for several games. For my quite who won't be playing tonight
due to a rib injury.
I think in my first, you know, year and a half. I just
realized how much of a business is really is, you know, and
I played football, my entire life, you know, for the fun of
it and how and how fun it is and
you know, sometimes, you know, Mo Money Mo Problems, right? And
for me, it's a, it's a, how can I just bring that fun back? How
can I just enjoy being here and
through? At reset process. How can I go out to a practice and
just be like, you know what, I'm just going to enjoy being
out here and throwing the ball around, you know, doing things
that I love to do and
spending time with the guys because that's truly, you know,
the most important parts. And so
that's kind of been the goal for me
Mo Money. More Problems and need to play the piano on him.
Good Lord, that's a dated reference, right? That's at
least 20 years old and that well, notorious b.i.g.
notorious b.i.g. is more than 20 years old. That's probably
mid mid late, mid to late 90s there. But I was still very
popular and of course a very
common phrase that's thrown around because of that song
but I know when he's getting his education, he's hey look
100% that's it's
it's easy for you footballs easy for you and every level.
That's how you get to the NFL, you've been dominant in
comparison to everyone else around you and then you get to
a point where,
you know, so dominant any right? You've higher ceiling.
That's the one thing
that that's why the draft is so inaccurate, a general,
We were told me years ago,
every guy that comes out of college football.
His ceiling is somewhere between
exactly where he is right now
and the Hall of Fame.
And there's no way to know
where he's going to land until you bring him to the NFL and
see how he competes and see how he thrives. Her doesn't against
NFL caliber players period. That's the only way to find
out. It's just go out and do it and see what happened. Yeah,
I mean in,
you're right about that. You're right. I mean, you try to take
little things of knowledge and Fires of past and try to paste
it together and what you see on film and what you think works
for the current NFL and you make educated,
you know, guesses that way.
But but yeah it's not foolproof to your point and I think it is
a it's a common struggle with guys that are talented. You
know you said it right? Yeah. It's you know, football is fun.
It was easy all
the time. Oh hey, I can
I can be in this position and just wound. Throw it sidearm and
I'm still awesome and everybody's telling me how great I am.
Yeah. Yeah, that's fine. But in the NFL, you know, there's
a balance of between that business and fun and you can't
just be careless sometimes and be like, oh yeah, it's fun to
throw the ball with my,
you know, feet cockeyed inside arm, and just let it down
the field. Yeah. But you're going to get people fired and you're
gonna get fired and it's gonna ruin people's lives. Like it.
That's where you got to realize. It's the business part
of it. And people are trying
to make more money and have long careers.
Now, you see some of these plays here. Again, this is
where I'm trying to argue for him, a little bit of this. Not
this way. All right. That was that's the Zach Wilson that
everybody is scared up
and we see about 12 throws like that every game,
whether they get intercept or not, we don't know. And of
course, this became a social media thing as well, but at
the same time I want to go away. They can't run the ball. They
didn't pass protect very well, right. And we've seen a few
plays already here. Where you go.
Damn, that's a high level throw
and the ball comes out of his hand. In a way that I think is
special even this play. I mean, the ability to get out of this,
so
that's all. All I've been arguing. Mike is I see high-end
Talent from the guy? Yeah, he needs some Polish, he's got to
fix some things. He makes the easy things hard and he makes
the hard things. Look, easy, oddly enough,
but
we'll see tonight's in a night where their pint of
Jacksonville Jaguar defense. That's not that great. There's
some talented players of certain spots but we've seen
teams run the ball and throw the ball on them
and have a day that way
and it's not a defense of line
that's,
you know, for Jacksonville even though they got the Number one,
pick. They're not a greater rushing the passer and they're
not great at stopping the run. So, you know, Jack. I mean
the Jets might have a chance to have a little balance
play-action pass, and
he might have some favorable matchups with Elijah more and
Garrett Wilson, running down the field against this defense
tonight.
No Trayvon walk or the first overall pick in the 2022.
Draft. Yeah, go back tonight and he's had quietly. A pretty
good season. The
Zach Wilson, conundrum? Yeah,
it's the whole Pat Mahomes thing to bring your son up again,
right? Wanting to throw side, 100%. All the things Pat
Mahomes does, the kids want to throw the football that way
now. And
what was clear to me from talking to Patrick homes on
Sunday? I mean, they practice those moments where all hell,
Hell Breaks Loose and he goes into what he called panic mode
and Coach read still gets upset with him when he makes a
dumb throw. When he's got the freedom to go do whatever he
does and the only reason he's still doing that five years
later is because it's effective. If you're not
effective
playing football that way you're not going to last and
you going to be on the bench like Zach Wilson that
the ultimate meritocracy. If you're good, you play, if you're not
you don't and Zach Wilson, does have a high-end ability and
I think what, frustrates, a coaching staff Chris, and
I think this frustrates, anybody
In any line of work, when you have an employee,
who can do the hard stuff really well, right? But keeps
tripping and falling over the easy stuff 100% that drives you
crazy because you think it's just a matter of not being
properly focused, right? And discipline because you can do.
Yeah,
the things that people can't do
but you won't do the things that everyone can do. Yes, I'm
yours. You're saying it, right? And that's where he's got to
become more machine and that's where I think, you know, his
physical skills. It's Like the gift and the curse
conversation?
Well yeah my whole life. I've been able to just have my feet
cockeyed and throw the ball whoever I want. Well yeah but
there was room for error. I mean it was college football
was high school, football guy being open and those
and those leagues and that football is yeah, they're
separated by four and five yards. So you can be a little
off Target now that same throw know that's, it's got to be on
the money. It's the NFL, when the guys open, he's open about
like three inches,
so there's no wiggle room.
So you got to be a machine
and even a guy Mike to your point, your liking?
Mahomes has rained it in,
he's arraigned it in
like compared to last year where he was all over the place
and doing crazy stuff for the especially the first part of
the Year this year.
He's really a technical wizard.
That's one thing I've kind of said on my podcast a lot, when
I, my Wednesday podcast, especially when I break down
film, is his mechanics are off the charts good and then, hey,
when he's got to rely on, like what you're talking about panic
mode or
wait. It's a third and four and there is
Somebody over the middle and you know with my only chance to
get him, the ball is to actually do it. Throw a sidearm
or do that, then he breaks it out but the problem was Zach
Wilson is to your to what you're saying. He was breaking
it out sometimes when you're going
there's no reason to the pockets fine.
Pop your feet and plays get your shoulder in there and hit
the target and instead he's like throwing it sidearm and
you're like, why, you know
so you can't just throw it sidearm because it's cool and
it's fun. And I want to be like Patrick Mahomes and So, what
I think we're talking about here in my cats, you know,
the cart before, the horror are the horse before the cart.
There, you gotta be a machine first before you can start
caught before the yeah. Sorry. Right, yeah, exactly.
I chickened out. It got to put the horse before the yeah.
But yeah, he's gotta and you know what, you know, what's in
the cart? You know, what's in the car? What's that
a haystack with a diamond in it? Oh Vans and whoo! Yeah,
I want a weed stack with a diamond in it that would be
better, I'd like that.
Yeah you know it's funny I thought of View on Saturday at
the airport.
A guy walked by me as I was waiting to board the plane
and I have never smelled
weed more strongly on human being in my entire life
and I'm to the point where I wonder if his nose has become
completely desensitized to it. Like, how do you even get
through security? How do you get through anywhere, right?
When it's just a cloud, it's like
pig pen from the peanuts, how he always had a cloud around
him. Yeah this was a cloud of dank
I mean, strong, it was like I did a double take. Like, he was
high. I couldn't leave car on the way to the airport. And
yeah, yeah, yeah, that's my son. I told my son. He said,
yeah, he just he smoked the whole way. That's what happens.
So, how
do you know, son?
I've just heard those.
That's the rumor. I hear. He's
forecast, heavy rain, and wind gusts tonight at MetLife
Stadium where it's always windy even when it's not
the over-under.
4237, the Jets are favored by one and a half points so hey,
I should be fun, we're getting down to the end. There are only
two more Thursday night games crazy this week,
next week, and that's it. So enjoy it while it lasts solo
everyone. The schedule first came out and I saw a jaguars
Jets,
we 16. So yeah, it was like, ah, come on Al's gonna Al's
gonna have the flu
that night. He's not he's not,
that's not going to be
but you know it got better at
Got better because the Jets were better than expected. And
now it's good, because the Jaguars are better than
expected there in the playoff Chase. It's actually a pretty
good Game. It really is, they're bald fighting for it.
I mean, it's desperation time. It really is. So that's where it's
going to be awesome. And
and Mike, I'm glad you went with the weather because it
seems like it's gonna be a real issue up here. That's
the really kind of the downfall of all but
to where I want to see, Trevor, Lawrence and Zach Wilson,
you know, make plays and throw the ball over the field. But
I mean, you know, they're talking like Gale warnings up
here.
And coastal flooding,
you know, where I live. And I'm about 25, 27 miles north of
MetLife Stadium. Where
it's, I mean, they're talking about one to two inches of rain
tonight, so we might see one of those type of games, which
I don't want to see, I don't like that. I want to see two teams
in the playoff race
being able to play at their highest level and not have,
you know, slap Fest, slick ball effect things but it's dirt
definitely going to be a part of the game. It sounds like
tonight.
There definitely is a coastal flood warning. I'm looking at
that. Now, the temperature is not going to be all that bad
though. It's going to be 46 and Rising around kickoff, but
the rain is just all day. Blue rain rearing, its rain. Rain rain
tomorrow, it's going
to be 54 degrees here, but then at night is going to be 8
degrees. So that's where I guess we're going to get
the wind and whatever else. But
yeah this should could lead to some interesting place tonight
with the wind and rain.
1.6 inches of rain today. So
if you go to the game tonight,
where your g.i. Joe?
Rain Slicker, you're like, I think they had your g.i., Joe,
that Ami Goomba soup. They had. No, they had the GI Joe scuba
suit.
That's what it was. I remember this cool goggles. Yes. And
flippers, right? Yes. And you took him in the sink. We had,
we had a stationary tub
between the washer and the dryer in the basement at my house.
House with a hose on it and I'd fill up that sink and I'd put
g.i. Joe in there. And then all the hair on his head and his
beard would come out. Once he got wet, that was it and they
know it. They had to have known
that and that they lured you to put him under water with all
that Scuba stuff. But the moment you put them in water.
The hair fell out, all right. Yeah. What are the Jaguars that
I see the Jaguars, you know, troll in the New York Jets? New
Jersey thing, a little bit. I'd
say,
look, look I appreciate any Sopranos reference whenever and
however it's made. But comedy is hard
the
Instagram and Twitter
thing from the Jaguar social media team. And I don't want to
start any trouble
with anyone associated with the Jaguars
franchise. Like Jackson DeVille. I don't think Jackson made this
their outside of stature Isles.
I don't know. T.
I don't know T. They're called the New York Jets, but we're
flying to Jersey. That's the joke. Yeah,
so you better Rock You
Back.
Jaguars.
You gotta hold your hand a certain way, like, Paulie
Walnuts would do. Yeah, I don't know. T, yeah,
I don't know T, but
I again, good idea
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