September 16, 2025 • 33 mins
Host Jeane Coakley is joined by Jets Legend Marty Lyons and Jets legend Anthony Becht to discuss the Green & White's Week 3 matchup with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, and welcome to week three of the jet Stream.
I'm Jenny Coakley alongside with my lovely, wonderful.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Co host, Marty Lions. Marty, your hair looks nice and done.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
But before we get to it, I got to point
out this hat I'm wearing. It's the Marty Lions Foundation hat.
Thank you so much for it, Marty's great little uh pop.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah. You know. The one thing that we've been able
to do is brand that logo for the last forty
three years, let people know out in the community that
there's a lot of people that believe in our mission,
a lot of people helping us provide wishes for terminally
ill children or children with a chronic life threatening illness.
And as we get ready to go into the last
quarter of twenty twenty five, we're happy to say that
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we're going to hit that benchmark once again and go
over a million dollars race.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Whooh that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, yay. A lot of hard work and a lot
of people donating, and a lot of people that I
need to say thank you to, and if they're listening,
I do say thank you. On behalf of the Foundation,
the families and the board of directors.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's awesome. And you know, I'm making a lot of
dreams come true. And Marty, I joked with you when
we first started saying, your hair looks nice. You and
I got our hair done at the TWA Airport this week.
We hang out all the time this week.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You know what today what was great is going over
there to the Jet Blue and looking at the relationship
and the partnership that the Jets have had with Jet
Blue and Jeff Fernandez representing the Jets there, and you
also had Jeremy Rutgers, and you had Quincy Williams and
Eric Coleman and you and I were there, and you
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know what a great day to be at the terminal,
go down look at the plane and to realize that
that is the third plane in this partnership that the
Jets have been able to paint. Congratulations to the Jets
and of course congratulations to Jet Blue.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's so cool to see when we were down the
run on tarmac to see the plane and what it
looks like. And we were joking like where would you
take it, Marty, if you could go somewhere.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Well, I I took it to a place where I
knew they flew. You know what, you don't want to
say Italy because they don't fly there. But if you
say Aruba, yeah, you know, and you do a little
bit of research before you get there. And of course
you know, I've flown Jet Blue, I don't know how
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many times. And too, of course Jet Blue years ago
was they were a big sponsor, a big help to
the foundation, and we're trying to build that partnership back
and with Stephanie and everybody over there at Jet Blue,
I think we have a pretty good chance.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I think so too. It's for a good cause. Let's
talk a little football now.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Listen, Week one, we were excited to talk about Week one,
what they were able to do. Week two complete opposite,
Like Marty, what do you think happened between Week one
and Week two?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well, the one thing about the NFL, and one thing
you know that happens is you're going to have games
like that. You can't pinpoint whether it was the offensive
defense of special teams, it just it just happened. But
it's early in the season. You know, ag is trying
to change the culture, trying to change the mentality of
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everybody over there, and it just happened. It's, you know,
the second game of the year. You still have fifteen
games left. But you one thing that you don't want
to do, Jenay, is keep digging yourself a hole. Now
you're going down there to play a Tampa Bay Buccaneers
team that is well coached by Todd Bowles, and you
know how much his players want to win this game
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for Todd Bowles because he was the head coach of
the New York Jets a few years ago. You and
I both know Todd very well. He's a gentleman, and
it's going to be a tough battle for the Jets.
They're going to go down there. They have to fight
the heat, they have to find you know.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
The first d first road game, first road game.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
But you know what, maybe it's for them to have
a road game after the performance that they had against Buffalo,
get away a little bit. Go down there. You're still
going to have some fans, but ninety percent of that
stadium is going to be rooting for the Tampa Bay Bucks.
You got to go down there, take each play as
if it's the most important play of the game, put
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sixty sixty five plays together and come away with a victory.
You don't want to come back and be or go
down there again to play Miami in week four being
zero and three.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And now obviously Justin Field is not playing, He's been
ruled out with concussion. Tyrod Taylor's playing. How does that
affect a team or does it at all? Because it
was so much earlier in the week that they knew
that they were having it a different way.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well, I think it would affect the team if Tyrod
Taylor didn't have fourteen years of experience. You've got a
guy that has played for I don't know five different teams,
a guy that has been a starter, a guy that
knows how to be a leader, a guy that.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Has everybody on that team respects.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
They got they respect, but more importantly, they trust them.
And they've got to get off to a good start.
Last week. What hurt them in my opinion, Uh, you
know you have Buffalo kicking off to you and you
go three plays and out. It's almost like Buffalo got
the opening kickoff after three plays and you know they
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got it to start the second half, and the Jets
made some you know, mental mistakes, bad penalties at bad time,
which enabled Buffalo to get a little bit of momentum.
And here's a good team, a team that everybody's predicting
that's going to represent the AFC conference in the super Bowl.
You can't make those mistakes.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
No, Marty.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You know we have special guests every week. We got
a good one this week. I mean they're always good,
but this is a fun guy. We know them well,
we enjoy them. Play for the team now than the
radio booth.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Let's bring him in.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Look up there, Anthony, what's up?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Anthony Beck making a debut on the Jets stream podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Appreciate you, my friends.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Legends. I get to love legends, love the hat.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I like that. So let's start off. Let's let's talk
about your son and his performance out there and.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Uh playing at Iowa State represent that and how.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Good he's playing.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
No, thank you, it's good to see you both. Yeah,
it's been remarkable, guys. I mean it's been a great
journey to watch and sit back. You know, I think
anybody that has kids that played sports like you know,
maybe me and Marty, that played at the highest level,
you know, your expectation levels are always you know, even
right because you know they're probably not going to do
what you did, so, you know, to to see him
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be now, you know, a third year starter as a
red shirt junior, to see where the team has gone
h and what he's been able to accomplish, it's very
rewarding and I'm just glad to be a part of it.
I'm Roco's dad. That's kind of what people call me now,
So I.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Kind of like that. I kind of like that world.
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
I just sit back and sit in the stands and
and enjoy it because it's been great and I'm really
happy for him.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Wasn't that harder, I'll tell you, alm, Marty.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
No, But that's sort of like when you introduce your
wife to somebody, they go, this is Anthony's white. You know,
let see if they don't remember her name. But you know,
that's a great feeling. I know you're a proud father.
I know you get out to see almost every one
of his games, which I commend you for doing.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, you know, I can't get that time back, you know, Marty.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I mean time is precious, and uh, you know, obviously
I'm able to kind of travel from his games and
get to the Jets games and and yeah, it's it's great,
you know, And I coach in the spring, so it
really doesn't conflict with that.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
And you know, a little travel is nothing.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
You know, if I can, I can see my son
play and go through his journey and be with my
wife and and watch those games.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
So yeah, yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
It's It's been a fun time, very blessed where I'm
at right now. And you know, being around football kind
of three sixty five is really kind of fulfilling. I
don't get any off time as far as the game
is concerned, so it keeps me sharp on all aspects.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So tell me about Anthony you being the coach, what's
that like.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
It's been tremendous, you know, extremely humbled to get the
opportunity number one four years ago by the XFL at
the time to be a head coach. You know, there's
a lot of well deserved, proven coaches with much better
resumes than me that that you know, could have been
in that in that opportunity. But I did sell a
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vision that was maybe a little different, and you know,
to take a chance to go out of the box
in that moment for the league, it was really important.
You know, those leagues don't survive long and you really
need to make the right decisions, and when you're you're
up against guys like Bob Stoops, one of the greatest
college coaches of all time, Wait Ups, one of the
best coordinators of all time in the NFL, and and
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different types of of names.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
That you hear.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
It's just it's tremendous for me, and I have an
obligation to those coaches that you know, maybe weren't given
the opportunity that I have to come in and it
can't be just hey, he's a name or whatever that
has nothing to do with it. So I've been on
a great journey. We've we've had three great seasons. I
coached the best team in the league in my opinion.
We have the number one fan base. We we out
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attendance every team three to one across our league. And
we've we've been a winner. You know, We've we've been
able to win seventy three percent of our games over
the last three seasons. I take a lot of pride
in that, and that's not because of me. It's because
I have a great staff that knows how to communicate,
that knows how to understand, how to you know, work
with athletes and fill the holes for some of these
players that are trying to get to the next step
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in the NFL, and I got players that buy in
and that are very attentive and and want to.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
You know, really take the next step.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
And what I've done is with my staff, and it's
it's not one hundred percent true Marty knows this with
former players that have played the game, but I've been
able to build a staff ninety percent of them that
are former guys that have played in the NFL, that
had played at a very high level, but know how
to communicate, talk and teach. They don't just expect them
to do it the way I did it, or Leroy
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Glover did it, or Donnie Abraham did it. They teach
it in a way to get them to that point
or at least try to get them to a point
to get that And that's really been successful. And we've
had a lot of good players and we've had over
twenty five plus guys get into training camps in three years.
I take a lot of pride in that, in the
development of helping those players. So it's been phenomenal. That's
the journey I'm kind of on right now. All these
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things that I'm doing. I want to be a head
coach at the highest level, and I'll get there somehow.
But I love where my feet are and I love
what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
By the way, Saint Louis BattleHawks corre UFL.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yes, the UFL Saint Louis BattleHawks. It's a great league.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
We got new ownership that has come in Micropoli. I
think a lot of people in the New York area
know that name, very familiar with him. Launched a lot
of big brands, billionaire and it's great. You know, you
need money to have these leagues.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Thrive and thirst, but the football product is really good,
you know.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And if you had you're, you know, an opportunity. Would
you rather go into the NFL and coach or would
you rather be a head coach at a at a
college level.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yeah, that's a great question, you know. I think for me, Marty,
I want to be a college head coach.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I think the things that I've done and the things
that I've been through and the way we've done things,
and the landscape of college right now where honestly, you
see a lot of coaches maybe don't want to do it,
you know, one in particular in Nick Saban, I kind
of embrace it. I kind of like the change, you know,
how do you control it? How do you still be
transformational and not transactional? A and an error that's that's
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money driven. Can you still build a culture? I think
there's ways to do that.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I really do.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I love players, I love teaching, I love helping people,
and it does it can translate into winning. And college
head coach would be great, now, is it? George Alabama? No,
that's not what I'm looking for. But American Conference G
five job some belt. I would more than happy love
to do that and build some sustainability at programs that
are trying to figure it out. G five is a
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little different right now. They're not in the mix. They're
kind of left out. They're trying to find ways to
raise money. I kind of like all those pieces and
places that they need help in, and I think I
can put together tremendous, tremendous coaching staff and we could
retain players. And you know what, Marty, if I lose
players to Alabama and Georgia, well hell yeah, man.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I'm going nothing wrong with that. I'll go find some more.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
There's a lot of high school coaches getting overlooked or
players right now getting overlooked that aren't getting the opportunities.
And if they're they're leaving us. You know, I don't
want them to leave. You don't want them to leave
where you're at. But man, you've got to embrace that.
That's the that's the change that's happening right now.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Now.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Now, what I turn away a positional coach or something NFL, No,
I've actually have turned down a few of those. I
want to be with the right people. I want align
myself properly, and I'm going to continue to grow as
a head coach.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
And when someone sees.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
That value and quite frankly, guys with Brocco, he's got
two seasons left, right, so I'll look at everything, okay,
But right now, uh, you know, I I'm grooming myself
to continue to grow and learn as a head coach,
and I'm going to soak in every moment.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I have with the UFL to get.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Better at it, which is awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Which again, all right, So let's see your football dad coach,
you know, rooting on your son who's a hell of
a quarterback that Iowa State. You're a head coach UFL team.
You also do the radio for the Jets.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
What's that like? Then? What's that been like? This guy?
After years?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
He who does your retirement?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
You moved in SI you know, And first I'll start
off with you know, just you know, Marty has been
a icon with the organization, uh, with the broadcast. As
a player, I looked up to Marty as as someone
that you know, he's a great Jet player.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I mean, you know, I I.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Think people, I think in the moments of when it
all the transition and everything like, it was such an
honor for me to be mentioned to be in that
in that spot. And you know, Marty knows how I
feel about you know, I just you know, him and
his family and everybody that's involved. He's done so much
for the for the organization. He continues to do that,
and for me just to carry on a legacy is important,
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you know. I think for the Jets, you know, they
don't they don't want to slap you just to come
in and replace a great player and a great person.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
That did his job.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
You know, what's the moment like, how does that work?
And you know there's a lot to live up to there.
But I do have you know, my experience ESPN. I've
called over one hundred and fifty college games in my
career on TV. I've grew myself. I'm not just getting
thrown into the weeds here. And I've gotten to listen
to to Bob and Marty and how they call the
games and what the fans like and enjoy. They love
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that combination. So you know, for me to step in
that seat has been great. I love the game, I
love I love watching the game. I got a unique Obviously,
Marty knows that visual from up in that booth is different,
and when you train your eyes properly, you can see
the game unlike anyone else unless you're a coach, right So,
and I can bring different perspective, offensive perspective, coaching perspective,
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a former players perspective. Those are things that I try
to embody every single week in the broadcast to bring
that to the fan base and try to keep some
of those fans that listen.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
To Marty that maybe don't want to hear me right now.
So at some point I'll make that transition. I'll get
those guys to come back.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
But it's been it's been tremendous and it's been an
honor to fill those shoes because I just you know,
got a high regard for Marty and what he's done.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Well, I appreciate the compliment, Anthony. So what happened this
past weekend against the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Yeah, you know it was you know, for me as
as someone that watches the game as closely, I was
really surprised honestly what it looked like week one, and
surprise being just how much of it came together. The control,
the preparation, and we all know when it's week one,
you're preparing for week one, not just for that week.
It's an all off season, right. You want to make
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it look great, and then when you get weak too,
you're thinking, wow, Like I did not think it would
be that much discrepancy. But as I sit back and
look at it, man like, there's a long way to
go for this team. I like the steps and the
strides they're going. You know, I got to call it
week to week and the way I see it. But
as I look at it, I also understand the big picture.
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No one turns things around in a week, in a month,
and an off season in a spring. It takes time,
and you know, it's very It's great for fans and
people to want to be optimistic, and you got to
kind of look at that first game of like, hey,
these are great steps, but also understand that the journey
and the culture and the change is not going to
happen in one, two, three, four weeks. It's going to
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take a season. It may take a season and a half.
And you know, you heard coach Aaron talk about, you know,
a microwave societ.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Everybody wants it. Now do I believe that a team
can turn it around in a year? I do.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
You know, you got to see signs of improvement throughout
the first season, but year two and that after that
following first year, you should be able to put those
things together and have a better product. So as much
as I want to see it, and I got to
call it like I call it and see it week
to week, I do have an understanding like this is
not easy. This is not an organization where you're going
to jump in and just make a turn. But they
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do have a really good roster enough guys that week
to week there should be a little bit more of
a consistent play, a little bit more of a play
that's closer, and I would expect that. So it's a
learning experience for the staff for Aaron and everybody involved,
because this is his first time in this as a
head coach, not as a coach because he's been through
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these ups and downs and he talks about that, but
as a head coach, it's different, and those shoes are
tough to fill for no matter where you go. And
I think, for me, do I see improvements in areas
over a five game, ten game, you know, seventeen game stretch?
Those are what my eyes are going to look and
be trained on, maybe a little different than maybe the
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fan that you know wants to see a winner and
wants to see turnover.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Now, all right, so Anthony, Week three, Jets are headed
to Tampa. I see, you know, well you played for
the Jets and for Tampa. What's that like for you?
Especially calling the game?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Our parents in Tampa.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Yeah, two organizations that that obviously, you know, I've grown
to love and it really embraced me. I still have
a tremendous amount of relationships within that organization, and you know,
Todd Bowles.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
You know, I have a good relationship with Todd as well.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
You know, we have two kids that were twenty twenty two,
twenty twenty three class in high school down here that
were very highly recruited. Uh and you know we were
on the same seven on seventeen, so I got to
speak to.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Him a lot, and just you know, watch his journey.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I think he's one of the best, if not the
best defensive coordinator in the league as far as that aspect,
and he's done a tremendous job a head coach, and
he's really taken the path of earned right all the
way through. I mean, his rookie year in the NFL
was my first year as a rookie with the Jets.
He was a secondary coach and he was Aaron Glenn's
coach at that time, so a lot of deep roots throughout.
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But yeah, they're a really good team now. They got
some struggles, right. They got three offensive linemen arguably their
three best, that are out for this game. Baker Mayfield's
playing as good as any quarterback in the NFL, and
you know he's always going to be able to grind
and grid it out and keep it close. And their
defense obviously is very well coached and they have a
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lot of good players at each level. So it's going
to be good to go back again. But a very
winnable game for the Jets if they go out and
do the things that they're being asked to do and
execute at a good clip, but it will not be
easy versus a team that knows how to win and
knows how to cut games out.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, Anthony, last question for me. For twenty two years,
I worked with bobble Shoes, and you know, to me,
he is one of the best. He's the voice of
the Jets. You're on your second year with him. How
enjoyable is it working with Bob?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
He's a pro, right.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I mean, like you know, when I work with Iron
Eagle in preseason, I mean like he's the goat of
the TV side, right, Like, Bob gets it right.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
And I love listening to him. He you know, man,
he's been doing it for so long.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
He's seen so many pluses and minuses throughout the years.
But man, when it's good, and you know, he's passionate
about it. And you know, you know, Marty as as
I'm gonna throw a joke out there, I mean, We're
never gonna lose our voice in a game calling it
right because you know.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
He's got to be on it.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
So I'm never gonna have a call drop or anything
like that that he has to do every single week
because you.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Know he's good.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
But listen, man, like he understands, I understand pace, I
understand like, you know, it's his role to set the scene,
give him his his his window and when the window's
big and it's his moment, like hey man, let like
go with it. Like I'm the I'm the most selfless
person when it comes to to calling football games, like
I don't care like if he gives me ten seconds,
twenty seconds or one second or I gotta wait till
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the next play.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I know my role man so so, but I think
we get the you know. I think that's what's good
and maybe made the.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Transition easy Marty's I'm very respectful to his process and
know how he is and uh and that's how it's
got to be because that is his booth, you know.
So I'll acclimate to what he does, and as we
go along, he'll acclimate to some of the things I do.
And I think that's what makes it a good show, right,
It's entertainment. That's what we're in this business for.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah, I think as long as you guys compliment one another.
And when he goes and that's a jet touchdown. That
doesn't mean he's done.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
You always pause. It's a subtle pause, just to be sure, right,
just be h then you work your way in. But
I'm happy for your aunthey I just want to know.
I'm proud of you to be up there in the
booth and you know what you're.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You're one of those guys that gets so I hope
that you, know, beside rocket playing well the rest of
the year, I hope that your dream of becoming a
football coach one day becomes a reality because I see
how passionate you are and what you can do for
that next generation of athletes. That's what's so important, and
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to me, sometimes that's missing.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
I only need one ad to to have some vision
and sit down with me. I promise the one that
does that will not let me leave the room. But
I appreciate that, and it's not if it's when and uh,
you know, my feet are on the ground where they're at.
I love what I'm doing, and yeah, that time will come,
but I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah, And if you ever need an old defensive line
coach just kidding your.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Buzzes, Yeah, I tell you you're to look at you're
in shape. You look good. I'm sure you got little
more bounce in your steps. So yeah, I may I
may have to.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
He got a new knee, You've got to go see
an ophthalmologist.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
My friends, I can't see through your body.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I can see your body.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You know, Anthony, we appreciate you stopping by one of
the best.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Who's rock o got this week?
Speaker 4 (22:59):
They have a bye week, so I got a true
home game.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yeah, I have Tampa at Jets at Tampa and then
actually I'm going to Florida State.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
My daughter is a junior there.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
It's parents weekend, so this is the first year I
get to do that as well. So I'll be trekking
around at the State. But I'll I'll be home. You
know that this week you can enjoy.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I will join I'll see We'll see you on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Ye, you're the best, one of the best.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
He is one of the best. He's awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
He is. You know what today when I when I
had the opportunity to step out of the booth into
a new role with the Jets, I recommended Anthony number one.
He was right. He has the experience working for espn uh.
He is a jet even though he played at a
couple other stops. He was the number one. He was
drafted in the first round that same year that you
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know Chad Pennington and John Abraham.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
And who's the fourth one, Ellis Ellis.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah, they came in and he's just a good guy.
To give him that opportunity to work with Bob, He's
exactly right, Bob is He's one of a kind. You know,
if you get, you know, if you take you know,
if you get thirty percent of the talking time on
the air, Bob's going to carry you the other seven.
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I mean, Bob is the best. I love him.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Oh we all do. All right.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
We got questions from the fan world. Please drimble, Marty,
drink a cup of coffee. I know you can't see
it fit people listening, but he's drinking a little cup
of coffee. Get his voice ready, all right? Questions from
the fans. This one comes from Michelle from New York
and I put it in. It all kind of makes sense.
With the last question, what was your most memorable moment
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calling a Jets game?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Memorable moment? I think you would have to be back
when they went to back to back AFC Championship games.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Was it they can't wait game. The Bart Scott can't.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Wait game was up there in New England, huh, you know,
and just big, you know, to get there. And they
were playing Pittsburgh one year, and I think it was
Indianapolis the next year. And to realize, hey, you're having
an opportunity to call on AFC championship game and you're
sixty minutes away from going to a Super Bowl, and
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then unfortunately they fell short. I think working with Al
Trodwig and doing jet Journal, you know, Al was a
tremendous guy. Worked with MSG, worked with NBC, and Al
taught me a lot. He said, the one thing when
you're doing radio, make sure that you're you pretend you're
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talking to a blind person. He goes, you got to
make you got to describe what's happening. You got to
bring them into a world that they can't see. And
I owe a lot to Al Trodwigen. And you know,
he just ended. He passed away a few months ago
and we lost a good one.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
But he's still his legacy is obviously still being carried
on by everybody.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
He's mentoring everybody that had an opportunity to work with him.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yes, all right, next question Joe from Jersey. Do you
miss playing?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Oh? You always miss playing. You missed that locker room,
you miss the you know, the opportunity to travel on
the plane. I think this is one thing that I
enjoyed when I was doing the radio for twenty two years.
You got to interact with the players and you got
to build relationships with them, and you got on the
plane with them.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
And I know Quincy Williams, but when we were talking
to him at the Jeff Beluive, he said he missed
talking to you already on the field.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Yeah, because I could go down there, Janey and talk
to them, even though they knew that when I was
up here in the radio booth, like Anthony says, you
got to paint the picture. You got to tell the truth.
I try to tell the truth, but I also try
to be respectable and make sure that these guys understood
that I have a job to do. And I could
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go down there and talk to quinc here, talk to
Quinn in there, talk to Jermaine and tell them, hey,
you know what, I watched the game film this week,
and this is what this guy's going to try to do,
and try to talk to them not as a coach,
but as a friend and somebody that's played the game.
So yeah, I missed the locker room. I missed the guys.
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But I'm enjoying this year talking to all the sponsors
and fans and you know, the dedicated ones up there
in the suites, and just to be able to tell
them thank you and hear their stories is great.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Very cool. All right.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
This comes from I think Rafael from PA. What was
your welcome to the NFL moment?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I think it was against Pittsburgh when you know, nineteen
seventy nine. I don't know if it was. I think
it might have been preseason. It wasn't early in the year,
but it was I think preseason, and I was really
playing out of position. I was playing as a defensive end.
Klecke was playing inside and well I remember hitting that
I think it was John Coleby, and he threw me
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so far out of the picture frame that I knew
that that move was not going to work in this league.
So it was that moment where you pick yourself up,
you run back to the huddle as quickly as possible,
and you realize, hey, it's a new ballgame. The NFL stands.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Alone, did you ever get even with him.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
I don't think so. Jew. I'm telling you he threw
my ask. When we were watching the game film, all
of a sudden, you see me go flying and then
you see this little skinny guy run back to the huddle.
That was me.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
No.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yes, everybody said, you have their moment?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh yeah, did anybody say anything like the clucko or
anybody say anything to watching film?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Watching film though.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Like game, everybody kind of laughed, and you know, and
they're sitting there and you know, there's nothing you can say.
You know, it's like getting blocked and getting knocked off
your off your feet. You can't say anything. You just
kind of laugh. It's like Charlie Chaplin. You know, Charlie
Chaplin once set a day without laughter as the day wasted.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
So you know, everybody, you didn't waste to day that day?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Oh I didn't. I didn't waste to play. I got
my ass back in that huddle. It was. It was heartbreaking.
But now I just want to give another shout out
to uh cash hap that a new sponsor or, a
sponsor of the Jets, allowed me to go into the
store this weekend and pick up a lot of merchandise
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for a lot of fans go up there and they
would have a stack of clothes, or they'd have a
helmet or a football. Bang, throw a credit card down there.
Today I was Santa Claus.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I love how we went from you're welcome to the
NFL moment where you got your butt thrown on about
to you.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Hey, listen, there's a I eight new spots for the
cash app. I was Santa Claus this week. I love it.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
That was a good call there. Look at you making
the transition. Be a good ambassador.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I don't you keep laughing about me getting throwing out
of the bring you back to Reality group? Really?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Dang, I got to the fans all right. Last question
Kevin from Jersey? What was the best pregame speech you heard?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Best pregame speech? Did I? Or like?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Who was the best person who gave a pregame speech?
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I was a rookie in nineteen seventy nine. We used
to listen to Greg Buddle and Greg Buttle would get
everybody fired up, and I would sit there and as
a rookie, you didn't know, Hey, when is your opportunity
to say something? And I don't know when that torch
was passed. But then somehow I got up there and
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the pregame speeches they were pretty good. You know, you
might have a broken table. You know. One time out
there in Oakland, I went to hit something. I thought
it was a you know, just a piece of sheet rock,
only to find out that when my hand went through it,
it was a piece of painted glass. And when I
pulled it out, I had, you know, a few scratches
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on my hands. And Bob Reis, the trainer, goes, hey,
we got to clean this up. And we're getting ready
to play the Raiders with an opportunity to go to
the AFC Championship game. And Gil lance Mel goes out there,
he has two interceptions, we win. I think the final
score was seventeen fourteen, and you know, then we go
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down to Miami and everybody knows what happened.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Well maybe you should well maybe you should have punched
another glass going in to the Miami.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Gave it pore. It went through my mind toay.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I'm going to blame you on that one. That's your fault.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
It could have been. But you know, the owner of
the team today, mister Leon Hess came in and he
gave the pregame speech.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
So you know he wasn't. He wasn't putting his fist
through a glass.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
I took him back seat to him. Yeah, but what
a tremendous guy. No, mister, he cared about his players,
just like what he cares about his players.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Marty, you're the best Week three the books. Thank you
for the hat, the Marty Lyons Foundation. Now you're not
going to the game. No where were you watch? Where
were you be watching?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I'm gonna probably be sitting by my pool watching it
on the TV outside unless I have yardwork to do
with a little bit, I will be watching the game.
And you know, we'll do this again next week. And
we have a special guest coming on next week.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I know about it. Tonay. We've got guests coming on
that people haven't heard from in years.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
In the years, yep.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
And you know what, if you'd like to be a
special guest, Hey, write us a letter, tell us why
we should?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
People do not write letters anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Let me hear email, DMAs, tweet us instagrams.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
I'm not take care of it all that.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
If you want to write Marty a handwritten letter to
tell them why you want to be a guest, on
the show.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
I'll tell you what you are off the air exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I love you too, You're the best. Love the hat.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Hey, guys, this has been a fun week. Love Anthony
back for jumping on chatting with us. We will see
you next week for another episode of Jett and keep
the questions coming. And Marty, I feel bad for you.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Welcome for the mot, Welcome to the NFL moment.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Hey, you know what, I want to pick you up.
Let's keep our fingers crossed. Let the Jets go down there,
hopefully they come back with a victory, and then you
know what you got Dallas next week. But you can't
win two in a row until you win one.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
And on that note, we'll see you next week.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
See you next week, guys,
Hello, and welcome to week three of the jet Stream.
I'm Jenny Coakley alongside with my lovely, wonderful.
Speaker 2 (00:08):
Co host, Marty Lions. Marty, your hair looks nice and done.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
But before we get to it, I got to point
out this hat I'm wearing. It's the Marty Lions Foundation hat.
Thank you so much for it, Marty's great little uh pop.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah. You know. The one thing that we've been able
to do is brand that logo for the last forty
three years, let people know out in the community that
there's a lot of people that believe in our mission,
a lot of people helping us provide wishes for terminally
ill children or children with a chronic life threatening illness.
And as we get ready to go into the last
quarter of twenty twenty five, we're happy to say that
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we're going to hit that benchmark once again and go
over a million dollars race.
Speaker 2 (00:51):
Whooh that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
Yeah, yay. A lot of hard work and a lot
of people donating, and a lot of people that I
need to say thank you to, and if they're listening,
I do say thank you. On behalf of the Foundation,
the families and the board of directors.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
That's awesome. And you know, I'm making a lot of
dreams come true. And Marty, I joked with you when
we first started saying, your hair looks nice. You and
I got our hair done at the TWA Airport this week.
We hang out all the time this week.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Love it.
Speaker 3 (01:20):
You know what today what was great is going over
there to the Jet Blue and looking at the relationship
and the partnership that the Jets have had with Jet
Blue and Jeff Fernandez representing the Jets there, and you
also had Jeremy Rutgers, and you had Quincy Williams and
Eric Coleman and you and I were there, and you
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know what a great day to be at the terminal,
go down look at the plane and to realize that
that is the third plane in this partnership that the
Jets have been able to paint. Congratulations to the Jets
and of course congratulations to Jet Blue.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Yeah, it was awesome.
Speaker 1 (01:57):
It's so cool to see when we were down the
run on tarmac to see the plane and what it
looks like. And we were joking like where would you
take it, Marty, if you could go somewhere.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Well, I I took it to a place where I
knew they flew. You know what, you don't want to
say Italy because they don't fly there. But if you
say Aruba, yeah, you know, and you do a little
bit of research before you get there. And of course
you know, I've flown Jet Blue, I don't know how
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many times. And too, of course Jet Blue years ago
was they were a big sponsor, a big help to
the foundation, and we're trying to build that partnership back
and with Stephanie and everybody over there at Jet Blue,
I think we have a pretty good chance.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
I think so too. It's for a good cause. Let's
talk a little football now.
Speaker 1 (02:44):
Listen, Week one, we were excited to talk about Week one,
what they were able to do. Week two complete opposite,
Like Marty, what do you think happened between Week one
and Week two?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Well, the one thing about the NFL, and one thing
you know that happens is you're going to have games
like that. You can't pinpoint whether it was the offensive
defense of special teams, it just it just happened. But
it's early in the season. You know, ag is trying
to change the culture, trying to change the mentality of
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everybody over there, and it just happened. It's, you know,
the second game of the year. You still have fifteen
games left. But you one thing that you don't want
to do, Jenay, is keep digging yourself a hole. Now
you're going down there to play a Tampa Bay Buccaneers
team that is well coached by Todd Bowles, and you
know how much his players want to win this game
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for Todd Bowles because he was the head coach of
the New York Jets a few years ago. You and
I both know Todd very well. He's a gentleman, and
it's going to be a tough battle for the Jets.
They're going to go down there. They have to fight
the heat, they have to find you know.
Speaker 2 (03:55):
The first d first road game, first road game.
Speaker 3 (03:58):
But you know what, maybe it's for them to have
a road game after the performance that they had against Buffalo,
get away a little bit. Go down there. You're still
going to have some fans, but ninety percent of that
stadium is going to be rooting for the Tampa Bay Bucks.
You got to go down there, take each play as
if it's the most important play of the game, put
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sixty sixty five plays together and come away with a victory.
You don't want to come back and be or go
down there again to play Miami in week four being
zero and three.
Speaker 1 (04:33):
And now obviously Justin Field is not playing, He's been
ruled out with concussion. Tyrod Taylor's playing. How does that
affect a team or does it at all? Because it
was so much earlier in the week that they knew
that they were having it a different way.
Speaker 3 (04:44):
Well, I think it would affect the team if Tyrod
Taylor didn't have fourteen years of experience. You've got a
guy that has played for I don't know five different teams,
a guy that has been a starter, a guy that
knows how to be a leader, a guy that.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
Has everybody on that team respects.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
They got they respect, but more importantly, they trust them.
And they've got to get off to a good start.
Last week. What hurt them in my opinion, Uh, you
know you have Buffalo kicking off to you and you
go three plays and out. It's almost like Buffalo got
the opening kickoff after three plays and you know they
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got it to start the second half, and the Jets
made some you know, mental mistakes, bad penalties at bad time,
which enabled Buffalo to get a little bit of momentum.
And here's a good team, a team that everybody's predicting
that's going to represent the AFC conference in the super Bowl.
You can't make those mistakes.
Speaker 2 (05:45):
No, Marty.
Speaker 1 (05:46):
You know we have special guests every week. We got
a good one this week. I mean they're always good,
but this is a fun guy. We know them well,
we enjoy them. Play for the team now than the
radio booth.
Speaker 2 (06:00):
Let's bring him in.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Look up there, Anthony, what's up?
Speaker 4 (06:07):
Guys?
Speaker 1 (06:08):
Anthony Beck making a debut on the Jets stream podcast.
Speaker 2 (06:12):
Appreciate you, my friends.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Legends. I get to love legends, love the hat.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
I like that. So let's start off. Let's let's talk
about your son and his performance out there and.
Speaker 1 (06:23):
Uh playing at Iowa State represent that and how.
Speaker 3 (06:26):
Good he's playing.
Speaker 5 (06:28):
No, thank you, it's good to see you both. Yeah,
it's been remarkable, guys. I mean it's been a great
journey to watch and sit back. You know, I think
anybody that has kids that played sports like you know,
maybe me and Marty, that played at the highest level,
you know, your expectation levels are always you know, even
right because you know they're probably not going to do
what you did, so, you know, to to see him
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be now, you know, a third year starter as a
red shirt junior, to see where the team has gone
h and what he's been able to accomplish, it's very
rewarding and I'm just glad to be a part of it.
I'm Roco's dad. That's kind of what people call me now,
So I.
Speaker 4 (07:07):
Kind of like that. I kind of like that world.
You know.
Speaker 5 (07:09):
I just sit back and sit in the stands and
and enjoy it because it's been great and I'm really
happy for him.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Wasn't that harder, I'll tell you, alm, Marty.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
No, But that's sort of like when you introduce your
wife to somebody, they go, this is Anthony's white. You know,
let see if they don't remember her name. But you know,
that's a great feeling. I know you're a proud father.
I know you get out to see almost every one
of his games, which I commend you for doing.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
Yeah, you know, I can't get that time back, you know, Marty.
Speaker 5 (07:38):
I mean time is precious, and uh, you know, obviously
I'm able to kind of travel from his games and
get to the Jets games and and yeah, it's it's great,
you know, And I coach in the spring, so it
really doesn't conflict with that.
Speaker 4 (07:50):
And you know, a little travel is nothing.
Speaker 5 (07:53):
You know, if I can, I can see my son
play and go through his journey and be with my
wife and and watch those games.
Speaker 4 (07:59):
So yeah, yeah, it's fun.
Speaker 5 (08:00):
It's It's been a fun time, very blessed where I'm
at right now. And you know, being around football kind
of three sixty five is really kind of fulfilling. I
don't get any off time as far as the game
is concerned, so it keeps me sharp on all aspects.
Speaker 2 (08:16):
So tell me about Anthony you being the coach, what's
that like.
Speaker 5 (08:21):
It's been tremendous, you know, extremely humbled to get the
opportunity number one four years ago by the XFL at
the time to be a head coach. You know, there's
a lot of well deserved, proven coaches with much better
resumes than me that that you know, could have been
in that in that opportunity. But I did sell a
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vision that was maybe a little different, and you know,
to take a chance to go out of the box
in that moment for the league, it was really important.
You know, those leagues don't survive long and you really
need to make the right decisions, and when you're you're
up against guys like Bob Stoops, one of the greatest
college coaches of all time, Wait Ups, one of the
best coordinators of all time in the NFL, and and
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different types of of names.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
That you hear.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
It's just it's tremendous for me, and I have an
obligation to those coaches that you know, maybe weren't given
the opportunity that I have to come in and it
can't be just hey, he's a name or whatever that
has nothing to do with it. So I've been on
a great journey. We've we've had three great seasons. I
coached the best team in the league in my opinion.
We have the number one fan base. We we out
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attendance every team three to one across our league. And
we've we've been a winner. You know, We've we've been
able to win seventy three percent of our games over
the last three seasons. I take a lot of pride
in that, and that's not because of me. It's because
I have a great staff that knows how to communicate,
that knows how to understand, how to you know, work
with athletes and fill the holes for some of these
players that are trying to get to the next step
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in the NFL, and I got players that buy in
and that are very attentive and and want to.
Speaker 4 (09:56):
You know, really take the next step.
Speaker 5 (09:57):
And what I've done is with my staff, and it's
it's not one hundred percent true Marty knows this with
former players that have played the game, but I've been
able to build a staff ninety percent of them that
are former guys that have played in the NFL, that
had played at a very high level, but know how
to communicate, talk and teach. They don't just expect them
to do it the way I did it, or Leroy
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Glover did it, or Donnie Abraham did it. They teach
it in a way to get them to that point
or at least try to get them to a point
to get that And that's really been successful. And we've
had a lot of good players and we've had over
twenty five plus guys get into training camps in three years.
I take a lot of pride in that, in the
development of helping those players. So it's been phenomenal. That's
the journey I'm kind of on right now. All these
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things that I'm doing. I want to be a head
coach at the highest level, and I'll get there somehow.
But I love where my feet are and I love
what I'm doing.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
By the way, Saint Louis BattleHawks corre UFL.
Speaker 4 (10:49):
Yes, the UFL Saint Louis BattleHawks. It's a great league.
Speaker 5 (10:52):
We got new ownership that has come in Micropoli. I
think a lot of people in the New York area
know that name, very familiar with him. Launched a lot
of big brands, billionaire and it's great. You know, you
need money to have these leagues.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Thrive and thirst, but the football product is really good,
you know.
Speaker 3 (11:09):
And if you had you're, you know, an opportunity. Would
you rather go into the NFL and coach or would
you rather be a head coach at a at a
college level.
Speaker 4 (11:19):
Yeah, that's a great question, you know. I think for me, Marty,
I want to be a college head coach.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
I think the things that I've done and the things
that I've been through and the way we've done things,
and the landscape of college right now where honestly, you
see a lot of coaches maybe don't want to do it,
you know, one in particular in Nick Saban, I kind
of embrace it. I kind of like the change, you know,
how do you control it? How do you still be
transformational and not transactional? A and an error that's that's
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money driven. Can you still build a culture? I think
there's ways to do that.
Speaker 4 (11:50):
I really do.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
I love players, I love teaching, I love helping people,
and it does it can translate into winning. And college
head coach would be great, now, is it? George Alabama? No,
that's not what I'm looking for. But American Conference G
five job some belt. I would more than happy love
to do that and build some sustainability at programs that
are trying to figure it out. G five is a
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little different right now. They're not in the mix. They're
kind of left out. They're trying to find ways to
raise money. I kind of like all those pieces and
places that they need help in, and I think I
can put together tremendous, tremendous coaching staff and we could
retain players. And you know what, Marty, if I lose
players to Alabama and Georgia, well hell yeah, man.
Speaker 3 (12:33):
That's great.
Speaker 4 (12:33):
I'm going nothing wrong with that. I'll go find some more.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
There's a lot of high school coaches getting overlooked or
players right now getting overlooked that aren't getting the opportunities.
And if they're they're leaving us. You know, I don't
want them to leave. You don't want them to leave
where you're at. But man, you've got to embrace that.
That's the that's the change that's happening right now.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
Now.
Speaker 5 (12:52):
Now, what I turn away a positional coach or something NFL, No,
I've actually have turned down a few of those. I
want to be with the right people. I want align
myself properly, and I'm going to continue to grow as
a head coach.
Speaker 4 (13:03):
And when someone sees.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
That value and quite frankly, guys with Brocco, he's got
two seasons left, right, so I'll look at everything, okay,
But right now, uh, you know, I I'm grooming myself
to continue to grow and learn as a head coach,
and I'm going to soak in every moment.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I have with the UFL to get.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
Better at it, which is awesome.
Speaker 1 (13:21):
Which again, all right, So let's see your football dad coach,
you know, rooting on your son who's a hell of
a quarterback that Iowa State. You're a head coach UFL team.
You also do the radio for the Jets.
Speaker 2 (13:35):
What's that like? Then? What's that been like? This guy?
After years?
Speaker 4 (13:39):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (13:40):
He who does your retirement?
Speaker 5 (13:41):
You moved in SI you know, And first I'll start
off with you know, just you know, Marty has been
a icon with the organization, uh, with the broadcast. As
a player, I looked up to Marty as as someone
that you know, he's a great Jet player.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
I mean, you know, I I.
Speaker 5 (13:59):
Think people, I think in the moments of when it
all the transition and everything like, it was such an
honor for me to be mentioned to be in that
in that spot. And you know, Marty knows how I
feel about you know, I just you know, him and
his family and everybody that's involved. He's done so much
for the for the organization. He continues to do that,
and for me just to carry on a legacy is important,
(14:21):
you know. I think for the Jets, you know, they
don't they don't want to slap you just to come
in and replace a great player and a great person.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
That did his job.
Speaker 5 (14:28):
You know, what's the moment like, how does that work?
And you know there's a lot to live up to there.
But I do have you know, my experience ESPN. I've
called over one hundred and fifty college games in my
career on TV. I've grew myself. I'm not just getting
thrown into the weeds here. And I've gotten to listen
to to Bob and Marty and how they call the
games and what the fans like and enjoy. They love
(14:48):
that combination. So you know, for me to step in
that seat has been great. I love the game, I
love I love watching the game. I got a unique Obviously,
Marty knows that visual from up in that booth is different,
and when you train your eyes properly, you can see
the game unlike anyone else unless you're a coach, right So,
and I can bring different perspective, offensive perspective, coaching perspective,
(15:12):
a former players perspective. Those are things that I try
to embody every single week in the broadcast to bring
that to the fan base and try to keep some
of those fans that listen.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
To Marty that maybe don't want to hear me right now.
So at some point I'll make that transition. I'll get
those guys to come back.
Speaker 5 (15:29):
But it's been it's been tremendous and it's been an
honor to fill those shoes because I just you know,
got a high regard for Marty and what he's done.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
Well, I appreciate the compliment, Anthony. So what happened this
past weekend against the Buffalo Bills.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Yeah, you know it was you know, for me as
as someone that watches the game as closely, I was
really surprised honestly what it looked like week one, and
surprise being just how much of it came together. The control,
the preparation, and we all know when it's week one,
you're preparing for week one, not just for that week.
It's an all off season, right. You want to make
(16:08):
it look great, and then when you get weak too,
you're thinking, wow, Like I did not think it would
be that much discrepancy. But as I sit back and
look at it, man like, there's a long way to
go for this team. I like the steps and the
strides they're going. You know, I got to call it
week to week and the way I see it. But
as I look at it, I also understand the big picture.
(16:30):
No one turns things around in a week, in a month,
and an off season in a spring. It takes time,
and you know, it's very It's great for fans and
people to want to be optimistic, and you got to
kind of look at that first game of like, hey,
these are great steps, but also understand that the journey
and the culture and the change is not going to
happen in one, two, three, four weeks. It's going to
(16:53):
take a season. It may take a season and a half.
And you know, you heard coach Aaron talk about, you know,
a microwave societ.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Everybody wants it. Now do I believe that a team
can turn it around in a year? I do.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
You know, you got to see signs of improvement throughout
the first season, but year two and that after that
following first year, you should be able to put those
things together and have a better product. So as much
as I want to see it, and I got to
call it like I call it and see it week
to week, I do have an understanding like this is
not easy. This is not an organization where you're going
to jump in and just make a turn. But they
(17:30):
do have a really good roster enough guys that week
to week there should be a little bit more of
a consistent play, a little bit more of a play
that's closer, and I would expect that. So it's a
learning experience for the staff for Aaron and everybody involved,
because this is his first time in this as a
head coach, not as a coach because he's been through
(17:50):
these ups and downs and he talks about that, but
as a head coach, it's different, and those shoes are
tough to fill for no matter where you go. And
I think, for me, do I see improvements in areas
over a five game, ten game, you know, seventeen game stretch?
Those are what my eyes are going to look and
be trained on, maybe a little different than maybe the
(18:10):
fan that you know wants to see a winner and
wants to see turnover.
Speaker 1 (18:13):
Now, all right, so Anthony, Week three, Jets are headed
to Tampa. I see, you know, well you played for
the Jets and for Tampa. What's that like for you?
Especially calling the game?
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Our parents in Tampa.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Yeah, two organizations that that obviously, you know, I've grown
to love and it really embraced me. I still have
a tremendous amount of relationships within that organization, and you know,
Todd Bowles.
Speaker 4 (18:37):
You know, I have a good relationship with Todd as well.
Speaker 5 (18:40):
You know, we have two kids that were twenty twenty two,
twenty twenty three class in high school down here that
were very highly recruited. Uh and you know we were
on the same seven on seventeen, so I got to
speak to.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
Him a lot, and just you know, watch his journey.
Speaker 5 (18:53):
I think he's one of the best, if not the
best defensive coordinator in the league as far as that aspect,
and he's done a tremendous job a head coach, and
he's really taken the path of earned right all the
way through. I mean, his rookie year in the NFL
was my first year as a rookie with the Jets.
He was a secondary coach and he was Aaron Glenn's
coach at that time, so a lot of deep roots throughout.
(19:16):
But yeah, they're a really good team now. They got
some struggles, right. They got three offensive linemen arguably their
three best, that are out for this game. Baker Mayfield's
playing as good as any quarterback in the NFL, and
you know he's always going to be able to grind
and grid it out and keep it close. And their
defense obviously is very well coached and they have a
(19:37):
lot of good players at each level. So it's going
to be good to go back again. But a very
winnable game for the Jets if they go out and
do the things that they're being asked to do and
execute at a good clip, but it will not be
easy versus a team that knows how to win and
knows how to cut games out.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Yeah, Anthony, last question for me. For twenty two years,
I worked with bobble Shoes, and you know, to me,
he is one of the best. He's the voice of
the Jets. You're on your second year with him. How
enjoyable is it working with Bob?
Speaker 4 (20:07):
He's a pro, right.
Speaker 5 (20:08):
I mean, like you know, when I work with Iron
Eagle in preseason, I mean like he's the goat of
the TV side, right, Like, Bob gets it right.
Speaker 4 (20:16):
And I love listening to him. He you know, man,
he's been doing it for so long.
Speaker 5 (20:19):
He's seen so many pluses and minuses throughout the years.
But man, when it's good, and you know, he's passionate
about it. And you know, you know, Marty as as
I'm gonna throw a joke out there, I mean, We're
never gonna lose our voice in a game calling it
right because you know.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
He's got to be on it.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
So I'm never gonna have a call drop or anything
like that that he has to do every single week
because you.
Speaker 4 (20:41):
Know he's good.
Speaker 5 (20:42):
But listen, man, like he understands, I understand pace, I
understand like, you know, it's his role to set the scene,
give him his his his window and when the window's
big and it's his moment, like hey man, let like
go with it. Like I'm the I'm the most selfless
person when it comes to to calling football games, like
I don't care like if he gives me ten seconds,
twenty seconds or one second or I gotta wait till
(21:04):
the next play.
Speaker 4 (21:05):
I know my role man so so, but I think
we get the you know. I think that's what's good
and maybe made the.
Speaker 5 (21:11):
Transition easy Marty's I'm very respectful to his process and
know how he is and uh and that's how it's
got to be because that is his booth, you know.
So I'll acclimate to what he does, and as we
go along, he'll acclimate to some of the things I do.
And I think that's what makes it a good show, right,
It's entertainment. That's what we're in this business for.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yeah, I think as long as you guys compliment one another.
And when he goes and that's a jet touchdown. That
doesn't mean he's done.
Speaker 6 (21:38):
You always pause. It's a subtle pause, just to be sure, right,
just be h then you work your way in. But
I'm happy for your aunthey I just want to know.
I'm proud of you to be up there in the
booth and you know what you're.
Speaker 3 (21:50):
You're one of those guys that gets so I hope
that you, know, beside rocket playing well the rest of
the year, I hope that your dream of becoming a
football coach one day becomes a reality because I see
how passionate you are and what you can do for
that next generation of athletes. That's what's so important, and
(22:12):
to me, sometimes that's missing.
Speaker 5 (22:15):
I only need one ad to to have some vision
and sit down with me. I promise the one that
does that will not let me leave the room. But
I appreciate that, and it's not if it's when and uh,
you know, my feet are on the ground where they're at.
I love what I'm doing, and yeah, that time will come,
but I appreciate that.
Speaker 3 (22:32):
Yeah, And if you ever need an old defensive line
coach just kidding your.
Speaker 4 (22:36):
Buzzes, Yeah, I tell you you're to look at you're
in shape. You look good. I'm sure you got little
more bounce in your steps. So yeah, I may I
may have to.
Speaker 3 (22:44):
He got a new knee, You've got to go see
an ophthalmologist.
Speaker 4 (22:48):
My friends, I can't see through your body.
Speaker 3 (22:52):
I can see your body.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
You know, Anthony, we appreciate you stopping by one of
the best.
Speaker 2 (22:58):
Who's rock o got this week?
Speaker 4 (22:59):
They have a bye week, so I got a true
home game.
Speaker 5 (23:02):
Yeah, I have Tampa at Jets at Tampa and then
actually I'm going to Florida State.
Speaker 4 (23:07):
My daughter is a junior there.
Speaker 5 (23:08):
It's parents weekend, so this is the first year I
get to do that as well. So I'll be trekking
around at the State. But I'll I'll be home. You
know that this week you can enjoy.
Speaker 2 (23:19):
I will join I'll see We'll see you on Sunday.
Speaker 4 (23:21):
Ye, you're the best, one of the best.
Speaker 3 (23:24):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (23:27):
He is one of the best. He's awesome.
Speaker 3 (23:29):
He is. You know what today when I when I
had the opportunity to step out of the booth into
a new role with the Jets, I recommended Anthony number one.
He was right. He has the experience working for espn uh.
He is a jet even though he played at a
couple other stops. He was the number one. He was
drafted in the first round that same year that you
(23:52):
know Chad Pennington and John Abraham.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
And who's the fourth one, Ellis Ellis.
Speaker 3 (24:00):
Yeah, they came in and he's just a good guy.
To give him that opportunity to work with Bob, He's
exactly right, Bob is He's one of a kind. You know,
if you get, you know, if you take you know,
if you get thirty percent of the talking time on
the air, Bob's going to carry you the other seven.
(24:21):
I mean, Bob is the best. I love him.
Speaker 2 (24:24):
Oh we all do. All right.
Speaker 1 (24:25):
We got questions from the fan world. Please drimble, Marty,
drink a cup of coffee. I know you can't see
it fit people listening, but he's drinking a little cup
of coffee. Get his voice ready, all right? Questions from
the fans. This one comes from Michelle from New York
and I put it in. It all kind of makes sense.
With the last question, what was your most memorable moment
(24:46):
calling a Jets game?
Speaker 3 (24:48):
Memorable moment? I think you would have to be back
when they went to back to back AFC Championship games.
Speaker 2 (24:56):
Was it they can't wait game. The Bart Scott can't.
Speaker 3 (24:58):
Wait game was up there in New England, huh, you know,
and just big, you know, to get there. And they
were playing Pittsburgh one year, and I think it was
Indianapolis the next year. And to realize, hey, you're having
an opportunity to call on AFC championship game and you're
sixty minutes away from going to a Super Bowl, and
(25:21):
then unfortunately they fell short. I think working with Al
Trodwig and doing jet Journal, you know, Al was a
tremendous guy. Worked with MSG, worked with NBC, and Al
taught me a lot. He said, the one thing when
you're doing radio, make sure that you're you pretend you're
(25:42):
talking to a blind person. He goes, you got to
make you got to describe what's happening. You got to
bring them into a world that they can't see. And
I owe a lot to Al Trodwigen. And you know,
he just ended. He passed away a few months ago
and we lost a good one.
Speaker 1 (26:00):
But he's still his legacy is obviously still being carried
on by everybody.
Speaker 3 (26:03):
He's mentoring everybody that had an opportunity to work with him.
Speaker 1 (26:07):
Yes, all right, next question Joe from Jersey. Do you
miss playing?
Speaker 3 (26:12):
Oh? You always miss playing. You missed that locker room,
you miss the you know, the opportunity to travel on
the plane. I think this is one thing that I
enjoyed when I was doing the radio for twenty two years.
You got to interact with the players and you got
to build relationships with them, and you got on the
plane with them.
Speaker 1 (26:33):
And I know Quincy Williams, but when we were talking
to him at the Jeff Beluive, he said he missed
talking to you already on the field.
Speaker 3 (26:40):
Yeah, because I could go down there, Janey and talk
to them, even though they knew that when I was
up here in the radio booth, like Anthony says, you
got to paint the picture. You got to tell the truth.
I try to tell the truth, but I also try
to be respectable and make sure that these guys understood
that I have a job to do. And I could
(27:00):
go down there and talk to quinc here, talk to
Quinn in there, talk to Jermaine and tell them, hey,
you know what, I watched the game film this week,
and this is what this guy's going to try to do,
and try to talk to them not as a coach,
but as a friend and somebody that's played the game.
So yeah, I missed the locker room. I missed the guys.
(27:21):
But I'm enjoying this year talking to all the sponsors
and fans and you know, the dedicated ones up there
in the suites, and just to be able to tell
them thank you and hear their stories is great.
Speaker 2 (27:35):
Very cool. All right.
Speaker 1 (27:36):
This comes from I think Rafael from PA. What was
your welcome to the NFL moment?
Speaker 3 (27:43):
I think it was against Pittsburgh when you know, nineteen
seventy nine. I don't know if it was. I think
it might have been preseason. It wasn't early in the year,
but it was I think preseason, and I was really
playing out of position. I was playing as a defensive end.
Klecke was playing inside and well I remember hitting that
I think it was John Coleby, and he threw me
(28:04):
so far out of the picture frame that I knew
that that move was not going to work in this league.
So it was that moment where you pick yourself up,
you run back to the huddle as quickly as possible,
and you realize, hey, it's a new ballgame. The NFL stands.
Speaker 2 (28:22):
Alone, did you ever get even with him.
Speaker 3 (28:26):
I don't think so. Jew. I'm telling you he threw
my ask. When we were watching the game film, all
of a sudden, you see me go flying and then
you see this little skinny guy run back to the huddle.
That was me.
Speaker 1 (28:40):
No.
Speaker 3 (28:43):
Yes, everybody said, you have their moment?
Speaker 1 (28:45):
Oh yeah, did anybody say anything like the clucko or
anybody say anything to watching film?
Speaker 2 (28:53):
Watching film though.
Speaker 3 (28:54):
Like game, everybody kind of laughed, and you know, and
they're sitting there and you know, there's nothing you can say.
You know, it's like getting blocked and getting knocked off
your off your feet. You can't say anything. You just
kind of laugh. It's like Charlie Chaplin. You know, Charlie
Chaplin once set a day without laughter as the day wasted.
Speaker 2 (29:15):
So you know, everybody, you didn't waste to day that day?
Speaker 3 (29:19):
Oh I didn't. I didn't waste to play. I got
my ass back in that huddle. It was. It was heartbreaking.
But now I just want to give another shout out
to uh cash hap that a new sponsor or, a
sponsor of the Jets, allowed me to go into the
store this weekend and pick up a lot of merchandise
(29:41):
for a lot of fans go up there and they
would have a stack of clothes, or they'd have a
helmet or a football. Bang, throw a credit card down there.
Today I was Santa Claus.
Speaker 1 (29:53):
I love how we went from you're welcome to the
NFL moment where you got your butt thrown on about
to you.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
Hey, listen, there's a I eight new spots for the
cash app. I was Santa Claus this week. I love it.
Speaker 1 (30:03):
That was a good call there. Look at you making
the transition. Be a good ambassador.
Speaker 3 (30:08):
I don't you keep laughing about me getting throwing out
of the bring you back to Reality group? Really?
Speaker 1 (30:16):
Dang, I got to the fans all right. Last question
Kevin from Jersey? What was the best pregame speech you heard?
Speaker 3 (30:23):
Best pregame speech? Did I? Or like?
Speaker 2 (30:26):
Who was the best person who gave a pregame speech?
Speaker 3 (30:28):
I was a rookie in nineteen seventy nine. We used
to listen to Greg Buddle and Greg Buttle would get
everybody fired up, and I would sit there and as
a rookie, you didn't know, Hey, when is your opportunity
to say something? And I don't know when that torch
was passed. But then somehow I got up there and
(30:49):
the pregame speeches they were pretty good. You know, you
might have a broken table. You know. One time out
there in Oakland, I went to hit something. I thought
it was a you know, just a piece of sheet rock,
only to find out that when my hand went through it,
it was a piece of painted glass. And when I
pulled it out, I had, you know, a few scratches
(31:12):
on my hands. And Bob Reis, the trainer, goes, hey,
we got to clean this up. And we're getting ready
to play the Raiders with an opportunity to go to
the AFC Championship game. And Gil lance Mel goes out there,
he has two interceptions, we win. I think the final
score was seventeen fourteen, and you know, then we go
(31:32):
down to Miami and everybody knows what happened.
Speaker 1 (31:36):
Well maybe you should well maybe you should have punched
another glass going in to the Miami.
Speaker 3 (31:40):
Gave it pore. It went through my mind toay.
Speaker 2 (31:43):
I'm going to blame you on that one. That's your fault.
Speaker 3 (31:45):
It could have been. But you know, the owner of
the team today, mister Leon Hess came in and he
gave the pregame speech.
Speaker 1 (31:52):
So you know he wasn't. He wasn't putting his fist
through a glass.
Speaker 3 (31:57):
I took him back seat to him. Yeah, but what
a tremendous guy. No, mister, he cared about his players,
just like what he cares about his players.
Speaker 1 (32:10):
Marty, you're the best Week three the books. Thank you
for the hat, the Marty Lyons Foundation. Now you're not
going to the game. No where were you watch? Where
were you be watching?
Speaker 3 (32:20):
I'm gonna probably be sitting by my pool watching it
on the TV outside unless I have yardwork to do
with a little bit, I will be watching the game.
And you know, we'll do this again next week. And
we have a special guest coming on next week.
Speaker 2 (32:35):
I'm excited.
Speaker 3 (32:36):
I know about it. Tonay. We've got guests coming on
that people haven't heard from in years.
Speaker 2 (32:43):
In the years, yep.
Speaker 3 (32:44):
And you know what, if you'd like to be a
special guest, Hey, write us a letter, tell us why
we should?
Speaker 2 (32:51):
People do not write letters anymore.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
Let me hear email, DMAs, tweet us instagrams.
Speaker 3 (32:59):
I'm not take care of it all that.
Speaker 1 (33:02):
If you want to write Marty a handwritten letter to
tell them why you want to be a guest, on
the show.
Speaker 2 (33:06):
You're welcome.
Speaker 3 (33:08):
I'll tell you what you are off the air exactly.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
You know what.
Speaker 2 (33:11):
I love you too, You're the best. Love the hat.
Speaker 1 (33:14):
Hey, guys, this has been a fun week. Love Anthony
back for jumping on chatting with us. We will see
you next week for another episode of Jett and keep
the questions coming. And Marty, I feel bad for you.
Speaker 2 (33:25):
Welcome for the mot, Welcome to the NFL moment.
Speaker 3 (33:27):
Hey, you know what, I want to pick you up.
Let's keep our fingers crossed. Let the Jets go down there,
hopefully they come back with a victory, and then you
know what you got Dallas next week. But you can't
win two in a row until you win one.
Speaker 2 (33:42):
And on that note, we'll see you next week.
Speaker 3 (33:46):
See you next week, guys,
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