Jets-Falcons Game Preview (10/26)

We have a great show today. We're gonna bring in d Orlando ladban are also known as d let Down from the Atlanta Journal Constitution. And then of course Chad Pennington has always e A the Falcons. Okay, everyone knows last year NFC champions, very powerful of fens. Three and three so far this year, ironically all in three against the a f C East, and the Falcons are playing each team in the a f C East in consecutive war so the last four weeks will come against AFC

East opponents after this Sunday. So last week against Miami, one of the big teams as penalties right, twelve penalties against the offense. We all know what happened, how did the Jets go about fixing it? And how significant our penalties against this offense that is top ten in the league right now. Well, Todd Bowles talked about it that they've already been doing some stuff at practice. I think

they'ing a conference calls earlier this week. Leonard Williams said, I gonna do if I run Gasters or something like that, and you know want to uh, you know, hey, un PC, So it makes us really party should not get penalt league, and you know that lead to the game. And then Todd Bowles is asked about it. He's not gonna be too specific about it, but this is something I will actually write in my storylines piece this week, is that

the yellow has Todd Bowles seen red. That's one thing that he's not gonna put up with from his team that over a hundred yards and penalties against the Dolphins. They now lead the NFL as far as penalty yardage marked against them. So they're gonna be doing different things that practice this week. They already have officials out there as you know greens. That's something saw throughout the spring and training camp. But I would anticipate the Jets being

a much more disciplined crew this week against Atlanta. To your question, yeah, listen, you can't give this Atlanta offense that is his hit kind of a bump in the road. They did not play very well against New England, move the ball at times, couldn't finish. You can't give them extra opportunities. That's what penalties ultimately do, is they give free yardage and they give extra opportunities. Matt Ryan, while he's not of the numbers he had last season, he's

still a terrific quarterback. We think about Julio Jones and Mohammed Sannu. I love the running Backstamante Freeman and Tavin Coleman. Conversely, I really like a lot of the things the Jets are doing on both sides of the ball, and I thought they were fantastic against the run against j Ji last week. He's talked about Matt Ryan and that he's not putting up similar numbers to last year when he was the m v P of the NFL. Last year, he threw seven picks in the entire season through seven weeks.

Eight weeks, he's thrown six picks, so clearly not on the same page. Maybe it's attributed to the new offense with Steve Sarkisian because of course Kyle Shanahan now head coach of the San Francisco forty Niners, and bringing in one more theme from this Miami game looking forward is the killer instinct, and Coach Bowls immediately after the game says, at some point we got developed from what does that mean to you? And how do you think the Jets go about fixing it? Just me is finishing it means.

So if you're an offense and you've got to lead in the fourth quarter, and you played really well throughout the game, and you're John Morton, who has been phenomenal for this team, you know, the one thing that he's gonna be disappointed about in his unit is that they weren't able to get any first downs. They had one first down on the fourth quarter with the lead mad fote in Elevin yard Broun. Conversely, defensively, we can go

back and look at some of the penalties. Uh you know, there were some penalties on those drives and they were giving up uh short possessions that lead to touchdowns. But as Damario Davis said, hey listen, yeah, sometimes they're gonna be in scoring territory, but you have to prevent touchdowns. You make them kick field goals, and then you'll be able to hold on to a fourteen point lead or

build upon it. I think ultimately, green's when you're up fourteen, that's not thinking how do we get out here and start the bus. It's more along the lines of how do we put another touchdown on the board before we check in a d lead. We can't leave this our taste in the mouth of Jets fans, so let me ask you, this is what did you like from Sunday's game? Because there was a lot of good to pick Oh my god, there was so much to like. Again, I talked, we talked about more in each and every week. The

screen game was fantastic. Um. The Jets capitalized on takeaways. They two takeaways. They finished with fourteen points. Yes, I know, the one drive was one yard or two yards. But then you got to give the defense a lot of credit because they stopped the run. I thought they were better getting after the quarterback and they came up with the takeaways. How about Jamal Ams with the blitz the deflection and Mohammad Wilkerson with the interception. I thought that

was more Wilke's best game in two thousand seventeen. So that's another another encourage on his birthday. On his birthday birthday, Marcus May was he was excellent. He's all playing in the run. He had the reception, he might have had

another one. There's a lot of things you can look at, but you know, right now the Jets are about cleaning up the stakes looking ahead to Atlanta, and I anticipate they'll have a better performance for sixty minutes this week at My Life Stadium and whatever the Jets take, whatever they eat the morning before they play, J J I. It's phenomenal because Gi got stuffed this game. He had

twenty three carries for under fifty yards. That's an average of had just over fifty yards, right, so, and then he had that first game was eleven carries, sixteen yards. JG I. He's gonna be happy he doesn't have to see the Jets again this year. All right, Greens, let's bring in d Orlando Lead better better known is d Lead down there in the a t L. He covers the Falcons for the Atlanta Journal Constitution for a long

time during his illustrious career. Uh d lad You wrote the other day that the Falcons had a team meeting following a loss to the New England Patriots, their third CONTs secutive loss. What kind of issues were aired out between the players? Well, you know, just the they're playing hard. Uh, there's no there's no issues there with regards to the effort that's being put out on the field. But they're not executing in uh, you know, an elite way. They're

not playing like they did last year. Uh. You know there were some uh issues with regards to you know, play calling, but you know they don't care about what's called. They want to execute. You know, the you gotta block field goal, you gotta miss still go you got uh you know you're moving the bar between the thirties and not scoring in the red dog. You know, they got a lot of issues so that they had to clear the air, uh try to get this season turned around.

De led what do you from your advantage point, what do you think is the biggest difference between last year and this year? Because when you look at this Falcons team, they started three and oh and then the last three games they've lost three of them, ironically, all three against AFC East opponents. Yeah, no question about it. I think they started off okay up um, you know, uh could have lost Chicago and Detroit games could really be one

in five right here. Uh. But you know what I don't think they were ready for was the fact that every team, even if they had been playing in Cleveland Browns, every team was gonna come at them hard. By getting to Super Bowl, they had the attention of every team in the league, and they, you know, have gotten everybody's best shot. And so they've had to be on top

of their game here early. And it's pretty clearly that they're struggling offensively, uh, to score points and in the red zone, and the defense is struggling to get off the fielding third downs. They didn't have any clue on how hard it was gonna be with everybody coming at you, you know, with their guns blazing. Kyle Shanahan did a phenomenal job there, obviously earned his new position with the San Francisco forty Niners. Steve Sarkisian is now the offensive coordinator.

What's been the biggest difference that you see with the new play caller? The biggest differences he didn't learn from the mistakes of Shanahan. You know, he thought he could just put the same thing back in place and go with it. And uh, you know, they didn't run the ball in the Super Bowl and third and one because they didn't believe they could power the Patriots. And they're still throwing the ball on third and short and trying to finesse thing. Third and one against Buffalo, they throw

a path four from one. They throw a path against the against the uh Patriots last week they try to just sweep on the one yard four from doll. That's just ridiculous. So, uh, you know, some of these players might have worked in college, but not in the NFL. Sometimes you gotta load it up and go at people and the shortyard the situation is walking down the offense

in the red zone. Do you think when you look at this offense and you've been covering this team for a long time, I see a talented backfield with DeVante Freeman and Tevin Coleman, do you think they need more balance going forward? Oh yeah, no question about it. Because

they have the ability to exploit linebacker. They have the ability to get out in space and make the kitch make a move and then that's gonna open up things for Julio Jones and Taylor Gabriel if people have to come up and guard them, but you know they didn't. They've gotten away from that in the last two games for some reason. I haven't been able to get their backs isolated on the on the linebackers. And uh, you know the runnings there, the numbers look good there. Do

they need to run it more? Perhaps on the defensive side of the ball. What sticks out to me is the speed on the Falcons defense. So if you're the Jets, what area of the defense do you think they should be trying to attack the Sunday Well, the last two teams, Buffalo and New England ran the ball right up between the A and the B gap. They didn't even bother getting outside, uh, because they were able to just go downhill and get the guards up to the smallest linebackers

and create gaping holes. The Falcolms gave up a hundred sixty two to to New England, a hundred seventeen to the Jets. Uh, we're not a hundred thirty eight to Miami and hundred seventeen of Buffalo. So the last three teams of rush rover a hundred yards against them that does two things. That keeps the Balcon's offense off the field and that wears down that Balcon deepfense that looked to be like a formula to beat the Falcons with, you know, more Porte and Balao pile all those guys

that should be ready to go. This week, we're talking to d Orlando Leadbetter, who covers the Falcon for the Atlanta Journal Constitution. You can follow him at d or at d Orlando a j C. H. D. Lead On the other side of the ball, how we have teams gone about trying to uh contain the Falcons offense? Because we were flying back from Miami. I looked at the score of that New England game and I was surprised

that they weren't able to put more points on the board. Um, we talked about the play calling, but how I have teams tried to attack this Falcon's offense because they haven't been putting up the numbers that were accustomed to. Yeah, no doubt. It all starts with taking away Julio Jones and uh a lot of teams have done done that or tried to do that. He had his first touchdown

last week at garbage time. So the Bathings haven't done a good job of trying to move him around out and get him, you know, into different spots and places

for for for uh, some targets. He did get a lot last week, but like I said, that the game was you know, decided by then you can get him going, then you know you slip it to the running backs underneath that and uh, you know a lot of the stretch runs and the outside zone runs that Kyle Shanahan built the offense on, Sarkisian hasn't been running those because he gets you know, if he doesn't get one, you know,

you gotta stay with it. You gotta stay with those outside zone runs until you pop one and then you bam. You come back around with the uh, with the rollouts and the bootlegs and and bring who you across the film, try to hit him deeper tight ends underneath. He hasn't stuck with this rollout plans and his outside zones like Kyle would. You know, he wouldn't. He he didn't care if you stopped to make times He's gonna run to Freeman Bus the ninth one and Uh, Sarkisian's giving up

a little too early on those outside zone runs. That you know, wear down defenses and get the defensive lineman tired. So maybe we'll see that here on Sunday when they played a Jet Dlatt. I think everyone knows about Julio Jones, but what do you think of the supporting cast around him, like Mohammed san New, Taylor Gabriel and Austin Hooper. What have you seen from those guys this year and what

do they need to do to help out this Falcon's offense. Yeah, well Mohammed's and knew you know, he came here with the reputation of you know, dropping too many pauses Cincinnati and then last year he caught everything that came in away, so he needs to get back to that. Hooper is the second year guy who you know, showing some signs that this might be a little too big for him. You know, Hea had a drop against Miami and they didn't want to talk to the media about it. You know,

powdered like a kid for a couple of days. So hopefully, uh, you know, he did graduate early from college, so I Hopeully. I'm not being too hard on him, but he needs to grow up. Taylor Gabriel had a Lord Legg and you're he's a smartish slot receiver guy. He's never gonna carry you anywhere, but you know when when you throw it to him, you want him to make some plays in space. So I like the group. It isn't changed from It's the same group they wrote to the Super

Bowl with last year. And uh, you know, just the functionality of it seems to be a little bit off off pace defensively, What players have you liked here early this season on that Atlanta defense Greens and you talked about the speed before. Who's popping out at you defensively? And who's gonna have to play well against this Jets offense that is, you know, getting into game study right now. They feature a number of different players. It's not like

they have a traditional number one, number two option. Josh mccollins through the seven receivers last week and they're using uh, three running backs in the backfield right now. Yeah, and the Falcings know about but Uh and Curly and Kurts. They know about Curts in the Seattle connections. But yeah, the guy really like on the Beckers defense, I think they need to build two more things around him as the but Andre Campbell, the second year strong side backer

from Minnesota. Saw him come off the blitz the last two weeks and light up Brady and uh he had to pull off a cutler. But he's doing well. Beasley's rounding back in the form he's been playing with a hamstring. He should be ready to go and attack the pastor this week. Dion Jones can have been a kind of disappointment for me. But the middle linebacker, I really thought they built the defense for him to shine. But now that they're running, people are running the ball on him.

You know, I'm a little bit Uh, I want to see him step that thing up. He had eleven tackles the last two weeks. But uh, you know the run defense, stopping a run defense for me starts with that middle linebacker, and uh, you know they were getting away with planning two hundred thirty pile middle linebacker and uh teams, Eventually we're gonna test, and we're seeing that test and going on right now. It's way too early to call this a must win game, but for Atlanta to get to

where they want to go? How critical is this ballgame? Coming up? After a three and all start, Now they're in a three game slide. They're coming to uh to a Jets team that has played while at home. I know a lot of external pundits didn't think much of the Jets before the season, but we know they've become a tough out. But as far as this Atlanta team is concerned, d lad Um, how critical is this one

on Sunday? Yeah, it's very critical. And you know, Todd Bows must be commended for getting this team uh to play so hard when they let all of their veterans go and so forth. But we know about that. But Atlanta is very critical because you know, Carolina sit up next, then you got Dallas, uh, you know, so so they two teams that are you know, supposed to be fighting for the playoffs in the NFC. So whenever you're on the slide like this, you need to get a stop.

You're good feeling back in that locker room, get things turned around, moving in the right direction, and you know they're gonna have to do the one game at a time, march here to uh, you know, be whatever they're gonna be this year. They're gonna be the A and eight falcon you know, be to be that uh be disappointing

for the folks around here. After last season. UH, and I'm sure that would being going some changes, but a few of the leven and five Falcons get there in some kind of way, and UH needs to start this week. They found out how tough is um, how tough it is to be a champion, even in the conference champion, and UH, if they're going to UH get back to the playoffs, they're gonna have to elevate their playoff across

the boot. You can follow him at d Orlando ah j C at d Orlando Leadbetter, who covers the Falcons for the Atlanta Journal Constitution, have a great trip ups here over the weekend, and UH we'll see uh in the MetLife Stadium press box on Sunday. Alright, guys, thanks for having me, and we'll see you attended. Alright, Green. So it's an interesting situation down there in Atlanta. You know, this team is going to be looking forward to getting back on the field and in the win column, and

they're gonna face the feisty Jets team. When you look at their offense, as d led said, a lot of weapons, but they're still trying to get into a groove, into a rhythm with Steve Sarkisian and Julio Jones, you know,

debatably the best receiver in the NFL. Spart Scott said this week he's the best receiver now, all right, so let's say he's the best receiver in the NFL, per Bart Scott, Julio Jones only has one touchdown catch on the year, and that was last week against the Patriots, which was a phenomenal catch, by the way, Yeah yeah, but it was still a phenomenal catch. And so I know Julio has been nicked up. Mohammed Sanu, the former Cincinnati Bengal, he was nicked up. He missed a game

or two with an string injury. And the thing that stuck out to me is that de Lad said the Falcons could really be one in five and against the Lions. Close victories over the Lions in Chicago too, and and that that's just I know, probably a lot of people will point to the Super Bowl hangover, you're up three, you lose it, But I don't think that's the theme here. I think it's and we'll touch on this with Chad Pennington. I think it's just more of a connection on this offense.

Maybe Kyle Shanahan meant a little more to the offense and the then the public eye seems to have noticed. Yeah, you know, here's something I didn't recognize or realize until doing some pregame study this week. Is Atlanta started four and three last year. That's something I did not know. And obviously they got hot. So this is a team that can get hot. I like playing them outside in

your building. I know it's unseasonably warm right now up here, but I'll take my shot up here at Montlife Stadium in front of the green and White crazies, um, you know, because they're gonna make it more difficult for Matt Ryan. I think that is a different offense, a different team inside the dome. I think the Jets. I think the Jets have to get into a lead situation this week because then you can do anything, because Atlanta's defense is built on speed and get into the quarterback and the

old Indianapolis Indianapolis model, right with Peyton Manning. You play inside, you play fast, you get a lead, and then and then you let those edge pass rushers get after the quarterback. All right, Greens, let's bring in an art quarterback Jeff Pennington. Chad Jets coming off heartbreaking loss in Miami where they had fourteen lead, couldn't hold on to it. The Dolphins

come all the way back for win. When you were looking at the film with the fourth quarter, can you pinpoint the problems on both sides of the ball, Eric, I think defensively throughout the whole game, I think the Jets secondary lost those man demand one on one matchup battles.

I think that's where the game was one for Miami, was that there perimeter players, meaning their secondary I mean their provide receivers and running backs and tight ends won those one on one matchups where the Jets defensive lost those matchups. That's I really believe that um and I think that's that's what ultimately determined the game, where those

one on one matchups. And you hear coaches talk about that all the time, and so when you play a lot of man and pressure like the Jets were doing in that game, you've got to be able to win those one on one matchups and and that that's what you're banking on. And the Dolphins won those matchups and the Jets did not. Offensively, I think that the game plan was another really good game plan. That's what's so hard about these losses here is that there are some

really good things going on. You're watching some really good football, and in most instances you should watch a winning result. But when you have a losing result after a lot of really good things that should make up a winning result, I think it makes it even tougher to swallow. And so that's what's concerning right now is that with a lot of these really good things going on, losses are still being posted and that's what has to be rectified.

How important is that when you have a lead two not necessarily score, but get a first down or two because a field position in the fourth quarter. I think this is an underrated facet of what happened there on Sunday because the Jets weren't able to get any first down. So conversely, as you know Miami and Matt Moore, who got hot as the game went on, he was working with short fields. Well, no question about it. I mean, that's that's one of the hardest things as an offense.

When you have a lead, um you're in a catch twenty two, You're trying to protect the lead, but also the aggressive enough to post the first down to keep your defense of fulfield, continue to change the field position and keep it in your favor. And that's really hard to do sometimes. And so I think where first starts is your mindset and your attitude, your sense of urgency.

You've got to make sure that you understand that the opponent has a big con sense of urgency because of the situation and the only way that you can take that away is to max that. And it doesn't mean you necessarily have to school points, but you have to max that sense of urgency, put some first downs out there, and keep a field position in your favor. Chad moving forward, Now, how difficult of a game like this? How difficult is it to put behind you? Knowing that you had a

fourteen point lead in the fourth quarter. And then a second part of that question, Coach Bowles talked a lot about this team needs to develop a killer instinct. In your opinion, how do you go about developing that instinct? And maybe it's just suffering a loss like this, Then the exactly suffering a loss like this then leads to developing it because you remember that feeling later down the road. Well, I think that's a perfect phrase to use by coach Bold.

I think that's he's right on the money. It is that killer instinct, and that's part of what we're discussing the question before. You've got to have a killer instinct, and you know you have a team on the roads. You've got to be able to put him away. And it's not about putting them away with extra points. It's without understanding the situations in the game and momentum and so, uh,

this is certainly going to be a challenge. It's gonna be a challenge, and to be able to it's not necessarily getting over the loss per se, but getting over the fact that here you are three and four, you're going into the meat of your schedule and the meat of the season, and you've let a couple slip away, and it's just a different feeling in the locker room when you're three and four compared to four and three or five and two or even five hundred and so

back a feeling that really the only thing that takes that away is winning. And so that's the only way you can get rid of it. You can't talk about it, um, you gotta keep your preparations saying that you have to find a way to win a football game to get that feeling out of your system. Yeah, over the last five games, the Jets are three and two. Now. Granted they are on a two game slide right now, but if you think about it, they've had double digit advantages

in each of the last five games. Obviously, they pounded Miami at home. They had a fourth quarter lead on Jacksonville on the fourth quarter, squandered that, but we're able to fighting, fighting krawl and get an overtime win. Then in Cleveland, of course, they had a ton point lead late against New England, they had a fourteen point lead, and then a fourteen point fourth quarter lead against Miami. So I mean the Jets have been more than just play.

They've been more than just being competitive on Sunday's They put themselves in positions to win. What do you like most about what you're seeing? As from a quarterback, I know you had to be happy about the Jets screen game on Sunday. Well, that's exactly what I was gonna say. Um. First of all, the multiplicity offensively has been outstanding. You continue to see all parts of the offense being able to produce and see success, which is outstanding from a

coaching staff standpoint. Also from a player's standpoint, the screen game was phenomenal on Sunday, and really the Dolphins had a decent screen game the screen game as well, but from the Jets standpoint, the screen game was phenomenal. Uh. They've been just very creative and how they're moving to football and it's not static football at all. It's it's dynamic football, but a lot of things happening, a lot of parts that are moving around, and so really from

a fan perspective, it is fun to watch. And so now you're just starving for that victory, to see all these fun things that you see happening. You want to see that turn into a victory. And I think you know, when we talk about losing leads, the Pacers game doesn't bother me as much because that's an early lead, and early lead to me don't matter. You gotta play full

four cluse. But the lead where you have them in the fourth quarter and you're either turning them into post games or you're losing those games, that's that's definitely a concern, and that's that killer instinct that Coach Bold was talking about that this team has to develop. Moving forward to this week, the Falcons come to that Life Stadium. They're on a three game slide. But everyone knows that this Atlanta team is very powerful on offense. It has a

lot of weapons. So if you're from a defensive standpoint, how do you first go approaching this Atlanta offense? What do you try to limit? First? Well, I think it's more just about the Jets defense and not necessarily about the Atlanta's offense. I think that you know multiplicity and their coverages, multiplicity and what they're doing down after down to provide as many looks as possible and continue communicating

with each other will be the key to success. Um. I think you know quarterbacks like Matt Ryan and Tom Brady, if you just give them the steady dose of the same thing all the time, Uh, they're eventually going to figure that out and they're gonna find a way to punt through. And so you've got to be able to mix things up. You've got to be discmversatile on defense as you are on offense, and and you know you're

gonna take some once here there. But as far as eliminating the big play and when they do get into the red zone, being in on tame those touchdowns in the field goals, that's really really important. And if they can do that defensively, Uh, they'll have a chance. Uh. You know, obviously Atlanta's offense is not as successful as it was last year. Right now, at this point in the season, they're struggling a little bit. They're struggling find ways to get Julio Jones the ball from to find

new identity NFC Saucasian. So they're finding their way too. But really, I think Atlantis coming into this game feeling like they can right this ship for their season against the Jets, And I think the Jets feel like this is a game that when people looked at it at the beginning of season that the Jets have no chance, They now have a chance, and so I think this is a game that is certainly winnable for the Jet. Mccon's a factory quarterback. He's played a lot of football

in his fifteen year career. Obviously he's going to be very frustrated with the outcome in Miami. But I think he's a guy, as we've seen, he's very studying. I think he'll be able to move on quick. But would you give him any advice right now if you had a chance to speak to him, Well, first of all, my advice would be, um, you know, eighty percent of what you're doing, Josh is outstanding. I mean, he is playing really good football. He is playing on a whole

he is playing winning football. The issue with the Jets right now is the margin for era is very small, so that other as a quarterback, where you let one or two plays become a disaster play, that's what's effecting your overall win loss records until somehow, some way. He just got to find a way to avoid those disasters, that's all. Just find those ways to avoid those disasters. Whether it be an interception or turn over, it could be so much as a sack that changes still position.

But for the most part, what he's doing and how he's playing, it's been it's been phenomenal. He's doing exactly what he needs to do to leave this team. There's just a couple of things that he can clean up to give his team a better a better chance to win. Yeah, he just wasn't able to see that trap coverage over there, and by the time he did, it was just a second too late as that ball came out and floated out.

But he counted for four touchdowns in Miami with one running TV a sneak and then the three touchdown passes and he is off to the second most accurate start for Jets passed or through seven games and the franchise's history, just a nick behind a guy by the name Chap anything Hey the other side of the ball, though, Chad, real quick. How difficult is it for Matt Ryan right now?

You mentioned he's got the new offensive coordinator and sark Obviously he was in a lockstep with Kyle Shanahan before the ladder took the head coaching position in San Francisco. How long does it take for a quarterback with the new coordinator after flourishing and in uh with another guy and being really familiar and knowing what he is, thank you. Very rarely does a quarterback to just hit it off

immediately with the play caller and the coordinator. Um even with Matt Ryan and Shanahan, they didn't hit it off. The first year they struggled and in the second years when they really came into their own. And the reason for that is as a quarterback, you're trying to find a way to be in the head of a play caller, and as a play caller, you find a way trying to find a way to be in the head of a quarterback um and trying to get on that same page.

From a thinking ten point, it really doesn't have anything to do with how the plays is called or what plays and being put in the game plan. It has to do with the thought process. On Okay, coach sarkis and called this play on first and ten, What's he's thinking? He then calls this same play on thursd and five. Now,

what's this thinking. It's the same play. That's two different situations, And so that takes time to work with each other, to gain a feel free each other, to learn each other inside mauth on the field and offer field that plays into the psyche of the quarterback as well as the play color. And that's what you're seeing right now, as simple as that, as well as the coordinator trying to learn the other parts of the Falcon's offense meeting. How do I use Julio Jones, how do I use

the mow, how do I use the running game? What do I do to complement the defense? That type of thing. So, uh, there's a lot of just from a mental process standpoint, a lot of teams going on and a lot of people are trying to figure each other out, and that's why you're seeing that type of result that you have with the Falcons right now. Just jumping off that point in turn, is how special is what's happening between Josh

McCown and John Morten Well, I agree. I think that it's one of these rare circumstances where you feel like the quarterback of the coordinator. They as they get it, they get each other, and that's a little bit of that just luck. Right. I mean, you can't it's hard to just match personalities and match that up say yeah, this is gonna work for right, and it takes a lot of hard work. And I'm sure that they're still

working on some of those things. But for these first seven games, I think you have to really like what you've seen from the office to bid both from play college standpoint and also from an execution standpoint. Like I said earlier, you're not seeing static football, You're not seeing boring football. You're seeing some really good execution and some high level football. And this is just the tip of

the oxberg. I think it's actually these guys are only working with each other let's say four to five months, so uh, but it's a good thing to see and and it's something that that could certainly be secil we Chad. As always, we appreciate your time with afford to speaking to you next week. Thank you God Greens. I think the key thing that Jed just said is defensively, what you can anticipate from the Jets this week is they're gonna show Matt Ryan different coverages throughout. I think that's

what you're gonna have to do. That Atlanta passing game I consider a vertical passing game. He'll take deep drops and try to get that ball down the field. So whatever kind of pass rush you can get, whether that's the interior or off the edges, good stuff, because sometimes he's gonna to take those deep drops. But the Jets are gonna have to mix up their coverage just this week.

This could be one of the weeks where we see a lot of a lot of the four safety look to cover a lot of ground, especially just because of the speed of this Falcon's offense. I mean when you mix in Julio Mohammed's a new Taylor Gabriel as a speedster in the slot there that d Lead talked about, and then DeVante Freeman and Tevin Coleman. They're reliable hands out of the backfield. I'm not quite sure how often either of them are used, but those two guys are

hard to bring down. They both have an average of over four on the ground for their careers, so they get downhill pretty quickly. Despite DeVante Freeman's size, he's he's pretty powerful And conversely is I'm really looking forward to see what the Jets do on offense on the ground because the Jets recently released Trevar Cadet. That means all three running backs are fully healthy, Matt Forte, thelalpow Eli McGuire and if two out of those three guys really get going on the ground and you eat up a

lot of time. And Peter King was in studio and told this to us when the Buffalo Bills went to Atlanta went to the Dome, said they went on an eleven minute drive to neutralize the Falcons offense. Matt Ryan was not on the field, and to be frank, maybe that's a formula that the Jets could try to emulate on Sunday. It's a good it's a good defense. Atlanta has a good defense. The thing that jumped out to me over the last three games. If they're they're finding

different ways to lose. You know, you mentioned the way the Bills came into the new stadium down there in Atlanta and they controlled the clock, a ball control offense, and then Miami falls behind by seventeen points and comes all the way back, not at home like they did

against the Jets, on the road for the victory. And then in New England, Atlanta played I don't want to say desperate football, but they were taking some chances early, four downs, things like that in an effort to score in some points and it didn't work out for them. So they're finding different ways to lose early and their team, even though they represented the NFC no Super Bowl, is

they're trying to find themselves. Bottom line. I think the Jets continue to find more things about themselves along the way, and I really think that despite a couple of losses here, overall, they're playing good football. Before we had out here on the Official Jets Podcast game preview e A this weekend, the Jets try to climb back to five hundred. Were basically at the midway point of the season here after

this week, What do the Jets need to do? What's one or two things that this team needs to do in order to reach back to five hundred. So it's gonna be simple for me. You limit Atlanta the field goals, You make it very difficult for them inside the red zone. They had a tough time converted last week against New England. Conversely, offensively, you continue to finish with touchdowns, you play at least even in the turnover differential department, department, and you get

the penalties down with that. If you can do all three of those things, you're gonna be in good shape. You'll be a five at the midway point. Once again, we had d Orlando led Better D lead from the Atlanta Journal Constitution and as always our quarterback Chad Pennington Jets Falcons. This Sunday, one pm MetLife Stadium, midway point of the NFL season. It maybe a little warmer for October twenty nine than in years passing. How about this one.

This is the start of a two games and what four or five days for the Jets because they four hour rule. It's gonna be like a four hour rules Sunday in the locker room because no matter what happens, the Jets got to turn the page. Because the buff Little Bills are coming here the following Thursday night, Color Rush Alert, and before you know it, it's going to

be nine games through the season. So let's see if the Jets can take advantage to some Hong cooking here, get a win, and then set their sights on the Buffalo Bills. But this is gonna be a fun contest. That's how you put a ball on the official Jets podcast game Creamy once again. Jets Falcons, one pm, met Lock Stadium, Feric Allen, I'm eating Greenberg