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Hosts Bart Scott and Dan Graca talk about season-ending loss to the Bills, how the Jets can build on a lot of positive things with a young corps of players and welcome Team MVP C.J. Mosley to the show to review the season.

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Speaker 1 (00:04):
It's time for Inside the Jets presented by e Y
Building a Better Working World. No, here's Bart, Scott and
Dan Grosso and welcome into a season finale edition of
Inside the Jets presented by e Y Building a Better
Working World. Dan Grosso joined as always buy my pal

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part Scott, Bart. We've made it to the end of
the road, the last dance, my friend. How's it going.
It's going good, man, it's going well. I'm excited about
the off season and and the schedule and the football
calendar and all that good stuff. I know we got
to get through the playoffs first, but I'm excited to
see what the Jets are going and where they're going
on how they're going to get there, no doubt about it, because,
as you said, the off season begins today right essentially,

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because now it's gonna be about looking ahead to two,
even though we're in twenty two, but two football season
and how this team can improve upon winning just four
games like they did here in this past campaign. They
followed the Buffalo Bills yesterday to wrap up the season
twenty seven to ten. Not a whole lot you get
into as far as the game is concerned. We know
the Buffalo was playing for a division championship. The Jets

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went up there shorthanded. But I give him credit, you know,
for everybody that suited up yesterday and took that field,
coaching staff, getting the guys ready. I mean, as under
man as they were. They found themselves down only thirteen
to ten going into the final quarter of the game. Well,
you talk about the defense, they hung in tough, and
I know the end result wasn't what they want when
you look at from a yard standpoint, but the fact
that defense kept him in the offense just couldn't get going.

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But you understood that it was a law diminish and
returns as you look at you know, the receiver and
corps was depleted. You look at healing Cole. He didn't
return into the game in the second half. I don't
know if he you know, had an injury or something
like that, but it was just it was just tough
sledding against the number one defense in the league and
tough elements and um, you know, the Jets hung tough,
and you know, special teams and the special team mishaps

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of the Buffalo Bills, you know, kind of kept them
in the game. No doubt about it. Pekeling Cole, as
you mentioned, had that nice forty yard catch and run
for a touchdown from Zack Wilson there to get that
that's the only score. But going into the game, as
you said, you know, Buffalo the number one past defense
in the National Football League, number one defense in the
National Football League. You know, if the Jets weren't gonna
be able to run the ball successfully, that was really

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putting a burden on Zach Wilson in that passing game.
And given the fact that they were so depleted when
it came to his weapons at wide receiver going into
the game, they really couldn't get any sledding on the
ground and that just made it two tall a test
to overcome. Yeah, you talked about the week before, I
think the Buffalo when they scouted the Jets and where
they were and where Zach Wilson was and his you know,
uh progression. They said, you know what, you know last

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week they didn't really put a lot of pressure on him.
He was able to eat them up through the air.
You know, they almost knocked off the defendive Super Bowl chats.
And the Buffalo football team said, you know what, We're
not going to allow him to sit back there be comfortable.
And so you look at what they were able to do.
They did something that they normally doesn't don't don't do,
and they blitzed their secondary aggressive and they added outside
blizzes inside blitzes to kind of understand it. Okay, listen,

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we're gonna put pressure on you because we know that
we can match up. We feel comfortable with our matchups
on the outside, and we're gonna speed up your process.
You know, Zach is going to have to learn that.
You know, sometimes you just gotta throw the ball away
when you start to turn your back to the to
the defense and try and spend out of there. You know,
that's good to elude maybe the the pass rushers, but
you lose sight of where your receivers are and when

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you snap your head around, you have to kind of
get recalibrated. And that's something he's gonna have to work on.
How he's gonna escape Stepping up in the pocket and
keep your eyes out. Feel it is usually my preferred
way of escaping a tough situation. You'll step up, step out,
two hands on the ball, so you still have an
opportunity to kind of get vertical and run. You know,
that's just something that he's gonna have to self scout
and see how he can be better and those type

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of situations. Yeah, he was running for his life yesterday
at times, right, because, as you said, the Bills were
sending guys from all over the place. I mean, they
think he was sacked eight times in the football game yesterday.
Don't treat him. He earned every one of those nine. Yeah,
no doubt about it, that's true. Well, I think didn't
think give one one technically was one the Crowder play
Like Crowder was technically uh awarded a sack or something

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like at least that's why I saw on the box score.
But there will look, it was exactly too many to
loose to keep track of their unfortunately if you're the
Jets there in that offense. But look, the season now
is in the rearview. You begin to look ahead to
next season from a player's standpoint. Okay, you've been down
this road. Before season comes to an end, after a
difficult season like this, how long do you usually allow

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yourself to kind of just hit the reset button, clear
your mind from football before you already start to begin
of all right, what work do I have to do
in the off season. It depends on where you're at
in your process. Right, do you have a routine, do
you have a schedule? You know, do you if you know,
if you didn't really play a lot and your body
feels pretty healthy, then you can start walking, start playing basketball,

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just start. You know, kid is trying to be active,
because what happens is the worst thing you can do
is just stop, because when you stop, then all the
scar tissue, when every hit that you got started to settle.
You want to kind of be able to flush that
scar tissue out. Still, go to the massule's still go
to the to the to the chiropractical get all that
stuff out, and then you want to get back to work.
If you're an older guy, you know, and you've got
some things you need to get cleaned up from things

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that was nagging you, this may be a good time
to go get surgery. Um, you feel more comfortable going
to get that surgery if you know you are, you know,
in the first and second year your contract, because you
know you're gonna have the time to recover. If you're
a free agent, you know, you may just suck it
up and say, hey, well, I may have to get
surgery in a year or two. You know, some stuff
that really bothers me. My shoulder kind of you know,

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hurts me, but I can get through it. And then
you gotta go back to work. You gotta go through
the lab. And you know, today, guys gonna have the
exit meetings and they're gonna sit down, They're gonna talk
to their coaches and they're gonna get accept assessed. They're
gonna get their scouting report from their coaching, their coaches, Hey,
what they did good? What they did you know bad?
What they have to work on where their improvements are needed?
You know where they stand kind of with this organization.

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You know, you know, the Jets don't have a lot
of guys are depending free agents, but guys like Jamison Crowder,
you know, Marcus made you know, it's gonna, you know,
still recovering. You know, Joiner, You're gonna have to have
some tough conversations, you know, Jared Davis, you know, all
those things are are part of the process. And the
coaches are going to set up their schedules a quarterly
and kind of see if you know, if it's an opportunity,

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and then you know what happens is you start going
through the process. You look at the camelendar, Right, am
I going to be back? Um? You know? Um? What
things I need to you know, work on And you're
gonna be in close contact with your agent, and your
agent are gonna be in close contact with the team.
Where do we go next? You know, when you're playing
in the game, you're all in. It's all about the team.
When the season's over with, it's all about self, right,

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you become individuals again. Right, so you have to make
sure how do I get better? Because if I get better,
we get better, right, no doubt about that here. And
you talk about getting better right when you look at
the beginning of the season and then where we got
to right now at the endpoint, the Jets had one
of the youngest rosters in all the National Football League.
There were a lot of young players that got opportunity
to play some meaningful snaps this year because of the

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youth and the inexperience on this roster. So if you
look at this rookie class and a lot of these
guys got to play a heck of a lot this year.
You did see that girl from week one to now
where we are after week eighteen and a lot of
these guys you would think would benefit from that experience.
So when we hit the ground running here in two,
there should be no looking back for them. And it's
guys that you should think we'll factor in heavily into

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what this team is gonna do moving forward. Yeah, I mean,
you think about Echoes. I don't know if he remains
the starting corner or what the you know, the story
is there, but he's the guy that competes Bright Hall.
Bryce Hall is definitely gonna be, you know, your starter.
So it's good that he got a good you know,
six eight seventeen games of experience showing that you know,
he had a shortened season his rookie year. I think

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you feel comfortable who he is as a player. I
think you feel comfortable. Hey, Michael Carter is a hell
of a slot, right, so I feel like I'm I'm
good at one corner. I'm good at one slot. And
then now you got to figure out, okay, as a
as a team, where we make their improvements. You know, where,
where's our big board? Before you know it, they'd be
Senior Bowl, the National Championships tonight. You know you're gonna
look at some prospects and then you're gonna go through

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your process. You know, it'll be interesting to see, you know,
with if certainly, if certain and coaches get fired and
you started to see guys starting to get fired. Now
if one of those teams are like the Jaguars or
like the Houston Texans, you know, you know, would the
Jets coaching staff be able to be the coaching staff

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that coached the sing because you talk about you know,
when slod was a member of the San Francisco forty Niners.
You know he was there at the Singer Bowl. That's
how they discovered Devo Samuels, right, who was a guy
that nobody kind of knew about, who was a good guy,
didn't really know how good he's gonna be. They picked him,
and you see what he's doing through the league. So
I think it would be great if the Jets can
get pushed up, if some other teams ball out or

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the Singer Bowl or some coaches are removed, and you
know they have their coaching staff in place, if they
can coach the Singer Bowl, because that's really where you
get those hidden gyms. That's when you pretty much can
put guys through your system, put him in your system
and see how it translates. And then you can see
a guy that may be rated higher or somebody else's board,
but this guy fixed your system and you see what

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he is and what type of person is what he's
all about. So, I mean, you talk about that football schedule, man,
football never stops. It may not be on TV, you
might not be playing games, but it is a three
sixty five day um job. And it's time to get
to the other part, to part where champions are built
in the all season, no doubt about it. That's when
all the work is done here. And you know, to
your point, it's a good one about it's easy to

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go out there and identify the blue chip talent on
some of these superpowers in America, right. I mean, you
can put on the TV watch Alabama Georgia tonight or whatever. Okay,
you're gonna see future pros because they jump off the screen.
But you know it's those hidden gems, guys that maybe
we're under recruited a little bit, didn't end up at
the big schools. But that's what Mobile Alabama, That's what
the Senior Bowl is for. You know, a lot of
these individual workouts, the combines another one where you know

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there's still a heck of a lot of good football
players that are gonna get an opportunity to open some
eyes here. And look when you look at the Jets
and the upcoming draft, and I know that we're still
a few months away, and there's a lot of things
that are gonna happen between now and then. Yeah, you've
got four picks in the top thirty eight. Okay, because
of all the maneuvering that Joe Douglas did, the trade
with Camera Line involving Donald, the trade with Seattle involving

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Jamal Adams, Jets are gonna be picking fourth, thirty five
and thirty eight. If I said to you, Bart, hey
we got four of the top thirty eight picks, you're
probably telling me, hey, we better get at least four
starters from that lot, because that's some big time talent
that you're gonna bring into this program. Four starters and
four super and four like for like starters, and and

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two of those guys gotta be straight balls. Impact. I
won't impact, you know, I don't care if it's the
two first guys or if it's the two second guy.
But when you talk about thirty five and thirty eight.
That's pretty much four first round draft picks. If you
have the ability, you have the ability to add, you know,
a third round pick, to move up a couple of

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spots to get back in the first round if that
guy is there. We saw them be aggressive last year
and move up to get very Tucker because they identified
that was their guy. You know, who's there? Is that?
Is that a pass rusher you know? Or is that
you know, It's gonna be some great talent in the
second round. Some of the best players in the NFL.
Where guys who failed from from the first round to

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the second round, and they come to the league piste
off and I'm excited to see I'm more excited to
see what they do with the second round picks. I mean,
you look at you look at Michael Carter right what
he's one of the most pivotal players we have. He
was the second day guy, right, So I'm excited, man.
And let's see if Joe, if Joe can do what

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he did last year, if not better. You talk about
having ten starters as rookies, lash you know, for the Jets. Sure,
if you're able to get four more starters and be
able to strengthen through free agc It's gonna be, Pope,
no doubt about it. And you think about it, right,
I mean, the draft is gonna be the foundation for
your football team. That's how it is. Every successful team.
The foundation is through the draft. So if you have

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a class from which got all this experience, which showed
you that, you know what, you got a lot of
keepers in this class, and then you piggyback that with
another strong class in two as you said, led by
these four guys who were probably gonna be ahead of
a lot a little bit. That's how you accelerate that
curve to turning things around. And then all of a
sudden you're talking about possibly playing football into the month

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of January, which is the goal I think for everybody
involved in the organization. Yeah. Absolutely, I mean you talk about,
you know, being able to build it and build a
foundation because you know, I was part of a team
that was built through free agency, and it's not sustainable.
It's good for like three to four years or two
to three years, but then what happens that you have
to start saying goodbye to some good players and they're

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always at the top of the draft. You know and
your your your salary cap is so high, so you
know the right way. And this is the first time
I feel, in my opinion, that the Jets did a
complete rebuild, straight rebuild. We're gonna start off young. We're
gonna check our bumps. You're not gonna try and and
and and go get a Levy on Bell, go get
a collegial assimilate. We're gonna go, you know, try and

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talk Matt Khalil out of out of retirement. What we're
gonna do is we're gonna sit back, going to go
through the process. We're gonna take the pain, but we're
gonna grow from it. And what we're gonna have is
we're gonna have an experienced result team. Tailor two hamps
to Zach Wilson's rookie season, I think it's fair to say,
you know, we saw the guy before the knee injury,
and then once he returned for the last month of

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the season, and I think you saw a little bit
of a different quarterback as he finished. Product. Absolutely not,
there's still a lot of work to be done there,
but you saw that there was some growing and some
experience that was gained. I think all throughout these eighteen
weeks the season. Let's hear from the Jet quarterback after
yesterday's game. He caught up with our own Bobo Shusan Zach.
I'm sure disappointed to end the season the way that

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you did. But you know what, can we start with
something I haven't been able to ask you about this season?
And you're a leader on this team, you're the quarterback.
How about the play of your defense? And I would
think you probably want to talk a little bit about
how those guys performed today. They kept you in the
game for a long time today. Second half of the season,
so many young guys playing as well on the defensive

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side of the ball. But tell me about your thoughts
about that group. Yeah, a ton of guys stepping up. Man,
those guys are fighting all day. Um Man, I can't
I can't tell them. Uh, you know, good job enough.
You know, I thought they did an amazing job of
just you know, they were fighting. You know, we weren't.
We weren't doing anything to help them out. On offense.
Um the defense was just clawned. They were doing everything

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they could and and they really did a good job.
That's a really good explosive offense right there. And especially
the young guys stepping up. Um, guys maybe that haven't played,
you know, all around on defense, those guys are doing
an amazing job. So um, you know, credits to those guys.
There are some good stuff over there. We just gotta
we gotta get some things going on offense. How about
the battle though, for your offense today, what do you
think they'll take out of this game? I'm sure statistically

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there's not much to point towards, but you know that
this is a really with all the injuries you guys
are having to fight through, that had to be a tough,
tough sledding all day long. Yeah, it was a rough day.
I mean, I would say as an offensive, it just
had to be one of those things, you know, just
keep fighting, keep going. I didn't see quit from one person,
you know, all the way up until the very Yank
guys were giving it there all. Uh, And that's all

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you can for in that situation, as tough as it is,
and and and the emotions going up and down, you know,
you just gotta look at the guy next to you
and just say, you know, let's handle our job and
let's keep going. You know, we gotta, we gotta handle
this thing. And final question just on your development now
that the entire season is behind you. You haven't thrown
any interception since early December. Uh, more efficient, you look

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more comfortable, you look more in command. I mean, do
you think you are going to take what's happened these
last couple of months of this season into the off
season as a major stepping stone forward? What are your
big takeaways? Yeah, I gotta find the positives in it all.
You know, I felt like just how comfortable I've been
my understanding of the offense, and and then the guys
just working around me. You know, the next thing I've

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had with guys around me, and uh, the old line
figuring it out out front. Those guys did an awesome job,
you know, as the year just kept going on and
so um, you know, we're just gonna try and take
this thing running into the off season and and find
the positives, especially from a game like this where you know,
it was a tough situation for everybody and we just
need to keep learning from this and just keep getting better. Well,
thanks so much, been so gracious with your time all

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season long. We really appreciate it. Yeah, thank you. Have
a gooding, all right, thanks a lot to Bob and
Zach for catching up there. And you, I mean, you're
gonna see a guy now coming into year number two
have a lot of starts under his belt. Obviously, he's
gonna probably have a little bit of a deeper talent
pool to work with around him when he shows up
here for year number two. What's the next step you

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want to see in his development? Well, the first thing
he has to do is control what he can control,
and that's improven and watching film and getting better and
understanding you know, defenses and how player, how teams played him.
But secondly, you know, when when I watched him interviewing
and talking, I see a very slight young man. I
see a young man that got sacked eight nine times.

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I mean, I don't know what the zact number is.
I said, guy, that's gonna have to mature as a man,
and that that that requires mature and mentally and physically
as well. He's gonna have to put some work in.
He's gonna have to come back, you know, seven to
tend On's heavier, you know, and be able to be
not not bad weight, not creating weight. I'm talking about
putting in the work a lot of times quarterbacks think

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that they don't have to, you know, lift weights. But
he's gonna be able to have to kick out of
some tackles. He's gonna have to be able to endure
the rigors of an NFL season because guess what, this
year it's the freshest he will ever be in his life.
You know, it's gonna be something like you know, you
don't get back. It's no such thing as getting back
to that's not a real thing. You get the nine

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eight percent maybe and next year, year five, you may
can only get to. That's what it is. That's what
happens in this league. But happenin is your ability to
recover slows down. That your ability to play, your ability
to recover and be able to bounce back from you know,
tough seasons, tough roads, uh, you know tough. So he's
gonna have to put the work in and get physically

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stronger and put on some some some sides to become
more you know, you saw that with Drew Brees, right,
And you saw Drew Brees get stronger, right. You see
you know, guys get bigger, stronger, faster, you know, or
you see guys that are big that have to get
in better shape. And so he's gonna put in the
work and actually pick up that thing that looks like
a bar bill in the weight roll and start pounding
it against his chest, no doubt about it. And look,

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that's part of the maturation process, right for anybody. I
mean he's twenty two years old. We were all there
at one time or another. And it's how you get better,
it's how you mature. And as you said, it's how
you've build some of those muscles on that body, because hey,
this is the NFL. It's a contact board, it's a
collision spoard, and unfortunately, you know for everybody involved, that
stuff is gonna happen. Here. Stick around, we've got a
lot more here on this season finale edition of Inside

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the Jets presented by e Y Building a Better Working World.
And welcome back to Inside the Jets, Dan Gross. So
within it's time now for our player Guests segment. It's
brought to you by e Y Building a Better Working World.
Then we're joined now by number fifty seven Jets team
m v P linebacker C. J. Moseley, who joins us
here on the season ending edition of Inside the Jets.

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C J. Thanks for joining us, my friend. As always,
How do you feel about how this season all went
down for you? Um? Well, obviously the record isn't what
we wanted, but you know, you look at you know,
how we started as a team and um how we
finished as a team, and I can honestly I felt
like we've we've grown a lot. I've even sure it
a lot. And you know our chemistry you know, has

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shown in recent games. So um, I feel like the
foundation that we have said, it's a stepping stone for us,
you know, and and Scott's a limit for for organization.
In regard to the game yesterday in Buffalo, you know,
you guys went up there, you battled hard and it
was a three point game going into the fourth quarter.
Was a tough day for the offense. So you was

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a defense. You were asked to do a lot of things.
Is there something you draw from a game like yesterday,
even though you were under man the fact that you're
battled as hard as you did. Yeah, you can. You
can look at the at the game, you can look
at the tape and um, you know you wish you
can get a player two back, or you knows you
can make a make that one play and you know
those type of games, all you need is is one

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big play er, you know, one turnover to turn things around. Um.
And unfortunately, you know, we just couldn't couldn't get that.
But you know, you you appreciate that the moment and
you appreciate that environment because you know, those are the
type of games you know when when you need to
win to to get in or those type of games
you need to you know, steal a victory and at
the end of the day, honestly, those are type of

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games you want to have at home, you know, playing
for for a number one spot, plan for a playoff spot, um.
And you know December January football weather. So you know,
that's that's what it's all about. You know, you're a
veteran of this league and you've been around a while
and you've had your adversity, you've had your struggles throughout
your career. Here in a season like this where maybe
things collectively didn't go the way that you wanted them

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to for the team, are there some lessons that you
can draw from them that are gonna better yourself and
the football team as you move forward. Yes, you know,
when you know when you're when you're struggling or you
know you you suffer defeat, especially on the defensive side.
You know, you always look at yourself first. Um, you
know what what could I have done better? You know
what angle could I have taken on a on a

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misplay or missop excuse me? You know, just those those
type of things every time that happens. Now that you
look at yourself first. So you know, just just backing
off going off this game. You know, there was a
lot of stuff that we did really good in this
game and as a unit, um, and then's some things
that we obviously can still work on. So you know,
when you get to the off season, obviously the first

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thing is to get your body right and get your rest,
but next is uh to really you know, go inside.
You know your your scheme and your defense. You know
ways you can get better and the one less step
you can take or you know, one one more yard
you can get in your drops or just understanding know
the way we the way we fit our runs and
you know things of that nature. So as always, you know,

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a little pieces you try to add to your game.
You talk about the off season right and getting your
body right, getting your rest as you alluded to, how
about you, what's your routine, like, how long do you
give it before you ramp up again starting activities and
getting ready again for another grueling season which will probably
be here before you know what this it always is. Yeah, um,
you know it all at all varies based on the season.
You know, you can you leave out with different injuries

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or um. You know, some guys might have surgery things
of that nature. But you know, luckily and blessed for me,
I've know I've had a pretty a pretty good, a
pretty healthy season. This year might have buzz and bruises
from the game, so you know, just use a few
weeks off before you started ease back into it. You know,
obviously the most important thing is to make sure you
keep a keep a good diet because you know that's

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that's definitely part of keep staying healthy. C. J. Mosley
joining us here on Inside the Jets presented by uy
Building a Better Working World. You had yourself a really
successful season on an individual basis, uh, and we didn't
see much of you over the last couple of years.
You opted out last season. Of course, you were battling
injuries the year before. Did you do some things this
year that maybe took yourself by surprise, pleasantly surprised, and

(22:42):
how well you were able to go out there and
perform weekend and week out. Um. You know, I just
I feel like I just stayed within myself and this
in this new scheme, UM, just understanding you know the
things that would act for me as a linebacker. Um
that things that that I really didn't do prior, and
different defenses. Um, it's been been a learning experience and

(23:03):
it's been a very fun experience. UM. You know, being
with coach Rudy, coach Albert Um and you know, and
and our defensive style. I's been it's been fun to
really you know, take my take my game to the
next level. You know. I feel like this has been, um,
you know, the most fun I've had in the season,
you know far as just on the field and off
the field, you know, being a leader. I'm taking those

(23:24):
next steps and you know to being a captain and
things like that. So it's a it's a lot of
things that I look back on that I that I'm
really honored and blessed to be a part of this
team and be a be a part of this team
with my brother. So it's It's definitely been a fun
a fun year for me and I've definitely ready, you know,
to continue this process. You know with with our guys.
Did you ever have a group that was this young

(23:46):
that you were playing with this season with this football
team and this roster. Yeah, my workie year when I
was a young one, So it's been a while. It's
been a while since it had a really young group.
But you know, you know what you when you have
when you have that y'all core group that's you know
that that played these type of games, that have these
type of seasons, you know that experience these things together.

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You know all that all that builds up, you know,
all that is all those things are learning situation and
learning courage for us to grow. Um and with the
coaches as well, you know the first year coaches and
coaches haven't been together. Um, I know it's something that
you know that's been together different teams or I was
similar with each other because of the type of skins
that they have. But you think their chemistry, know it
matters too. You know that matters for us, but it

(24:28):
matters for them so they can know no, um, you
know what what to call the situation to understand, you know,
what what type of skin you want to do. So
you think about all the things that we had this year,
the senses, the success and the losses that we had,
and we can build off the build off that we
know without without core group. Because when you when you
have that chemistry and you can build that foundation and

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you can build that trust with each other, that that
what that's what gets you to the next level of success. Well.
CJ's performance this year, both on the field and off
the field, certainly was acknowledged by his teammates, and we'll
get into that when we return here on Inside the
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World Dan Grass and joined by Jets linebacker c J. Moseley.
And we're also presented by Selective Insurance be Uniquely Insured.
You're voted the team MVP by your teammates, the Curtis
Martin m VP Award, and certainly, I think it goes
above and beyond just what you bring to the field,
which we know is significant, but I think it also
carries some weight by the way you conduct yourself off

(25:32):
the field in that locker room, serving as a veteran
leader for a lot of the guys on this team.
You know, you've had a lot of accolades in your
football career, but when you're given an award like this
by those guys that you go to battle with day
in the day out, how extra special is that for you?
C J. It's very special. I, like you said, just
had that award, uh, you know, presented by presented to

(25:53):
me from my teammates and my brothers and arms. You know,
it means a lot. Now every time that that I
got up spoke to the defense or to the team.
You know, I always said, it's a it's a very humbling,
humbling and vulnerable, UM experience, just you know, the talking
front of appears and talking and talk to a bunch
of row men, because um, it's a it's a like

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I said, it's a very it's a very fun experience.
And and now I don't take it for granted. You
know every time that that I'm up there talking, every
time I step in the building, every time I'm on
the field, and I never take it for granted that, Um,
you know that this could be my last game, and
that I want to get everything I got for myself,
my family and my brother. So that's and that's most important.
Did you find yourself or did you feel that you

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found yourself maybe being a little bit more of a
vocal leader than maybe you've been in the past in
your career. Yes, you know that just that comes with
with the growth within yourself, believe in yourself, and you know,
also just been in in a different situation. You know,
I was at when I was in Baltimore and even
but and even you know, my first year here, you know,

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it's a lot of a lot of guys that know
that like to talk or was the main ones talking
and you know, now I'm gonna not one of the
guys that you know that people look up to look
for advice or or when things, you know, adversity happens
that people haven't been around that I've seen. You know,
I can, you know, I can step in and say
certain things. And honestly, it's my first year, you know,

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you calling up the huddle before every game, So that
was that was definitely far for me because you because
that made me, I would say, that made me really
think about you know, what what do I need to do,
you know, to get to get our guys going? Like,
what what can I say? How can I help every Sunday,
you know, every day we out there practice. How what
can I do to make everybody better? And in terms

(27:39):
of make myself better? So when I'm trying to you know,
HiPE my guys up or or get you know, get
everybody going in turns, you know that that gets me
in the right mindset. You know that puts me in
the right place because now I want to perform at
a high level for them. It's infectious certainly. You know,
we saw that video that you posted on social there
when you got the Team MVP award. You were home
in a nice little Tiffany box and a nice little

(27:59):
Chris the thing. Do you have a place for it already?
Where where's the award going in the home? Um? I
don't have a place for it yet, but it's it's
gonna find somewhere. It's just sitting on account right now.
So it's nice to it's sitting right next to the
box too. So it's just a nice little combo to
walk into something, something to make you smile every time
you walk in the house. No doubt about it, and
it's well deserved certainly too. You know, when you came

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into the league, you mentioned your days in Baltimore. That
was an established program, that was a winning program already
in Baltimore that you were drafted into. Now the situation
with this football team is something that they're hoping to
build that into. You're now one of the veteran pieces
of that. What experiences from your Baltimore days where you
guys were a perennial playoff team. Can you see possibly

(28:40):
carrying over here to the Jets where you start to
see that foundation now starting to grow and build into
one day soon also being a part of the postseason. Yeah,
I see a lot of similarities from when I came
into the league and to you know, the group that
we have now. We had a lot of a lot
of young guys, you know, first, second year guys, a
few third and thirty three or four years that that

(29:02):
were really valuable to the team. Um, you think about
special teams and the core guys that really that really
played on all phases and um you look at you know,
our squad that we have now, you know, you think
about largely think about m C. M C. Two pinning
out helps. You know, all those guys, they really really
grown a lot this year. Um, and you know the

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way that the way that those teams become successful, you know,
it's the young core guys sticking together, you know, going
through these type of seasons, going through these type of
adversities and learning from them and in turns when it
when it comes up again with the years of experience,
with the time put in, with the study habits, you know,
we're learning the defense and you know, learning what you

(29:45):
need to do to be successful. You know, that's when
you really start to see teams take off. And now
I feel like that's that's exactly where we're heading right now,
and I feel like we're in the right spot to
do that. You know, last week when you were meeting
with the media, you said that one of the things
that you want to accomplish during the off season is
you want to be that recruiter type, you know, for
other free agents around the National Football League and trying
to sell them on the Jets. And it kind of

(30:06):
struck me because you know, the message that you're gonna
try to win part on others is that we're building
something pretty special here and that if you want to
be part of the solution, if you want to be
part of the turnaround, this is the place for you.
Is that indeed what you want to convey to all
those players in the NFL that hey, the Jets are
not that far away. Uh, it is, and you know
it's it's easy to you know, to to turn your

(30:29):
head away from it when you when you don't see it,
especially when you can't put your hands on it. But
you know, the people that that can see the invisible,
all the all the the most powerful people, you know, UM,
their belief and that faith is so high that they
don't need to see it. And um, and obviously I've
been here, um for three years now and obviously the
most I've been here in the building this year. UM,

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I see it every day. UM. I know I record
and show it. I know the season and show it.
But you know that's the way guys came to work,
the way guys you know, stayed after it. And UM
not not splitting up. UM. It could have been it
could have been so many things that could have you know,
it could have made this season even worse than what
it is. But you know, everybody you know manned up
everybody came to work and and really try to put

(31:10):
their best foot for it every day, no matter how
sore or how tired they were. And even going into
this last game, guys were still fighting and you know,
and try to play with honors. So that's all you
can ask from your from your brothers, and that's all
you can ask for um, you know, as a just
as a player. So I felt like I feel, if, if, if, if,
whoever comes here, you know it comes with that right misset,
and you know they come, you know, thinking that they're

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going to be the reason. You know we can we
can win, and we can know being being these close
games and pull out victories and then you know this,
this is the perfect place for you. Before I let
you go, ce J, you know, there's a pretty important
football game on Monday night. I guess I don't have
to ask you who you think is gonna win the
football game between Alabama and Georgia. Real time, baby, I

(31:55):
knew you were going there. I knew you were going there.
But c J, all seriousness, no, thanks again for the
help that you gave us all season long, and congratulations
on a great season, and have a safe and healthy offseason.
We look forward to doing again with you again for
two my friend. But thanks as always, Thank you all right,
that's C. J. Mosley. We got more of Inside the
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in New York Bar. Earlier in the show, we heard
from Zach Wilson. Let's hear from another member of that
Jet rookie class, fellow first round pick. It's Ali Javira Tucker,
who's standing by with our team with pure Ethan Greenberg,
now joined by Jets offensive lineman Elijah bra Tucker. Elijah,
your rookie season in the books, This game obviously didn't
go the way that you wanted it to. What was
the communication like upfront? If all of the bills fans

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really roaring at a high level today. Yeah, it was
a definitely a great atmosphere to play in. Um, you know,
shout out to the Bills fans. You know they come,
they come ready. Um. But you know, I feel like
communication for a lot of was you know, it was good. Um,
you know, I Penney Dan Finney was being allouder said
and you know guards are packing calls to the tackles,

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but overallly not. I feel like communication was good. Elijah.
What was the difference in the ground game the past
two weeks to today where you didn't really get a
lot of ground mustard today. Yeah, I think that was
just you know, credit to their defense. You know, a
whole lot of movements at the safety level, you know,
sity coming down from one side, rotating, um, you know,
just being able to you know, um, make one guy

(33:45):
free and then you know that one guy you know
who was free was just making place. Um, you know,
just one guy too many. So you know, shout out
to their defense, Elijah. Something that Robert Sala said earlier
this week was talking about how because the for such
a young team, he wanted all the players to feel
the type of urgency that the Bills were to play
with Sunday. What did you see and what do you

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think that you'll learn from playing a game like this
where the Bills have the division on the line and
they have to win it to claim the title. H Yeah,
I mean it's definitely a learning experience, you know, just
see uh, you know, the game from their from their
point of view. Um, you know, like I said to
you know, it was a good experience, you know for
the young guys that come in here, you know, experience
what uh the Buffalo fans like, you know, that's what's

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gonna be like every year. Um, so you know, I
mean we're we're excited to you know, come back next
year and ball out. Lastly, here, Elijah, can you just
talk about from a wide angle lens here a little
bit about your growth throughout the year and what you've
seen from the offensive rookies in particular and Jack Wilson,
Michael Carter and just throughout the entire year, including yourself. Yeah,

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you know what I mean from game one, uh, you know,
game seventeen. You know, I think every every rookie on
the office side of the ball, you know, definitely improved
a whole lot. You know, you saw Zach to the
end of the year and making good plays, you know,
making good reads. And then you know, Michael Garter um,
you know, hitting the holes, breaking tackles. You know, it's
always um, you know, a good thing for running back.

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You know, offic some life loves that too. You know,
when the running back could break, you know, one of
two tackles if you play um. And then you know,
obviously Elijah More you know, unfortunately wasn't healthy to the
end this season, but you know from the games he
was in there, you saw what he could do. And
then you know, I think that's just uh, you know,
translates it to the next season. You know how excited
we all are for the future. And then also you

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know for this whole team. You know, yeah, we're a
young team, but you know I could say this, we're
all gonna go back, uh you know it to this offseason,
you know, grind our tails off, you know, because we
know what this you know this team is capable of,
and we're excited about it. Awesome, appreciate the time, Thank you,
Congratulations on your rookie year. Yes, sir, thank you all right.
Thanks a lot to Elijah, and thanks a lot to

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Ethan on a great job season long. Here. Let's go
around the league here to close out the show, because
all right, the regular season is over, but now the
postseason begins for a handful of teams in the NFL
and for the rest of the league, it's all about
starting to make changes for the upcoming season. We've already
seen some coaches that were let go some changes on
that end here. But let's just try to put our
mind around what we saw yesterday. And look, I get

(36:20):
a lot of credit to some teams out there, bart
who had absolutely nothing to play for on the final
weekend of the NFL season, and they went out there
and they dashed dreams of some teams out there. And
you know what, Let's start earlier in the day with
the Jacksonville Jaguars, right because Indianapolis who going in you
knew that they hadn't one in Jacksonville since two thousand four. Team,
But you're like, come on, there's no way with the
playoffs on the line, they're gonna lose to that team again.

(36:43):
Lo and behold history repeating itself. I still can't wrap
my mind around what we saw yesterday down in Florida.
And you can place the blame squarely on the shoulders
of their franchise quarterback Carson went I mean, how crazy
is it that the Indianapolis coach are going to give

(37:03):
up a first round draft boy to the Philadelphia Eagles
who are in the playoffs. For giving up Carson wentz,
I mean, they're gonna have three first round draft picks.
This is a team that one, you know that that's
going to the playoffs and they're gonna be a tough
out and they have three first round draft picks to
be able to improve their football team and to be able.

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And the team that went all in for I know,
Philip Rivers is like bro I could have did that.
You know, you think about Philip Rivers and Jacobe Brusset
and now they're they're they're they're stuck behind the eight
ball because now they have that contract, and you know,
so the reality is like, man, maybe he isn't what
we thought he was. If you're frank right, trying to
recapture that magic, and sometimes we think because something happened before,

(37:51):
that is gonna happen again. And he clearly Philadelphia saw
something in him that that said, you know what, it's
time of us and move on. Opposed to Frank Wright,
who's saying, no, man, he's great because he remembered what
he used to be or what he was before with
him And I mean you, he couldn't have played the
worst game. I don't understand why Jonathan tell On he

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got fifteen carries, you know, and and and in their
record shows whenever Jonathan teller doesn't rush, they don't win
a hundred yards, they don't win. It's not that he
wasn't effective. And at no point, it's not like Jacksonville
put up twenty points and a half and a quarter
or something like that. It was just slower methodical. There
was seven points to have three points this I have

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ten points that have seven, you know, and and and
that's a tough loss. That's a tough pill to swallow.
You know. We talked about that they were the most
dangerous team. Now you're saying, okay, well, wow, do we goward?
Do we do we just do we admit that maybe
Carson Wentz isn't what we thought he was, or do

(38:55):
we double down and say he has to be better?
That is a tough place to be uncertainty, you know,
on the fence. That is a tough way to go.
I agree with the pent and yesterday, like you know,
watching that game unfold, it kind of reminded me of
the game that Buffalo played down in Jacksonville early in
the season, where the Jaguards upset then where Buffalo just
kept turning the football over all afternoon to where it
was like all they have to do was make one play,

(39:16):
just get one drive sustained and then maybe it would
stop the bleeding the game with turn Buffalo couldn't do
it earlier in the year. Indianapolis couldn't do it yesterday.
Best running back in the league. You talk right there,
you talk about the turnovers at the turnover just interceptions.
Did he throw three picks? I can? I know, I
remember to in my head. I don't know if it

(39:38):
was three. I think, I mean, that's just like, come on, man,
like you're not giving us a chance to win, right
And it's not like this was a closed game. At
no point did you ever feel like, oh, Jacksonville is
gonna have the show, how resilient they are. Here comes
Indianapolis with their push, and I just didn't see the
sense of urgency with the playoffs on the line, knowing
that if you get in You're just as dangerous as anyone.

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You know, you beating Buffalo, You've beaten the Patriots. You know,
you've beaten two of the playoff teams in the playoffs.
You know, so it's it's gonna be tough sledding. And
listen that that is a lonely feeling going in there
and grabbing your your garbage bags and and go on saying,
I can't believe we got here? How do we get here?
And that's a long thing to have to deal with.
I mean, and that was that was just the beginning

(40:21):
of the fireworks. I mean, you talk about, you know,
the game one of the games of the night. I mean,
you know, you tip your hat. I tip my hat
to to the Steelers. You know Huntley, you know, for
all the praise that we've given him, he's had some costs,
the mistakes. You know, that was a game that was
you know, reminiscent of some of the first games that
I was in. You talked about thirteen and sixteen. That
is a throwback. You know. The thing too about that game,

(40:43):
like you know, and and ties it back to the
Colts for a second, even when the Colts lost, when
they walked off that field. They still had a shot
to get in the playoffs. They needed a Steeler's loss
and the Chargers loss. When the Colts came in did
the Steelers were losing that game, so they could at
least have a little bit of hope. It's like, all right,
we're getting the help from out of town. As you said,
Pittsburgh fights back, they get the field goal, their force
and ot and then they went in overtime, and then

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that just set craziness into works for potentially what could
have happened, as you said on Sunday night here, because
I think a lot of the folks knew that if
the Colts lost Chargers Raiders both in the playoffs, if
they tie that football game, Raiders are up to scores
late in the game, and you're thinking, well, this isn't
gonna be a tie. Chargers come all the way back.
And how about that two minute drive at the end

(41:26):
of regulation. It was a two minute drive that took
about half an hour. You know, at some point the
receivers like, I can't run anymore wrong. I don't know
if the Charges would have got the ball first and
overtime if one of the receivers wanted just collapsed. They
were like, no, I'm not doing that again. I can't.
I can't do it again. And listen, you talk about
coursonable calls from Staley, like Staley and you talking about

(41:48):
coming down to the end and what that was all about,
because it was clear to everybody has ever played football
before that the Raiders were saying, listen, we're not gonna
put the loss the We're not gonna put the ball
at arms way. And you're like, yeah, we can kick
a field goal. But if we kick a field goal
and it's not enough time, if it's too much time,
they got their time out, We're gonna put them on
the fifty yard line or the forty yard line, or

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they gotta do is get twenty yards from all those
big receivers that they have, Mike Williams that came up
with a fourth down place like every but five times
in the dry you know. And so it was it
was apparent to me that they were playing for the tide.
They were saying, Okay, well, I don't want to put
that risk at this point. We're in the playoffs, no
matter what. Let's just run a man. Staley got arrogant.

(42:32):
He got arrogance saying, Okay, we're gonna so they're saying, oh,
they're gonna call it time outs and force us the punt,
try and block a punt or something like that. Now, okay,
let's just run the ball downhill and let's get the
field goal range and run the clock out and kick
a field goal, because they don't even attempt that field goal.
I believe if if it's yeah, if they don't call
it time out because they're gonna run the ball, but

(42:52):
they're gonna let the clock run all the way down.
And if you play a little bit better defense and
he doesn't get the first down, and you know what,
let's clock run out. So not only did he go
forward on fourth and two from his own seventeen, like
this was I understand this geek squad stuff is getting
analytic stuff is getting crazy. At the end of the day,
you have to understand that all fourth downs and what

(43:12):
and what's the what's the benefit of that you get
the first down, you still gotta go eight yards. Well,
we saw this from him earlier in the season a
few weeks ago, right, and get to Kansas City on
fourth down five times and I lost in the game.
It lost in the game. And now what you got
an entire offseason to think about that, right, an entire
off season. And you heard you heard Dan Pas talk

(43:33):
about these new age coaches, right, he's saying, these guys
don't know how to talk to people. He's like, these
guys having going through the process, they're pretty much getting,
you know, being given opportunities, opportunities that guys like Danps,
guys like Cli right, guys like Robert Slot has to
wait twenty years to get you're getting them in three
years have been in the league. And they come in

(43:54):
and they think that they got it figured out, and
they don't understand that this is the people's business and
it's more about hr and how you treat people and
how people want to work for you. Because if you
lose the ears of your coaches, if you lose the ear,
imagine what it was down there with Irban Meyer. He insulted,
reportedly insulted. Guys that had been in the NFL had
done it at a high level, like he didn't have

(44:14):
He didn't have a bunch of scrubs, you know. Brian Brian,
Brian Schottenheimer had been around for a long time. He
had had a success in his League, right, being in Seattle,
being with the Jets, he had half success. Right, you
look at the guys that he had on the coach side.
But those are guys that come in filling entitled. They
talked about the entitled athlete. How about these entitled coaches
that come in that really doesn't work for their opportunities,

(44:37):
that really haven't paid their dues, that haven't sacrifice. You're
talking about guys like Jim Caldwell that had to wait decades,
Guys like Eric the Enemy that still hasn't got the opportunity.
You know, guys like Todd Bowls that took forever to
get his first opportunity, hoping to guys the second one. Right,
And these guys come in, they become some hotshot people

(44:59):
calling them a ja is when they're on the coaching
stat with somebody else that gets a cut coaching job
and then they get grab I mean, look at guys,
even though nag you got fired today, Look how long
it took him to get a head coach job. Look
how long it took Mike Zimmer to get a head
coaching job. So like these New A's coaches are entitled
and they think they know it all. They think they're
smarter than everybody. But all you see but the guys

(45:20):
that are in the contention for the Super Bowl are
the usual suspect part. We're at a time, my man,
this is it. This is a rap on the season
here for Inside the Jets. There's a lot of people
we gotta think of course, Matt Sitkoff, Chris Obbins, Chris Gargano,
everybody that helped put the show together weekend in week out.
I had a blast working with you again. This is
our second season doing it together, and I'm looking forward

(45:41):
to your number three. But before we get to year
number three, you know there's gonna be a lot of
news in Baba the New York Jets all season long.
So keep it here Jets dot Com all season long,
and we're gonna have you covered. But you stay safe,
my man, and I look forward to next year. I likewise,
who knows, maybe we can do something in all season.
Let's do it. My friend, as always, he's Bart Scott,
I'm Dan Grasa. Thank you for listening, thank you for

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