too, and maybe everybody that's so. So, what what has impressed you most about Jamal Adams to Jets first round pick of two thousand seventeen, and then Marcus May the Jets second round pick of two thousand seventeen. The

thing I would say is impressed me most. They both came in like vess, both of those guys came in. They didn't miss a beat. And one thing about Ricky's when they when a Rickie goes on the field, he messes up, he continues to miss up. Them guys mess up, they get back up and then make a big play. So I respect that a lot about the New Jack City, that's what the secondary has coined itself. And Thenard came up with that. He did. I asked you that in training camp. But I want to know what does New

Jack City mean to you? How does the player? How do the players embody what it's supposed to mean? It just means with the baddest people on the field. I mean, is it goes deeper in that? But we're gonna keep that in the room. But the coach always says like y'all go out there and be the baddest boys on the field. But different terminology. Okay, okay, no doubt. We are alive on ESPN Radio and also streaming on New York dot Com and Facebook, so Buster screen using discretion

there and we really appreciate that. Uh but plus, how about those guys though, the way they both play the run? I know that was the Scotty report on Jamal when he came out of Lacio. He can play very well inside the box, but he takes pride as far as what he does in the backfield as well. But Marcus May, Wow, he can come in there. He can lay some people on himself. Well, Jamal is to play our defense. We're

a gap defense, so everybody has their own gap. So a lot of times if somebody does jump out there gap, Jamal will save them and make it a perfect tackle. But may I give may the crown on tackling this year because we put them in a lot of bad positions where he's had to make them one on one tackle and for a rookie, that's very hard to do. But he is a natural born tackling. Do you think he's the best open field tackler on the New York Jets besides me? Besides by the screen, I like that

bus um Patriots this week. But I want to talk about offseason, not because you're looking ahead, but I thought the listeners might enjoy hearing this about you. You are a diverse guy who has a lot of interest, and this offseason you started teaching the classes. Basically you became a workout instructor. Tell us about that. Yeah, I did become a workout instructor um. It all goes back to

the charity Screenway that's the new name for it. But I started those workouts because most of the time when people have charity events and things like that, they just have a big event ask for donations. So I wanted to give back to people by giving them a workout. We have these lifestyle experience type parties, so that was really my way of showing the people, Hey, I want to give you something back for donating and I enjoy

doing it. So that's why where can where can people go online to let's say, go to one of your classes or one of your events, Because if you follow bus or on Instagram, you see it throughout the season, whether it's Thanksgiving, Halloween, or just the normal Tuesday and whatever month of the season, he's always doing something. So any social media Screenway or you can just go to screenway dot com and you can see upcoming events and the type of work that we've done throughout the year.

But I can say the city of New York has showed a lot of support. Recently, we donated two and thirty seven bikes to East Harlem. We gave over five hundred meals and Thanksgiving. It's been a true blessing just how people have have came in such a short notice off screenway being built just two years ago. It's just made How good does that make you feel that you're using your platform now busters to help others in need?

It makes me feel good. I always told people I always want to get a big contract, just blessing a big contract. But after that, I wanted to figure out what my purpose was, and I feel like my purpose is to help people. What's your favorite event that you do? Favorite event? I would say the workouts. I started these lifestyle experiences lately, which is kind of like a party. But I like working out, all right, So tell us about the workouts. You took me through one workout, you

can look that up New York. Just stuck out a bunch of screen Eric Ellen. If you want to, you can do a Google searcher. Just go to the site. But what is the workout all about. It's a high intense interval train type of workout, and we kind of make some football moves in just to make it fun. But you're come in there. Your workout for twenty seven to thirty two minutes, high intense workout. You can go with your own speed, and I guarantee you lose at

least five hundred calories. How did I How did he do? He did? He did a great job. I'm not gonna lie well. Expectations though, when he told you, Hey, I'm coming in, we're doing the head workout, you put me through the ringer. I did left a little bit before is a but if we got there a little bit early because we just set up the camera equipment, so it might have been a little stiff before before. He has a fig guy, and I did a couple of drills on the field with him before I knew he

was that. Let me tell you that's another video you have to look up on New York dot Com. I've seen that video. People do not have enough respect for NFL players because I went out there on the field with Buster and I thought, okay, well he's gonna take it easy on me. And oh my god, he played receiver and I he took one step and I want ten yards that way, and he went that way. It was just unbelievable. I did my eyes I thought my

eyesight was good, but he took a step. I was there, he was there and so long story short, you did better in the hit workout than you did on the field against Buster. Yes, yes, Buster again, I'll tell you who is the pound for pound champion inside the Jets weight room Busters screen. That's right. And and just for the record, Steve McClendon verified that on Facebook Live when I did something with him. So now we have multiple people saying that Busters pound for pound of strongs. Do

you ever? Do you ever max out at any point during off season anymore? I have not maxed out in a while, but when I was in college I had it. Really Tennessee, Chattooga, Tennessee, Canne. Austral coasts lift so much weight, Yeah, so much weight. I feel like I will never be weak ever again. And at that point you were weighing in eight maybe came into college a hundred forty hundred forty eight pounds And how much we be thrown up

on the punch at the combine or just max? No, but Max four oh five four oh, five hundred and fifty pounder, not when I when I was one eight? Yeah, I got one four oh? And how about Max squat five something? I can't remember five something. It's something crazy, but the most important deal. It's squatting, right, because everybody gets caught up in the gym about the bench. It's

about the legs. It is about the leg But nowadays I do a lot of stuff that's just more apply metric and control, just because you gotta have those catlit reflexs to play corner. So that's something you can check out Screenway screenway dot com. Yeah, because you'll be doing that in the off season in New York City. And you're a guy who really obviously grew up in South Play with the Browns for a few years. You really enjoy this area, don't you. I do. I do. I

enjoyed a lot. The city showed me a lot of love since I've been here. So I would like to continue to be what's next for the New York Jots after after Sunday obviously gonna tried to get that victory pull off an up side of the Patriots, and you think you're being that ball game late, but what's next? You think what's next is just to attack the off season. I mean, I know a lot of guys know we could have been a lot better than what we were this year. But I know we have a lot of

hungry guys, a lot of hungry coaches. We got a lot to prove. So just going to the off season, we're gonna tach eat and have a better off season than last year. Buster Screen, thank you so much for joining us here on Inside the Jets and will come right back eight nine one nine ESPN and will take some of your calls. Welcome back to Inside the Jets. Eric youlln Ethan Greenberg here at Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits inside the Windham Hamilton's Park Hotel. Nice spot there with

Buster Screen. Green's um. I talked to Todd Bowls about it last week before the Chargers game, and he said he's been one of our better players over the past three or four weeks. I mean, you look at his stats from weeks twelve to fifteen, twelve tackles, five pass defenses, a forced fumble which he then recovered down in New Orleans and no penalties. Really a stretch that Buster played his best football at two thousands seventeen. Yeah, and I think it's been his best stretch of football as a

New York Jet. He's in his third year here with the Jets. We're gonna be taking some calls here on Inside the Jets one nine one nine E s p N U Um. Let's go to Ray right now, Ray, Yes, you're on the line. Oh Ray, Ray dropped off? Okay, so so nine ESPN. When I look back to the Jets last game against the Chargers, bilaal Pole stands out a hundred forty five yards on the ground for Paul and now he's got a season career high in terms

of rush yards and touchdowns. And he also has become the first back in New York Jets history with three carries of at least fifty yards greens and this past weekend, he did so because of a fifty seven yard touchdown run that got the Jets on the board, which I have to say, my favorite part about the whole run one. I love the play design with an outside toss after

Joe Joe Natson comes across a little decoy there. How about Jonathan Harrison running down the sideline, paving the way for Powell and then he takes out two guys to try to tackle Powell from behind him. Listen, how about the whole offensive line what they did against the Charges

because the Jets depth was tested. Jonathan Harrison starting in place of Wesley Johnson at right guard, you had the code the CODEA does you're filling in for Brian Winners and then finally right tackle, you're brand quality filling in for Brandon Show. And the Jets did a nice job

on Sunday controlling the line of scrimmage. They did that against the New Orleans Saints and know of an opportunity to do that again this week against the New England defense, who plays a bend but don't break philosophy, meaning they give up a lot of yards, they don't tend to give up a lot of points. The Patriots defense is seventh in the league and scoring, but their twenty nine

overall they average. They allow four point eight yards to carry on the ground, and just looking at the Jets rushing game over the past two weeks, they're averaging a hundred sixty yards and five and a half yards per carry. So really between blow Powell, I know he's been the main guy the past couple of weeks, but when you factor in Matt Workta and Elijah McGuire, they're all doing very well in the backfield in this short amount of time.

And they'll have another opportunity this weekend because the Patriots rush defense. It's not all that Robby Anderson is sixty one yard shy of a thousand. Who would have thought that coming into the two thousand seventeen season. He's really blossomed into a complete receiver. He's one of the guys that last season we were pointing to because he was undrafted.

He made the team. You're giving it props. He played well throughout the regular season, and then this season he really took it up a notch, especially when you factor in the loss of Quincy and Nanue in training camp, during the Green and White scrimmage and then no one really I think externally. The narrative was the wide receiving corps would be the weak link of the offense, and and turned it turned out to be one of the strengths. When the Jets traded for Jermaine Cursey came in. He's

had a career year, as has Robby Anderson. Jermaine Curse sixty catches seven fifty one yards. He's got five receiving touched. The other thing to think of his hey, Quincy and Nona gets healthy after the surgery to the neck, and he's in good shape. He comes back. Jan Hansen has been flashing. You've got Urt Darius Stewart here. Uh. This Jets receiving unit has a lot of potential and they're young. It's if you're a Jets fan, I think you have to be encouraged from what you've seen from this group.

And then you factor in the three running backs that we just mentioned. They're all options out of the backfield too, and they're kind of a safety blanket for Bryce Patty and before that, Josh McCown. And then you look at Austin Safari and Jenkins who has a career high in receptions this season, and he's been one of the offseason top stories I'd say because he was down thirty pounds. He revamped his life the way he goes about his

business and you could see it on early. I know his production has kind of waned over the past couple of weeks, but he attacks every day like it's his last and he's so happy to be a part of this organization. And you can really tell whenever you speak to him. One nine ESPN, let's try to four lines one more time. Is Donald from New Jersey? Donald? How are you? Yeah? How are you guys doing great? Yeah? Listen, I'm just cooling because I know you've talked about it

at some point. I don't know about tonight. You know, all this uh non definitive. Nobody's been definitive about getting Bowls back next year. And I definitely think he should be back, you know, given the fact, Uh all you had to do is watch Petty throw the boy yesterday. Um, but I was wondering if you had heard anything one way or another, or or what you guys since was her opinion was, Yeah, thanks for we called Donald. I'll just say here is that the Jets are gonna play

out the season here. They're gonna finish up the regular season against the Patriots, and then you can anticipate you're gonna hear from Jet's ownership within the next week or two, like it happens every year greens around here. You know, Christopher Johnson, the acting order of the New York Jets, and Todd Bowles is not one to talk about his job.

And I think that's very clear if you ever tune into a press conference, because whatever question comes regarding his future, he said, you know what, I'm not here to talk about my job. I'm here to coach football. Yeah. Well, and the other thing is he's got to prepare his guys to play on Sunday. But with that being said, Donald, I would agree with you that I think Todd Bowles has had a very good year coaching because when you

look at this team. Boba Shusan touched on this on the Michael K Show prior to Inside the Jets here two thousand and fifteen. The Jets won ten games in Todd Bowls first season in two thousand and sixteen. They did not blow it up, per se. They went for it again with the veterans. Okay, then players started getting injured, you started losing ball games. Then you make a total

transformation the roster. It begins in the off season after two thousand and sixteen, when you go five and eleven, and we've seen a lot up bright spots here this year. I think Top Bowls has done a lot of good things in two thousand seventeen. We will hear from Christopher Johnson in the next week or two. Moving on, let's

go to Ryan in Bayville. Ryan, you're on there. Yeah, I was just want to I'm pretty you know, I'm happy with the direction we're going, and I think that, you know, Bowls has done a pretty good job building the team and Macagne building the team, which a lot of youth speed getting better. I think we have to take the leap of faith kind of like the Eagles did, and hope we get it right with the QB because I feel we get to QB, I think we're right

there and we could take over the division. All right, Ryan, thanks for your calling. Let's listen. I'll tell you what and that's what everybody's searching in the National Football League for is the long term answer at quarterback. We'll have to find out where the Jets are as far as draft order is concerned. Um, Josh McCown played very well for this team, starting thirteen games. Bryce Patty, He's had

his ups and downs in his first two starts. Here, a lot of offseason decisions to be made for the organization moving forward. But yes, every team wants to have that long term answer quarterback. Greens and the Jets are no different. They're playing against the team in New England who's head the long term answer quarterback for close to twenty years now. Well, when you look at any free agent or draft opportunity that you have to draft anyone or sign anyone at a position, that you may want.

Is that? So let's talk about quarterback here for a second. Is that your free agent options this season are I would say somewhat limited if you're talking about long term because the main guy that you think of his Kirk Cousins, he's in his late twenties. And then you look at maybe someone like Alex Smith, but he's thirty four years old. So then you look at the draft and how much First of all, let's say the Jets are eight or seventh in the We're gonna get into this in the

final segment. That's a tease for you. I'll dive into it a little bit and then we'll touch on it in the final segment. But here's the thing is that if you have to trade up, how much of your future are you willing to mortgage to get up and get the guy that you think might be the future and the franchise quarterback that your team. Well, we're gonna

discuss the draft here. There's a teaser for you. We'll discuss draft a little bit in our next segment, a little bit because I want to talk about where the Jets currently stand. I also want to talk about free agency a little bit. We got plenty to get to one hundred nine one nine. ESPN will be right back from Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits you're listening to Inside the Jets. Welcome back to Inside the Jets. Eric Gallen and Ethan Greenberg here at Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits inside the Windham

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ping pong. I participated in Jets House last year, did a number of q and as with some players with some legends, had a great time. Greens, Uh, what's your what's your ping pong game? Like? I think I'm solid? Have we played yet? We have not played yet, but it's gonna be an offseason priority. Okay, we will do that. And Chef Marcus at the Complex at the Atlantic Health Jets Training Center. He is an avid player in the off season. We love Marcus very much, but I'm gonna

have to take everybody down and grab the belt. Green's Jets Patriots this week. Uh, we touched upon it before. Jets five and ten, just one and six on the road this year, they've been a different team at home. Uh, it'd be nice to go out with a good showing at Gillette Stadium against the team most people think is

the a f C favorite to return to the Super Bowl. Well, I think you hit the nail right on the head and that you want to close out the season at least being competitive as actually against a division team, a very talented team, a team that is atop of the NFL in yards per game. I mean, the Patriots average about four hundred yards. Tom Brady, you know the story there, Rob Gronkowski, Brandon Cooks. The Patriots have a very good offense,

there's no doubt. And Dean Lewis just had a career game against the buff He's having a career year in general. I mean he's had he's had eight hundred plus yards on the ground. That's five hundred more than his second career hot right, and you met you Cooks him and Grandkowski. Gronkowski had an unbelievable one handed touchdown reception against the Buffalo Bills. They both have a thousand yards receiving. Of course,

Brady over four thousand yards passing. But Tom Hanson been so terrific lately, as you told me, five consecutive games with interceptions, so he has the first time since two thousand two that that's happened. So for the Jets to be in a position where they got a chance to make this a one position, one possession gamers, so they need a couple of takeaways. Right. But here's the thing, if you're a Jets fan and you looking for silver lining or a glimpse of hope or whatever you want

to call it. In Week six, when the Patriots came here to Matlife Stadium, Tom Brady I said this before, only completed fifty three percent of his passes. That's the second lowest of the season for him. The first was Week one, he only completed of his passes. But the Jets secondary against the league's premier quarterbacks, has played very well.

You look at Matt Ryan si Cam Newton thirty percent, that was the season low, and then just this past weekend, Philip Rivers only completed fifty of his passage, which is his second lowest of the season. However, these have all been at home. Well, you have to be very encouraged by the player of the Jets secondary this year and what buster screen talks about those young safeties. You have to be awfully excited about Marcus May and Jamal Adams

patrolling that backfield for yours to come. Well, have to see what happens. Was Morris Clayborn. He played well in his first year. He's set to become a free agent. We'll have to see if the Jets re up. When we're not, Let's take a couple more calls here on inside the Jets and let's go to Huntington and we're eating is on the line. Hey, what's going on? My name is Atoms from Hinington. I want to say I think Lamar Jackson will end up being the best quarterback

in this year's class. What do you think? Wow, thanks for the call of Dayton that that might be a hot take, because Lamar Jackson is one of those interesting prospects where well, for me personally, I think it's a little too early to evaluate someone like Lamar Jackson because remember they have to declare by January. He has to declare, and then what you're really looking at is the combine in February slash early March. Then you're looking at his pro day to see maybe Lamar Jackson wants to play

something else. Maybe he was advised to play something like thank You. I don't think that's the possible. It might be a little too early to talk about Lamar Jackson. But he's a fantastic athlete. We know obviously kentuck it and Ron. He's got dynamic athletic ability. For me, the question about Lamar Jackson, whether he comes out this year next year, is what is his accuracy? You have to

be an accurate quarterback in the National Football League. Let's keep on moving on and go to Andre in Jersey City, Dre Andre going once, I'm going, you're there, Andre? Okay, Hey, what's going on? Guys? What's up? I got a question? I got a question for you. Can you see the Jets um bypassing a quarterback in the first round and going with a running back instead, if they're able to get someone like Alex Smith of Kirk Cousins. Personally, if

you're not from the running game, well, Andre. If you're signing someone like Kirk Cousins, thank you for the call.

If you're signing someone like Kirk Cousins, then yeah, I could absolutely see the Jets trying to get a running back when you look at the prospects, I mean, the one that sticks out is se Kwon Barkley out of Penn State, and if he's available wherever the Jets are picking, I don't see how that couldn't be out of the equation Agan just because of his talent, and not to mention that in your hypothetical situation, the Jets already locked up what they believed to be an answer at quarterback

at least for two thousand eights. You you really have to build through the draft, and the reason why the Jets haven't made the playoffs for seven consecutive years. If you go back and you go back to Vernon Colston two thousand and eight, Mark stus Has two thousand nine, Kyle Wilson two thousand ten, um Quentin Corpel's two thousand twelve, d Millnard two thousand thirteen, Calvin prior to two thousand fourteen, those are not draft picks of this regime. I want

to say that right now. You can't charge Mike mccagnan and Todd Bowles with anything that happened before they got here. But you have to build through the draft. And what Mike mccagnan has done over the last three years is his first draft pick was Leonard Williams number six overall two thousand and fifteen. Most recently two thousand seventeen, Jamal Adams number six overall. And then a guy who I think has taken step in his second professional season, that's

Darren Lee inside linebacker. Those are guys who are part of your foundation. So if you're a Jets fan, you can't look back and say, well, what about two thousand eight, what about two thou ten? No, you have to look at Mike mccagnan and Todd Bowls for the decisions they have made while they've been here, and frankly, Mike mccagnan has hit on a number of draft picks. We got a lot more to come, We got a lot more

to get to, but we gotta catch your break. We'll be right back on Inside the Jets one one nine ESPN. Welcome back to Inside the Jets. Eric Allen and Ethan Greeber here Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits inside the Windham Hamilton's Park. Uh Fantasy Fan Duel Analysis brought to you by Fandel have all the fantasy that football has to offer? Be

sports Rich. Do you have any fantasy pointers for this weekend? Well, if you're going by statistics, the Patriots defense is not very good twenty nine until total defense twenty nine against the past against the rush. So if you have Robby Anderson, maybe you turn to someone like him because he's sixty one yard shy of breaking a thousand yards, so maybe that's on his mind. And not only that, but the Jets are averaging a hundred sixty yards on the ground.

But the problem right over the over the last two weeks, let's clarify that, because that would be a great number over six. I thought I clarified it before. Thank you for doing it for me again. But here's the thing. If you know who's gonna have the hot hand, you gotta go with him. It's just a question of who it's gonna be. And last week it was blow yeah, b Paul, Yeah, no doubt about it. You know what Bill Belichick likes to do to us, take away your

best weapon. So uh, you know I wouldn't. I would anticipate the Patriots trying to load the box and forcing Bryce Petty to beat them. Bryce Petty, this means so much to him. You can see that in the postgame news conference after the Jets were able to only muster seven points against the Argers, and he just thought there were a number of throws that he left out there

on the field. And he's a guy who's working, he's working his butt off to get this right and uh who have another opportunity to showcase his skills against the Patriots. The thing what I liked in what Todd Bowle said is that, look, it's only a second game starting. He has to work through these things. He didn't play the first fourteen weeks of the season and then he's thrown

into the thick of it. So now that he has this experience, and remember this is a different offense than last season, so it's really his first game experience in John Morton's system in the regular season, so he does need to work out these kinks. And he said that he knows he's seen he's seen the field allows in the field well that everything that he talks about his footwork and when we hear that, We're like, well, what do you really mean by that? It's all timing. Playing quarterback.

Being successful at this level, the National Football League level has is much to do with your feet than anything, and the timing of things. Your feet tell you where to go. You're here with the first progression, you're here with the second, you're here with the third. It's all a timing game, and right now Bryce has to get that down. The one play that really sticks out to me from Sunday's game in regards to timing is Austin Sufferi and Jenkins on a play action past starts. He

he lines up next to Calvin Beacham. Then he comes out to the sideline and shoots up and Bryce Petty just missed him. He would have had at least probably a twenty yard Yeah, and then the fourth and seven chests are down fourteen and seven there late in the fourth quarters, still in the ball game, even though the offense really scuffled throughout that ball game, and Bryce Petty thought that he should have had a back shoulder touchdown

to the eight four mentioned Robby Anderson. How about time we got time for a couple of quick calls here, Let's go to James and Elizabeth. James, how are you tonight? Hello, Hey, James, you're on Hey, thanks for taking my call. Um. The issue did I wanted to address has been on my heart season after season, and I'm calling this the curse

of the offensive coordinator to Jets. The only time to Jets we're doing something right close to right is when we had Rex Ryan and Schottenheimer was the offensive coordinator a minute that day, let this guy go. San Sanchez was close to being respectable and then he completely fell apart, and every other quarterback after that was k cursed and doom. Okay, thanks for to called James James, Happy holidays. Listen, Uh,

what I will tell you. What I will tell you about the Jets offensive coordinator is John Morton has had a fantastic season. He came in here with Josh McCown, a guy thirty eight years old, tenth NFL team, fifteenth year, and people weren't expected much. Frankly, passer twenty three touchdowns. Uh provided a great presence in the locker room. And I love the way that Morton spreads the ball around.

He also doesn't go far away from the running game. UM, and what he's done with this personnel, guys like Robbie Anderson his development and Jermaine Curse coming in here nine days before the regular season and Austin Safari and Jenkins having a career high in terms of receptions and Blo Paal having a career here. John Morton was a good higher. I think the offense is in good hands and you've gotta have some personnel upgrades that's gonna happen in time.

And also when you speak to everyone on the team, is the thing that sticks out is John Morton's system is extremely complex. The plays are sentences paragraphs long, so it'll take some time to fully implement the system. But you talked about it is Jermaine Curse comes here nine days before the Jets head up to Orchard Park and take on the Bills in Week one, and now he's having a career here, and I don't think a lot of fans expected that kind of production from him, from

Robbie Anderson, et cetera. So I think that John Morton has been a good higher and then a great job this year. Well, we've had a heck of a time here tonight at Vanderbilt Sports and Spirits. Thanks everybody, for coming out and especially the bust of screen. Also Brittany and Justin, thank you so much on the production and