Jets-Patriots Game Preview (10/13)

a little later. That was a special treat. How about how about Peter He was at the facility, he was he was great, came to the studio and he did a podcast with Josh McCown I want to listen to that, So you gotta give him some props for that. He said he really wanted to do one with mccownity. He's wanted to do one for a long time. He's a big podcast guy. He's uh, I am as wolf. He uh, you know what, I'll make it three I am as

well too. You can tell that Peter like the podcast platform per se and I think people enjoy it, and you know it's great for commuters. So I know, I know you're you're like a ten minute commute. I'm more like a fifty minute So a podcast get me through the week, So big fans. Yeah, and I hope people are loving this podcast. I think we're off to a great start. Props to our producer in the back jack Listen. Uh, like you said, we have a tremendous show in store

for you this week. Before we dive in to this week's matchup, let's talk about last week as we always do. Jets now on a three game winning streak three and two. Take down the Cleveland Browns in Cleveland at the Dog Pound, another not so pretty win, to say the least, a gritty win. What did you take away from last week's game that was different than the Jaguars game? Well, that's just the word, Greens. This team continues to find different ways to win. A wire to wire domination of Miami

Daniel Squander, or fourth quarter lead against Jacksonville. You come back in overtime, you make it happen with Chandler Canton zero. They played emotional in front of her home crowd, Greg Williams and a nice defensive game plan against Josh McCown and company. When the Jets scuffled offensively early, but the defense picked them up. Entering Week five, they had four takeaways against the Browns, they had three takeaways, they had

three stops inside their own ten yard line. You're thinking about Marcus May's interception, Freddie Bishops uh fumble, recovery of a force lateral from a rookie quarterback into Shawn Kaiser, and then also tomorrow Davis making a heck of a play on fourth down that proceeds a ninety seven yard drive and McCown got going late two touchdown passes. So listen,

wasn't pretty, don't matter and still win. Something Josh McCown said was that the office didn't play well consistently, but the offense played well when the team needed it most. Here we are with the A four mentioned Peter King at Monday morning quarterback, thank you so much for joining us in studio. So this is a special treat for myself, Anita, it's good to be here, guys, and uh, it's good to be here. You know, I thought if I came out to the Jets this year would be too to

discuss some sort of black cloud, you know. I mean, I was talking to Todd Bowles after the win in Cleveland, and I said, Okay, I'm gonna give you all. I'm gonna give you whatever shot you want to take, go ahead, take and take a shot at all must geniuses who uh basically we're you know, I thought, you go two and fourteen, three and thirteen, and he goes, oh, it's early. And he did not want to participate in that at all,

you know, because I think he knows two things. Vengeance can't help you in this game, really, no matter how you feel personally. But I think the other part of it is he knows how fine a line it is. You know, the NFL is amazing week to week you watch, I mean, I I often think that that's so often the team that wins on Sunday is the you know, is just an incredible team and they're the they're the champs there that they're everything, and the vanquished they stink,

they're no good. And yet you watch a game like Atlanta in Detroit, we're golden Tate ends up about seven inches from breaking the plane when his knee hits the ground and he's seven minutes away, seven inches away, and that decides that could well decide whether Detroit Lions or Atlanta Falcons go to the playoffs. Just yeah, so, but anyway, I think I Todd Bowles, I I'm I'm a I'm

an admirer of the of the job that he does. Uh. And I think in the NFL today, when you don't have a really good long term quarterback, it's an I mean, it's a battle every week anyway, but when you don't have that guy, it becomes even more of a battle. And that's why I think, I mean, I think having Josh McCown here this year has really been a huge help to this team because he he studies the ship

when it needed to be steadied, you know. Yeah, and you're actually here at the complex because you're gonna be talking to Josh on your podcast. Yeah. Yeah, I I've I've always wanted to record him. I've been doing this for two years and I've always really wanted to record him because I think he has one of the most unique careers in recent NFL history. Um. I think it was now six years ago he was on the Hartford Colonials of the United Football League and after he finished there,

that was that might have been it. You know. Okay, now you know families in Charlotte, Um, that's where We're going to be no matter where I am. But you know, maybe it's maybe it's over, and and you know, I've had a great time. I've been with a bunch of good teams, had a lot of enjoyment. But maybe it's over. And I honestly think that, you know, if it was over, and if he was coaching high school football now at whatever high school in Charlotte, he'd love life very nearly

the same way that he loves life right now. And I know people say, well, geez, how could you say that, you know, the NFL and everything, Because Josh McCown is the kind of guy you'd be happy doing whatever he's doing. He's so honest for humility. I know the press have loved him ever since he entered the National Football League and to thousand two Greens and I talked about it all the time. He's the only remaining quarterback left in

the two thousand to draft class. This is a fifteen season, and he just won three straight games for the first time. I love that stat. That is so hilarious. And the I didn't realize this until whose column did I read? It might have been Brian Costello. I forget George Willis. I think George Willis wrote and I didn't know he had never won the starting quarterback in the Brown Stadium. I would have thought he would have won five. You know.

Then I started to I had a great stat. I had a stat in Monday Morning Quarterback Today, uh where I said, in their last forty nine games, the Cleveland Indians are forty and nine. In their last forty nine games, the Cleveland Browns are nine and forty. So maybe that explains why Josh McCown didn't have didn't have any home wins there. You know. So, Peter, something that you've touched about. You wrote about it that coach Bowls was your coach of the week, and you talked about that you admire

the job that he does. Just if you could elaborate a little bit more on why you chose him as your coach of the week. You know, I kind of look at a lot of times I give those awards, and you know, I remember one year when I was doing this, somebody said, oh my god, Peyton Manning through for four and eight yards and four touchdowns. He had a perfect quarterback rating. I said, I could give Peyton Manning the Offensive Player of the Week. Every week. I mean,

what good does that do? I mean, and I said, this is not exactly official, this is just what I want to do, and a guy who I think does a good job. Here's the reason why I think Todd Bowles first of all, the reason why I think Todd Bowles is not only a good coach period, but he's a good coach for this team at this time. Very simple and like I've always felt like, and I think it helps him having grown up in this area, he understands the kind of screwy mayhem there is around a

New York team. Okay, it's you know, when I used to cover the Giants, Parcels would walk into a press conference. This is in the eighties. Obviously, he walked into a press conference and he'd say, alright, you subversives, what is

it today? Eu fourie or disaster? You know? And I think, having having been around Parcels and having seen sort of that sardonic way, I think that Todd Bowls can look at it and basically say, hey, listen, you know I've I've lived in New York forever, Okay, in the area forever. I know everything about it. I know the pressures, I know the If you win, uh, you're going down the avenue of the of of of of heroes. If you lose, you're a bum. You're gonna get fired. I'll never forget

the day that Eric Mangini got fired. And it was and I think it was the Post. It might have been the daily news the next day showed Eric Mangini walking out the door and they said, hey, coach, don't let it hit you on the way out, you know. And I'm saying to myself, man, what a what a place? You know, what a place. It's a tough spot. But like you said, he is a guy who just remained

study whether he's winning or losing. And and if if I think he has the ability to stand up in front of these guys and to basically say hey, here's the way it is, and everybody trusts him. When he was with the Arizona Cardinals, I remember I knew a lot of guys on that team and one of the reasons I like when his name would come up and coaching interviews, I would always say, this guy is gonna be a good head coach for this reason. He's really

imaginative on defense. He's the guy who basically got the Arizona Cardinals to take all those you know, I mean, it's a different time now, but like the day on Buchanan, you know, Tyrone Matthew, guys play him down in the box. Haven't be basically linebackers for you, So I mean he is not. He doesn't say, well, okay, um, let's bring in a practice squad linebacker because he weighs two forty two instead of let's take a safety who weighs to nineteen.

But and and if we play the two two pound guy, then that safety, who's really a good player, is not going to be playing. Why would we do that. Let's take the really let's get as many really good players

to be in the game at the same time. And I think he is just one of these common sense guys who doesn't really allow himself to view um, to view a situation like this as like if you were looking at this situation before the year, you know, Letting Decker go, letting David Harris go, Mangolds gone, all these other things, Brandon Marshall's gone, all these guys who you think either are going to be good somewhere else or I don't know how you're going to replace him. He's

never one who who will think that way. He's just going to think, how am I going to win this Sunday? You know. And and it's kind of strange to say this because like, I don't think the Jets will beat the Patriots this week, but I think the Jets have turned into the intriguing kind of team that whoever plays him. And he told me this yesterday. He goes, if we just control our penalties, will play with anybody in this and he knows that he will because what happens, at

least in my mind, with this team. And I saw him in Week two at Oakland and I just thought, if their defense doesn't play well, they can't win. I mean, I shouldn't say they can't win. It's gonna be very very hard for them to win. But I think that game, to me now, when you look back, was an aberration, you know, the Oakland game, because their defense is pretty good. Their safeties and the young safeties I think are pretty You mentioned a defensive personnel and when immediate climbs immediately

comes to mind for me, is Jamal Adams. You said playing an extra guy in a box. Well, Jamal obviously can plain it back as well, but you can drop them down. It's like having an extra linebacker down there. And you know, since you've been covering this forever, is that Todd is so imaginative as a play caller on defense, using multiple safety packages sometimes now the judgmenties and four safeties on the field. They got Marcus may back there.

Of course, it's impressed early on. Terrence Brooks was a late acquisition. Mike mccagnet traded for him here at the end the training camp, and then Ronts Miles as well, So you know that Todd is shifting the pieces of round. See. I think the coaches that can do well in today's football are the coaches who can figure out a way to take their best eleven players and figure out a way to get all them on the field in some combination.

And like I thought, one of the things that like, I really like what the Carolina Panthers did in the off season getting Christian McCaffrey and Curtis Samuel because it allows them to do I thought they had an incredible play McCaffrey's first touchdown in the NFL. They had an incredible play because they faked a jet sweep to Curtis Samuel and drew the attention to the other side of the field, then then ran to the left side of the field in what looked to be a read option.

And on this read option you have either Jonathan Stewart, Cam Newton, nobody even sees Christian McCaffrey, and at the last possible second they just flip it to McCaffrey. What I mean is that one of the reasons why coaches like you know, Todd Bowles, and I think that now Sean McVeigh. One of the reasons why Sean McVeigh is succeeding now in my opinion, is that he basically does so many disguise packages and people just simply the you line up and you say, I'm going to see something

on this play that I haven't seen before. Because okay, and this I'll we'll steer back to the Jets. But I just wanted to make one of their points. Yesterday Sunday in the games, Davante Adams scored the winning touchdown against Dallas. And there's very few teams where a guy can come back to the huddle after one play fails and say to the quarterback, hey, run that exact play again. I know we can make it. And if you have Aaron Rodgers, he has the confidence that he's gonna do it.

And in those situations, Aaron Rodgers has some freedom depending on what play is called. So he told Adams, did the same thing again, and he Adams did the exact same thing, and this time the ball was right there. He caught it, touchdown and the game. My point is not everybody has that kind of quarterback, so you have to capitalize on the imagination things that some of these coaches do. This is the great Peter King on One Day Morning Quarterback joining myself and Ethan Greenburg in studio.

You mentioned the Patriots before. What's the formula for the Jets in week week six action? Here is they go in there in a three game winning straight playing the division uh division opponent. I lost their first division game against the Buffalo Bells. But New England will be in here and I would imagine the fans are gonna turn out and it's gonna be a festive atmosphere. In my life, Daniel, I think there's two things. Number one, be physical with

the receivers. Um Gronkowski probably plays. Be physical with him, you know, hit him in the bump. Zone. Um, and when you can, you gotta hit Brady because in my opinion, Brady with time, he's more dangerous than any quarterback in football with time because he has so much confidence in throwing the ball into very small windows. You get four receivers out in the past pattern in the past sort, he's gonna find somebody at you know, if you give him three to three and a half seconds, So you

want to disrupt his timing. And then I think on the other side of the ball, I heard every all the stuff before last week the Patriots defenses in crisis, but I really think it was more communication than anything else. Um, because Stefan Gilmour was making a huge number of mental errors. He's I think the Patriots vastly overpaid Stefen Gilmore, But um, he's a good player. And I just think that McCown right now, there's there's something you know when you look

at Josh McCown. I think one of the things that if you're if you look at a quality of a quarterback that no matter what his receiver group is like whatever, if you're an accurate passer, then you can take new guys who you haven't worked with all that much and you can say that Germaine curse. You be there on a twelve yard out. If you're there, the ball is going to be there. If you're there, we're gonna have

a completion. Are curly? Yeah, And so my feeling is that right now, I think that that is the way to try to beat the Patriots. The other thing is keep the clock moving. Um. A couple of weeks ago, last week whenever it was when when Buffalo won in Atlanta. You know, after the game, I was talking to some people with the Bills and and they said all week it was, you know, keep the ball away from Matt Ryan.

And so the Bills in that game had a nineteen play, eleven minute and twenty second drive and so they got they got a field goal, which you know, they obviously they wanted seven points instead of three, but they were deliriously happy because that's one less drive. I don't even know how many drives the Falcons had, maybe ten or eleven, but without that long drive they would have had another one.

And I think part of this game for the Jets, if if you could limit Brady to nine possessions in this game, I think the Jets have a real chance. What long drives are the key. We wish we had time for another quarter with you, but you gotta go visit, uh Josh McCown, and uh we'll continue reading you and following you on I'm QB dot com. And I just quickly wanted to ask you you didn't do a game story week one, you chose to do a podcast. How much you enjoying this platform? And where what's the store

in the future? Jesus, You know what. I We have a lot of young people on my staff, on our staff, and I say to them all the time, um do everything because you have no idea where this business is going. And my whole thing is I enjoy doing this stuff. I I there aren't many places anymore where you can hear conversations. And you know what, We're not going to

break the ratings record for the Josh McCown podcast. We won't, but I will really enjoy it because I mean I've talked to him, not many of several times, and that I know that a conversation with him that if you're a football fan, you will listen to it and he'll say, Man, I'd love to get to know that guy. And that's what I try to do with these things, because I think everything is done, everything, every everything that people concentrate on is in the hundred and forty character take, you know,

or now two character whatever Twitter is. But do I have one forty? Um, I don't even know how to get to two? Eight? You know what I don't. I don't. I don't want to eight. You know why I don't. I don't. I mean, when I see those long tweets, I say, oh, this is crap. I want you know,

there's something great about just the snippet, you know. But but anyway, my point is I love having the ability to be able to have a conversation just like you're sitting, just like we're down, you know, if we were doing something that had to be done. Okay, you got two and a half minutes, blah blah blah. And look, I do TV. I've done a lot of TV, and I understand the brevity and the quality of brevity and two and a half minutes, and I like it. I appreciate it.

But I also like the fact that, you know, shoot, I said, I did a seventy six minute podcast with Tom Brady. Is the first time I've ever heard him not sound like press conference Tom and that to me is the in this medium really makes it worthwhile because I think it allows you to really kind of get to know a person rather than to get to know the real person rather than the sound bite dish person. Well said Peter. We thank you so much for joining us.

We're gonna let you now get to that podcast with Josh mcconomand we look forward to listening to that and maybe in the future we can check back with you later this season because I'd love to get some thoughts on the Hall of Fame, Joe Cleco, Kevin Well, why we even We discussed that at length, and let's see if the Jets can continue to surpre us. Sounds good, Thanks all for having you guys. All right, Green's good stuff there from p K. I always read that Monday

Morning a Quarterback Calm. It's a long one, but he's got so much information in there, and he did have Todd Bowles as his head coach of the week. One thing I took away when we're previewing this matchup Jets Patriots here in week six is Peter said something very interesting about the Bills going to Atlanta and taking down that high powered attack. Is they we're able to hold out the football with time possession. They had a drive

of over eleven minutes. And for the Jets, if they can hold onto the football, that means number twelve is on the sideline. Um, if you can shorten the game possession wise, I think that works to your Advan, because last week against Cleveland you come up with the three takeaways. Tom Brady's got one interception. You know, last year I think he might have had five. He doesn't turn the football over. The one stat that really jumps out to you about the Patriots so far this season, no, is

that Tom Brady has been sacked sixteen times. It's one more than all the last season. So maybe the Jets can manufacture some pressure when they are on the field defensively. Also, just to add on that is the less time tom Brady has to operate, the less points of Patriots and score, and they can put up a lot of points if you let them. They leave the league in total offense where they third in the NFL and scoring right now to like twenty nine points a game. So Brady has

already passed for what yards? Yes, So the more Hannah weapons, Danny Amadola, you look at their backfield, Dion Lewis, James White, who leads the team in receptions. You know these line actors this week to Mario Davis playing a really high level. There only that he went back to Ohio this week, had a good game. They're gonna be in focus this week against those guys coming out of the backfield. Gronkowski didn't play against Tampa, He's likely to play against the Jets.

And then Brandon Cooks gives you a new dimension as far as speed and things like that. So, uh, listen, Yeah, this offense is they have options to say, yeah, yeah, they do. They do. But the Jets defense has been developing. They were left for dead frankly when we left Oakland and took that cross the country trip home, but did a great job against Miami. Really how Jacks developed bay most of that game after an opening drive, and then last week they carried the team from most of the

sixty minutes in Cleveland. I'm very curious to see who lines up on Rob Gronkowski. We talked about this earlier in the weeks that you would mean, but you know, is it Jamal Adams, is it is it Darren Ly? Is it a combination of the two because Darren might be bigger, but Jamal is faster. So I'm very curious

to see how coach Bowls deploys his safeties. And you got Marcus May out there too, And you're right about deploying the safeties because the Jets, as we continue to note every week, are playing three safeties at times, four safeties at other times, so you know you're gonna want to get a lot of athletes out there on the field. And that was a great interception by May last week.

But again, the chances that happened against Brady are a little bit less likely because he's not gonna focus in on a on a player with his eyes and uh, very few times does he turn the football over. You gotta be sure tackling. Are you sure tacklers against the Patriots. I'm pumped for this game though it's a you know, my life stage should be hopping. Make sure to subscribe on your phone. We're on New York Jets dot com. We're on SoundCloud already. H Time to bring in mm

QB's Albert Breer. Albert, thanks so much for joining us on the Official Jet Podcast game preview Jets Patriots this weekend. The Patriots were a team in the offseason that many thought had improved well. Right now in a three way tie for the a f C East along with the Jets and Bills. Just what's been your initial impressions of the Patriots team this year. Well, you know, I certainly think that we probably got ahead of ourselves with the expectations,

and I'm guilty as anybody of that. And I think the main thing I was looking at coming into the year was, um, you know that I've never seen the Super Bowl champion ad an offensive piece like Brandon Cooks and the defensive piece like Stefan Gilmore. Um. You know, I think you kind of work onto the assumption that those are gonna work out because of the you know, profile of those players, and um, you know, Cooks has

been all right, Gilmore has been really up and down. Um. And in the meantime there the front seven has has had its issues. Um and um, the seconds taking some time to come together, you know, And I think ultimately, uh, the offense will be fine. And the offense for the most part, on balance, has been Tom Brady has been Tom Brady. He's taking it to a few more hits than they would have liked, but um, you know, I think you know that when you're talking a long game here,

the offense will be okay. Um, The questions for them now, I think coming out of the first five games is whether or not the defense will be good enough in the long run. And you know, it's I mean, I look with them, it's it's different. The standards just different. The bar is a little higher. So and we're not talking about whether or not they're gonna make the playoffs. I think it's more are they going to be in a divisional round the championship game or are they gonna

win the whole thing? You know? And and and these are the things that I think when you look at it could prevent them from winning another championship. You know, you look at whether or not the secondary is what they have paid for it to be, and then whether or not this front seven can be even average. Um, those are the big questions facing them now. Is they you know, as to get closer to the to the more critical parts of the season. Conversely, what do you

think of the Jets so far? Obviously opened the season oh and two, then a wire to wire victory over the Miami Dolphins and their home opener, and then they found a way to win against Jacksonville game they squandered a ten point leading the fourth quarter, but one and overtime. And then they go to Cleveland and it was at times and not a pretty evolved game, but they found a way to win, largely largely because the defense comes up with three takeaways, they have a fourth down stop,

and Josh McCown gets the offense moving late. So now here they are entering week six on a three game winning streak. Yeah, I don't think anybody would have guessed, um that you know, in the middle of October, they'd be sitting there, tied with the Patriots for first in the division, tied with Buffalo for first the division. That's

where we are. You know. The thing that it sort of sticks out to me is, um, you know how a lot of this things that they did in March and April UM wound up being proven correct, you know. And I know there are a lot of people who felt like they were tanking. And look, I don't think there's any question that they were stripping down the operation and they were trying to turn the page on the previous era. Um. You know, But but you look at

what's happened to the players who have left. I mean Rev's isn't on a team, Mangles not on a team. Bryan Claydy is retired, Um Decker and Marshall Um have been just average in their new spots, and now Marshall has hurt David Harris for the healthy scratch um for the Patriots last week. You go up and down and you see the guys that got rid of and those

guys are doing almost nothing elsewhere. And then you look at the guys they brought men, and I think primarily, you know, you look at a guy like a you know, a Jermaine Curse who um comes in the trade for Sheldon Richardson, and you know he is producing for them, and so um, you know, you look at that. And then he added to the rookies they I didn't obviously

think very highly. It's small Adams and Marcus May and you know, I don't think this is gonna I don't think it's gonna be a nine and seven or tenant

six team or anything like that. But I certainly think through five games, you can see where a lot of the decision making, the logic of the decision making has become clear, and at the very least, I think that, you know, if you're down there in New York, you can trust that that it looks like the operations headed in the right direction, whether or not that holds up long term. Who you know they've got, They've got some good young players there now and certainly it looks like

they moved on from the older players at the right time. Yeah, do you like what mcagnant has done over the past few months. You mentioned obviously Adams and May. It starts there with the drafting, but then some of these late acquisitions. Um you mentioned curse with Son Sheldon Richardson. They get cursed back from Seattle and a second round pick. Jeremy Curley was on the stre he had sixty four receptions last year in San Francisco. He's coming here made an

instant impact. They trade for a guy uh from Philly and Terrence Brooks who's come in here and fit in nicely with the other two safeties. Actually has a pair of interceptions. Cony Eale a late pick up as well. David Bass, a guy from Seattle, is coming in. He's got the two sacks, So not only a drafted and what do you think about all these late acquisitions, Well,

it's something you've had to do, you know. I think especially when you look at the timing of the Harris move and the Decker move, UM, and put them in a tough spot from a roster standpoint, because you know, you're not gonna build a team of all first and second year players and so um, they've had to be creative with that. And again, I think bringing in a guy like to me, you know, I think part of

the reason why he trade Sheldon. I think Sheldon's got potential to be one of the top five or six defensive lineman in the league if he ever puts it all together. I think one of the reasons why you get rid of Sheldon, um is because you knew that that there we're gonna be bumps this year, and the idea of having both Mo and Sheldon on the roster as the elder states, and it was kind of scary.

You know that that that maybe that's not you know, the type of position that you want to either of those guys in, and so you know, you see, you see what you can get for each of them. Um. I think Sheldon was clearly the more tradeable commodity, and I liked how they took into account what kind of leader Jermaine Curse was in Seattle, because not only are you getting production from him, now, you're also putting him

in the locker room. And he's one of the older guys, and um, you know, he's really kind of a guy who the offensive players can look to and say, Okay, this is the type of guy we're gonna look up to, and this is the type of guy that we're going to emulate, you know, and UNDEFENSI, you've got some younger guys who are capable of doing that. All right, Albert, thank you so much for joining us on the official JEZZ podcast game preview. You got a guy, all right.

That was Albert Brier. Another phenomen interview. They're giving big kudos to Mike mccagnet, the general manager of the New York Jets, and the entire Jets personnel. Do you think that this Sunday is a litmus test? I asked about the defense, but I guess more about the team in general, because you know, it takes a couple of weeks to get things flowing, to get chemistry building, and everyone points to halftime in Oakland saying that's when the ship has

turned for the New York Jets. So do you think this Sunday serves as a barrometer? It's a good question. Here's what I'll say is that this is the sixth game of the season. Win or lose, you're either gonna be four and two or three and three. A lot of football left to be played New England, on the other hand, because a team, while Todd Bowles is accurate on this one, kings in the division until somebody knocks them off the ladder. They are the kings of the division.

The Jets have been clear about that this week. Um, they haven't. Actually, I think if you talk, if you're in their locker room and you're listening to Bill Belijack in company, they don't consider themselves to finished product here early in the season either. So are you gonna find out a little bit more about the Jets this week? Certainly?

I mean, you know, it's different going up playing against the team that's been an NFL powerhouse for seventeen years or so, since Tom Brady took over in two thousand one. Uh And that's no shot at Cleveland or Jacksonville or Miami. Miami was a playoff team last season. But yeah, this this is a great test for the Jets. But win or lose, Greens ten games to go, you know, and Todd Bowles is taking the proper approach this week that you know it is a big game because it's in

the next game. I know fans don't like that means a little bit different for it means a little bit of more stakes for people who are tailgate and they're coming in the MetLife Stadium and they're ready to take down the Patriots and believe that Jets the players want to win this game, but they want to win every week. So is it a great test? It is a phenomenal test for this defense. Yes, this is the most Oakland's offense is good. I would say New England's offense is

better than the Raiders offense. So through six games, yeah, this is the best offense the Jets that based on the other side of the wall, while the Patriots stats haven't been there. What you want to see from the Jets offense. The test is you mentioned the Greens. Can they start fast? They have to start fast this week.

And something that Jeremy Curly said is I spoke to him in the locker room this week, he said that the home crowd really does help the team get motivated try to start faster because the crowd is something that's almost like the pulse of a team. I don't know if that's if that made sense to you, but if the craw if let's say that the team is stagnant to start, if the Jets a little stagnant and the crowd gets into it, that could energize the team to

start to play faster. And I'm really excited for this Sunday and i think it will be the most festive atmosphere that we've seen so far. I met Life Stadium and before we head out here. On the Official Jets podcast, it's the staple question. I asked it every week and

I'll ask it again. The single matchup that you're looking forward to this weekend, or a couple of players that you're pitting your hat on and saying, you know what, I think this person is going to do something because I'm saying this is one of your favorite Well, last week you told me that Marcus May was gonna get his first interception and it happened. Now saying you're a fortune teller, but so you were correctly you correctly predicted something last week, so I felt like I had to

come back to it again. So I'm not taking the easy way out because I don't know what the game plans are downstairs. Because a lot of people would think, Okay, well, this guy's mansing up with this guy's guy's match up. You don't really know until the game on folds. The one thing that I do know, Greens is the Patriots, predominantly over the years, are a team that don't beat themselves. Now, they've had a lot of errors here early in the season. I watched that game against Tampa. You saw a couple

of late hits and rough rough and the kicker. Yeah, there's there are some things that very on patriot like. But with that being said, the Jets of Todd Bowles is happy about a lot of things going on here, and he should be, but he's taken steady approach because he knows there are things to clean up. And the one thing that the Jets can't do this week, they can't lose the turnover battle. And I'm looking at a

yellow doorstop. You cannot have the number of flats the past three weeks, and that's something that really eats up at TB. He talked about it. Twenty seven penalties over the last three games they were able to win those three games. You get ton penalties against the Patriots and you lose the turnover paddle, you won't have a chance. With that being said, I expect the Jets to be in this game in the second half. I expect the

atmosphere to be unbelievable. I'm also pumped up about the New York Jets and Atlantic Health System or partnering in the fight against pediatric cancer as part of the NFL and American Cancer Society's Crucial Catch Intercept Cancer campaign. So you know you'll be seeing that on Sunday, right. Just to clarify here, usually October is breast cancer Awareness month.

The NFL has changed out his Crucial Cash so each team gets gets to choose what a cancer, whether it be breast cancer or in our case, pediatric cancer for the New York ches. Yeah, and then I read you know this, read a stat that's really hits home that between the ages of birth and fourteen or ten thousand new cancer cases involving kids each year, over ten thousand in the United States. So you know, whatever you can do if you're at home and position to help out

here on Sunday, please do. And did you know that we have a player on this team that is a cancer survivor, Mike Panell, the actor cancer. Yeah. So they're big defensive tackle who's a house. You see him in a lot of short yardage situations and that's what we have here on the Official Jets Podcast. Game for you once again, Jets Patriots this Sunday, CBS one pm. Make sure to head out to Mattlife Stadium. Fer Eric Allen, I'm Ethan Greenberg. Ha