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And guys, you know it's a funny thing. You know,
I'm not gonna talk too much about the game. You know,
we know what happened. If you're here, you're not showing
up to this show, to this podcast, this live stream,
this one not a live stream. I guess this video.
That's what I was looking for. You're not showing up

(05:11):
here going, hey, what happened in the Jets game. You're
not doing that. If you're here, if you're hanging out
with me, you already know that the New York Jets
fell were swept by the Miami Dolphins, who aren't even
really that good, but they swept us. Man, it's probably

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gonna be a division sweep. Dolphins. They were the team
that we had the most chance to split with. And
my earlier in the season, truth be told, even that
I did even though I didn't have really fantastic expectations
for this team, like so many did. You thought we

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might be, you know, quote better than you think. I
wasn't one of those. But even with that, I thought
that we were gonna split with the Dolphins or even
sweep them. I really did, I really did. But it
was the complete opposite. The Officially now, as of this game,

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the Jets have been swept by the hard Rock Stadium
occupying Miami Dolphins, the team I hate most in the
entire league and whose fans. Even though I have some
of my most beloved friends, some of the friends I've

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had for the longest time whom I dearly love, are
Dolphins fans. They are the most hated fan base. I
can't stand Dolphins fans as a as an overall. Now
that just so you know, you know, I grew up

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in the era with the you know, the Marino stuff.
Right the Mud Bowl I became I officially became a
Jets fan the Mud Bowl. That was the day I
put my flag in the ground and said this is
where I will stay. This is it for me, no
winning in my future. It was the Mud Bowl, the
AFC Championship Game, the first time the Jets made it

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to the AFC Championship game played the Dolphins, and you
know the AJ Dewey two pick six's and the five
interceptions and the mud and all that jazz. But not
only that. So I grew up in that era of
like O'Brien versus Marino and all that stuff. And the
Patriots sucked and the Bills sucked for a lot of
that time. And then the Jim Kelly Bills were around

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and they had four Super Bowls, and so they were
a tough team. You know that. I hate our division,
make no mistake. But the Dolphins, the Marino era, Reno
was such a pos man. I just that guy. I
didn't like him at all. Thankfully it wasn't the Internet
era where you can know every thought he's having, right,
I would have really hated him. Hated them enough, just

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with the Isotna glove commercials. Remember those freaking commercials, Isotna gloves,
Isa Toner. They were made for, like you know, Mercedes driving,
That's what they were made for. Like that you can
think you can see like the hardwood steering wheel, the
glossy one, you know what I mean? Remember that thing.
So that, but also on top of that, I lived

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When I went down to uh Florida to get sober,
I went down to Miami and I ended up living
there for about fifteen sixteen years, and I worked right
in Miami. I worked about, without exaggeration, five minutes maybe
ten max from the stadium, and I lived fifteen twenty

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minutes away from it, let's call it twenty minutes. So
I was there. The Jets played down there in Miami.
I went to that game, but I was immersed in
that Miami Bologna. So I hate the those the fact
that we got swept by him today me you know,
in a different way. You know, obviously the Patriots are
what they are after the dynasty and all that shit,

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and here they are again with eleven. It's like, it's crazy.
It's crazy. The Patriots are back in a big way,
and we're still down here holding up the bottom for everybody.
So all right, we got the foundation of the AFC East.
We'll hold it down. We got it. We'll hold everybody up.
But yeah, getting swept by the Dolphins. So we did that,

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and it was a crazy way. Like again, I don't
need to go through every play and do the whole thing,
but there are some points of interest that will lead
me into the entirety of the show, which I think
we want to talk about the quarterback of the future
because I'm gonna tell you a secret, which look, not

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everybody knows this yet, but I'm gonna tell you because
we are close friends. I'm gonna let you know that
the future quarterback of the New York Chance is not
going here. He is not in the building. Man. Not
only is he not in the building, he's not in
the state. He's nowhere near what we're doing right now.

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And I'm gonna tell you another secret, especially after this
weekend's games where sadly UVA was beaten by Duke in
the in the ACC Championship. Broke my heart, man, you
know the end of the just to end the season
that way ten and two and you know, beaten Tech
and I was there and we ran on the field

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and it was such a great season to lose to Duke,
a team that day had beaten earlier in the season.
It just it's just a sad thing. But the other game,
the Indiana versus Ohio State, where obvious reasons, a lot
of Jets fans were interested in with Fernando Mendoza. He look,

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he put on a show. He showed everybody why he
is claiming the number one position in this year's draft.
I should be the number one overall selection, and I'm
gonna tell you he's going to be. The Jets are
gonna want in on him. They like him, They've gone
to see him. I believe they have been spotted around

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Fernando Mendoza four separate occasions this season. So it's going
to be something that they want to do. Now that
brings us to this whole idea of how we gonna
get to him. We're definitely no, no, I'm not gonna
say that it's gonna be a tough It's gonna be
a tough road. If we want to try to get

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up to that first overall pick, and if not the
first overall pick, which is really gonna be tough, we
want to get as close to it as we can
while still working on this team, the young guys, evaluating
all the stuff that we're seeing the Jets do this year,
learning how to win all that we want that to

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still take place, while somehow getting close enough to the
first overall pick that you don't have to sell the
farm to get your quarterback. And the other thing is, man,
there are teams that are quarterback needy, right that we're

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gonna have to fight with. If one of those teams
ends up with the first overall pick, it's a rap
you would have to like. For example, if the like
I think the Raiders Gino Smith, God bless him and
all that jazz. And I know Pete Carroll if he
does stick around in Las Vegas, I mean he might.

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He might love Geno and the relationship is good and
all the stuff. I don't think there's any real debate on.
They would probably not be thinking Gino Smith is the
long term answer, right. So if the Raiders, for example,
were in the first spot, to get them to move

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out of there would take everything. It would take all
of it. Honestly, it would take whatever pick we have, three, five, ten,
whatever it is, plus the Colts pick this year and
probably more than one of the firsts next year. It

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would take I'm telling you, it would take four first
to get them out of that spot where they could
just sit there and take their quarterback. It would take
a lot. So we have all this stuff to to
kind of look at, and that's what we'll look at today.
In the intelligent gripe. But the game had points of

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interest that pertained to that, that whole goal of getting
that number one overall pick or as close as we
can too, so you can get your quarterback. Because the
other thing, guys, I'm not so sure that the other
quarterbacks in this class are worth betting on taking, you know.

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I mean, look, if you're sitting that pick four and
one of these quarterbacks falls to you, the idea of
taking one and just you know, sticking and picking without
having to pay any you know, additional fees and other first,
other second or whatever. The idea of doing that and
then still kind of having your eye with three first

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round picks and a second in twenty twenty seven, having
your eye on that next year. It's not the it's
not the worst thing in the world. Like, look, man,
we have no quarterbacks. Just start start bringing them in.
You know, you bring in a Ty Simpson from Alabama
who hasn't looked good if he comes out right, what

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about Moore, Dante Moore who you know, Look, a lot
of us aren't sold on these guys. What if MENSA
is sitting there, you know, and you just decide to
take them, does that preclude you from taking another. But
I'm not so sure that any of these guys like
are worth Here's the thing. Yes, there's logic and stuff

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behind taking one and still not being afraid to take
one next year. But do you lose out on like
a truly great player at another position of need when
you're not even so sure that this guy's gonna be
You know, he's gonna take a year or two to
even develop, and you're gonna draft one next year, you
know what I mean? The whole thing it gets muddy. So

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you gotta look at the things that are happening now
and why it's so important. For example, a lot of
Jets fans, truth, a lot of you guys were in
the Brady Cook camp. You know, for whatever reason, you
saw a lot that you liked in the preseason. I didn't,
I really didn't. I'm not antipe Rady Cook, of course.
I mean, anybody putting on a Jets helmet and walking

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out on the field I'm rooting for. I would love
to find guys diamonds in the rough, without question. I
would much rather a guy that we found on the
waiver wire or as an undirectedfrige. I would much rather
those guys just lightning in a bottle and end up
being amazing starters for us than having to go back

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to the drawing board or use draft picks or trade
or whatever. I would much rather always. But I didn't
see anything in the preseason. Like I listened to a
lot of guys, people that I respect their opinions and
all that, whether it be on Twitter or in YouTube
or just people I'm talking to. There were some folks
that said, oh man, this guy looks like he's got

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a lot of meat on the bone. I don't know.
I wasn't seeing it. I like his arm. He showed
some escapability today you know all that. They say, he's
pretty smart and all that jazz so good, but I
wasn't seeing it. And again, just because I didn't see
it in a couple preseason games doesn't mean that I'm
out on him per se. But a lot going against him.

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Undrafted free agent, a lot of a lot of warts,
you know, a lot to work on, and then when
you do see him, he doesn't really do much for you.
So seeing him in this game, a lot of Jets
fans you say, look, let's start the Brady Cook era, baby, right, Okay,
I'm in. But two fumbles in the first I don't know,

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six eight plays of his NFL career not the best start.
Can we can we at least agree on you know,
agree on that. And and look, we talked about it
during the live stream, you know, Jeremy and uh from
you know, Jets Chaos and uh dom C the Great
Dom C. We were together for the for the live stream,

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the watch party, and we were talking about it. Let's
be real. You can't have expectations that are unrealistic for
this guy. The situation that he was thrown into is
one that is difficult, to say the least. It's the
New York Jets, the magnifying glass that is the New

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York Jets. Anybody who walks on that field, it's like
the laser focus everybody, the weight of the press and
the fans, and even in an empty house, you know,
the stadium was half empty. And on top of that,
the half that was there was half Miami fans probably,

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so you know, even with that the magnifying glass, the
weight of this position, being the quarterback of the New
York Jets, it's heavy. It's heavy, to say the least.
So he's coming out. You know, Tyron Taylor starts the game,
he doesn't finish it because of a groin situation, which
you have to think that they knew all about it, because, man,

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oh man, was there a push for Brady Cook comments
this week? Right? You know, we're moving Brady Cook into
QB two and he's a fiery guy. You know all
the stuff that they were saying. You just had this
idea like, I don't know, man, I'm picking up a
vibe that insinuates that Brady Cook might see some playing time. Man.

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And if you had that that vibe, you were right.
So he comes in and you know the pressure is there.
Miami was blitzing the head. Miami was sending heat today
and it just happened to be a day when our
offensive line didn't look as good as they have looked
in previous weeks. They just looked a little disheveled. The

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whole team looked a little off today from the rip.
You know, you saw those first two drives from Miami. Offensively,
they just do it. It was like a hot knife,
Frew butter Man. It was almost as if the Jets
didn't realize that the game had started and we were
gonna be playing at one hundred percent so quickly right,

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It's like all right, well wait, wait, wait, we're not
settling into this. It felt very much like the starts
that we have been so used to during the Robert
Sala era, during the Bowls era, Adam Gase, I don't know.
I must have blocked it out. I can't remember. I
think Adam Gase was anomalous because he had those Remember

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Adam Gase, he had those first drives. It was like
the first drive of our off it. I don't know.
He seemed like he was really good at scripting that
first drive. After that, all bets were off. He had
no idea what's going on. But even defensively, we just
seemed to if I remember correctly, we seemed to play
well early. Robert Sala was a flip of that. It
seemed like the team just took two quarters to get

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ready to play. This game felt like that, it really did.
It just felt like we weren't ready to play. Aaron
Glenn in his postgame press conference said as much. He
kind of led with that, which is again one of
the reasons that I support this guy, because the way
that he designs his his presentation is he's trying to

(21:07):
pull all focus toward himself. Of course, everybody's gonna want
to know about this, this young kid quarterback. Everybody's gonna
want to know. They're gonna ask questions. Ah blah blah
blah blah. We got the young wide receivers, you got
all the stuff, the young titan. Everybody's gonna want to
be talking and asking and trying to get gotcha moments
out of these guys. And Aaron Glenn is pulling all

(21:28):
the focus toward himself. And basically what he said was
clearly I didn't have the team ready to play today.
And he said it was obvious. He used the word obvious.
It was obvious. Like, let's let's call it what it is. Man.
You look at that game, obviously my guys weren't as

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prepared as their guys. It's flat. There's there's no debate
about it. It is what it is. I failed, and
I like that, not that you want to see that
every week. Look, you can claim fault as much as
you want. At some point you got to fix this
damn thing, you know what I mean. You can't just
keep saying I know, I don't know, but look, we

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came out of this last couple of weeks where I
feel like the entirety of the NFL media and the
fans everybody kind of started to settle in a little
bit and say, wait a minute, Aaron Glenn, he's got
a big ass job. First thing, right, he came to
a team with Aaron Rodgers on it, and he's got
to figure out all that stuff, everything from Aaron Rodgers down.

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And I feel very strongly, and I've said it every
frigging week I'm talking jets on here or whatever, that
we were very harsh. Like somebody said in the chat today,
well maybe now all this positive bologney about Aaron Glenn
can stop. And it's like, well, I think it was earned,

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you know what I mean. Like for the first eight, nine,
ten weeks of the season, whatever the hell it was,
he was abnormally one sided in a just a really
really harsh critique of everything that Aaron Glenn did. And
I think some of it was definitely warranted. And you know, look,
we're watching a guy figuring it out, learning on the

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job while trying to uproot the quitters, you know, situation
and figuring out which players are leaders and all the stuff.
That he's doing. And we won a couple of games
last week, culminating, you know, with the the win against
the Atlanta Falcons. And you can say what it is.
Every time we win a game, it's like, oh, but
it's the Bengals without Burrow. Oh but it's the Cleveland

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Browns and with Dylan Gabriel or whatever. Oh it's the
Falcons with their backup quote. Well, we're fucking playing with
our backup quarterback. I mean, like Ryan's run from Jets
Talk twenty four to seven. So really I like the
way he puts it, which he says, there are team
these are the teams in our weight class, right and
I think that's a good way to put it. Like

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we're not out there competing with the Bills and the
and the and the you know, the the Chiefs are
struggling little bit, but you know what I mean, like
those Super Bowl contending teams, that's not where we are.
We have to play the teams that are in our
weight class and hopefully win a few of those. And
that's what we've been doing. We've been able to pull
out a few wins, and earlier in the season we

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were unable to close out a few games that really
were ours, so you know they're learning how to do this.
So when you're playing these teams, you gotta, you know,
you got to pay attention to you know, are we
making the same mistakes over and over and and and
all that? Jazz I think Aaron Glenn has done a
good job of not making the same mistakes over and

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over and over again. So we're seeing that, so we
it leads you into this this scenario where we have
four games left and now remember look the Justin Fields experiment.
We got our data, we get it's not gonna work.
You bring in Tyron Taylor because you have this idea
that at least we want to you know, evaluate other

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people just want to get an offense on the field.
You want to be able to do. Justin Fields couldn't
do anything like as bad as Brady Cook was in
this game. He had one hundred and sixty three yards passing.
Justin Fields has played four quarters of football with a
net fifteen. Or remember the fifty four yard game where
one play was a little screen pass to Bree saw
that he popped off for forty two yards, So we

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had fourteen yards the whole game. So that's you know
what we're looking at here is you went to Tyron
Taylor just to try to get something going, and we
happened to win. So you're able to figure out a
little bit of the other things. And look, we have
some big ones. You make these trades Sauce and Quinnen
and Michael Carter the second. These are guys that we

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thought were going to be a part of this team.
You know, you bring in Metchi, you bring in ad
and I Mitchell, you bring in you know what the
tackle and are we ever gonna see that guy? I
don't know. But you get to look at these and
that's the positive. But then right in the middle of
that now, which is normal for Tyrod Taylor, which is

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why people like myself there's been a kind of a
growing cry for Look, if we're gonna have a vet
quarterback next year or even a bridge situation, why not
make it Tyrod Taylor. This is why, This is why,
because Tyrod Taylor, God bless him. I think he's good
enough to give you average play and you can compete

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and all that. I don't think that's a question. The
problem is you only got him for a few games.
If you get him for half the season. It's kind
of a good thing. He was at his max. So
here we go, Brady Cook. Now we have to see
this whole thing, and it's it's a scenario that in
the event he ends up having to play the rest

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of the season, great, you get to look at him
and all that, but really what's going on. Likely I
would love to see him turn the corner and grow
and all that, and you think, all right, man, we
got a backup quarterback developing. Fantastic, But more than likely,
what you're gonna watch is similar to what we watched
with like the Luke Falk period of time when Sam

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had Mono and Trevor Sieming got his leg broken in
the first game he came in and we ended up
with this kid who wasn't ready and it destroyed his career.
So that's what we're probably looking at. Whether or not
his career is destroyed, I don't know, but the point
being this sloppy, ugly, kind of no offense type of

(27:36):
a game, a type of games, and that sucks for
the evaluation piece that we were trying to hope to
get to. Dude, we had the and what's scary about
it is when he was on Brady Cook in the
Miami game, you had nine drops as well. Now the
drops are weird because a lot of those. It's just

(27:58):
an amazingly consistent phenomenon. I don't even know how the
hell we've done it. I mean, there should be a study. Really,
scientists should come and study this. How we have figured
out an amazing way to find quarterbacks from all different
walks of life, age background, like young old vets, rooks,

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you know, undrafted free agent second overall pick. Every single
one of them does this thing where they just can't
seem to hit a wide receiver and stride the wide
receivers are constantly it doesn't matter who it is, constantly
stopping mid route to slam on the brakes and get

(28:47):
a pass that's behind them. Where they're running down the
sideline with a step and a half on the dB
and they got a slow and wait for the passing.
Just we see it. It's constant, it's consistent. Doesn't matter
if their blond hair, blue eyed, good looking mama lovers
from Utah or a fifteen year vet from you know, Baltimore.

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It does doesn't matter if they all do the same thing.
And Brady Cook was doing that too, so you have
these nine drops, but so many passes today were behind
the receivers and you know, dirt balls that they're diving
the cats, but it hits their hands, and yes, maybe
they should catch dude. At this point, it's really getting

(29:33):
difficult to know who to blame anymore, you know what
I mean? But I think it has a lot to
do with the overall inexperience of the head coach, the
offensive coordinator, the other staff, the staff as a whole,
the team as a whole, and now the quarterback now

(29:54):
but young wide receivers, all that, everybody's new in the offense.
There's a lot to this now you I can hear
it like like, for example, if you're an anti Glenn guy,
like I didn't like him. I don't want him. I
was out week two. He's done nothing to show me otherwise.
He's just a bad coach. And look, I don't nest
I disagree, but that doesn't mean I think you're wrong

(30:16):
to have your opinion. Right, there's there's data, there's you
have reasons to feel that way. And what you would
hear coming out of my mouth would be excuses. Oh
you're making excuse? Why would I make excuses. I didn't
even want the frigging guy. I really didn't. You guys know,
if you've been around, I wasn't an Aaron Glenn guy.

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And I love Aaron Glenn, the player, the man, all
that shit. But I didn't want another rookie defensive coach, right,
I didn't. And I really put that that that. I
really just drove that home over and over and over
again where I stood on the thing. But here we are.
I'm not gonna wax poetic on the same shit that
I just said in the last podcast about why, you know,

(30:58):
the reasons I think Aaron Glenn's doing a good job,
but here I am. And the throwing an undrafted rookie
quarterback into the mix it really MUCKs up the works
on trying to do at least the thing that you
can do with this season, which sucks. Which sucks. So

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here we are. Man. We're gonna play the Jacksonville Jaguars
in in a few days, right in a week next week,
and then we got the Saints. The Jaguars, I believe,
unless we somehow like you know, trap game, where we
somehow just everything's all cylinders, they're gonna beat us pretty good.
That's what I think they should. They're a team on

(31:41):
the ascend with a with you know, with a real quarterback.
Maybe he didn't reach the the heights that we thought
he would from, but he's a good quarterback and they
got a good team and they're going places this year.
They you know, they're in the mix. I think they're
gonna stomp us the Saints. Interesting game, that's whose next,
you know, so we can beat them. We don't want to,

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but they look like they might be turning a little
corner here, so you know what I mean, what's gonna happen?
What's gonna happen? The only thing that's important there are
really two things that are important. Really in addition to
finding out the players and all that, Aaron Glenn has

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got to learn from everything going on right now, how
to be the head coach that he's going to be
moving into his future. That's that's it. That's one side
of things with that comes his you know, how is
he gonna deal with the offensive coordinator? Where does Steve
Wilkes come into the mix? All that's part of the
Aaron Glenn thing. Which players are on his team? Right,

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Who's he gonna be and what does he need? That's it.
That's one side. The other side of this is, dude,
where is our quarterback coming from? Because it is time
that the Jets had one, and a real one. You
have to find where this guy, who he is, where's

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he coming from? And what resources can I possibly dig
up to ensure that this guy succeeds. That's it. Like
if Mechi could look Mechi, I think he's got just
so much talent. If he continues to drop, you know,
consecutive pass not consecutive, but multiple passes each week, he

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dropped two more in this game, three the previous week,
one from the previous week, and one in this game
where easy walk in touchdowns. So this kid dropped two
touchdowns in two weeks. If he continues to do that,
shit out can't have you man just not playing games

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anymore with this idea that we're gonna change and we're
gonna figure it out. No man in or out succeed
or don't. If they're young and they're developing, that's one
thing you're building somebody, Okay, But a guy like a
Mechi or an Ady Mitchell or whoever, who's gonna be
wide receiver two, who's gonna be wide receiver. Three four?

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Who are these guys? And we can't have guys with
drop itis running all over the place. We already got
Arian Smith. We know that's his fucking problem. We knew
that drafting him, which is why look this whole idea
of speed kills. You can't teach speed. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'm with it. Can they catch? It's like a quarterback?
Look at his arm? Oh my god, Kenny, is he accurate?

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Can he think when the past rush is coming? Can
he figure out what's going on and where to go
with the ball? Can he read it? Defense? Oh? Look
at that arm. You can't. You just can't teach that
kind of shit. You can't teach a rocket arm. Give
me a guy with a rocket arm and I'll fix

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everything else. Bullshit. Not here, not for the Jets. So
that is the thing. Who is Eron Glenn? What is
he going to be? And what does he need around him?
Linebackers that are two fifteen like Sherwood or two forty
like Leo's Chanel. Who do we need here Eron Glenn?
What is it that we're gonna be? And the other

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thing is, at all costs where we find in our quarterback? Now?
Who is it, where's he coming from? Let's dig into
how realistic it is to get to that pick that
we can find our quarterback in the intelligent cripe. All right, So,

(35:41):
like I said, Jets got four games left, four games
the Jags, the Saints, the Pats, the Bills. That's it.
If you look at this, you know, if you look
at it through the lens, we were looking at it
through last week, you got a situation where you're like,

(36:04):
hey man, we can split these No, No, I don't
know so much anymore, and we don't know what are
they gonna do this week? Is Justin Field's back? I
mean he had knee soreness or something like that. I
think they said, so Tyrod Taylor's got a groin, Justin
Fields has a knee. And Brady Cook is a young
kid whose head is spinning. He's gonna look at the

(36:27):
tape man. He had Look. Let me just point this
out to you. In his first start, Brady Cook had
two fumbles, two end zone interceptions, and six sacks. Dude,
that's crazy town. That is a crazy town collection of

(36:48):
bad stuff, right, isn't it? And he somehow had one
hundred and sixty four yards almost two hundred yards. It's crazy.
So you know, we gotta find our quarterback. We're looking
at these last four games. First game, let's look at
the uh let's look at the draft board where it
stands right now. So this week, the Jets are currently

(37:11):
comfortably snuggled into pick number seven, which is where we
got Membu last year. The quarterback situation in this upcoming
twenty twenty six draft, I don't think seven is where
you want to be if Mendoz is your guy, right

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maybe even if Ty Simpson, Dante more or I don't
even think you're I don't even think seven's good for them,
it might be because here's the way it looks right now,
right now. Interestingly enough, the Tennessee Titans, who we all
were pretty resigned to believing they're done. They don't got

(37:52):
nothing in the tank. They go out and they win
a game. Today they beat the Browns, who we just
we needed the Browns to win again for just thinking
that Tennessee's got the number one pick on lock. So
you start rooting for the other stuff. See what can
happen and where you can what can help you. The Browns,
losing really messed up, are moving up and down the

(38:15):
draft board. But it took Tennessee out of the number
one pick. This is like what the Jets did in
twenty twenty or twenty one, right, yeah, two twenty in
that season. So the twenty twenty one, the twenty twenty
one draft. Anyway, when we beat the Rams, it was like,
what is this? We're garbage? Where is this coming from?

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Why do we beat the Rams? What the frig? So
the Tennessee Titans go out there and they beat the Browns.
Moves them out of the number one spot, which could
look changed there. It could change their entire trajectory as
a you know, as a team. They had the number
one pick. They got cam Ward, so they're good. They

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didn't need to use that pick at number one. Dude,
they could have gotten whatever. There's gonna be teams, there's
gonna be a there's gonna be a bidding war, and
they could have gotten two, three, whatever. It ends up
being first in some seconds, and they could out all
kinds of stuff which would have helped them build around
cam Ward. But here they are. There. They now slide

(39:20):
down to number two, and that puts the New York
Giants in the number one spot. Now the good news
with the Giants is they don't need a quarterback theoretically,
I mean the guy who's already been banged up concussions
since to me, they might feel a little bit, you know,
maybe not as solid as we think they do. They
might feel like they're on shaky ground. So maybe they

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do want to but let's assume they don't. They got
their quarterback and they got Scataboo and all's well. So
you got the Giants and the Titans at one and two.
Then you got the Las Vegas Raiders who lost this
week against the Broncos. They made it a game, but
they lost. The Raiders remaining games are the Eagles. They're

(40:03):
gonna lose again any game. You can win any game, right,
we know this, but the uh, the Eagles are gonna
likely beat them. Then they play the Texans. That's one
that maybe they could pull off. Right, you got the Giants,
so the Giants are the Raiders. Somebody's moving, and then
you got the Chiefs. So the Raiders are interesting because

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they likely need a quarterback and they're currently at pick
three and they have as they have a schedule which
they could let's they could probably split. They could more
likely they lose out, and they're sitting there with a
two in and fifteen record fighting. They're in they're in

(40:49):
a you know, a war for that first overall pick,
depending on specific especially what happens with the with the
Giants game. Now, then you got the the brown schedule
is tough too. Look at this, the Browns probably i
mean realistically probably losing out. The Browns got the Bears,

(41:10):
who are playing lights out football. They're probably gonna lose
a boot in their asses. The Bills, who are fighting
for their lives, right and they beat whoever the hell
it was today or this week, crazy game the Bills
they ended up winning. Then you got the Steelers, who

(41:32):
playing for their playoff lives. And then you got the
Bengals with Joe burrowback and all that jazz. So there's
a realistic world where the Browns. So there you go,
like all these teams. Obviously the Giants and Raiders play
and and there's some other but like these teams, there's
not much hope for moving into that that like that zone.

(41:54):
There's like a you know, it's like protected. Then you
got the Saints who are winning, right they you know,
they won and this Tyler Shock looks like he has
some uh, some meat on the bone here, which would
be really interesting if he ends. Let's say the Saints
come out and they start playing really good ball with

(42:15):
this young quarterback at the center of it, and they decide,
you know what, maybe we would rather keep him and
build use this pick to give him Tait, you know,
a great wide receiver or maybe a left tackle or
you know, something like that. I'm not sure what their
needs are, but you know, something like, let's use this

(42:37):
and build around this guy. I mean, if he shows enough,
maybe they could pivot, which would be really helpful because
it takes them out of the quarterback mix. One of
the teams that up until this thought, I'm thinking, are
in our way to get the quarterback going. So that's
gonna be. And then you got the Commanders. Now the
Commanders are not in the quarterback market, so that's one thing.

(43:00):
But currently there's still ahead of us pick six, so
you have to you have to move past them. It's
one less it's one more spot that we'd have to
go through. So really you're looking at the quarterback teams,
the Raiders, the Browns with Shador Sanders, that's another one.
Sanders looks like he's got some real potential. They go

(43:22):
into they're activating, you know, they open the practice window
for Deshaun Watson and they're saying he's gonna be on
the roster next year. So you go into next year
with a quarterback room of Shador Sanders who's playing good ball,
Deshaun Watson as the backup, and then you got this
Dylan Gabriel floating around, you know, on the practice guardware.

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I mean, they might be out of the quarterback market.
So this is the stuff when you start looking at
this path to the quarterback, which is for for our
sake right now, looks like Fernando Mendoza is the guy
you wanna. You gotta do what you gotta do to
go get them. The good news is that Jets have

(44:04):
more AMMO than anybody. There's nobody coming to the party
with bigger guns than the Jets. That said, do you
want to use them all? I don't. But then you
got to put it on the scale. The idea of
trading Sauce Gardener and quinnin Williams and needing most of

(44:25):
that capital just to get the quarterback, it's like it
sucks on one hand, especially if he fails, which is
what the Jets have done historically, So there's obviously gonna
be fear and all that shit, but it would be
worth it. Like if you look at it and you go, Okay,
you look back to twenty twenty five and the Jets

(44:46):
made this trade. They traded away Sauce Gardener, a cornerback
and a defensive tackle, and they got their quarterback who's
been among the best quarterbacks in the league the last
five years. Like let's say in five years, we're looking
back and you look at it and you go, the
Jets traded those guys and got Mendoza, who's a fucking

(45:07):
lights out success. The guy that ends up being our quarterback,
our guy, our Drake may our bone Knicks get crazy
in it. Jaden Daniel, you know what I mean, Like
our guy that ends up being our guy, our Justin Herbert,
you know what I mean, who's our guy? If you
look at that, if he's a success, it doesn't matter

(45:28):
what you pay, man, it doesn't matter. And I don't
think it'll take five first then three seconds to do it.
So you're gonna have a little something extra, Like imagine
you gotta pay two firsts or like let's say three first,
you gotta give them three. This year's two first and
the first next year, just to go from six to
or seven to one. Let's say that's what it takes.

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That sucks now, But the good news is, think about this.
You just gave them three first round picks. You just
gave up three first round picks. But you're still hanging
around with two seconds. You got your quarterback and two seconds,
and then next year you got two first in a second,

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like we still have extra. You still got the goods.
It's not the worst situation in the world, man. So
I think here, what we are is you look at
you look at the board. We're at seven. There are
four weeks left. Some of these teams play each other.
Some teams are turning a corner. The Saints, dude, maybe

(46:37):
cam Ward's fucking waking up. Maybe maybe the Titans win
a couple and push themselves into pick four or five.
Maybe wouldn't that be spectacular? And then it was a
good thing that the Browns lost to them and all
that jazz. So you get the Titans out of there,
and then it's the Jets moving up the board because

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we lose. Now, look at this, the Jets strength to schedule,
which changes as teams win and lose, you know, but
where we start right now, the Jets have a point
five to thirty nine. If the Jets had two wins,
we're we're in the second overall pick right now. And

(47:22):
this is why the tank side of things, right, lots
of you guys, and you know every year I'm I'm
one of you. This year, I'm just taking them more
in the middle approach, just for myself. But the tanksters.
If we didn't beat the Falcons last week, right now,
and everything else was the same, the only thing different
the Jets lost to the Falcons, the only Right now

(47:44):
we are sitting at pick two with our strength to
schedule and everybody else's strength strength to schedule, which is
the next you know, there's record then strength to schedule.
Right now we're sitting at pick two above the Tennessee
Titans because they won. Think about that. That's how fine

(48:06):
of a thread this really is, how thin, how razor
sharp it really is. Right now there are three two
win teams, five three win teams, and two four win teams.
One game shuffles that up so much. You see it?

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Do you see it? One game and That's why this
idea of starting Brady Cook and letting them take his lumps,
it could be the masterstroke. It really could. He's good
enough to toss the ball around and get it to
some receivers who are currently dropping it. Rutgert, Mitchell, Metchi,

(48:52):
they all had drops, Taylor. Everybody had drops today, baby, everybody.
Let's say he starts the rest of the year. He's
good enough to toss it around a little bit, not great,
and you know, got a nice arm. There were some
there was some throws that were real pretty. But he's

(49:13):
bad enough, let's say not. He's good enough to toss
the ball around, so you could still kind of work
on some evaluations and get some guys some some playing
time and see where they are and all that. But
he's not good enough to beat these teams. The Pats,
the Bills, the Jags, the Saints are anomaly right now.

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But you could theoretically lose out here and not even
trying hard to do. You can just lose out be
sitting at three wins. The Titans win one more, the
Giants win one, and all of a sudden, the Saints
win one all of a sudden. The idea of of

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us sliding into one or two isn't so crazy. Because
I'm gonna tell you this. If you're at pick two,
jumping up to one when the other teams are calling saying, hey,
we'll give you two first and two seconds, that's all
well and good. But I gotta slide down to seven.
Or I can take the Jets second and just move

(50:22):
down a pick. I know who they're taking. I'll take
their free second, and I can still stay right here
at second and get the guy I want, Reese, Tate, whoever.
Or you could slide down at two and then you're
sitting there the Jets take Mendoza, see who's open for business?
Who See who wants more? Or whoever, Simpson, whoever. So

(50:47):
when you're up there, it's a whole different ball of ax, which,
like I said, like I said, I'm really rooting for
the team to play well and lose like that. It's tough,
but not so bad. Our path to the first overall
pick is not so unrealistic. The NFL is a weird
place and teams are doing stuff. The Titans, I don't

(51:13):
know what they are. This was one week out of nowhere,
but the Titans, the Browns and the Saints. Their quarterback
situation is really what we're looking at. And if Chador
Sanders and Tyler Shock and cam Ward can just start
to put some things together, take somebody by surprise, give

(51:33):
them a little uppercut that knock them silly for a minute,
and win a couple games, and the Jets are sitting
with Brady Cook the least exciting or the least hopeful
out of all the names I just said. Cam Ward,
Chador Sanders, and Tyler Shock all look like they're more

(51:54):
able to turn that corner. Then Brady Cook. The Jets
could lose out and then we're we're in that first
overall pick conversation and if not that top three conversation
because our strength to schedule. The only thing that hurts

(52:16):
it is we play the Saints, and if we they
you know whatever. It's just there's a lot there, a
lot of details. You just can't account for all of them.
You can't, at least I can't with this mathematics. I'm
not the guy. But it's not so difficult. It's hard, right,
It's it's it's say, a lot has to happen if

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you just look at it. Brady Cook. Brady Cook he
might be the masterstroke. He just might be. Not that
they're doing it on purpose. I'm not saying they're ah tanking,
but he might end up being exactly what the doctor

(52:56):
ordered to. Still be able to kind of be valuating
and all that, but lose these games soundly and get
closer and closer to that number and overall pick man.
It's real. With that all said, let me know what
you think. Where do you stand on this one, not
Tank or not just the realism the reality of this.

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What do you think can happen? What do you think
is likely to happen. I don't care if you're on
team Tank and we're stupid or meaningless games. I don't
care about any of that shit. We've said it a
thousand times and we know where, we know the narrative,
we know it. It's fine, it is what it is.
But what do you think of the realistic possibility of
getting there should these things happen? What's the likelihood? I'd

(53:39):
love to know. I'd love to know. Guys, have a
great Monday, enjoy the rest of the week, and as always,
go Jets. No