Positional Breakdown (7/16)

You know, no guests, but what do you mean? It's just me and it's just us. Were typically we've had a guest. Now it's just us, and we're breaking down the team positioned by position after mini camp. What we've learned, what we expected coming into O T A S and Mini camp, maybe some guys that caught our eyes. And then after that we're gonna talk about what transpires between

now and training camp. And then what I've learned so far is that after one of the coldest March marches in recent memory, it's finally heating up, and I love it the dog days of summer. I'm a dog guy, so he eat it up for ba. You you like humidity. Oh, I don't mind it. I like training it. But you like humidity like you like the feeling of stepping outside and feeling like you have to sweat already. I like going outside and feeling like this sauna. But that Yeah,

but there's a difference between dry heat and humidity. Like I like to dry heat when you go out and you know it's hot and you might need to put some some block on or else you're gonna be read by the time you come back in. But when it's humid, to me, it's disgusting. What are you taking shots at my Irish fair skin by saying you're gonna go outside and come back read Listen? I would know I would too, I will come back red. To know you have a darker complexion than me. You were. You know you don't

get too burned. I don't think I get burned back of my neck, but not not that anyone cares about that. Nobody does. And let me tell you something, Tom Bowls would sign up for this weather in a heartbeat if he could get it for training camp. Yeah, but he's also crazy, considering he wears longs and longs on the sidewise during training camp in the heat. Yeah, I know why, I know why a lot of the coaches do it. But it's crazy to me. So what isn't it? Isn't it a tactic to lose weight to sweat more? I

think something for some people it is. I don't know if everybody out there with sweatshirts and long pants are necessarily trying to lose weight. I don't know the method to the madness, but yes, certainly you can lose a lot of pounds out there and water weight, but I just think that's water weight, don't you just put it right back on? Probably what I feel like coaches in training camp don't have a lot of time to themselves, so that would be that's like their workout. He just sweat. Well,

I'll tell you what. What was recently revealed in One Jet Strive, the Facebook watched series that our production crew has been putting together on the first installment was Todd Bowles gets in it and starts working out of four twenty two. So if he continues to do that, I'll have time to workout in training camp. That's true, That's

very true, And he referred to One Jet Strive. You gotta watch it it's essentially an all access theories that encompasses from the end of the seventeen season until the beginning of training camp every Tuesday from June to July. How about that, you got to dates down. I just know it debuts on Facebook Watch at eight o'clock each week, and also I think we were purposing some of that content on many of our platforms, including Europets dot com, But the only place you can watch the episode in

full every Tuesday is Facebook Watch. And there you go. So now that that's out of the way again, that's called one Jets Drive. Let's rewind the clock here. Minicamps just happened a couple of weeks ago. Let's go a position by position, and we're not gonna break it down fully because in a little down the road here he and I are gonna have a training camp preview and that seems like it's a while away, but it's really not,

which is crazy to me. But nonetheless, let's recap what happened in minicamp, and minicamp is just a glorified O t A in the sense that there are still no pads, team periods, individual periods still happen. The only difference is that players can spend more time in the building and there's more meetings behind the scenes. So from a fans perspective, it's basically the same as ot as A. That mini camp is three days, is a three day stretch, more

hours in the building for the players. That's about it. So with that being said, e A, let's break things down like position by position, what we learned, whatever, Let's just start where I believe most fans want to know about is under center, and the status right now is Josh mccount, Teddy Bridgewater and Sam donald All of them looked very impressive at different times throughout O t A s A Mini camp. You know what, what do you

what's your read on this situation right now? I know that Josh mccount has been named starter by coach Todd Bowles, but it seems that he's gonna play whoever the best player is come September. Well, yeah, just to clarify that a little bit, is that he's the starter entering training camp, and Teddy bridgewaters the two and Sam Donaldson number three. But that really doesn't mean too much because Todd Bowls also said we'll see what happens that the under training camp.

What he saw throughout the spring Greens was Josh McCown. He got the most reps with the first team offense, but Sam Donald also received reps with the first team offense. Predominantly, what we saw was Teddy Bridgewater getting reps with the second team. The other thing that we have to clarify for fans everywhere is that when people ask myself, when people ask Ethan Greenberg, when people ask Olivia Land, is Randy Lang and all the Jets beat reporters out there?

Where did they see this spring? We only saw six practices if you include three O t A s and all three mini camp practices. But they had ten O t A s, so you're missing seven. And I think the one day UH the Jets didn't actually practice, so you're missing six. So you didn't even see He saw about half of the times they were out there in the football field, but all on all UH Greens. I would say that all the quarterbacks, from what I saw in my five times being able to watch some practice,

I thought all the quarterbacks that relatively strong camps. Would you say that, I think that they did. It seemed that each player had a different time which they looked very good. So one day it was Teddy, one day it was Josh, one day it was Sam. The thing that's interesting to me is once Sam Donald was drafted third overall back in April, everyone kind of pointed to, Okay, well, how likely is it that Sam Donald is going to

start in his first year? You know, with Josh McCown as being being a mentor and Teddy in the room as well. So reading the tea leaves now it seems that Sam Donald is going to have every opportunity and training camp to have that opportunity to go out and grab the job is starting quarterback. Now I could be wrong about that, but what you said before when Josh is getting a lot of reps with the ones and Sam was, and Sam really had a lot of reps

in minicamp and O t s as a whole. Correct me if I'm wrong, or maybe if you read it differently, But it seems to me that Todd Bowles it was serious and sticking to his guns when he said we're not gonna throw him in there, but we're not gonna hold him back either. All Right, So here's the thing with Donald's This is the thing that jumps out of you Todd Bull says, this guy is very good at retaining information. Todd Bull said that he does not repeat

the same mistake twice. Jeremy Bates, the Jets offensive coordinator who was also the team's quarterbacks coach, said he's doing an excellent job making the pro transition as far as taking snaps under center and also commanding that huddle. Josh McCown has been impressed with the rookies work ethic. There is a great chemistry inside that him. Uh. He is sudden, as Jeremy Bates said, which is something that we referred to before the draft Greens, is that he can make

plays off script. He has a strong arm, He is very athletic. He has impressed his teammates. Leonard william said he looks like a prol already. So I what I think people should do is just take a second and go back to January and say, well, this is gonna be your quarterback situation in June. Just think where you're January one, when the Jets were cleaning out their lockers after losing to New England Patriots and finished in the

season five and eleven. Now fast forward to where they're gonna be in late July, where you have Josh mccowennor's resigned coming off a career, you're one of the better mentors in the National Football League. You can make an argument, uh as Jordan Palmer did right saying that if he had a draft and he were to pick a veteran quarterback to be paired with the young quarterback, he would pick Josh McCown umber one overall. And oh, by the way,

Josh mcconnen is in fantastic athletic shape. Again, then you get Sam Donald, who a lot of people thought was gonna be the number one overall selection. Of course, Cleveland Browns went to Baker Mayfield and then finally Teddy Bridgewater. The Jets make that low risk, potentially high reward maneuver by signing him to a deal. I've been very impressed with him on a number of levels, including what you're seeing from Jeremy Bates offense is a lot of roll offs.

Let'll tell you what. He looks fine over he does and he throws the ball. All these all these guys throw the ball very well. They arm strength, no question here. All right, He's impressed. So that's the quarterback situation there now, that's all we're gonna talk about it about quarterbacks. It's just a quick review. And then I want to say this Greens the case I mentioned this, it was, uh,

you did a recent interview with the Bills guys. John Murphy there played by play guy and Chris Brown, who it just does a fan fantastic job for Buffalo Bills dot Com. I was on there, uh one Bills Live. Actually the show is recently and I told him I wouldn't be surprised if any of the three started week one, if Bridgewater was out there in Detroit. It wouldn't be a crazy upset to me either. About that one. I don't think you'd be crazy either. And all three of them,

all three of them going into camp. I am serious about this, all three of them going into camp with legitimate shot at this job. And to come full circle, you're right about it, Todd Bowls and not put any timetable on Sam Donald. If he's ready to go, don't

put him out there week one in Motor City. You ever been to a baseball game where they have one of those displays on the jumbo tron where the three trains or whatever, like one pulls ahead and you guess that's kind of how it feels to me because Josh McCown is the front or the lead horse right now. But depending upon what happened raining camp, maybe one week it's Teddy, then it's Sam, and then only one guy

can emerge week one in Detroit Monday night. So we'll see about that obviously, that this is the man, since we're just we're just getting well, are you saying that because the final leg? No, I'm not talking about it, because we're just getting out of the gates and this is a long track. Okay, Okay, I like that. I thought maybe we're saying because I don't know who's who's my justify here, I'm not ready not you're justified. No, I'm just saying it's a long track and we're just

getting out of the gates, all right. I like that analogy. Now, quarterbacks aside, let's talk about the running backs for a second. Obviously, it's a little difficult to decipher what happens because they're not wearing pads, and same goes for most contact positions like O line, D line, cornerbacks too as well. But let's talk about this for a second. Here is running backs.

You got a pretty crowded backfield right there with Isaiah Royl, who the Jets signing free agent to see bal pal, Eli McGuire and Thomas Rawls, who is a guy that had a fantastic rookie season, did some great things in Seattle and then kind of tailed off. But he seemed like he had some nice burst in his step. Although, like I said, no pads, this is gonna be a position. Oh excuse me? How could I forget Trent and Camp? Yeah, Jets six round draft pick who's primarily a returner as

of now, or it seems to be. But he's got some wheels, so I wouldn't be surprised if he got the most work out of anybody in the preseason work. Yeah. Absolutely. But as it stands now is don't you think that this is I say, more interesting camp battles to come because it's a crowded room, Like do you really carry four running backs? Now? Listen, Here's what I'll say, is that is it interesting? I was? I think the Jets there are no starters in the group. I think it's

a solid group. We always talk about bal polished production, and he's the longest tenure guy in those roster, and all this guy does every years seemed to do something new and to make the most out of every time he touches the ball. Stump Mitchell, just running backs coach, said he kind of compared the new back in Isaiah Crowell to Paul by saying, listen, they both can run it well, they both can catch the ball out of the backfield, and they both can block. Obviously crow out

a little bit of a bigger guy. And then behind them Eli McGuire speaking of Stump Mitchell, he's something he said some very very impressive things. He made a comparison, and I think Todd Bowls didn't walk that back. It's just tough for coaches sometimes to make comparisons. He's I think he was just being very complimentary to Eli McGuire and he was just saying that here's another guy can

do a lot of things. Yeah. I think that's what goes overlooked is that he wasn't saying Eli is LaDainian Tomlinson.

But for those who missed it, Stump Mitchell said, Eli McGuire has Ladanian Tomlinson qualities, meaning that he can do a little bit of everything from a running back standing and then he's got some explosion too, because that's what Ladinian Thomlinson was especially around his career, was oh wow, was the explosive and he and listen, if you're Elie McGuire, to listen to that, that's got to give you confidence. But you just look at those three guys like, okay,

well we got a pretty good backfield. And then you mentioned Rols interesting guy because uh North South tough, um, you know, where does he fit into the equation? And then Trenton Cannon and like you mentioned, he's in a mix to be the returner right away. And then finally with Cannon, is that Stump Mitchell said, listen, speed home run hitter. He's got to learn how to change up speeds on the professional level, which means setting up blocks and things of that nature. You're very early on in

his career. It's a solid group, right. The other thing about Stump that I want to say in regard to the Ladinian talents and Eli comparison is, if you're a fan and you're reading, who the heck is Stump Mitchell and what does he know? To his credit, he said that he told the same thing what he did to Elon McGuire to David Johnson before he became David Johnson, because Mitchell was his coach in Arizona. So there's a

bit of a resume there per se for Mitchell. But the last thing about the running backs that I want to touch on is Rick Dennison is the new old line coach. So historically the Dennison scheme is a bit of more of a zone outside zone scheme. So do you think that plays into the strengths of the of these running backs or do you think that it doesn't matter. Obviously, Crowell is a bit of a question mark here because we haven't seen him run for his career. But how

about this for a tidbit on Crowell. He's one of two running backs to not miss a game over the last four seasons, and the other running back is Frank Or, who's now a Miami Dolphin. Is pretty amazing. He's still gone. I think if frank Or is my age, Frank frank Or is amazing that for he's the fact that he comes back every season and he's healthy and he puts up numbers. It's it's very very impressive and I think

overlooked as well. But you think that maybe for someone like balal and Eli this this is a system that fits their running style more I want, I would I say more, no, no, no, I would say that they're gonna be be able to adapt to the system. Um. I think of the running game, and I think up front, you gotta be a in sync with the players up front. And I know we're gonna be talking about the offensive line. I think, uh, when you talk about the Jets in the ground this year, is how are they going to

adapt to Rick Dennison up front? And how are the guys gonna mesh? And you know, I don't want to jump to offensive line to early on the greens, but I would say that you put al Po in any system. I think he's gonna be effective in the National Football League. I think row While is a guy who's very interesting because he just came from a Cleveland team that was one in thirty one over the last thirty two games.

So you know, I would imagine Cleveland had to go away from the run a lot early in ball games. You know, one of the questions that we're going to tackle on New York Just dot Com before trainee camp is who's the guy is gonna lead the backs in terms of total yards, who's gonna be the guy gets the most rushed attempts in the backfield, Who's gonna have the most yards on the ground, Because, uh, you know,

a lot of skill sets back there. But there's versatility and um diversity, and I think the Jets got a good group up front. Now, talking about the big dudes in the offensive line, I don't really want to touch a whole lot on them just because they can't. They can't block people in mini camp and O T A s. But what I will say is that it was nice to see Spencer Long towards the end of mini camp get some team reps because in the beginning he was only taking part in the individual drills and in many

camp up again, no starters as of now. We'll see what happened in training camp. But the offensive line up front is as you'd expect, with left to right, Calvin Beecham, James Carpenter, Spencer Long, Brian Winners, and Brandon Shell. Well. The big thing here is there there is an addition even though you didn't sign a new player per se, because Brian Winners was hurt in Week two last year in Oakland. Uh, the groin uh Abdaman. I guess Daman

issue we had. He said he wouldn't wish that at his worst enemy, and he played through that for most of the season. I think you're gonna see a new player that guard position. I've always thought carp has been a solid guard. Beach him at left tackle, I think listen, he brings his lunch pal to work. I think he was pretty dependable out there. And Brandon Shell still a developing guy on the right side. So what the Jets didn't free agency too is they replenished their depth. The

quoted Dozer's back. He's a guy Todd Bowles uh lauded as far as his improvement last year. So he's a guy of rusty guy in the middle. Travis Swanson is a guy who Green's. When I was out there, I think he was coming in maybe third center, because what the Jets were doing when Spencer Long wasn't taking those first team reps at center, it was Jonathan Harrison, who the Jets also resigned in the off season. Ben I Jelana back. He can play either right, right or left tackle,

so you know you got some depth there at the position. Um. But the guy to watch I think for all folks, especially in the summertime, it's a it's a key position here and Jets fans know this better than anybody because

they've been spoiled. They had an unbelievable run from Kevin Mway to Nick Megel and he talked about Brian Winners there for a second, how it's an addition, but without a resigning, the same could The same case could be made for the wide receivers because Quincy and Noon was should be back from a nick and from a neck injury suffered at last year Green and White practice and didn't play the entire season after really a breakout season

in sixteen, and this receiving corps is not talked about often, I think from a national perspective, but those guys are very confident in the group. And from top to bottom you have Robby Anderson and Jamaine Curse were the two main horses last year. Then you get Quincy and Noon we back. You signed Terrell Prior, who had in a thousand yards season in Cleveland before an injury, played year

in Washington last year. And then someone that's been talked about a lot since the offseason program started up as Chad Hanson and he's looked like a different player from year one to year two. And then of course our areas Stewart, who is the second year player. That that's a very interesting room as all and the receivers or I mean, we could talk about each one of those guys and even the guys we haven't talked about yet, but that's gonna be a very interesting dynamic to see

who who shows up when the pads are on. Robby Anderson to me, is an elite talent. He could become one of the finer receivers in the entire National Football League. I'm not talking about Division, I'm not talking about FC, I'm talking about the NFL. He's he's a unique talent. Uh A noon while is a guy who finally got the helman on late mini camp and he's made some progress. So let's see what happens early on in training camp when the pads are popping, and let's see how his

progress is taking shape. But he was a guy while I always thought Green's was an energy guy where he can change the complexion of a game by making plays because his teammates fed off him. Likewise, the and base fed off him. Uh. Prior as a guy that got off to slow start to spring because with the ankle um, he vows to be ready to start a training camp. Like you mentioned, the last time he was healthy two

thousand sixteen. So the big thing for him, by the way, speaking of big, he's a monstrous guy who can run very well, is he's gonna have to stay healthy. Hanson took some steps forward during the spring. Todd Bowls likes to remind us it's shorts and T shirts out there, So what's gonna happen in training camp? You mentioned Stewart

and there's some other veterans out there as well. But uh, yeah, if you think about how far this wide receiver group has come since maybe last May or June, it's really something. And I think, you know again, I gotta go back to Anderson. I think he has elite ability um and maybe he can take the next step as far as being the next Jets of thousand yard receiver. He probably is gonna be a last year before Josh McCown got hurt.

That's pretty big, Craisy, I like it, Uh real quick about prior did you see the article about Yeah, I guess the Redskins might be out for blood. Yeah, about that. Huh. I guess that like Prior making one handed catches and posterizing him last year, that's what it sounds like to make I know he do be clarified. Here's what happened.

Here's what happened. There's an article that surfaced from Zach Brown, the linebacker from the Redskins, that said, Yeah, the defense is gonna be real excited when the Jets come down to Virginia for that weekend training camp because they want to get their hands on Terrell Prior because apparently there was a no hands rule I guess or they couldn't touch him. And apparently Terrell Pryor was making one handed grabs in practice. Didn't like his showmanship so well, And

he's probably talking a little bit. And as we noticed in mini camp, like Todd Boll said, the Jets have about seven or eight coaches included who be on the all time trash talking team. Uh so listen talking as part of the game. Some guys talk, some guys don't. I guess maybe Terrell talked a little bit out there. I can't imagine feelings were that hurt about him making catches during practice. Yeah, that's hard to believe. He had to have said something to take some people off. So whatever,

we'll see what happens when we get down there. There's much to do about and nothing but Zach Brown. Keep up to work with the music. Got a good band going. All right, Let's switch to the defensive side of the ball. Here is uh again up front with the D line is it's hard to really say how players performed because there are no pads yet, so we could talk about right now in mini camp or what happened a couple of weeks ago. Is that the the first team I'm

doing air quotes. You can't see him, but first team D line included Steven Clended, Leonard Williams, Nathan Shephard and if it was a four down front, Henry Anderson was also involved in there. So those four guys or some combination are probably going to be up there day one, Opening Night, Motor City, Detroit, Monday Night Football and complete sentences. Leonard Williams wants to finish more this year. I thought

he was disruptive last year's around the quarterback. He played through some injury last year or two, never complained about it. But he's taking some leadership responsibility, as one might expect since he is the guy. There's no Sheldon Richards, there's no Mohammad Wilkerson. Snacks Harrison of course continues to play across town. But what the Jets really did over draft weekend, and we talked about this here on the official podcast and every platform that we're on Greens, is that they

dramatically revamped that line. Let's see what Henry Anderson brings to the table. You got good value there sending a seventh round pick to the Colts. He said he feels healthy again fromiliar with the scheme three four. Nathan Shephard, third round pick out of Fort Hay State, tremendous story. Will get into that on one Jets drive. You gotta check that out, folks. Uh. But he's a guy who was drafted in a third round for a reason. He could play join that rotation immediately. Top Bowls loves his

hands as far as his striking ability up front. For Lonzo Fatukasi from Connecticut, a sixth round pick right for the Jets. So uh, McLendon is there, and he's kind of like he's kind of like the old savvy vet and the wise philosopher, and he did some good things playing at that nose position for the Jets, but overall, when you look at the defensive line unit, it's gonna be fascinating to track their progress individually and as group, because it's definitely a different unit than we've seen in

the past. I love the way you say Florenzo Parks because there always has to be some kind of dramatics to because of the name. It's like it's like ordering an Italian dish that you need to say in some form of Italian way like it. Well, you know, it's never like Faleronzo Faloronzo. Yes, that's correct, because you know why, because I take a lot of pride in it, because I get it. Because draft weekend, I said, oh, yeah, you can call him fully And I said, do you

want to be called fully? And he goes, no, I'd rather be called by my name, And I said, I got you. I appreciate yea. He said, people don't even give it a yeah right, yeah. I get that. That's respectable. But I like the way that you say it because it's always there's always some fine and it's not it's never just saying, like you know Eric All and Ethan Dreamer, Yes, yes for Alonzo all right, let's let's move back to

the linebackers. Now, is darrenly Avery Williamson men in the middle there, And again the eyes in training camp are on the guys behind those guys because that's a bit crowded with Kevin Mentor, Kevin pre Lewis and Neville Hewitt and Brandon Copeland. I think he's playing some inside some outside, so that's another crowded room. But again, until the running backs and the old line and the D line gets the pads on, the linebackers can't really do much. Well yeah, yeah,

So I mean, what's next for Lee year three? We know the big thing that jumped out to us, I think was that he's the guy he's going to take the defensive signals as far as that communication is concerned. So who have to be very vocal with his teammates. Obviously, no David Harris here, No Damario Davis. Avery Williamson comes in, um, and let's see how that parent works out. Williamson was a guy who was known for his uh stopping the run, that prowess in Tennessee. Now he comes up north and

then an outside linebacker. I think it's you know, that's one of the spots when we look of position battles, is that's gonna be one for us to watch because the Jets are gonna need some production on the outside and we'll see how that all unfolds. Valuable erupts for

a lot of guys this spring. Because Jordan Jenkins a little nicked up with the shoulders so he didn't participate out there, and because he was out of Josh Martin and David Bass for the majority, Lorenzo Malden seemed It's difficult to say, but he was in the backfield a lot and you heard a lot of ooz and oz and props from the guys standing on the side. The pass was productive in one of the time last year, I think he led the Jets three and a half sacks.

That led the team. I think, didn't it. I think Demario led it with but David Bass at two and a half and he had like two sacks in his first two weeks that he came here. Is that what it was? I think? So, So he's second on the team and set okay. Also also just side note forty seven as an outside linebacker. Interesting number choice, Yeah, Josh Martin an ugly number. The Columbia alum. I mean he was guy who was starting a cross from Jenkins for

most of the last year. Malden told our Randy lying, Hey, list and you know, I know, and this is basically put up for shop, shut up for me. He knows. It's a big camp. Uh dealt with that back injury all last year. So we'll have to see what he brings to the table. Brandon Copeland guy came over from Detroit. Actually another IVY League guy. I think he played collegially

in the Ivy League. So outside line linebacker, Yeah, outside linebacker is gonna be fascinating um for me because you want to see a couple of guys stuff up there. But Jordan Jenkins, I think he's just gonna continue to improve. He's a solid player who's mostly gonna line up across from that tighten. He's gonna be your strong side linebacker. Oh we didn't even talk about the tight ends. I forgot about them. Oh you did, yeah about that. But

we always can jump back. Yeah, we'll jump back, all right. So let's wrap things up here with the defense, with the corners and the safeties. Now, the corners, of course, it's Tremayne Johnson Morris Clayborne didn't see a whole lot of time in minicamp because he had a hand injury. He was in a soft cast or in some form of cast on the sideline, and then behind him his

buster screen. And you have Perry Nickerson. And that's another crowded room because Justin Burris and Darryl Roberts are two guys that saw a considerable amount of time the past two seasons. And then how about he got Jeremy Clark back who hasn't even participated in training camp because he tores a c L his senior year and then he missed essentially his entire rookie season. Derek Jones back, So

that is a very very crowded spot. And we haven't even talked about the safeties there really not want to say it with the secondary, and I'm not saying that to be sarcastic. I think this unit should have set its sights on being one of the top defensive backfields in the national football From a talent perspective, they have it. I think Thenard Wilson is a tremendous position coach and he's really on the same page as these guys. The thing that stood out to me about Johnson is he's

a monstrous cornerback. He's a big quarterback size, and he's gonna bring some uh savvy technique to the outside ball hawk. He is also gonna make Morris Clayborn and Buster Screen better because I think they're gonna have more opportunities on the ball. Um. Jamal Adams, really you're starting to see him become more and more of a leader. Yes, he's a trash talker, but he also is an energy guy.

He wants to win. Uh. Doug Middleton benefited from Marcus May being out this spring because he was able to get those first team reps, and the Jets made a nice signing I thought late after Rountez Miles went down by bringing in J. J. Wilcox, another guy with experience bottom line Greens. I don't have too much to say

about the second area. I expect them to be really strength of this team, and they can help out the pass rush because if you're playing more man on the outside and you're locking tight ends up, maybe with your safety man up, then you're gonna freeze some rushers and you're gonna help that pass rush. All right, let's jump back to offense. Real quick because I forgot tight ends.

My bad. This is who we got right now. Jordan Leggett, Neil Sterling, Eric Tomlinson, Chris Herndon, Clive Walford, Bucky Hodges. That's that's the situation right now. And you know, Neil Sterling is interesting to me because he always makes plays of practice. Yeah that that that that granted there were no no pads and coaches the first one to point that out. But him and Eric Tomlinson are guys that

to two separate seasons. They joined the team. But Eric Tomlinson was like a waiver claim in twenty sixteen and he's managed to carve out a little role for himself. And last year Neil Sterling was on the team mid season he came from jack sin Vale and then he was off the team, and then against the Patriots in Week seventeen, he had like a forty yard completion and since then, it just seems like the trend is pointing up.

Jimmy Johnson likes this entire group, I will say that, And that's was what I thought after you heard him speak to the media. So Green's I think you look at Thomlinson. They formn s in Thomlinson is. He is your blocker, but he also can catch the football. Uh, Jordan Laggett, you know, after going down in the preseason Detroit last year, this is a big training camp for him. Jimmy Johnson, the Jets tightowns coach, said he is a rookie because he missed all of last year, but he's

a guy who flashed with his hands at Clemson. Chris Hernon is a guy who I think the Jets like the total package as far as he can block, inline block. He also can get out run the patterns, run, run the route tree and pick up yards after the catch.

And he made some plays in the spring. And then you mentioned some of these other guys who've had pro experience, Clive Warford and Bucky Hodges, so it Um and Neil Neil Sterling as well, because like we just talked about it, he seems to pop on the screen a little bit. So I don't think the Jets are avoided talent there. But how is it all going to come together? Austin Saverian Jenkins made that comeback last year. He's signing free off season with the Jacksonville Jaguars. No. A s J

means more opportunities for some guys. Uh here, Jimmy Johnson did say all of them can catch football, not only tight end, but pretty much everything we talked about. It's gonna be very interesting to see how it all played out because there's a different ballgame when the pads come on. And for me, I think that training camp is gonna be very interesting because there are so many interesting camp battles that we didn't talk about. The special teams or

even like returners. You get to talk about Andre rob and Trenton Cannon that returns, and a kicker. There's Cairo Santos who hasn't kicked yet. And then you have Taylor Birdelette who was a rookie MINIKV tryout player that signment team. He was on the Rams a little bit last season, and he's got a very strong leg. He's got it, he's got a boot. So it'll be interesting. Santos Santos

working his way back from YEA. So positions, head to toe, offense, defense, special teams, everything, it's gonna be very interesting for me to see how it all plays out. More depth on the roster, that's one thing, you know, That's one thing you can see in the spring is so listen, there's more depth on the roster period. You're you're starting to see Mike mcagnan's vision take shape. And uh, one of the things in the past was you one of what's

gonna happen in a quarterback position. Wow, I think we're starting to see that take hold too. So I think if you're a fan, I'm not gonna say it's gonna be clear selling, but I think the roster is getting better. I think Todd Bowles is doing a nice job with his group, and uh, you know, I think it's gonna be exciting training camp. Wow, that Scotts was gonna be tough out of the gate going to Detroit, not gonna

be easy coming home against Miami. You kicked their butt opening day last year, but they should probably be a better team. I would think, Albert Wilson. There you go, and then then you get a short week. You gotta go to Cleveland, and you know, they got high expectations for the first time in a long time. Who knows they're gonna be defending against Tyrod Teller two primetime games in the first three weeks, and then week four you're playing against one of the most physical outfits in the

All National Football League Jacksonville. I mean, that's a black and blue Sunday. But at least you get ten days to prepare for them. But three out of four out of the gate. But I'm getting way ahead of myself. But we're not even in training camp already, looking at looking at October. Hey, and how about training camp this year? Remember, fans, you can go to Rutgers for the Jets screen and white practice, and then what breaks up training What breaks

up training camp this year? Greens and I get it. Us fans are disappointed because there's not a ton of open practices. That's because the Jets are going down to Richmond, Virginia to practice with the Redskins for three days before they battle with them in that second preseason game. Again, this is the Official Jets Podcast, Ethan Greenberg and Eric Allen bringing you all things Jets.