family?
And I just want to thank y'all man.
This happened at for Mountain View from be the highest draft
intention at EST man. Well here,
let's do it. Let's do it. Hey, man, I'm going to turn you over
to coach Saleh.
Hey man, congrats man. Welcome to family
appreciates.
It made me smile, you know, I was real happy because it made
me feel like I was wanted, you know,
a lot of people be
wanting to go to these teams and want to go to these schools
and college, but they don't want you to. It's no point of
you
being there. So I really feel wanted not only from a coaching
staff and rest organization, but from like for like
the fans,
you know, the fans, you know, they welcome you with open
arms, you know, and I just can't wait to do whatever I can
for the community.
There is sauce Gardner after he was selected by the Jets
following the phone call from our next guest, Robert Shaw and
I want to start right there. Coach. First of all, we
appreciate your time. We know you're busy. It means a lot to
us that you're making yourself available.
But when I hear sauce gardeners say he's happy. The fans
welcomed him with open arms. I mean, Jets fans aren't bashful
about making it known that they're not happy with
the pick.
Is it a relief for you
when you find out that the fans are on board with what you guys
have done?
You know what? This whole bit of hard one, not to be a fan
of. I mean the kid is got such a great mental makeup is he's
got
great to me. He's
he's in Detroit kid. That's built for New York and
just to have him and you kind of knew right away that
the fans were going to embrace him. He's got an electric
personalities
and Robert. I'm you know, you guys had a great draft.
Congratulations. I mean, I know you guys have had to take all
those compliments of. Hey you won the draft and it doesn't
mean anything until they go out and prove it. But
what I am interested in is
just your process of like evaluating players in
the conversation that goes down with Joe Douglas because it
seems like your guys fit your scheme perfectly. And just
how involved are you in the process and the conversations
with Joe leading up to the draft and ultimately, actually
making the pick,
you know,
I don't get a lot of credit to Jody and his staff and the way
he runs the entire operation up there for draft,
his inclusion with the coaching staff, all the conversations,
all the Meetings,
none of it happens. Unless Joe wants to happen and and he is,
he is so
detailed and covers every single basis. He crosses every
T, dot every. I and, you know,
I've been fortunate and unfortunate all at the same
time. I've been part of. This is my fifth rebuild in on
the front end of a
rebuilding situation and
wherever its work. This is the way it's been run, you know,
with general manager at San Francisco Kyle and John.
The cohesiveness between those two
same thing with John and Pete Carroll at Seattle, their
cohesion. So it's, you know, just being here and just having
that ability to work with Joe and
his willingness to allow us to have
the amount of input. He gives us
really gives us organization opportunity to minimize
the risk, you know, when everyone's on the same page with a player
you minimize risk and
so credit the jewel, in the way. He runs it.
We talked about your fourth, pick the fourth overall, pick
in the draft and sauce Garden. You were back on the clock at
ten,
and it's good to have choices. But the problem of choices is
Revenge, got to make a choice. You got three receivers and
went one after the other. You go Garrett, Wilson, Crystal
Ave. And Jameson Williams. Are there.
What sets Garrett Wilson, apart from the guys who were drafted,
immediately after him following the selection of Wilson at 10,
you know, just when you look at this body of work and his, his
body control is Is his hands. His aggressiveness of the ball
is range
to go get the ball. He's
he his route running. He felt like he was most Pro ready?
Had the had the best body of work in our opinion. And
just as his character, his mental makeup,
all of it, being part of a winning organization,
winning University at Ohio, State and
had a team full of stars near the star. So it was a for us,
it was an easy decision. Was Garrity rule. He was
a number-one receiver
which everyone's going to say when they pick a guy but
I'm not lying. Yeah,
but regardless it he just for us it was an easy pick.
Now. I mean, I think I'm just gonna rattle down the first
round here. I mean, we might as well just keep, you know,
giving you guys a lot of credit here. Third third pick in
the first round. Jermaine Johnson, Florida, State
as a fan. I'm sitting there going man. They got sauce
Gardner and Jermaine Johnson. They got their Richard Sherman
and their Cliff Avril. Some Solace Seattle defense when he
worked there, but
just like talk about your level of surprised that he was still
on the board and then ultimately like
the conversation that goes down with you and Joe to make
the move
back up and get into the first round
and take a player like Jermaine Johnson,
you know, we really are
in our heart,
just talking with Joe. We made the decision that if he got
the 15, we'd start making phone calls. Also the
rain, we got the 15 go started making calls and
we finally got it done at 26 and
really happy to get them. And
and I know that,
you know, it's all, it's a long day for those kids, especially
in that green room. When you're expected to go in a certain
spot and you fall where he fall where you are and
you know, we're really excited to have them because, you know,
obviously biased Li, we feel like we are skiing fits him
perfectly and what we'd ask him to do with getting off the ball
and playing those wide nines and and and all that length,
speed and athleticism.
And we hear the stories all the time, about a guy who's slides
and who's upset about it and he gets a giant chip on his
shoulder.
From a coaching perspective. You got to like that, that it's
not going to be as difficult to push these guys buttons because
he walks through the door with a stick up his butt. He's ready
to go. He's ready to prove people wrong.
Yeah, you know what? He's
one thing, the common denominator that every player
we selected in this year's draft and they've got
a tremendous mental makeup. What we feel? Like they're
internally driven and
while I do think he is bothered that
he slipped a 26. I think he's got an internal drive that
he's able to reset, won't matter. Wake up the next
morning, find ways to internally get better and
all the way from free agency to this draft class. If you look
at all the different names that have come to this building.
I think the common denominator is that, they're internally
driven, and they're not really
driven by money or external forces, or plain time. They
just want to find a way to maximize themselves every day.
And I think Jermaine is one of those. AIDS, and
he was upset, trust me. He was upset and he verbalized it
the next day. But at the same time, I think he's, I think he's
wired in a way. We're at the end of the day. It won't matter
because it's, he knows what he has to do
and he knows where he has to get. If he wants to make
something happen out of this league.