September 24, 2025 • 33 mins
Host Eric Allen is joined in the Audi Performance Studio for a conversation with Bart Scott and Brian Baldinger about how the Jets can build on the late rally in Tampa. The trio also discuss the keys to playing the Miami Dolphins and what the Green & White need to do in order to put themselves in a position to win on Monday Night Football.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Somebody's oh got to go. That's Monday night in South Florida,
the Jets looking for that first victory against the windless Dolphins.
We're breaking down everything about the matchup with the mad Backer,
Bart Scott and Baldy Brian Baldinger. That's coming up next.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
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Speaker 3 (00:18):
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Speaker 2 (00:36):
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Speaker 1 (00:54):
All right, gentlemen, good morning. Where do you guys want
to start off today?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I mean, I mean you can reflect a little bit
on Tampa. They were you know, they came back strong
in the fourth quarter. Will made some unbelievable play, you know,
I mean, they took a team that's been won the
division four years in a row, in a perennial playoff team.
They took them right to the brink, you know. I
mean it was a good battle, you know, like the
Rod game, everything he had in that game. You know,
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they there's some things they got to do better. But
I mean that's not a bad starting spot.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Bart Where is your hat at? Because you talk to
Jets fans every day and you were in here taping yesterday.
You were part of the last team who made the
playoffs here and you know, for fans, of course they
want a winner on the field right now, for Aaron
Glenn and it's Steph. There is a process. Nobody wants
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to hear about the process. They just want to see
the end result. But can you talk about all the
dynamics they play right now?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Well, the dynamics is trying to establish a culture, right
and also, you know, just the beginning of trying to
understand your personnel. You talk about Steve Wilks trying to
figure out what guys do well. Theoretically you can think
what they do well, but until you actually put them
in live situations, you don't really know, and you have
to adjust your your program accordingly. On the other side,
the same thing with Tanner, right, you have to figure
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out what guys do well, and you know you have
to grow the packages and that takes time, and you
just hope that during that time you can find ways
to win and find ways to be competitive. You know,
with all that being said, they have an opportunity this week.
You know somebody's going to have life after this game,
and somebody's going to feel discouraged and rejected and feel like, hey,
the season is not going to go our way. But
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if you look at the schedule going here and that's
what you have to do'll you take one game at
a time. If they're able to win this one, then
it's hope that you know they're as good before the
season started. We thought the game against Dallas would be
a tough game, and it could be, but it's going
to be opportunities offensively before you put points on the board.
This a matter what defensive shows up. If at the
end of the day you are two and three, you
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know you still have hope.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, speaking to that, Baldi, what do you think about
the schedule had Monday Night football, You're facing the team
who's in a similar position as you and the Dolphins
or zero three still looking for the first win. The
Cowboys are one and two, they won a tight game
against the Giants, but then they were just blown out
by the Chicago Bears. Then you had that London trip.
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You'll face the Broncos, who have a very good defense,
but right now they're one and two, and then you
come back home and you're facing the Carolina Panthers team
who's one.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah. Look it's September. Everybody's trying to figure things out,
you know, I mean everybody even like, Look, I'm in Philadelphia.
The Eagles are three and zero. They could easily be
own three. I mean, honestly, like if Cedee Lamb catches
the ball on the opening night of the year, they
probably lose that game. If Travis Kelce does a babble
ball at the end zone, they probably they might lose
that game. They're gonna be losing in the game when
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that happens. And Eagles block two field goals, you know,
at the end to win the game against Iran, and
so everybody's record. Blimore can go up and down the field.
Lamar Jackson could be another MVP. They can't stop anybody,
So everybody has issues the record. We pay attention to
the record, and it's important to win, don't get me wrong.
But you know, like all these games are hanging in
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the balance between a play here and to play there.
If I'm Aaron Glenn, I'm just actually pointing this out
around the whole league, how it comes down to a
play here, a play there, wins and losses, and so
these games can be can be won and loss in
the first quarter, in the fourth quarter, like it's never
one play, is never one guy. But these these games
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are incredibly close, outside of a couple of blowouts that
we get each weekend, but other than that, these games
are coming down to the brink. And I watched it
every week. The Indianapolis is three and zero, but they
could have been. You know, they've been fortunate at the
end of some of these games as well.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Part every team's dealing with the adversity. But the first
year of the program, here you've already started two quarterbacks
through three games. And then on the defensive side of
the ball, Jemaine Johnson back from injury, but unfortunately he's
dealing with the ankle. And then here earlier this week
for the Jets on the defensive side of the ball,
where they're trying to just get their feet underneath them
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right now now, You've placed Quincy and Williams on an
injury reserve unfortunately with the shoulder injury, and then Marcellino
McCrary ball as well went to injury reserve.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well, that's what happens. You're only as strong as your
weakest link. And you know, you think that how important
it is to make sure that you developed the backside
of your roster just as as important as what you
do with the front side of your roster. Because we
understand the nature of the game. But we also understand
with the new with the new week, what that really means, right,
It means that your depth is going to be tested.
Every team depth is going to be tested. It's who
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can handle that, who can coach their way through it?
You know, no different than San Francisco, no different than
Baltimore without metabk and likely you have to adjust. You
have to make sure that and that's where coaching comes in. Understand, Okay,
what game plan can I put together that gives us
the best chance to win every week? So I think
you know, that's really what it comes down to. So
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we'll see what happens and how they how they adjust
as well. We'll see if Justin Fields is back. If
Justin Fields isn't back, what did what did Tyride do well?
And how do we grow off for that package and
move forward? You know it's impairing though that they have
to start developing a receiver opposite. Somebody's going to have
to step up and you have to make that open
competition because you can't put so much on Garrett with
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thirteen attempts. You know, you got to be able to
cheat a couple of those attempts potentially to somebody else
if they're trying to double them, take them away.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
All right, We're going to get into this with our matchup.
Jets offense first, Dolphins defense in a second, but pald
what have the bells? And also obviously last game against
the Buccaneers. These are two teams that game plan very well.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
But after the Jets put that run game on film
in week one, what's been the plan here? Because Bart
just talked about hey Field potentially being back in the lineup.
The last two games for the Jets, the quarterback has
been the leading rusher.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Until you get a real run gain game. And the
Jets have two good backs. But that's Vedavea, that's Levante
David that's Todd Bowles. I mean, that's a tough group.
They do a lot, they give you a lot of looks.
You know, it's about getting you know, what they had
success against Pittsburgh was they got a hat and a hat,
they got movement at the point of attack. And they
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haven't been able to do that against Buffalo and Tampa.
But that's what you got to get back to. You
got to get back to finding out and bart Yeah,
you know this, You've got to have three runs that
you can just go to. That's what Detroit did against Baltimore.
You know, on Monday night, they literally ran three runs,
but they were really good at those three runs. They
went to a Y Y two tight ends, you know,
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and they found something that worked and then they play
action off it on fourth down to seal the game.
But that's what the Jets have to keep working at.
What's our bread and butter play? Is it outside zone?
Is it inside zone? Is it power? Like they gotta
kind of they gotta keep you just keep pounding and
working out. The guys are are individually good. What they're
not good at right now is always playing together and
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knowing what the other guy is going to do and
how you get movement at the point, because if you
get movement at the point for brailn or breeze, they're
going to gain yards. But the idea your quarterback is
just gonna scramble in the passing game and run like
that's just not that's not an offense.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And when you look at it, right, when you talk
about the best teams and they run those same runs,
they just get you a window dressing. They add to
shift the motion in there, they change the personnel, but
it's essentially the same run and everybody knows that they're
going to block it the same run, but it looks
like five different runs to the defense because it's out
of different personnel groups and it may be a different
you know, nickeling there or diamond there, or could be
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base or could be you know, short yards personnel, and
it all looks like something different, but you're essentially running
the same thing. You have to be able to learn
how to you know, block that out of any front
you get and be able to make it out of movement.
So just three or four plays left side, right side,
tight end, short side, open side. But also I think
you know, the Jets probably have to figure out what
their best personnel grouping is, and I don't mind them
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having two tight ends on the field, But if Garrett
Wilson is like the only one that's doing work as
far as a receiver, then why don't you just go
to one receiver and go with your pony package and
put Brailn and Briefe back there and then pretty much
breaches the wide receiver from the backfield. That creates a
lot of hesitation. They've had some success with it last year,
they've had success with it this year. I think they
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just need to commit to it and understand when you
put two running backs out there, and you put two
tight ends in one receiver, then that forces other teams
that have to change their personnel group and if they
decide to stay light, you just run the ball and
bludge them to death and just use these guys. I mean,
I grew up in high school. I know. I'm going
back to my glory days when I rant played tailback.
We basically had two split backs, and we basically had
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two tailbacks and we just if it was a toss,
we go block for each other. If it was a lead,
we go lead for each other. Those guys can do that,
but it creates so much indecision because you have one
of those guys leading up, Like who's to say that
that guy doesn't lead up? And then you know, runs
the old stripe pass that the Seattle Seahawks used to
run with their fullback with strong but now you have
that and that's a real running back.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well bald. The The Jets offensive line has definitely seen
a lot more movement. I talked to Tanner Angstran about that.
He said that, you know, Pittsburgh was more stationary. What
we've seen in the last couple of weeks is is
a lot more movement. And I think bottom line is
that you're gonna see this offensive line develop because it's
a young group that's working together. But speaking of injuries
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at the receiver position, like Bart's talking about outside, Garrett Wilson,
Josh Reynolds has not played the last couple of games.
I thought Tyler Johnson got a couple of catches in there.
He had the one drop, but maybe he can build
off of that. And then Mason Taylor, he's learning on
the job and other young guy's learning on the job
right now. The four receptions and uh, you know again,
it's a learning process for him, especially in a blocking game.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Yeah, and he's going back home. I mean, you know,
Mason is you know, University of Miami kid, and he's
going back down there. And so you know, I think,
well he went to LSU, but I mean he's that's
weird grew up. Yeah, yeah, So I mean it's always
a big deal. But look, you got to play Aaron Smith,
you got to play you know, Tyler. I mean, that's
what you have. I mean, you'd love for Tyler catch
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that ball. I mean it's a difference maker right there.
He did come up with another big catch, but you know,
I mean that's that's his job to catch it. You know,
you know, he felt bad guys dropped passes. That was
a big spot. But uh, that's that's what they're got
right now. And so I mean, Garrett will look, the
weakness of this whole Miami team is their secondary. It's
it's a mess and everybody knows it, and everybody's torching
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it right now, and they got to take advantage of it.
They've they've got some guys that you know are questionable,
whether you know, and even and even Minka in the
back end doesn't look like he runs nearly like he
used to. But you know, the key is they've got
talented guys up front, and that's that's the strength of
the whole team. Is their defensive front. You know, Chubb
and Jalen Phillips and Chop Robinson, Zach Seeler like that's
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you know, that's that's the strength of this whole team.
And so they if they block them up the way
you know other teams have right now, they're gonna have
success for the back end of this game.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Well, let's take a quick break and dive further into
that matchup Jets offense against the Dolphins defense. Monday Night
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of the Year to submit your nomination. Now, Bart, what
did you make of what the Jets were able to
do down the stretch in terms of guys, we're talking
about tempo being on the ball. I mean, when you're
down twenty three to six, of course you're gonna hurry
up the operation. But did you see something there. No
matter who's playing quarterback this week. Again, we're taping Wednesday morning.
(13:05):
It Fields is out of concussion protocol, he could be
the guy again, urged to Rod making a second consecutive start.
But was there something there that the Jets can hang
their head on.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, I mean they got in a rhythm right, and
also what they start understanding is that you just run
routes behind where the blitz is coming from. The problem
was I think early in the first half they didn't
realize where the blitz was coming from. I mean they
ran fox fire zone at least eight times.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I found in sixth part I counted six and was
Winfield for the sack? Was you know Roscoe Parish like
you know, Tom, if you don't stop it, times just
gonna keep gotting.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
It was just fox fire zone end up the field,
the dB off of his butt, and then inside linebacker
coming down, coming super tight, trying to put the running
back in a buy.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I thought that they also finally start, you know, playing
doing something like basically turn protection, and how you do
turn protection is based off of boot. You know, you
can you can blitz all you want, you can't penetrate
turn protection because somebody's always looking at you and then
and the quarterback is running away from you. So they
did that a couple of times with Justin or ty Rod.
I would love to see them, you know, with a
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lot of boot action, you know, sprintouts, throwbacks where you're
cutting the side of the field and being able to
have options that way, because I think it's hard to penetrate.
You know, Anthony Weaver, former teammate of Minds, He's going
to watch the femin and say they struggle with blitzes
and if your secondary's you know, struggling, let's try and
heat him up quickly so our guys can just flat
foot and hope that the ball comes out and we
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make the tackle with the hot route. So you know
what you saw last week, you're going to get versions
of that this week as well. I mean, you know,
Anthony was there, he ran fox Fire Zone. He knows
exactly what it looks like. He knows how it can
challenge protections. How you how you beat fox fire zone,
you know, which is basically from the field, the why
side of the field you just turn protection. You can't
penetrate it.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Just for the fans listening, to us out there, bart
it's basically a week side overload, and so you're gonna
bring four, you can block three and one basically coming free,
and so if you turn the protection away to that,
then you can slide in that and pick up that
guy coming through the B gap. You know, whether it
was Winfield or Parish on site, correct, Baldy.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You mentioned the Dolphins secondary earlier. Through three games, this
team's giving up thirty two point three points a game.
That's thirty second in the NFL, the twenty six in
total defense, one of three hundred and seventy yards per game,
thirty first. On third down, they're allowing teams to convert
fifty two point six percent of the time. No stat
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really there to hang their head on. Why specifically are
Day struggling because you mentioned their personnel. What is Weaver
gonna do when he looks at the Jets offense? So
what do you make of this matchup specifically Monday night?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Well, you know, the Patriots beat him, and they had
a rookie left guard and rookie left tackle, and they
handled everything up front just fine, and they gave Drake
my time. But you know, you're looking at m Duck
out there. I mean, you're just looking at guys that honestly.
I mean I could go through the list of the personnel,
but I mean I thought when I saw him this summer,
like they better go get some players because they it's
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just a talent situation right now. I mean, they they
just let so many guys walk. I mean, whether it
was Xavi and Howard, I mean Jalen Ramsey, I mean,
they let good players just go. And that used to
be a strength to the whole team. You know, when
Brian Flores was there was their secondary was a real
real problem. Javon Hall and he walked like they all
got out of there. And so they just don't have
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replacements for him right now. So if you could block
him up, like they're breaking down in the back end,
and if you break down the back end, you give
up big plays. That's what they did when they lost
to the Patriots, and Buffalo did the same thing to him,
And so it's an issue right now. And the only
thing that can really cover that up because I don't
think they have the personnel and the roster is pass
rush and where you got to really speed the quarterback
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up and speed up the process.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Bart what do you make of this stat? Both Tyreek
Hill and Garrett Wilson have accounted for over half of
their teams air yards through three weeks of the season.
Tyreek fifty three point five percent, Garrett fifty point eight percent.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
When you do that and you are so heavily dependent
on one player, then you can lean until the coverage
to that. So what happens if those players don't get it?
Somebody else has to step up and while the other
guys get coached up. So I don't know what you
have to figure out what that personnel group is. I
thought last week one of their biggest runs was when
they kind of had the old Chip Kelly, you know,
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pair of receivers outside of the numbers and another one
on top of the numbers, and they were able to
run a isolation run with Breez where he was able
to read the three technique and figure out how to
come off the double team. You know, I think that's
those are the things you have to do to be creative.
You know, everybody says run the ball, but sometimes you
have to say how. And you know, I can remember
some of the best guys going against chan Gilly back
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in the day, like what he would do is he
had power runs out of small personnels, right, because you
know he can spread you out with four wides and
then he can just running basically open open zone or
open power where he's pulling somebody and gaining advantages. Those
are the little crafty things that you have to do
when you when you're struggling and you try to figure out,
you know what the game plan has got to be,
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make people stop the same power runs. The back is
going to be a power back because he's a power back.
You don't have to have a power formation to run
a power of power game.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
They got a big young back like Brylan Island there
in uh In Oliver like he's uh he's he scored
a touchdown last week, had some good power runs. They're
going to him a little bit more. But you know,
a chan is his speed. He's got incredible speed, and
so you get you've got to get that guy down
to the ground otherwise he's gonna go along ways.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Pauldy does a game plan change at all if it's
Taylor or if it's Fields. I mean, if it is Fields,
he's coming off a concussion.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Well, I mean, look, Justin is a better runner. I mean,
Tyrod can still move, you know, he can still avoid uh,
you know, quick pressure. He can still do a lot
of those things. But he look, he brought him back.
You're down twenty to six. I think he's looking ugly.
You know. He brought him back, and he took what
the defense gave him. They got into that quick rhythm.
They went hurry up like it was a good fourth quarter.
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Can you regards who's that quarterback? Can you learn from
some of those things? Because I thought they responded really
well in the heat down there, in that atmosphere, you know,
and so they took advantage of some of the things
that the Bucks were doing to get back into the game.
And you know, obviously, you know what Will McDonald did
was just a great individual effort.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
It Okay, we're gonna take a quick break and then
we're gonna look at the Jets defense against that Dolphins offense.
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(19:53):
Dolphins were embarrassed in Week one they've come back the
last two weeks in the offense is starting to look
like the old Miami offense. What have you seen from them?
And specifically from last week against Buffalo where they went
to a ball control game, it looked like from my
vantage point and a third down conversions were off the
charts because it was like their defense was keeping their
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offense on the field, that's how they were playing defense.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Well, they had five straight third down conversions. I think
every one went to Wattle and they just ran plays
form and he was just running these speed outs and
you got to respect the speed of him going vertical,
but he's cutting it off to the sideline. And Tua,
you know who, was just completely flummoxed his first week
against Indianapolis and he was terrible and it didn't look
like to it because coming into this season as a starter,
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I mean, he was twenty five and fifteen as a starter.
They couldn't win with the backup, but he but he
hadn't played well was week one. He's gotten better and
better getting the ball down the field a little bit more.
They run those speed o routes, you know, with whether
it's you know, from a from two wide outs or
half field reads him and you know, Tyreek and Waddell
are really good at it, and normally, you know, normally
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two is very accurate thrower. And so you know, he's
coming back into what he does best, which is getting
the ball out of his hands fast and you know,
and inaccurately, and that's and letting those guys run with
it afterwards. And so that was a real issue Week
one against India. But he's got better at it. The
number one in the NFL on third dout conversions right now,
which you know is something that Jets have to pay
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attention to because you can't let that team just sustain
offense and go down the field. That's what they've done
the last two weeks.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Part. Can I just point something out here as far
as the justs defense is concerned, And Baldy did a
film review on this for us that you can find
on our digital and social platforms. Quinn Williams was unbelievable Sunday.
I mean that gets lost in the mix, and I
get it. The Jets aren't winning right now and just
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looking for that first win of the season. But with
that being said, Warren Sapp was at the game and
coming out after halftime, Sap went over to him gave
him some kind of impassioned speech, But to me, that
was all about real respect and real and Sap knows
how good this guy is, and when Quinnin was growing up,
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he idolized the guy like Sap in terms of what
he brought to the table from the three technique.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I mean, listen, quinn has all the tools right to be,
you know, top five defensive tackle on his league, you know,
for the years to come. And now he has help.
I thought, you know, when you look at Harrison Phillips,
you know, he's really aiding and allowing him to be
able to get the matchups that he needs or be
able to kind of take some of the pressure off
of Quinnon. Happened to be everything, the run stopper, the
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interior you know, movement guy and all that type of stuff.
He has tremendous versatility. I mean sometimes I think, you know,
we forget that he can't play at d M as
well as far as that big elephant in. You know,
so if you can't stop the run sometimes and you
route out Jermaine Johnson, I don't think it's a bad
idea to put him at the elephant Inn and bring
you know, Briggs, and bring in and Phillips and be
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able to have that heavy, heavied up defensive tackle type
look because he can't convert and be able to convert
a run to pass, you know. But he's always had
all the tools. He's a he's an exceptional athlete. He's
a tremendous competitor, and he has tremendous skill set. You
have to tip your cap to everything that he learned
in the University of Alabama before he got here, because
he was ready to go. And I think he's just
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you know, on on his verse to all Pro season.
If they can figure out how to get this defensive
you know, the run run defense stop, he'll get more accolades.
And if they're going to turn it around, it's going
to because the defense is going to play to his potential.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Baldy, I really like this Jets interior, starting with Williams,
but that was a great trade acquisition and getting Harrison
Phillips here. And one guy that part continues to talk
about is Juwan Briggs. Great motor there on the inside,
a strong guy as well. But we talked at the
onset here, Jet's dealing with several injuries at the linebacker position.
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What is the plan now for Wilkes and Aaron Glenn
Is they look at a Miami team that listen, they
thrive with the misdirection, they thrive with the screen games,
they thrive getting the ball out of two his hands,
and they have tremendous speed. And so what do you
do with the linebacker spot now?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Well, I mean, you know, you're gonna be as good
as your eyes, you know, because you're gonna see a
lot of fly sweeps, You're gonna see a lot of misdirection,
and so you want your eyes to be good. And
so but that's that starts with just looking at the
front and you know, the offense line will tell you
where they're going, uh for the most part. So but
they you know, they've got they've got tremendous speed, you
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know on some of these sweeps that they run in
the run game. But I you know, I still think, like,
you know, they got a rookie left guard, they got
a very young left tackle. I mean you got to
get you got to make these guys know what they're
doing too. Like you got to challenge because I think
Aaron Brewer is an undersized center. I might put Leonard
Taylor right on top of him or Phillips like beat
him up at the center position. You're gonna be a
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strong as your center. Like, there's things you can do
to cover those guys up. You can play reduced front
against this this group right here and free the linebackers up.
Uh you know, I mean Bart will tell you like
they're gonna be as good. He's gonna make as many tackles,
whether it's Kiko in there or Jamien whatever. I mean,
you cover the guys up up front. Let those guys
go run and you know, use their their speed to
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go chase these things down. They can have some success
right there. So you could do some things with your
front to free your linebackers up to stop the run.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Bart, that's music to your ears.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Either reduced front, Yeah, I mean listen that that's a
reduced front. I'm sitting right in that bubble. Come see
me if you dare. You know what I mean you
talk about. You know that that safety coming down, that
that gives you flanking right because you know, if it's
if it's one receiver to the open side, then you
stay covered two on the backside. Or what we used
to do with Reeves is you'll choke choke the guy there,
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man the man on that side, and tilt the entire backside.
It'll safety open to the front side. So now we
can stuff the other side. There's a lot of ways
you can do that. And listen, I was disappointed not
to talk about other peoples and other organizations. You know,
I don't understand why the why the Ravens don't play
the reduced front and bring Kyle Hamilton down as to
insert safety, as everybody. What that allows you to do
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is that allows the backside linebacker to fast flow, to
run away without having to worry about checking that gap
because the insert safety is able to check that gap,
or you can stab that in to make everything spilled
to that free defender. That's inserting right. So reduces a
great front to be able to make teams one dimensional,
and it allows you to play cover two on one
side to cover three on the other side unless you
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have two receivers to the open side. I know that's
a lot of football jargon, but you got to you got,
you got, you got two film nuts. That's what you get.
I love it. Body.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I feel so bad for Quincy Williams, but he lays
his body out there on the line every Sunday. Hopefully
this is a short term injury. But he's a guy
sidelined the sideline.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
So explive. He's been the MVP of the team for
a Reefs think yeah, I mean, look his his leadership
and his playmaking ability and how fast he plays the game.
I mean, you know, him and Jamien, it's been a
strength of this defense now for the last two years.
And so that's that's a terrible loss. And you know,
I mean I some days I just watched Quincy and Quinnon,
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you know, like they were kind of stacked behind each other. Man,
It's like one guy's feeding the other guy. You know,
Quinn's getting penetration, Quincy's cleaning up like it's a great
you know, one two brother act right there. And so, uh,
it's it's look, it's it's gonna be a loss. It's
it's a tough loss. I mean, all right.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So a couple of brief points here. Cam Jones been
playing primarily on special teams since being acquired on waivers
from Kansas City. Maybe he gets an increased role at
the linebacker position. The Jets also picked up Mark Robinson,
who's got some experience with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He's been
primarily a special teams player. Was on New England's practice
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squad of late uh elevated for each of the three
games this season, so he could.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Be marks thumper. He's been training in Pittsburgh, you know,
and he's got size to him. He does have I believe,
limitations in the passing game, and that's why he couldn't
stay on the field of Pittsburgh. But he you know,
he made it as a special teams player, backup linebacker
for at least the last two years, and so then
you know it's you know, it's a guy that they
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can throw in there. I think that, you know, he's
got some experience in this league.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Bart he put a sauce on Tyreek Hill. He's got
a different skill set than these other guys that he's
been shadowing here early in the season, like a Metcalf
or Mike Evans.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Now I put him on I put him on Waddle
because Wattle's the guy that you know has that D speed.
I'm going to double Tyreek and bracket him from different directions.
He's never going to know where the double team's coming from.
It could come from my Nickels swiping out to him.
It could come from the safety, it can come. I'm
gonna give him every different type of look that he
can he can think of a go ahead and to
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go back to like the special team guys. I can
remember one day when I was just a special team
guy and I got that opportunity. I never looked back.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I love there, I love there, Bart Scott uh Bal.
The big picture, how much can some of these guys
benefit from the playing time they're getting right now? Like
Malchi Moore just got his first NFL start last week.
Sauce came out of that game for a few plays
to have his head evaluated. Azy Thomas comes in the
game and he's making a couple of plays. There's a
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rookie out of.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Good playing sideline. Hey, he really did down the sideline
against a book. I mean it was a good play. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Now, now Keiko is gonna have definitely an increased role
over the four.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Here's the thing about young players. If they if they're
the right guy, if they're wired right, and they're gonna
have a career, Like you live with the mistakes because
you know, generally you you learn from your mistakes. Good
players always do, and then they're gonna be good players
down the stretch. I mean when Jamie and Sherwood came
in to play linebackers, a pumped up safe like nobody
knew what he could do, but what he's done with it,
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Like you know, he's putting up a hundred tackles, you know, So,
like you don't know if they're the right guys, if
they done their scouting right, if they've got some inner
fiber to them, if the game is super important to them,
like they're gonna learn from the mistakes, and so you
don't want a whole team of young guys out there
that's you know, because there's gonna be too many mistakes
and positions important and understanding the game situation. But like
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Acy stepped in there, he made it could play down
the sideline. Good for him. Man.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Oh by the way, ag had two pick sixes in
his career down in Miami, so I kind of think that.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Maybe he can strap it up.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, this is this is what I think. This is
poetic justice. Man, let's get it done down in Miami.
It be nice to get it done against a rival, right.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, absolutely, what better place to get your first game ball?
Then I'm in South Beach. Maybe if you stay, you stay,
you stay there Monday for Victory Mondays. If it goes well.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah, well I'll make sure we'll keep to playing there
until Tuesday morning. Thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
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Speaker 1 (31:23):
All right, let's get to our extra point. One thing
that we did not get into with Baldy and Bart
was the Jets made an interesting trade this week, acquiring
Jarvis Brownie from the Titans. That acquisition involved a late
round draft pick swap. Now here's a guy who started
fourteen games last season for the Titans. He had seventy
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five tackles, so he's a physical cornerback on the outside. Also,
he started Tennessee's first two games this season. He did
not play last week he had an ankle injury. But
with that being said, you're getting a young player and
also there's familiarity there because his positional coach in Tennessee.
Last year's here with the Jets, and that's Chris Harris,
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So the Jets know exactly what they're getting in the
young Jarvis Brownly. Finally, on paper, the Jets schedule should
lighten up over the next four games. The jets first
three opponents consider this. Pittsburgh is two to one, Buffalo's three
and zero, and then Tampa is three and Oh. Those
first three combined record of eight and one. Let's talk
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about the next four games for the Green and White.
The Dolphins are zero three, the Cowboys are one and two,
the Broncos are one and two, and Atlanta is one
and two. So that's a combined record of three and nine.
Let's see how they managed the next four games. I
think this is a critical stretch for a young team,
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the next six days, because Miami, that's a winnable game.
Miami's looking at you and saying it's a winnable game
as well. But if you can secure that victory, you'll
come home and you'll face the Dallas Cowboys, and that
team's been scuffling of late. That also is an extremely
gettable one. So the Jets, who are zero three starting
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the week, can be two and three. By the time
they finish against the Dallas Cowboys. But you gotta make it,
you gotta make it happen. You got to finish ball games.
You gotta play for sixty. You gotta win the turnover differential,
and if they do that, the Jets can have some
success coming up.
Somebody's oh got to go. That's Monday night in South Florida,
the Jets looking for that first victory against the windless Dolphins.
We're breaking down everything about the matchup with the mad Backer,
Bart Scott and Baldy Brian Baldinger. That's coming up next.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
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gonna win.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
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Speaker 1 (00:28):
Can't wait.
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Speaker 1 (00:54):
All right, gentlemen, good morning. Where do you guys want
to start off today?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
I mean, I mean you can reflect a little bit
on Tampa. They were you know, they came back strong
in the fourth quarter. Will made some unbelievable play, you know,
I mean, they took a team that's been won the
division four years in a row, in a perennial playoff team.
They took them right to the brink, you know. I
mean it was a good battle, you know, like the
Rod game, everything he had in that game. You know,
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they there's some things they got to do better. But
I mean that's not a bad starting spot.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Bart Where is your hat at? Because you talk to
Jets fans every day and you were in here taping yesterday.
You were part of the last team who made the
playoffs here and you know, for fans, of course they
want a winner on the field right now, for Aaron
Glenn and it's Steph. There is a process. Nobody wants
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to hear about the process. They just want to see
the end result. But can you talk about all the
dynamics they play right now?
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Well, the dynamics is trying to establish a culture, right
and also, you know, just the beginning of trying to
understand your personnel. You talk about Steve Wilks trying to
figure out what guys do well. Theoretically you can think
what they do well, but until you actually put them
in live situations, you don't really know, and you have
to adjust your your program accordingly. On the other side,
the same thing with Tanner, right, you have to figure
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out what guys do well, and you know you have
to grow the packages and that takes time, and you
just hope that during that time you can find ways
to win and find ways to be competitive. You know,
with all that being said, they have an opportunity this week.
You know somebody's going to have life after this game,
and somebody's going to feel discouraged and rejected and feel like, hey,
the season is not going to go our way. But
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if you look at the schedule going here and that's
what you have to do'll you take one game at
a time. If they're able to win this one, then
it's hope that you know they're as good before the
season started. We thought the game against Dallas would be
a tough game, and it could be, but it's going
to be opportunities offensively before you put points on the board.
This a matter what defensive shows up. If at the
end of the day you are two and three, you
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know you still have hope.
Speaker 1 (03:00):
Yeah, speaking to that, Baldi, what do you think about
the schedule had Monday Night football, You're facing the team
who's in a similar position as you and the Dolphins
or zero three still looking for the first win. The
Cowboys are one and two, they won a tight game
against the Giants, but then they were just blown out
by the Chicago Bears. Then you had that London trip.
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You'll face the Broncos, who have a very good defense,
but right now they're one and two, and then you
come back home and you're facing the Carolina Panthers team
who's one.
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Yeah. Look it's September. Everybody's trying to figure things out,
you know, I mean everybody even like, Look, I'm in Philadelphia.
The Eagles are three and zero. They could easily be
own three. I mean, honestly, like if Cedee Lamb catches
the ball on the opening night of the year, they
probably lose that game. If Travis Kelce does a babble
ball at the end zone, they probably they might lose
that game. They're gonna be losing in the game when
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that happens. And Eagles block two field goals, you know,
at the end to win the game against Iran, and
so everybody's record. Blimore can go up and down the field.
Lamar Jackson could be another MVP. They can't stop anybody,
So everybody has issues the record. We pay attention to
the record, and it's important to win, don't get me wrong.
But you know, like all these games are hanging in
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the balance between a play here and to play there.
If I'm Aaron Glenn, I'm just actually pointing this out
around the whole league, how it comes down to a
play here, a play there, wins and losses, and so
these games can be can be won and loss in
the first quarter, in the fourth quarter, like it's never
one play, is never one guy. But these these games
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are incredibly close, outside of a couple of blowouts that
we get each weekend, but other than that, these games
are coming down to the brink. And I watched it
every week. The Indianapolis is three and zero, but they
could have been. You know, they've been fortunate at the
end of some of these games as well.
Speaker 1 (04:57):
Part every team's dealing with the adversity. But the first
year of the program, here you've already started two quarterbacks
through three games. And then on the defensive side of
the ball, Jemaine Johnson back from injury, but unfortunately he's
dealing with the ankle. And then here earlier this week
for the Jets on the defensive side of the ball,
where they're trying to just get their feet underneath them
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right now now, You've placed Quincy and Williams on an
injury reserve unfortunately with the shoulder injury, and then Marcellino
McCrary ball as well went to injury reserve.
Speaker 3 (05:28):
Well, that's what happens. You're only as strong as your
weakest link. And you know, you think that how important
it is to make sure that you developed the backside
of your roster just as as important as what you
do with the front side of your roster. Because we
understand the nature of the game. But we also understand
with the new with the new week, what that really means, right,
It means that your depth is going to be tested.
Every team depth is going to be tested. It's who
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can handle that, who can coach their way through it?
You know, no different than San Francisco, no different than
Baltimore without metabk and likely you have to adjust. You
have to make sure that and that's where coaching comes in. Understand, Okay,
what game plan can I put together that gives us
the best chance to win every week? So I think
you know, that's really what it comes down to. So
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we'll see what happens and how they how they adjust
as well. We'll see if Justin Fields is back. If
Justin Fields isn't back, what did what did Tyride do well?
And how do we grow off for that package and
move forward? You know it's impairing though that they have
to start developing a receiver opposite. Somebody's going to have
to step up and you have to make that open
competition because you can't put so much on Garrett with
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thirteen attempts. You know, you got to be able to
cheat a couple of those attempts potentially to somebody else
if they're trying to double them, take them away.
Speaker 1 (06:37):
All right, We're going to get into this with our matchup.
Jets offense first, Dolphins defense in a second, but pald
what have the bells? And also obviously last game against
the Buccaneers. These are two teams that game plan very well.
Speaker 4 (06:53):
We know that.
Speaker 1 (06:53):
But after the Jets put that run game on film
in week one, what's been the plan here? Because Bart
just talked about hey Field potentially being back in the lineup.
The last two games for the Jets, the quarterback has
been the leading rusher.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Until you get a real run gain game. And the
Jets have two good backs. But that's Vedavea, that's Levante
David that's Todd Bowles. I mean, that's a tough group.
They do a lot, they give you a lot of looks.
You know, it's about getting you know, what they had
success against Pittsburgh was they got a hat and a hat,
they got movement at the point of attack. And they
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haven't been able to do that against Buffalo and Tampa.
But that's what you got to get back to. You
got to get back to finding out and bart Yeah,
you know this, You've got to have three runs that
you can just go to. That's what Detroit did against Baltimore.
You know, on Monday night, they literally ran three runs,
but they were really good at those three runs. They
went to a Y Y two tight ends, you know,
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and they found something that worked and then they play
action off it on fourth down to seal the game.
But that's what the Jets have to keep working at.
What's our bread and butter play? Is it outside zone?
Is it inside zone? Is it power? Like they gotta
kind of they gotta keep you just keep pounding and
working out. The guys are are individually good. What they're
not good at right now is always playing together and
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knowing what the other guy is going to do and
how you get movement at the point, because if you
get movement at the point for brailn or breeze, they're
going to gain yards. But the idea your quarterback is
just gonna scramble in the passing game and run like
that's just not that's not an offense.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
And when you look at it, right, when you talk
about the best teams and they run those same runs,
they just get you a window dressing. They add to
shift the motion in there, they change the personnel, but
it's essentially the same run and everybody knows that they're
going to block it the same run, but it looks
like five different runs to the defense because it's out
of different personnel groups and it may be a different
you know, nickeling there or diamond there, or could be
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base or could be you know, short yards personnel, and
it all looks like something different, but you're essentially running
the same thing. You have to be able to learn
how to you know, block that out of any front
you get and be able to make it out of movement.
So just three or four plays left side, right side,
tight end, short side, open side. But also I think
you know, the Jets probably have to figure out what
their best personnel grouping is, and I don't mind them
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having two tight ends on the field, But if Garrett
Wilson is like the only one that's doing work as
far as a receiver, then why don't you just go
to one receiver and go with your pony package and
put Brailn and Briefe back there and then pretty much
breaches the wide receiver from the backfield. That creates a
lot of hesitation. They've had some success with it last year,
they've had success with it this year. I think they
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just need to commit to it and understand when you
put two running backs out there, and you put two
tight ends in one receiver, then that forces other teams
that have to change their personnel group and if they
decide to stay light, you just run the ball and
bludge them to death and just use these guys. I mean,
I grew up in high school. I know. I'm going
back to my glory days when I rant played tailback.
We basically had two split backs, and we basically had
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two tailbacks and we just if it was a toss,
we go block for each other. If it was a lead,
we go lead for each other. Those guys can do that,
but it creates so much indecision because you have one
of those guys leading up, Like who's to say that
that guy doesn't lead up? And then you know, runs
the old stripe pass that the Seattle Seahawks used to
run with their fullback with strong but now you have
that and that's a real running back.
Speaker 1 (10:20):
Well bald. The The Jets offensive line has definitely seen
a lot more movement. I talked to Tanner Angstran about that.
He said that, you know, Pittsburgh was more stationary. What
we've seen in the last couple of weeks is is
a lot more movement. And I think bottom line is
that you're gonna see this offensive line develop because it's
a young group that's working together. But speaking of injuries
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at the receiver position, like Bart's talking about outside, Garrett Wilson,
Josh Reynolds has not played the last couple of games.
I thought Tyler Johnson got a couple of catches in there.
He had the one drop, but maybe he can build
off of that. And then Mason Taylor, he's learning on
the job and other young guy's learning on the job
right now. The four receptions and uh, you know again,
it's a learning process for him, especially in a blocking game.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Yeah, and he's going back home. I mean, you know,
Mason is you know, University of Miami kid, and he's
going back down there. And so you know, I think,
well he went to LSU, but I mean he's that's
weird grew up. Yeah, yeah, So I mean it's always
a big deal. But look, you got to play Aaron Smith,
you got to play you know, Tyler. I mean, that's
what you have. I mean, you'd love for Tyler catch
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that ball. I mean it's a difference maker right there.
He did come up with another big catch, but you know,
I mean that's that's his job to catch it. You know,
you know, he felt bad guys dropped passes. That was
a big spot. But uh, that's that's what they're got
right now. And so I mean, Garrett will look, the
weakness of this whole Miami team is their secondary. It's
it's a mess and everybody knows it, and everybody's torching
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it right now, and they got to take advantage of it.
They've they've got some guys that you know are questionable,
whether you know, and even and even Minka in the
back end doesn't look like he runs nearly like he
used to. But you know, the key is they've got
talented guys up front, and that's that's the strength of
the whole team. Is their defensive front. You know, Chubb
and Jalen Phillips and Chop Robinson, Zach Seeler like that's
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you know, that's that's the strength of this whole team.
And so they if they block them up the way
you know other teams have right now, they're gonna have
success for the back end of this game.
Speaker 1 (12:22):
Well, let's take a quick break and dive further into
that matchup Jets offense against the Dolphins defense. Monday Night
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of the Year to submit your nomination. Now, Bart, what
did you make of what the Jets were able to
do down the stretch in terms of guys, we're talking
about tempo being on the ball. I mean, when you're
down twenty three to six, of course you're gonna hurry
up the operation. But did you see something there. No
matter who's playing quarterback this week. Again, we're taping Wednesday morning.
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It Fields is out of concussion protocol, he could be
the guy again, urged to Rod making a second consecutive start.
But was there something there that the Jets can hang
their head on.
Speaker 3 (13:15):
Yeah, I mean they got in a rhythm right, and
also what they start understanding is that you just run
routes behind where the blitz is coming from. The problem
was I think early in the first half they didn't
realize where the blitz was coming from. I mean they
ran fox fire zone at least eight times.
Speaker 4 (13:29):
I found in sixth part I counted six and was
Winfield for the sack? Was you know Roscoe Parish like
you know, Tom, if you don't stop it, times just
gonna keep gotting.
Speaker 1 (13:39):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
It was just fox fire zone end up the field,
the dB off of his butt, and then inside linebacker
coming down, coming super tight, trying to put the running
back in a buy.
Speaker 4 (13:48):
You know.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
I thought that they also finally start, you know, playing
doing something like basically turn protection, and how you do
turn protection is based off of boot. You know, you
can you can blitz all you want, you can't penetrate
turn protection because somebody's always looking at you and then
and the quarterback is running away from you. So they
did that a couple of times with Justin or ty Rod.
I would love to see them, you know, with a
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lot of boot action, you know, sprintouts, throwbacks where you're
cutting the side of the field and being able to
have options that way, because I think it's hard to penetrate.
You know, Anthony Weaver, former teammate of Minds, He's going
to watch the femin and say they struggle with blitzes
and if your secondary's you know, struggling, let's try and
heat him up quickly so our guys can just flat
foot and hope that the ball comes out and we
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make the tackle with the hot route. So you know
what you saw last week, you're going to get versions
of that this week as well. I mean, you know,
Anthony was there, he ran fox Fire Zone. He knows
exactly what it looks like. He knows how it can
challenge protections. How you how you beat fox fire zone,
you know, which is basically from the field, the why
side of the field you just turn protection. You can't
penetrate it.
Speaker 4 (14:51):
Just for the fans listening, to us out there, bart
it's basically a week side overload, and so you're gonna
bring four, you can block three and one basically coming free,
and so if you turn the protection away to that,
then you can slide in that and pick up that
guy coming through the B gap. You know, whether it
was Winfield or Parish on site, correct, Baldy.
Speaker 1 (15:13):
You mentioned the Dolphins secondary earlier. Through three games, this
team's giving up thirty two point three points a game.
That's thirty second in the NFL, the twenty six in
total defense, one of three hundred and seventy yards per game,
thirty first. On third down, they're allowing teams to convert
fifty two point six percent of the time. No stat
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really there to hang their head on. Why specifically are
Day struggling because you mentioned their personnel. What is Weaver
gonna do when he looks at the Jets offense? So
what do you make of this matchup specifically Monday night?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Well, you know, the Patriots beat him, and they had
a rookie left guard and rookie left tackle, and they
handled everything up front just fine, and they gave Drake
my time. But you know, you're looking at m Duck
out there. I mean, you're just looking at guys that honestly.
I mean I could go through the list of the personnel,
but I mean I thought when I saw him this summer,
like they better go get some players because they it's
(16:11):
just a talent situation right now. I mean, they they
just let so many guys walk. I mean, whether it
was Xavi and Howard, I mean Jalen Ramsey, I mean,
they let good players just go. And that used to
be a strength to the whole team. You know, when
Brian Flores was there was their secondary was a real
real problem. Javon Hall and he walked like they all
got out of there. And so they just don't have
(16:32):
replacements for him right now. So if you could block
him up, like they're breaking down in the back end,
and if you break down the back end, you give
up big plays. That's what they did when they lost
to the Patriots, and Buffalo did the same thing to him,
And so it's an issue right now. And the only
thing that can really cover that up because I don't
think they have the personnel and the roster is pass
rush and where you got to really speed the quarterback
(16:53):
up and speed up the process.
Speaker 1 (16:56):
Bart what do you make of this stat? Both Tyreek
Hill and Garrett Wilson have accounted for over half of
their teams air yards through three weeks of the season.
Tyreek fifty three point five percent, Garrett fifty point eight percent.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
When you do that and you are so heavily dependent
on one player, then you can lean until the coverage
to that. So what happens if those players don't get it?
Somebody else has to step up and while the other
guys get coached up. So I don't know what you
have to figure out what that personnel group is. I
thought last week one of their biggest runs was when
they kind of had the old Chip Kelly, you know,
(17:30):
pair of receivers outside of the numbers and another one
on top of the numbers, and they were able to
run a isolation run with Breez where he was able
to read the three technique and figure out how to
come off the double team. You know, I think that's
those are the things you have to do to be creative.
You know, everybody says run the ball, but sometimes you
have to say how. And you know, I can remember
some of the best guys going against chan Gilly back
(17:51):
in the day, like what he would do is he
had power runs out of small personnels, right, because you
know he can spread you out with four wides and
then he can just running basically open open zone or
open power where he's pulling somebody and gaining advantages. Those
are the little crafty things that you have to do
when you when you're struggling and you try to figure out,
you know what the game plan has got to be,
(18:13):
make people stop the same power runs. The back is
going to be a power back because he's a power back.
You don't have to have a power formation to run
a power of power game.
Speaker 4 (18:22):
They got a big young back like Brylan Island there
in uh In Oliver like he's uh he's he scored
a touchdown last week, had some good power runs. They're
going to him a little bit more. But you know,
a chan is his speed. He's got incredible speed, and
so you get you've got to get that guy down
to the ground otherwise he's gonna go along ways.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
Pauldy does a game plan change at all if it's
Taylor or if it's Fields. I mean, if it is Fields,
he's coming off a concussion.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Well, I mean, look, Justin is a better runner. I mean,
Tyrod can still move, you know, he can still avoid uh,
you know, quick pressure. He can still do a lot
of those things. But he look, he brought him back.
You're down twenty to six. I think he's looking ugly.
You know. He brought him back, and he took what
the defense gave him. They got into that quick rhythm.
They went hurry up like it was a good fourth quarter.
(19:11):
Can you regards who's that quarterback? Can you learn from
some of those things? Because I thought they responded really
well in the heat down there, in that atmosphere, you know,
and so they took advantage of some of the things
that the Bucks were doing to get back into the game.
And you know, obviously, you know what Will McDonald did
was just a great individual effort.
Speaker 1 (19:31):
It Okay, we're gonna take a quick break and then
we're gonna look at the Jets defense against that Dolphins offense.
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(19:53):
Dolphins were embarrassed in Week one they've come back the
last two weeks in the offense is starting to look
like the old Miami offense. What have you seen from them?
And specifically from last week against Buffalo where they went
to a ball control game, it looked like from my
vantage point and a third down conversions were off the
charts because it was like their defense was keeping their
(20:17):
offense on the field, that's how they were playing defense.
Speaker 4 (20:19):
Well, they had five straight third down conversions. I think
every one went to Wattle and they just ran plays
form and he was just running these speed outs and
you got to respect the speed of him going vertical,
but he's cutting it off to the sideline. And Tua,
you know who, was just completely flummoxed his first week
against Indianapolis and he was terrible and it didn't look
like to it because coming into this season as a starter,
(20:43):
I mean, he was twenty five and fifteen as a starter.
They couldn't win with the backup, but he but he
hadn't played well was week one. He's gotten better and
better getting the ball down the field a little bit more.
They run those speed o routes, you know, with whether
it's you know, from a from two wide outs or
half field reads him and you know, Tyreek and Waddell
are really good at it, and normally, you know, normally
(21:06):
two is very accurate thrower. And so you know, he's
coming back into what he does best, which is getting
the ball out of his hands fast and you know,
and inaccurately, and that's and letting those guys run with
it afterwards. And so that was a real issue Week
one against India. But he's got better at it. The
number one in the NFL on third dout conversions right now,
which you know is something that Jets have to pay
(21:27):
attention to because you can't let that team just sustain
offense and go down the field. That's what they've done
the last two weeks.
Speaker 1 (21:34):
Part. Can I just point something out here as far
as the justs defense is concerned, And Baldy did a
film review on this for us that you can find
on our digital and social platforms. Quinn Williams was unbelievable Sunday.
I mean that gets lost in the mix, and I
get it. The Jets aren't winning right now and just
(21:55):
looking for that first win of the season. But with
that being said, Warren Sapp was at the game and
coming out after halftime, Sap went over to him gave
him some kind of impassioned speech, But to me, that
was all about real respect and real and Sap knows
how good this guy is, and when Quinnin was growing up,
(22:15):
he idolized the guy like Sap in terms of what
he brought to the table from the three technique.
Speaker 3 (22:21):
I mean, listen, quinn has all the tools right to be,
you know, top five defensive tackle on his league, you know,
for the years to come. And now he has help.
I thought, you know, when you look at Harrison Phillips,
you know, he's really aiding and allowing him to be
able to get the matchups that he needs or be
able to kind of take some of the pressure off
of Quinnon. Happened to be everything, the run stopper, the
(22:42):
interior you know, movement guy and all that type of stuff.
He has tremendous versatility. I mean sometimes I think, you know,
we forget that he can't play at d M as
well as far as that big elephant in. You know,
so if you can't stop the run sometimes and you
route out Jermaine Johnson, I don't think it's a bad
idea to put him at the elephant Inn and bring
you know, Briggs, and bring in and Phillips and be
(23:03):
able to have that heavy, heavied up defensive tackle type
look because he can't convert and be able to convert
a run to pass, you know. But he's always had
all the tools. He's a he's an exceptional athlete. He's
a tremendous competitor, and he has tremendous skill set. You
have to tip your cap to everything that he learned
in the University of Alabama before he got here, because
he was ready to go. And I think he's just
(23:23):
you know, on on his verse to all Pro season.
If they can figure out how to get this defensive
you know, the run run defense stop, he'll get more accolades.
And if they're going to turn it around, it's going
to because the defense is going to play to his potential.
Speaker 1 (23:36):
Baldy, I really like this Jets interior, starting with Williams,
but that was a great trade acquisition and getting Harrison
Phillips here. And one guy that part continues to talk
about is Juwan Briggs. Great motor there on the inside,
a strong guy as well. But we talked at the
onset here, Jet's dealing with several injuries at the linebacker position.
(23:57):
What is the plan now for Wilkes and Aaron Glenn
Is they look at a Miami team that listen, they
thrive with the misdirection, they thrive with the screen games,
they thrive getting the ball out of two his hands,
and they have tremendous speed. And so what do you
do with the linebacker spot now?
Speaker 4 (24:18):
Well, I mean, you know, you're gonna be as good
as your eyes, you know, because you're gonna see a
lot of fly sweeps, You're gonna see a lot of misdirection,
and so you want your eyes to be good. And
so but that's that starts with just looking at the
front and you know, the offense line will tell you
where they're going, uh for the most part. So but
they you know, they've got they've got tremendous speed, you
(24:39):
know on some of these sweeps that they run in
the run game. But I you know, I still think, like,
you know, they got a rookie left guard, they got
a very young left tackle. I mean you got to
get you got to make these guys know what they're
doing too. Like you got to challenge because I think
Aaron Brewer is an undersized center. I might put Leonard
Taylor right on top of him or Phillips like beat
him up at the center position. You're gonna be a
(24:59):
strong as your center. Like, there's things you can do
to cover those guys up. You can play reduced front
against this this group right here and free the linebackers up.
Uh you know, I mean Bart will tell you like
they're gonna be as good. He's gonna make as many tackles,
whether it's Kiko in there or Jamien whatever. I mean,
you cover the guys up up front. Let those guys
go run and you know, use their their speed to
(25:22):
go chase these things down. They can have some success
right there. So you could do some things with your
front to free your linebackers up to stop the run.
Speaker 1 (25:29):
Bart, that's music to your ears.
Speaker 3 (25:31):
Either reduced front, Yeah, I mean listen that that's a
reduced front. I'm sitting right in that bubble. Come see
me if you dare. You know what I mean you
talk about. You know that that safety coming down, that
that gives you flanking right because you know, if it's
if it's one receiver to the open side, then you
stay covered two on the backside. Or what we used
to do with Reeves is you'll choke choke the guy there,
(25:52):
man the man on that side, and tilt the entire backside.
It'll safety open to the front side. So now we
can stuff the other side. There's a lot of ways
you can do that. And listen, I was disappointed not
to talk about other peoples and other organizations. You know,
I don't understand why the why the Ravens don't play
the reduced front and bring Kyle Hamilton down as to
insert safety, as everybody. What that allows you to do
(26:14):
is that allows the backside linebacker to fast flow, to
run away without having to worry about checking that gap
because the insert safety is able to check that gap,
or you can stab that in to make everything spilled
to that free defender. That's inserting right. So reduces a
great front to be able to make teams one dimensional,
and it allows you to play cover two on one
side to cover three on the other side unless you
(26:36):
have two receivers to the open side. I know that's
a lot of football jargon, but you got to you got,
you got, you got two film nuts. That's what you get.
I love it. Body.
Speaker 1 (26:48):
I feel so bad for Quincy Williams, but he lays
his body out there on the line every Sunday. Hopefully
this is a short term injury. But he's a guy
sidelined the sideline.
Speaker 4 (26:58):
So explive. He's been the MVP of the team for
a Reefs think yeah, I mean, look his his leadership
and his playmaking ability and how fast he plays the game.
I mean, you know, him and Jamien, it's been a
strength of this defense now for the last two years.
And so that's that's a terrible loss. And you know,
I mean I some days I just watched Quincy and Quinnon,
(27:20):
you know, like they were kind of stacked behind each other. Man,
It's like one guy's feeding the other guy. You know,
Quinn's getting penetration, Quincy's cleaning up like it's a great
you know, one two brother act right there. And so, uh,
it's it's look, it's it's gonna be a loss. It's
it's a tough loss. I mean, all right.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
So a couple of brief points here. Cam Jones been
playing primarily on special teams since being acquired on waivers
from Kansas City. Maybe he gets an increased role at
the linebacker position. The Jets also picked up Mark Robinson,
who's got some experience with the Pittsburgh Steelers. He's been
primarily a special teams player. Was on New England's practice
(27:58):
squad of late uh elevated for each of the three
games this season, so he could.
Speaker 4 (28:03):
Be marks thumper. He's been training in Pittsburgh, you know,
and he's got size to him. He does have I believe,
limitations in the passing game, and that's why he couldn't
stay on the field of Pittsburgh. But he you know,
he made it as a special teams player, backup linebacker
for at least the last two years, and so then
you know it's you know, it's a guy that they
(28:25):
can throw in there. I think that, you know, he's
got some experience in this league.
Speaker 1 (28:28):
Bart he put a sauce on Tyreek Hill. He's got
a different skill set than these other guys that he's
been shadowing here early in the season, like a Metcalf
or Mike Evans.
Speaker 3 (28:40):
Now I put him on I put him on Waddle
because Wattle's the guy that you know has that D speed.
I'm going to double Tyreek and bracket him from different directions.
He's never going to know where the double team's coming from.
It could come from my Nickels swiping out to him.
It could come from the safety, it can come. I'm
gonna give him every different type of look that he
can he can think of a go ahead and to
(29:00):
go back to like the special team guys. I can
remember one day when I was just a special team
guy and I got that opportunity. I never looked back.
Speaker 1 (29:08):
I love there, I love there, Bart Scott uh Bal.
The big picture, how much can some of these guys
benefit from the playing time they're getting right now? Like
Malchi Moore just got his first NFL start last week.
Sauce came out of that game for a few plays
to have his head evaluated. Azy Thomas comes in the
game and he's making a couple of plays. There's a
(29:29):
rookie out of.
Speaker 4 (29:30):
Good playing sideline. Hey, he really did down the sideline
against a book. I mean it was a good play. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (29:36):
Now, now Keiko is gonna have definitely an increased role
over the four.
Speaker 4 (29:41):
Here's the thing about young players. If they if they're
the right guy, if they're wired right, and they're gonna
have a career, Like you live with the mistakes because
you know, generally you you learn from your mistakes. Good
players always do, and then they're gonna be good players
down the stretch. I mean when Jamie and Sherwood came
in to play linebackers, a pumped up safe like nobody
knew what he could do, but what he's done with it,
(30:03):
Like you know, he's putting up a hundred tackles, you know, So,
like you don't know if they're the right guys, if
they done their scouting right, if they've got some inner
fiber to them, if the game is super important to them,
like they're gonna learn from the mistakes, and so you
don't want a whole team of young guys out there
that's you know, because there's gonna be too many mistakes
and positions important and understanding the game situation. But like
(30:27):
Acy stepped in there, he made it could play down
the sideline. Good for him. Man.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Oh by the way, ag had two pick sixes in
his career down in Miami, so I kind of think that.
Speaker 3 (30:37):
Maybe he can strap it up.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
Yeah, this is this is what I think. This is
poetic justice. Man, let's get it done down in Miami.
It be nice to get it done against a rival, right.
Speaker 3 (30:46):
Yeah, absolutely, what better place to get your first game ball?
Then I'm in South Beach. Maybe if you stay, you stay,
you stay there Monday for Victory Mondays. If it goes well.
Speaker 1 (30:57):
Yeah, well I'll make sure we'll keep to playing there
until Tuesday morning. Thanks guys.
Speaker 2 (31:05):
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Speaker 1 (31:23):
All right, let's get to our extra point. One thing
that we did not get into with Baldy and Bart
was the Jets made an interesting trade this week, acquiring
Jarvis Brownie from the Titans. That acquisition involved a late
round draft pick swap. Now here's a guy who started
fourteen games last season for the Titans. He had seventy
(31:46):
five tackles, so he's a physical cornerback on the outside. Also,
he started Tennessee's first two games this season. He did
not play last week he had an ankle injury. But
with that being said, you're getting a young player and
also there's familiarity there because his positional coach in Tennessee.
Last year's here with the Jets, and that's Chris Harris,
(32:07):
So the Jets know exactly what they're getting in the
young Jarvis Brownly. Finally, on paper, the Jets schedule should
lighten up over the next four games. The jets first
three opponents consider this. Pittsburgh is two to one, Buffalo's three
and zero, and then Tampa is three and Oh. Those
first three combined record of eight and one. Let's talk
(32:30):
about the next four games for the Green and White.
The Dolphins are zero three, the Cowboys are one and two,
the Broncos are one and two, and Atlanta is one
and two. So that's a combined record of three and nine.
Let's see how they managed the next four games. I
think this is a critical stretch for a young team,
(32:50):
the next six days, because Miami, that's a winnable game.
Miami's looking at you and saying it's a winnable game
as well. But if you can secure that victory, you'll
come home and you'll face the Dallas Cowboys, and that
team's been scuffling of late. That also is an extremely
gettable one. So the Jets, who are zero three starting
(33:13):
the week, can be two and three. By the time
they finish against the Dallas Cowboys. But you gotta make it,
you gotta make it happen. You got to finish ball games.
You gotta play for sixty. You gotta win the turnover differential,
and if they do that, the Jets can have some
success coming up.
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