Midseason Breakdown with Brian Baldinger (11/1)

over the years. Well, good thing. I was talking to the audience and now you okay, that's fine. And Baldi came out and braved the elements Sunday at Soldier Field. Come on pre game Central. It looked extremely windy on pregame Central, didn't it. It was we gotta get that table nailed. But yeah, a couple of my papers blew away. But fortunately no game plan notes on there for the Bears to take a look at. But hey, always great catching up with Baldy. He breaks it down like no

other and we'll talk to him. He had great things to say about Sam Donald, really cool inside about what goes behind his breakdowns and talked a little bit about the Dolphins, a little bit about mid season m v p s because we're at the midway point of the NFL season, which is crazy to think about. And Jamal Adams said this the other week and it kind of

stuck with me. Is after the Vikings game, he said, there's kind of sort of not really a lot of time left, but there still is a lot of time left in the NFL season because when you think about it, it's November at this point, and make sure you get out vote and thank you for that. And halfway through the NFL season. There is still a lot of time left. But at the same time, there's not a lot of time.

So it's like a very interesting dynamics. Well before you know it for the Jets, they're gonna be at their by their week eleve and by and then you got,

you know, six games down the stretch. But Game nine is very important for this team against the Miami Dolphins, and Morris clay Borne uh set the tone I think for the week, and a couple other guys actually said that said this in the post game locker room at Soldier Field after the Jets lost twenty four to ten to the Bears that this is a must win for the Jets. What do you think about that, Young Greens?

The man who said the Colts game was the most important game of the season for the Jets, Well, at the time, it was, okay, what do you think about this game against Miami Dolphins? Though it's obviously very important. I want to I want to clarify here because you keep you keep saying if you're a first time listener. I didn't just say the Jets. I would hope you're not a first time listener, but if you are, tell your friends, tell your family, yeah, tell it, tweet whatever.

So what I'm saying is that going back then, and I wasn't saying that the Jets Colts game was the most important game of the season in the sixteen games. Either I didn't pluck it out of a hat or anything. I didn't market down on the calendar, but at the

time I felt that it was. It was one of those games where I felt like it would show and entering week six that the Jets would have taken a step in the right direction as a team if they would have beaten that Colts team, and they did well and this team is in desperate need of a step in the right direction. And Todd Bowles said Monday during a conference call with reporters, we had dug ourselves a hole. We have to dig ourselves out of it. I like that,

and I think that it's true. And if you remember last year in Miami, the Jets lost, I don't think they won the year before in Miami either, So oh and two in Miami in the past two years and then a fourth quarter lead last year that was a

bitter defeat. Yes it was so, I'm sure. And the Dolphins one in Week two at My Life Stadium the Jets season an opener twelve contest once Sam Doornold passed for three thirty four yards, becoming the youngest player in NFL history to throw from more than three hundred yards. Thank you. Okay. On a side note here is just remember last year's game was extremely muddy and the and the field was all chalked up and charred up because the University of Miami had played there the night before

in that mud bowl. Yes, the same thing is going to happen this week. Was Miami past sounds as it stands now, Duke plays the You at hard Rock Stadium the night I think it's the night before or maybe the afternoon afternoon. I can't imagine if I put that game at night regardless, So Duke Miami. Actually Miami played I think Syracuse last year. It was the Saturday game and it took care of business. But congratulations to you.

You're anto are now in the top twenty five. I know there's a lot of celebrations going on there because probably there's just two seasons. What is it basketball season and winter? Okay, that's true. It's basketball season and there's winter. That's it. The Queues, they continue to play basketball every week. I love Dino Baber's offense that we're in a highly entertaining affair against the c State and the wolf peck went down. But we're not gonna I digress on that matter,

and let's get back to the Jets. At the midway point. If I asked you who is the team MVP, just the team MVP, who would you go with? The tough question? Yeah, it is a tough question. The team m v P. I think you could go in a lot of different directions, but for me, all of them land on defense. Right now. I think you can make a case for Jamal Adams. I think he's I think taking a step in the right direction. I think you can make a case for Morris Clayborne, who's playing his best ball of his career.

But I'm gonna go with a bit of an X factor. Derenly high three interceptions. Yeah, he's first among linebackers tied for the interception lead. He I think that he was someone that coming into this year, a lot of fans and a lot of external media had questions about Darren Lee because he hadn't seen a lot of the production from him the first two years, but you saw growth and this year, I think he's taken a real step

forward for this Jets team. So, I mean it may not be the sexiest name out there, but I think Darren Lee's played. He's played well anytime you're talking about inside linebacker, has got three interceptions in the season, and who's been pretty good in coverage and also has helped this the team in terms of the run game. I

definitely think he's taken some steps forward. I'd be thinking, I think you gotta be hard pressed to go against Adams at this point eight games in the season, because while he only has the one interception and the Jets walk him down in that box a lot. He makes a lot of tackles towards the line of scrimmage, He's made a number stops behind the line of scrimmage. He's been in on some other takeaways, and I think he

stepped up vocally as well. Just through eight games. I think you'd have to go with Adams, which actually leads us to a nice transition to our special guest today. Because Brian Baldinger is one of the biggest Jamal Adams fans there are. You hit the nail on the head Brian Baldinger. He loves Jamal Adams. So without further ado, here's our chat with Baldi. Aready A, let's bring in Brian Baldinger. You can follow him on Twitter at Baldy NFL.

Baldi gives tremendous breakdowns. You gotta watch. So I have to know how much time does that take you and when do you start and when do you end? Well, um, I got home late Monday Sunday night after that game at Soldier Field Jets in Chicago, and I got the NFL films about eleven o'clock, so I got some done Sunday night, and then all day yesterday and today, I

do two versions of it. E A U. I do all these breakdowns for the NFL, and this week they had me break down the Coach of the Year, Rookie of the year, defensive player of the year, all these different categories and I did all that and then I do do uh other feeds for on Twitter for fans, and the NFL uses my content to put it on different platforms. But I just see things that uh stand out, you know, whether it's stand out performances or unacceptable play

or or great technique, you know. I mean, I just comb these games. I watched as many as I can as long as I can, and um, I go game by game and I just kind of see watching the Carolina Panthers and how North Turners evolving in his offense right there, and you know, some of the good stuff and some of the bad stuff that I saw a week and I just I put it out there and the fans seem to really enjoy it and get that

kind of level of analysis. Yeah, you're doing a fantastic job your social media dynamo, in addition to doing what you're doing on radio and television. But you were in Chicago on Sunday and you did appear on Pregame Central presented by PEPSI. Not a nice spot there from your buddy. But what do you know about this New York Jets team at the midway point of the two thousand eighteen season. This is the third consecutive year they've had a three

and five mark at the midway point. Well, offensively, you know, obviously was really they really struggled all day and a lot of it was just you know, pre snap penalties, just getting themselves behind the chains. I mean, they were constantly first and fifteen, second and fifteen, and you know, minus the talent that wasn't out there, Robbie Anderson, Quincy and Nanwa, the injury to blow Power mean, the injury

di Spenser Long. I mean, they're just not good enough, you know, in those positions to lose those key people. And then you know a rookie and Sam Donald who's learning and learning quickly, but still he's a rookie. You know, it's just tough. It was tough to move the football, you know, a swirling, blustery wind, all those conditions, and and then the penalty is on top of it. It was. It was a tough day offensively for how challenging do you think this is for Jeremy Bates right now? You

just mentioned those injuries. The Jets are dealing with a noon while still has the ankle injury. We'll have to see about Robbie Anderson, this team's vertical threat. If he can play Sunday in Miami, they're gonna have to make do without two nine blah Paul for the rest of the season. And you mentioned it before. You got a twenty one year old quarterback who you expected to have ups and downs. Uh, how much of a challenge is

this for Jeremy Bates right now? Well, it's tough. I mean, it's it's you know, it's as tough as it guess, but it's a no mercy league. He's feeling sorry for the Jets. Everybody's just trying to, you know, eke out another win and trying to stack them and see if they can put something together. So you know, other people have got to pick up, you know. I mean, I don't know how many throwaways Sam Donald had because he

was under pressure. I mean, you know, he completed half his passes, but I mean of those half, I mean I saw, you know, I saw drops, I saw him throw the ball away. I saw him. You're just trying to save the play and go to the next down, not taking a negative play. I mean, they just can't. There's just no margin for error in the football team right now that anywhere with the injuries and so, you know,

a lot of teams have them. Some people are better at overcoming him because they're really you know, they either have depth, or they've developed some good players, or they have players that make up for it. So it's just the way the league is right now. What do you like about Jamal Adams so much? Because I feel like every every Monday or Tuesday, I'm seeing you post a Twitter video about Jamal Adams coming around the end and making a run play and making an impact for this

Jets team. I mean, going into last week, you know, he led the team and he was leading the team and tackles and tackle for losses, so many different categories. He just the way that he played the game, the level of intensity, the way that he hits, the way that he you know, basically rules the middle of the field. I mean, I like all those, all those things. He didn't make very many plays against Chicago on on Sunday. So I don't know if there's gonna be a Jamal

Adams breakdown this week. I like to do it when he's really good, but I just love the way that he plays the game and I know how important it is to him, And just talking to certain coaches on that Jet staff, they wish they could have quite a few more of Jamal Adams sprinkled amongst the team that they probably be able to overcome a lot of the issues right now if they had more of that type of spirit. Baldi, how much pressure does it put on

this defense where the offense is at right now? You just talked about their struggles and defensively, I thought they played very well in Chicago for thirty minutes of football minus one play where Tarik Cohen got free on a screenplay for seventy yards, but the Jets didn't make that stop down the stretch when they were actually still in a ballgame at seventeen to ten um. Do you think what's happened offensively cand of have an impact on this

defense right now? Yeah? I mean it can wear you can wear down, you can be out there too long and all those kind of things and certainly in the second half. They they really struggled to stop him on you know, basically the whole second half. I mean, they really struggled to stop him. I mean Chicago was just able to continue to convert. They had a hard time as I thought they would. They had a hard time containing Mr. Trobiscuit. And he's he is an elite runner

with the football. He's second amongst all quarterbacks rushing to football, and he extends drives. He did on Sunday. He didn't run for a lot of I mean fifty one yards he ran for I think, but you know those were important runs. They extend drives and you gotta account for him, and the Patriots didn't and the Jets didn't, and you know they it just keeps your defense out there, and plus you're chasing that guy. Where's people out So they had a hard time with him in the second half,

and um, it didn't help their cause. But you know, look, I mean the defense has gotta take the ball away, and you know they weren't able to do that the other day. They didn't knock the ball loose, they didn't force a fumble, they didn't didn't do anything like that. So I mean, the defense has gotta they've gotta be able to help to change the game. They've invested a lot of resources outside of the ball. They have a lot of number one draft picks, a lot of high

price free agents on that side of the ball. Uh. Those guys, you know, they're getting paid and being drafted to change the game, and they gotta step up and do that. Morris Clay Warren said after the game, ball that is in the locker room was listening to his post the game UH media briefing. He said, it's a must win against the Miami Dolphins. When you look at

the Jets schedule here they are three and five. They're starting an FC East portion, going down to South Florida playing the Dolphins, then they come home and play the Buffalo Bills. And you gotta buy before you face New England. You can't even think about the pages right now. But with them being on a two game losing street right now, do you buying into that? You played the game, man, and you've been covering it forever. Do you think this is a must for the Jets to win this weekend? Yeah?

I do. Um, Look, there's gonna be a lot of Jet fans down there in Miami there always is. It's almost a home game for him. Um, they're gonna get support down there, a lot of transplanted New Yorkers, and so the Miami Dolphins are. They're struggling the same way. I mean, there are four and four right now. They've come off two straight losses after a great win against Chicago and so they've had ten days to get ready after just an awful loss to Houston. So I I'm

with Maurice Clayborne on this. I mean, they're three and five, and you go to three and six, you lose another division game. I mean it's you're looking up till the whole second half of the season. You win this game and you get your fourth win, you get a game against Buffalo that you know by all means, you know, we saw how they're struggling. I mean, who knows if you can get to five and five in a buy and you you know, get some guys healthy and the quarterback,

it's a little bit more confidence. I mean, who knows was against the Patriots what you can do? Donald? Has he met your expectations? Is this what you thought of going into his rookie season. Obviously you can't account for injuries, but you know better than anybody. Injuries is gonna happen on any team. It just seems like it's really hit the Jets of late. But uh deal like by and large,

what you've seen of him so far. I'll say this, e A. I spoke with Tony Romo before the game up in the booth and we were talking about quarterbacks and specifically Sam Donald, and Tony Romo loves him. He said this, and I'll quote, he has a chance to be the best quarterback in the NFL. So, I mean that's coming from a guy that does this every single week and he knows the position. And he told me why. Just his decision making, the speed, the way that he gets the ball out, there's a lot to work with.

I I don't care about any rookie statistics. I told Eliman our Peyton Manning throw thirty interceptions is rookie year. He was the best quarterback we've all watched in our lifetime, him and Tom Brady together. So the rookie year is the rookie year. I mean, the whole purpose of drafting Sam Donald at number three e A is to now identify him as the franchise quarterback and just do nothing

but build around him. Depth on the offensive line, more weapons, just give him more and more and more, like they did Trabisky, like they have Carson Wentz, like they have Jared Goff, and you build around that guy, and that's the formula. So I like everything about the kid, everything, and so nothing seems to phase him. I mean, I'm sure that he's not happy being where he's a record wise, but he's not gonna be He's gonna do everything the right way. And so I think the Jets are fortunate

only just from a macro level. Is going back to the film breakdowns, is what can you tell for people that know what for people that don't know? Is what can you tell people the differences between watching film and watching the game broadcast? Well, you know, if you just watch the game broadcast, you don't have the ability just to slow it down and freeze it and rewind it and go over and over and over again. You can't

see all twenty two players. I mean if you're watching the TV broadcast, I mean you know the the the card camera that the game camera is going to file the quarterback. So as soon as the quarterback drops back you immediately lose the entire secondary and what happens. You don't know the route combinations, You don't know the coverage. You don't know if somebody made a mistake. You don't know how the route combination beat the cover. You don't know anything that happens at that part of the field.

You don't see the breakdowns inside on the offensive line, why it play works, why it doesn't work. So if you're watching the coaches broadcast, you can watch this in slow motion. You can freeze it, rewind it, uh, and you can play it over and over and over again, and you can see the whole design of the play, the mistakes of the play, why it worked, why it didn't work, effort, I mean, all that stuff you see when you can sit in a film room and study it.

The game is impossible to really digest in real time. You have to slow it down in coman to really see what happens on every play. Who's your mid season m v P said, you're going three year awards. Right now, Patrick Mahomes beat out Todd Gurley by you know, just about just a hair uh. And right now, Patrick Mahomes, he's throwing twenty six touchdown passes. I mean he's chasing Peyton Manning's record of two thousand, thirteen fifty five. I

don't think anybody would break that. I mean he's averaging. I mean every single category he's off the charge good and uh, it's just so much fun to watch him. I mean, and they've got a dynamic. They've got the number one offensive football right now. But Patrick Mahomes for me, right now is the league m v P halfway through the season. I know they played up at Gillette Stadium and the Patriots won that game forty It was highly

entertaining affair. Would you say New England is still a favorite in a f C or would you actually point to Kansas City and say, you know what, the Chiefs have so many offensive weapons. If they're able to secure home field advantage, which is a big f a lot of football left to be played, that Kansas City should be considered the top team in the conference. Uh, it's hard to say right now. I mean, Kansas City had a home playoff game last year against Tennessee and they

got beat. Um. Look, I think there's a lot of teams that can make noise to the Houston Texans have quietly won five in a row. Um, that defense is is not fun to play against right now. They do just about everything. Well, uh, I wouldn't. You will see what Pittsburgh does in Baltimore this weekend. But Pittsburgh looks like they're turning it around. Um, I think there's gonna be some teams that are gonna be able to compete with both the Patriots and the Chiefs. Before it's all over,

let's go over the NFC. The Rams are the only undefeated team in the National Football League. They're playing in New Orleans this weekend. Have the Rams and maybe the Saints separated themselves from a few of those other teams like the Vikings. The Eagles are gone through their early season struggles right now, but they're definitely not out of the mix. Washington, the top DOWNFC East kind of you give me a glimpse of what you see when you

look at that US see right now. Well, I mean when New Orleans went to Minnesota and beat him last week, I mean that was a big statement win, you know for the NFC. They reversed the loss in the playoff game from a year ago, so that was a big statement. They've won five in a row They're a good football team in all areas. They're there number one pick Marcus Davenport just keeps getting better every week. Uh. They just

picked up Eric Apple. They can now play their man coverage that they want to play and get after the quarterback. I think you're gonna get better defensively. They were awful to start the season by getting mark Ingram back. And I mean they're just a really sound football team. They will give the Rams a fit. Uh, that'll be a great game to kind of judge, you know, who's the best. But look, Carolina right now, out is turning it around. Their offense is really coming together. They had a big

win against Philadelphia and Baltimore and back to back weeks. Um, you know, and then you you you just can't sleep right now. Seattle is playing really good football. I think there's you know, and I although the Eagles are four and four, Carson Wentz is playing fantastic football. I think there's a lot of good football to be played in Philadelphia. So I think there's it's gonna be a real tough tournament this year in the NFC once the playoffs begin.

With the financial flexibility in the spring that they have, do you think there are pieces here where the Jets are going to be able to turn this thing around. I think there's pieces, you know, you'd love to see, you know. I think Chris Herndon is a young guy obviously the touchdown catch last week, but he's a guy I think that they can build with. I think they still need another elite tight end. We gotta see what blood power looks like, you know, after this surgery, I

means it serious injury, you got to see. But he's certainly has been a good compliment with Crow, so maybe they upgrade down. Mean just you just gotta look at a piece by piece and look at the whole thing, look at you know. I mean I think that when you look at Sam Donald, he's you know, first in the building, last to leave studies the game. I mean, he's got to get like minded people in there. You win with a great locker room. And so that means character, work, ethic, um,

bonding together. Like you gotta look at all these different components, just not about talent skill, and so I think Mike mccagnan here, uh, if him and the staff are fortunate enough to you know, stick around for another year and more years to come, those are kind of people that you gotta win. With the Eagles one with not the most talented group last year, but they had probably the best team and they showed it overcoming all the injuries.

And so that's how you do it. You do it with team and you do it with developing younger players. And so I think everything is on the table and everything should be under the microscope because I do believe that it starts with the quarterback, and I think they have that guy in the building. Before I'd like to go here, last question for me is what then Jets fans expect from the Dolphins this week? What have you

seen from them on film? Well, the best game I saw him play was two weeks ago against Chicago Bears, and in that game, brock Oswilder wasn't sacked and they ran the ball really well. Frank Gore is having a almost like a renaissance of a season. I mean he's averaging better than what he's averaged in his career. I think he's the third or fourth leading rusher of all time. And Kenyan Drake was a good compliment. I mean they could run the football and it's gonna start start with that.

I don't know if I don't know who's gonna play, whether it's Tannehill or Osswilder this week. But they want to try to run the football, and they have done that at times this year. Um and then there was at times, you know against Houston where there are a really good run defense, they weren't very good at it and they turned the ball over. So that's if I was a Jets fan, I'm gonna be there at Dolphin Stadium.

I'm watching this game on TV. I mean, I'd watch both those backs, Score and Drake and how they run the ball because when they're running a pretty well, that offense isn't bad. That's Brian Baldinger of NFL Network. Be sure to follow him on Twitter at Ball the NFL. Baldi, thanks for coming on the Official Jets Podcast. Great jobs always, brother, Okay, my pleasure, guys. I'll talk to you down the road, man.

Take care. Great stuff from Baldy is always. But what really stood out there was what Baldy and Tony Romo both believe Sam Donald is going to be. I mean, you heard it. Baldy said that, Tony Romo said he has a chance to be the best quarterback in the NFL, and Olivia land Is caught up with Tony Romo Saturday, I believe the day before the Bears game. He had great things to say. Tony Romo has had great things to say about Sam Donald since the pre draft process.

Sam is, he gonna be outstanding, And I still think that his ceiling is very, very high, and I think you're gonna see a monster leap even as the end of the season comes in. But really, when next year starts, that second year for players that I think are going to be at the level that I think he'll be at, one day they make a big, big leap and the game will get very slow for him, you know, through

O t as and training camp. So I think you should just enjoy right now, you know, the the ups and downs him learning every play, and then you just see him to take off pretty soon. Here. UM completely impressed with Donald's tomperament. And he was raised so right by his parents. You gotta give them a lot of credit. And I'm not saying that because he's a young kid. It's just that he is a way about him. And you grew up in Manhattan Green, so you bet around

this media circuits since you were born. You understand what the headlines look like in the New York Post and the New York Daily News every day, and the scrutiny here in New York, and the the great players in New York over time, I think have a temperament that is there's the steady. They're unwavering in their belief in themselves and they will do anything to help their team.

I think Donald has that. I think Romo has put unbelievable expectations on them by coming out and saying I think he's gonna be the best quarterback in the league. That could happen Greens, But from from from my perspective, it's like, WHOA, Let's just let this guy come in here and do his deal. But I'm I'm like Baldy, I'm not so caught up in his stats. Let's just watch what he does each and every week. He doesn't look out a place on a football field, and right

now he's dealing with a lot. I mean, that is tough. You look at the Jets weapons. He would go into the season saying, yeah, they'll be able to manufacture some points, but you know, there's not a lot of stars on the offensive side of the ball, and you're taking big time pieces out there when you're talking about a noon one, blau Paul, I've always You've heard me say this numerous times. I call those guys energizer bunnies for the for this team, and they're gone right now, and we'll have to see

when a noon what comes back. And then Robby Anderson can take the top off the defense. He's out of the lineup. So when you're going into Chicago and Deante Burnett, give him credit because he's just promoted from the practice squad and he played with Donald at USC but he leaves a team and yards receiving and had that nice catch down the sideline against the Bears. Andre Roberts wasn't taking ropsid receiver for the most part earliness season. I know he's a veteran, he can do it, but he's

getting out there a lot. You got your main curse. Richard Matthews was just signed off the street a couple of days ago. He's got a lot on his shoulders. And Baldy mentioned it too, pre snap penalties, man. You can't have pre snap penalties when you have all these things going around you in terms of mixing and matching guys in and out Jeff gotta help him a little bit more. I'm very happy that you mentioned what Baldi said about the rookie stats, because I think that that's

very important. All of this is that you can't get caught up in Sam donald stats, and you have to look at what e A said and what Baldi said, and what Tony Romo and pretty much everyone has said. Is that Sam Donald. Is he looking the part, is he doing the little things right? Is he going through his progressions, is he making the right read? Is he making the right decision as you're looking off the safety.

I mean, there's a thousand things that go into playing quarterback, and I think that Sam Donald is doing those things right, even though the record and his stats may not show yet. And Baldi mentioned it, but Peyton Manning led the league in interceptions his rookie year. He had like thirty, so he clearly had a tremendous career here. I'm not saying that high interceptions least a success, but it doesn't mean that it will hinder your progress and you won't be

a good quarterback. Well, he didn't turn a football over against the Bears, and I know the Jets had a ton of three and ounce and oftentimes he was under du Russ. But conversely, you can say after he throws the ball to Herndon and they have a scoring connection for the third consecutive game. And remember these guys are rookies. Jets are in the game at seventeen ten, and it

in that contest. They were widely outplayed for large portions, but he still had them in position where it's a one possession game, and you gotta give the defense credit. But I'm just saying he didn't have he didn't have an ain killer mistakes and the Jets caught a break. Listen, nobody's gonna feel bad for you about the injuries and Jets did catch a break themselves and Kleil Mack out of the line up, Alan Robinson too. But before we wrap up here, yeah, I know it's crazy, I want

to I want to just do a quick little Halloween bit. Yeah, I didn't dress up as anything. Did you want any Halloween parties this year? You didn't know? Are you I'm hearing around the office or Halle Halloween or Team Halloween? You said hollow yellow? Yeah? Okay, see I've said Halloween my whole life, and only the past couple of years have I started to begin to hear people say Halloween. I think that's crazy. I think it's fun for people to dress up. I still think this is a holiday

that should be celebrated by kids. Yeah, I feel like it is for the most part. It's an excuse to get candy from your kids. Yeah, but I don't know. I was never the or thirty year old guy wearing a costume anywhere. I'm not either. In fact, Halloween, I'm gonna catch slack for this at me on Twitter. Overrated. If you're not a child, or you're not the parent

of a child, it is overrated. Um, because if you're dressing up and you're in you're in college or whatever, it's an excuse to drink, excuse to be it looks stupid. You shouldn't need an excuse to drink when your college. I'm just saying. I'm just saying it's an excuse to dress up and and just look stupid, an excuse to drink. It's like a different occasion, so it's just like a theme party whatever. It's overrated to me, And maybe it's because I'm not good at thinking of Halloween costumes that

could entirely be it. That kind of surprises me because you're on air personality. You're a guy tries different things, whether it's burgers with sponsor long or or having a snake or reptile on your shoulder with Yeah, but you think of a costume. It's like, because I thought, actually, you proposed this to me, that they're gonna do some Halloween thing this year. Was that true or not? I thought you actually we were going to go out. We were trying to. Okay, so you're actually going to do that,

But I wasn't gonna dress up. Oh you weren't. No, it's going to be through a haunted house. Haunted house, which is entirely different dressing haunted house. How about the haunted hey rides? Now you go for that take her but out of the city once in a while. I have you? Have you ever gone to the Jersey Shore. I've been a couple of times. The first time I went was when I was in college. Whose Syracuse had

this week? Oh, Dino should be getting another one. Have a nice bowl game, man, I hope So, I hope it's a pinch chrifall, because that would be it would be in our backyard. I could go, well, you're gonna go to the Syracuse Notre Dame game, and he decided, Yeah, I have not decided yet, but that during the bye week. So the stars do align, all right. So what do you think about this matchup Jets Dolphins? Second time around?

You got any feel for you yet? No, I feel I don't think I have a feel for it yet. I mean, obviously we'll have to see what the status is with Kenny Stills and Ryan Tannehill, if they're able to play Monte Parker he got off, yes he did. What is going on with their defense and a five touchdown passes? The Shawn Watson and guys were just springing loose everywhere. I feel like Thursday Night just always a crapshoot. Well, you just don't really know what's gonna happen because to me,

it's either super low scoring or super high school. I mean, you saw Rams Vikings and that you know that was a shootout. Well, both those defenses, I mean, both those offenses are very right. But I'm just saying, like I think that there's not a lot of players I think like the Thursday night game because it's less, it's more taxing on your body. You don't have enough time to study or as much time to study. It's like cramming for a test. So I think it's a monstrous game

for both teams. And I'm not saying either team is making the playoffs. I'm not saying that. But the Dolphine started three and all. They've lost four or five. The Jets are three and five for third consecutive year, and they were three and three a couple of weeks ago. Um, you don't want to have another three game losing streak. You don't want to be three and six. And the Dolphins the Wheels could be coming off. They lose another

one here, it would be five out of six. I mean, I would anticipate both teams coming out with some desperation. I agree with that and try to sweep teams to greens. It is hard to sweep team. And I think the Jets do have a sour taste in their mouth from week two and I'm no doubt about it from last year, but you can't really look back that far. But I think that there is a bit of a sour taste from week two, and when you factor in the way the Jets performed, and I think that they'll will come

out pretty hot against the Dolphins in Miami. Both team and both these teams are trying to find themselves this way I look at it. No, I haven't watched Miami sixty minutes, uh, left and right each game breaking on game film or anything like that, but just what you read, I think. I think both teams are right in the middle of Okay. I think the Jets know what they want to be. Uh. Injuries have certainly impacted that because

the run game hasn't been there. You're you're using different guys on the outside, you had a different guy as center last week week. I mean, these are all things that impacted. You're getting healthier and defense, and I think that's encouraging. And Jermaine Johnson maybe he's back in the lineup this week, and he got everybody back in that secondary, so that could be something. But this is this is a very intriguing game. I think both these teams are

desperate need of a victory. All right, that's all we have here on this week's edition of the Official Jets Podcast. Thanks for tuning in. We'll be sure to catch you next week again. Jets Dolphins, hard Rock Stadium in Miami. This Sunday, one o'clock. We'll see you there, Sister Pastor Cristals post Christo yster cysts