Pennington: Fitzpatrick Providing Stability

Before we start talking about the Jets in their latest victory when over the Colts, Uh, give us an update on how your coaching career is going, because I know you had a big game last week against the heavily favorite football team. How did you guys play in your underdog role? Well, we actually did well. We Uh we won the game twenty to sixteen, and uh, kids played really really well against the real physical team. Unfortunately, we

suffered a heartbreaking six to zero loss last night. Um, so it's we're railing this morning, but we're gonna observe of the twenty four hour rold and get back to work this afternoon. All right, So give us an update on that. This is your middle school team you're coaching, right and your and your son calls on it. Yeah, it's it's a middle school B team. Uh, we're not experienced enough to be able to play a top eight team schedule in the city of Lexington, but it's a

B team and we play wrecked teams. And the whole goal is to give these kids attending this private school a chance to experience football and if they want to try to play high school football, they feel confident and prepared that they can do so. So it's it's been a good experience and I've enjoyed it. Well, how were you able to pull off that upset because a lot of people thought last week going into their into that matchup, you guys might be in for a tough night, but

you did pull off the s win. Well. Kids worked really really hard on the game plan throughout the week and uh, they decided that they were going to be physical and they were going to match physicality physicality, and they executed extremely, extremely well, and they're over they're able to overcome and Birsty twice where we were down twice in the game and came back to win in the end, and then we had a big fourth pound stop was five seconds left on on our own fifteen yard line

to seal the deal. So It was really exciting. The kids are really excited about it. How does Chad Pennyton, the coach, celebrate a victory because I asked Todd Bowls about this last week. He said, with chips, ahoy and one percent milk before he goes to bed. That's how he celebrates. How about you, Jed, Well, it depends. It depends. Actually, it depends on what um food truck is out at

the game. Our parents order a different food truck every week, uh, for people to be able to get snacks and confessions. And so last night I had to lament in my loss with sweet lilies with two big chili hot dogs and vanilla yogurt. Oh my god, that's uh not actually the postgame uh snack of champions. No, I didn't reward myself because we lost. I went with the fattening route. All right, So let's talk about the Jets. What do you think about them? The way they played Monday night

in Indianapolis. A lot of folks before the game thought this might be a tough matchup, and we talked about it last week, and you thought they had a good chance going into it. I certainly did. And I think the word for Monday Nights victory was efficiency. I saw that both defensively and offensively. Uh the Jets were efficient. Uh. Nothing spectacular, nothing flashy, not a sexy victory, but a

just a good, hard nosed, solid team win. I thought there was a lot of complimentary football played in that game, and uh so it was a very efficient victory for the Jet. Uh. So We're gonna take a Twitter question here Early because I like this one because a lot of people are interacting over all the various social platforms during the game, as do you know, and a lot of people were asking me this during the game, Chad, so I wanted to get this out of the way.

Early Loving writes in US do you think the Jets got too conservative with the play calling last game in the second half. His concern is that should have scored some more points off of those turnovers. Um. I don't think it was conservative in nature as much as the lack of execution off of those turnovers. I certainly agreed, you have five turnovers, Uh, you need to be able

to score more than twenty points. But I think also the coaching staff recognized in the second half, especially that the coach the cults were really and because they are their struggles. They wanted to make sure as a team that Jets didn't breathe lie into the Colts situation with turnovers or bad plays, negative plays and things like that. So they were playing it close to the vest and they want to make sure that they did not give the Colts any momentum that if there were any breaks

being created, Colts would have to create those brakes. And they were unable to the one break that they did create with the scoring drive to make it tend to seven. That's where the complementary football came in. You saw the Jets open it back up, move the ball right down the field and score to make it a ten point game midway through the fourth quarter, which was really really big. That that sealed the deal right there. It really took took the momentum away from the Colds. What does that say,

that drive, because that's what it was all about. Right there, as you just said it's time to seven, the crowd got back in the game. I'm sitting there in the press box way up towards Heaven in Indianapolis, were way up there, but the place was rocking man in the past. This might be a by of but a moment Chad where the game could have slipped away, but the Jets

did have the answer. And what does that say about their confidence in Chan and Ryan Fitzpatrick Mi Chan Gailey came out firing football on that drive, on the drive that sealed the game. Well, I think the word that should be used in a situation as maturity. I think you have a mature offense and it first starts with your veteran quarterback. And like we said two weeks ago, I believe that the acquisition of Ryan Fitzpatrick has given

stability to the Jets team. Uh And so that's what he was able to produce on Monday Night as well, stability During a rocky situation where it's tendo seven, the Colts gain a little momentum, the crowd gets involved. Chan puts the game in Ryan's hands, He dishes the ball to his receivers, he goes to his playmakers. The running game then starts to time to life. Have a couple of big plays and running game to keep the drive going.

And it was just a very mature drive and a very mature offense out there that did not succumb to the momentum pressure of the Coats. Eric ducker. He's got a spring knees day to day wolf to see if he plays on Sunday. Before I take the next Twitter question, what what I want to ask here is what do you think about him being used in the slot? Because we talked about this even before coming on air. Is that? Wow?

Him matched up against the linebackers just a huge mismatch and the Jets went to it early and often the other night. Uh, what do you think about him in the slot? And also how are teams gonna adjust to that down the line over the next fourteen games. Well, I think it's awesome to see him in the slot, first of all, and I think it really shows his versatility and one he's able to do. Last year he was called upon to make plays on the outside. This year he's been called upon to make plays up on

the inside. He's been able to do both and it really shows his versatility. He was outstanding in the first half with his route running. His route running was very crisp, his timing was Fitzpatrick was on the money, and he was finding the spots and really making some big plays, keeping drives alive. And because he was doing that, that then opened up the outside for Brandon Marshall in the

second half. So those two players, Decker and Marshall, they go hand in hand with each other, I think since Patrick feels very comfortable with both of them and they're just mature, solid professional football players that know how to play the game. Power team is going to address though. You think because the Colts were doubling Brandon predominantly throughout the evening, whereas Decker was getting free and he was matched up sometimes with linebackers, and and that just is

a big time advantage to the Jets. How do you think teams are gonna change up their strategy one to fund in this offense? They will start to opponents will start to look at tendencies of the Jett and see when Decker is used and how he has used and then also look at Marshall, and they'll have to change up their coverages. Sometimes they may choose to double Decker in certain situations. Sometimes they may choose to double Brandon Marshall. Other times they may may leave him one on one

and try to get more pressure on the quarterback. Uh, that's that's the first thing you try to do is try to find ways to take advantage of protection. Schemes so that quarterback doesn't have time to make the correct row. Uh, he's always harassed or moving him off his spot, putting him on the run. That's what the Jets did to the Colts and it worked out great. So there will be different philosophies with that, and the Jets will have

to react accordingly each week. All right, So if Decker can't go on Sunday, and Jake Crespy writes then asked this question, how do you think that impacts the offense? It certainly impacts that, There's no doubt about it. First of all, it puts a little bit more responsibility on the two young receivers to make sure that they are crisp and they're oute running and that they're doing things that uh, that Decker was doing in the slot. They're gonna have they're gonna be caught upon, uh to be

able to do some of those things. And then also the running backs will then have to get more involved in the passing game as well, and it may may call upon the running game to do some things uh um, you know, to really create some big plays in the running games. So it certainly affects Jets. It doesn't shut them down, But it changes the mindset because you're taking out a very good professional football player out of the mix.

And uh, and then it also will allow teams not to worry about an Eric Decker in the slot and they can put more emphasis on Brandon Marshall. So uh, two young receivers have really got to step up and make some plays for the Jeffery. Yeah, because all teams, you know this, face adversity with injuries. Everybody in the

National Football League dealing with injuries. But for the Jets, it could be interesting this weekend because if Decker is down, Coach Todd Bowls set on ESPN Radio this week that Chris Woozoo has a leg injury and he could be out for as many as two games. So that means, like you're talking about the young receivers, Quincy Noonwa, he could step into a more prominent role. And the other

guy that Jets fans continue to ask about is Jeremy Curly. Well, he hasn't got a lot of run here early in the season, but he might have to step up for this team. And thirdly is Devin Smith. The rookie has been practicing full for this squad, but he messed so many rops during training camp. The Jets did not rush him back into the lineup last week. He might be up this week and stepped into some kind of role,

the Jets have said. Jane Gaily said last week, Hey, listen, we're not gonna put him in too many positions right now. We're gonna keep him at one spot. And I would imagine, Uh, that's probably means he'll be playing outside. Don't you think that, Jack? Considering he missed the better part of training camp X except for a few days, he's just spun back of practice, uh for a week and a half, two weeks. Do you think that means that he'll be playing more outside?

No question. And that's what he was used to doing at Ohio State as well. He was a deep threat. He was a big ball skills guy on the outside. And so when you have a young receiver with his ability, what you do you simplifying thought process. You put him on the outside and give him a few routes to really concentrate on and get good at, and then you try to take advantage of that let him use his rollability to help your team make a play. The Jets

are in a good situation though. Having Jeremy Curley there, he can step in. He's an inside route runner. He's been successful in the past. It's a great situation to be in if you're the Jets. And then the noon wall did a great job. He had a great deep crossing route that he made a catch on for Fitzpatrick in the game on Monday. He'll be asked to do a little bit more so. Uh, this is why we call the game of football a team game, and when your team faces adversity due to injury, other players have

to step up. Any concerned they're about the run game. Uh. Obviously the Colts gave the Jets some difficulties with the way they were moving and stunning up front, but I thought they stayed with it and they sprang a couple of runs there in the second half with Ivory and blah blah. Yeah, it was a workman type a performance for the offensive line. It wasn't flashy. There weren't a lot of big plays, but there weren't a lot of negative plays either. That's what I was looking at when

I was watching the game the second time. There weren't very many big negative plays that they may have you know, a handful of plays that maybe went for a yard or no game or minus two, but there weren't just big negative plays that to give the coach defense momentum. Uh. Coach Bagano's defense and coach Mahowski, they do a really good job of stopping the run. It's very hard to run against their defense. But the Jets kept that if

they kept it in the game plan. They did in the board the running game, and you saw the running game make some big plays for the Jets in the fourth quarter on those two scoring drives. And that's what you're looking at in the first three quarters. If you can grind on the defense, wear them down, and then in the fourth quarter you break through with a couple of big runs to keep scoring drives alive. That's a

recipe for success. And you look at the stats, they weren't great, but they did eclips the one hundred yard mark and they were efficient. Uncle Joel wants to know, chat, do you think the Jets can make real noise with just a ball control offense that he says as an average in a passing week. Well, I don't look at the Jets as a ball control offense. I look at their first two performances as an offense. That first of all,

they're feeling their way out. They have a new coordinator, new quarterback, new positions in key areas, new players, and so, uh, they're feeling their way through it. That while they're feeling their way through it, they're finding ways to be productive. They're finding ways to score in the red zone, finding ways to complement their defense and and get some points off of these turnovers. So I see the Jets getting better and improving throughout the season as long as the

injury bug doesn't hit them. And so that's that's going to be the key. And and the other key is when the defense isn't able to have the opponent turn the ball over four or five times, can the offense step up and score thirty points? I certainly think they're capable of doing that. When you have a help a Deck or Brandon Marshall, Chris Ivory below Paul, those type of guys, they're capable of doing that. Yeah. And let's be clear here too. The Jets are averaging twenty five

and a half points a game. They scored thirty one in the opener in twenty in Week two, and both of those victories victories were by double digits, and that's tough to do in the National Football League. When you look at the other side of the ball, do you think the Jets confused luck or was it more of

sheer pressure got to him? As far as the Jets blitz packages were really good and they brought the numbers and he just didn't have too much time to throw in most instance instances when you look at his interceptions, I don't think I saw the interceptions as being bad decisions. I saw the interceptions as being due to the pressure, having to throw a ball a little bit early, getting your arm hit on the outlout, not being able to step into a throw. Uh. Those those are the types

of things that happened. And that's why, even though you don't see sacks, when you see that type of pressure that has affected the quarterback in that way, that is just as effective, if not more effective, than the actual sack.

And that's what the Jets have really done. They've been able to create one on one matchups where their pass rushers and their defensive players can win those matchups, and then in some instances they've been able to create schemes where they've just been free defenders coming free to to get pressure on the quarterback as well. So I didn't see confusion by luck. I just saw a quarterback that was harassed, that was hurried with his throws and sometimes

got his arm hit as well. How creative were Todd Bulls and Casey Rodgers and how much do you enjoy watching their play calling when you broke down the film? Well, first of all, what you see just from bird's eye view is you see stability on the sideline. You don't see a staff that gets too high, staff it gets too low. You see you see a calm uh stable

sideline and staff. And then then you also see a head coach and a defensive coordinator working well together and not worrying about who's going to get the credit and who designed what scheme, but working well together and complimentary, complimenting each other, making adjustice that they need to make to get the job done defensively. Ten takeaways. That's something else will that get into the mind of an opposing offense like Philadelphia is coming here and they're struggling you

and Sam Bradford and company. The does that pop out at you during the week that can net get opposing tight because now the Jets defense is starting to create this culture of taking the ball away. Because last year Jet thirteen takeaways, they got ten in two weeks. Well, what's going to happen is the opponent is going to game plan and talk about in their team meetings. We can not afford to turn the ball over. We must force the Jets to beat us straight up without turning

the ball over. It's similar to when I was with the Jets and we would play the Dolphins, and we knew that the Dolphins had a really, really good defense. We knew going into the game we cannot turn the ball over, we cannot let the pass rushers get to us, and we had to force their offense to try to beat us. And so that's going to have to be the mindset of the opponent to see if the Jets can win a game like that, whether there aren't a

lot of turnovers in short fields. Harold brights in and asked, how can the Jets defense slow down a quarterback like Sam Bradford in Philadelphia's hurry Up. It's a good question whether and what are the inherent challenges of facing an offense like Phillies that's pretty unique in the National Football league when you face hurry up offense and facing offense like the Philadelphia Eagles, Uh, there's there's three keys in

my opinion. Number one is defensive communication. Getting lined up the hurry up offensive design where the defense can't communicate, and then you find a defender out of place, you get out leverage. You're not in the spots that you normally are because you have been able to huddle and get your calls in on time. So number one's communication.

I think Number two is physicality. You have to match their tempo by being physical and being able to punch them in the mouth and get get after them just as much as they want to get after you with their tempo, you need to get after them with your physicality. And then and then three, I think the biggest key to Philadelphia's offense and stopping them is the first down production. If they get that first down play positive yards eight nine seniards and they get that drive started, very difficult

to stop that momentum. Remember watching the Seattle Seahawks against the Eagles last year, they it very well on first down, making sure that the Eagles were not successful on first down, which slowed the tempo of the offense. Down. You're surprised by their early season struggles. I know a lot can change in the National Football League, but you look at the Marco Murray's numbers is I don't even know if

he's average in the yard per carry. They haven't been able to get anything going on the ground at all. And Bradford's struggle at times. He's got four interceptions here early in the season. Well, what you've seen, you've seen a team that is definitely trying to learn each other. You have some moving parts. You've got a new quarterback, you've got a new running back. You lost the uh a great professional football player and Lizonel McCoy um, so you you've got a lot of moving parts. Here was

trying to figure it out in preseason. The ball is completely different than the regular season football. So they they typically figure it out and they typically get going. But right now they're struggling with it and they certainly have issue.

And when you're facing the struggling team uh as as the Jets are, you've got to make sure that you don't breathe life into them by making your own mistakes, that you stay efficient UH and you stay close to the best of what you're trying to get accomplished and don't give them any life to get the moment I'm

going in their faith. Like you mentioned before, how much you appre appreciating, uh, this team's patience so far this season when you're talking about the Jets, because you know that Cleveland game, there were some spots early where you know, they give up a nine minute drive, they give up a long touchdown, but there was never any panic. Then

you know, you fast forward to Indianapolis and the Jets. Yeah, they got the early takeaway and they scored nice uh design call by chan Gailey getting uh Decker free for the touchdown. But that first half seven nothing and then you get a field goal, you miss a field goal at at halftime, and and then you give up the

nine minute drive to start the second half. Just seems like the Jets, even though uh they didn't put the Colts away right away, they just remain patient and nobody ever panicked and said here we go on the same thing. You go back to the Browns game too. I think is that the Jets at spots early where it didn't look great, but they just stayed with it. And I think that's a sign of a mature coaching staff and

a mature football team. You know, understanding that it is four quarters, understanding that you've got to play on an even kill. There's going to be adversity that you face. It's not when and why, how and where the adversity happens, but how you respond to the adversity. And they've been able to to respond to the adversity relatively well and making sure that they just stay the core state to the game plan. And I think that's evident in their

in their veteran quarterback and Fitzpatrick. It's evident with their defense and staying the course and as a team they're not pushing the penning and that's important. As you moved later into the season, what do you think about Rivas's performance Monday night? That's the first for him three takeaways

in one game. Certainly it was in the right spot at the right time on the first fumble, second fumble recovery was all him as Frank Gore was trying to get his hands on the ball and fumbling it around, Revus knocks it out and recovers it and then on the intersection that was that was just good ball skills by him to be able to react to the under thrown ball, which was caused by the pressure of the of the defensive line in the past rush with the Blitz scheme. But uh, Revus has always had really good

ball skills. He's always played under control. He can play fast, but being under control, uh, you know, speed but no control was just chaos. The speed with control, you know, really produces a good, solid football player. And that's that's how the real plays. He plays with speed, he plays with his hands and physical and he's he's right there in the right spot at the right time. How much you think Buster screen and Marcus Gilchris helping the secondary

right now? Buster of course playing that nickel position. He was all over the field as well. And then Gilchrist comes up with the late interception, and I know, Calvin Pryor is really developing here in the second season. I got a credit a lot of that to Gilchrist because Calvin's told me I was playing with him. He's a great communicator, really smart ball player, and this is his first season with the Jets, and all the guys say, hey,

he's kind of running the show back there with his communication. Yeah, it's nice to see, you know. Other um defensive back step up other than Dreille Reeves and and you look at buster screen, you look at Gilchrist. I mean, they're they're playing solid football, they really are. They're they're making plays, um, they're they're you know, right there at the point of reception each time, and if it is called, they're there to make the tackle. They're there for the past break up.

The defensive back line is doing a really good job of communicating the coverages and getting everybody lined up, and so it's nice to see. And any time you can have it's one thing to have a dB that can cover, it's another thing to have a dB that can cover and also have good ball skills. That's that's the difference in a pass breakup, in an interception, and any time

as a quarterback you're gonna have pass breakups. When you got to worry about dbs that can catch and make plays on the ball and turn those pass breakups and interceptions, it changes the ball game. And right now you're seeing a get secondary that has good ball skills and that are turning these potential pass breakups into interceptions and the turnovers, which are definitely game changers. What do you make of this division after two weeks we saw New England going

to Buffalo and take care of business. I know the Bills were very excited for that game, and maybe too much so, a lot of people would say. And then Miami, after an opening season win in Washington, they went down to Jacksonville and they were surprised by the Jaguars. Not I'm not saying, hey, uh, just break it down what you've seen early from this division. Well, I think that, uh, it's still for grabs and it's open. But I certainly

think New England has made a statement. I think they have shown that that just because we've dealt with a lot of it first in the offseason and and things like that, we're still here and we're still on top of the division. I thought that was a big statement win for them in Buffalo. That's a very hard place

to play. New England normally struggles in Buffalo. They've lost a few games over the years in Buffalo, um and and for them to be able to put up forty points on Rex Ryan's defense and and to be able to come out with a win in Buffalo, that was a big statement game for them. I think the other three teams in the Dolphins, Bills, and Jets. They've really got to step up their play and try to challenge the Patriots for this division. But right now New England

has made the first statement of the year. Doesn't mean that it can't change, but they've certainly made the first statement. You know, I was disappointed in Miami losing in Jacksonville. Think, if you're going to be a playoff contender and and you want to really compete this division, you have to win games against teams like the Jaguars, and the Jets have been efficient. Haven't been flashy, but they've been efficient.

They're right where they need to be. And Uh, but at the same time, this division is still up for grass, but there is still an order there where the Patriots are on top. Right now, one of those teams is going to be facing in an early season depposite because the Bills and the Dolphins are playing in South Florida on Sunday. What do you want pay happening with that matchup? I think that's a statement game for both teams. Um, that is a hat chet that can go either way.

For the Dolphins, they've got to make sure that directs Ryan defensive schemes. UH, don't force them into turnovers in bad plays and uh, you know, for Buffalo, if they're gonna have to go on the road, and this is you know a good test for Tyrod Taylor to be able to leave his team down the South Florida and see if they can sneak away with a road victory. So both teams, big challenge for both teams, big statement

game for both teams. Alright, we're gonna have time to analyze and preview the Jets and the Pads in in a few weeks. But just a general question for you when you're playing that team, how do you go about defunding Tom Brady Gronkowski, Settleman and company. Because it seems like, you know, they'll take some shots down the field, but a lot of their stuff is based on picks and robs and it's a short passing game and nobody has found an answer for it. The Patriots are different in

that their deep threat is actually they're tied there. They're big play threat is their tight ending. Gronkowski. Um, Their receivers are for the intermediate and short passing game, yards after catch, keeping drives alive. They're very crafty. Uh, they're good route runners and uh, it's very difficult to defend because, um, if you try to put a safety your linebacker on

Gronkowski that's probably not a great matchup. And put a corner on him, he can out physicals the corners and be interesting to see how the Jets uh try to defend Gronkowski. And the biggest way you defend the Patriots is good solid offensive football on your side, being able to keep them off the field, being able to sustain drives, not turn the ball over like Buffalo did, and and give them lights. And so it's going to be a game. Typically it's a game where you're probably gonna have to

plan on a seven to twenty four type games. But if you can control the football and stay ahead of the score and not have to play from behind, uh, you'll have a very good chance to win. It's gonna be fascinating to watch the Jets uh to fund against the Patriots, because I would imagine buster screen would be put on Edelman and I like you mentioned Gronkowski, he's the guy, he's the big guy. Who do you go who do you go with there? And do you try mixing it up at times? Last year Revas said, did

he covered Gronkowski in practice? And he said he's a all of a cover. He's so tough to cover. And I thought about that before because Revas is a bigger type corner and physical and it may be a matchup that they let's just have to take a look at. There's no doubt about it. I think you definitely have to go in and say, Gronkowski will not beat us. Forced Edelman, force Ammondla, force these other players to beat us, and let's see if they can't. You can't allow Gronkowski

to beat you. That's typically lay Belichick parcels these great coaches that they're gonna go in and take away your best player and see if you can see if you can beat him with the other players, and if you can, then you were better that day. But you definitely don't want your superstar to beat you because then you have a game playing correctly. Jan What do you want to see from this Jets offense this week? As we look ahead to Sunday, we talked about what the defense has

to do against Chip Kelly's offense that's been scuffling. But conversely from Ryan Fitzpatrick and company, Uh, Chris Ivory came out of that ballgame store. He had a growing issue hadding into the matchup with the Colts. Hopefully he's able to get uh you know, good rehab this week with John Mallody and the crew and is a hundred percent by game time. Uh. We saw what Brandon Marshall can do go over a hundred yards a difference maker once

again on Monday night. But the Jets might be uh dealing with the loss of Eric Ducker on a short term basis, What do you want to see from the offense this week against Philly at home? Well, it will be easy to say. You want to see more production, you want to see more explosive plays, you want to see this and that. But first you have to see what the injury report is and see who's available on

Sunday because a lot of times that affects your game plan. Remember, you know, the Jets are into winning football games, not fantasy football, but actual real football games, and so you have to see who's going to be available, and then what you can do as a play caller to take advantage of the strength of the players that are available. And so it may be a grinded out, dirty win again, but I've never seen any win. It doesn't feel good I mean, you know, every win feels good, especially in

the National Football League. So I think we're gonna have to see throughout the week how the injury report comes out, and then we also have to see, you know, how the Jets respond defensively to fill these up tempo. You'd like to see the Jets offense be able to sustain long drives even if they don't get points, their seven and eight, nine, ten play drives even without points, because that allows your defense to stay rested. That allows your

defense to continue to communicate on what they're seeing. With Pilly's no huddle offense. Uh, the short drive kill you against the team like Philadelphia because then they get with there are no huddle tempo and they're going down the field again and your defense back on the field. So you want to see sustained drives. You want to see turnover for the football, and just good, efficient, consistent football from the offense. Fitzpatrick passer early the season, four touchdown passes.

He got the two picks. You and I were talking about it before. You didn't have a problem with the pick in Indy, uh, because he took a shot up the sideline to Brandon Marshall. Vante Davis made a uh great deflection and safety comes over. Makes a hell of a play there in the end zone. Now, another thing that stands out to me when you're talking about Fitzpatrick, he's been sicked once. Now you gotta credit the offensive line, but you gotta credit himn um for that too, don't you?

Absolutely Past protection? It the team game. It starts up front making sure that they're picking up the blitz schemes. But then then secondly it goes back to the quarterback understanding how to get the ball out of his hands effectively and quickly. And when there's nothing there, where's my checkdowns? Where my hot routes? How can I help the offensive line?

You can't block every scheme that's thrown at you, but you can attack every scheme by getting the ball out of your hand, knowing where all your options are in case pass protection does break down. And so it's been a nice team effort offensively between the quarterback and an offensive line, and then you throw in your out runners.

Been a really good team effort against pressure. And no surprise here, Todd Bowl said, Ryan Fitzpatrick is our starter Genal Smith once he returns to team activities, right now, he's just doing individual in seven and seven work and practice. Once he returns to team activities, Fitzpatrick is still gonna receive of all the first teams with the offense. No surprise to you, right, not at all, And I think

that's the right way to go. Um fitz Patrick has brought in stability for the team that especially against the situation that could have gotten very ugly and very difficult for the organization. And uh, you know, I don't see any reason why it changed now or maybe even throughout the whole season. As long as the team is well

on functioning well. You look way past um a quarterbacks performance sometimes in situations, and you look at the stability that he's bringing to the team and how the team is responding to him, not just looking at his own individual performance. All right, are the Jets moving to three and all this weekend? They certainly have have a really good shot. And I think against the ruling team playing

at home, you want to start fast. When you played against the team that are struggling, you want to start fast. You want to create that indecision, You want to create those negative doubts and faults in the opponent's head that here we go again. Here's another team, here's another game where we're messing it up. If you can start fast and not breathe life into them and make them earn every yard, every down, every point, certainly makes it more

difficult on the opponent. So that's that would be the goal for the Jets, in my opinion, is to start fast, is to make sure they're old up on their defensive communication offensively, making sure that they're sustaining drives even if they're not getting points, and really play team football. All right, I enjoyed it as always. In next week, we'll check in with you before you're two pro team square off in London, England. How about that. That's gonna be exciting,

And uh, you know that's interesting. I never had a chance to play in London. I remember when we traveled with the Jets to go to Tokyo to play in the in the preseason game, and it was certainly a different experience. All the American plane ride that yeah, have the plane ride that long. So it'll be interesting to see how both teams react to it. But uh, it's gonna be Jeff's Dolphin's overseas. I'll be a first alright,

we'll talk about it next week. Thanks all right, thank you Eric, good stuff, bro.