What's the word?
What's the word? Bird.
No, no, not a chance.
I told him happy birthday,
so I feel like that's good enough.
You think?
Is it rare to have a corner
where gardeners last year come
in and play that well as a
He was one of the best corners in the league,
regardless of being a rookie.
Is that kind of rare you
thinking Oh my nine years in
the league, I know we've,
I've seen some special guys come in.
It's been a couple guys like Jalen Ramsey had
a good rookie season if I'm not mistaken,
dating it kind of back.
The guys that came in the league and
been special and played at a high level,
they kind of get it from the get go.
So I mean I want to say it's rare,
but it's been a couple of gyms,
I guess. How would
you characterize this Jets defense? They had
a real good defense.
They had a real good team last year.
They didn't do anything but get better,
especially defensively.
I think it's another year in that system.
They I have an amazing you know
head coach you know what system he
comes from and you know the guy
that he come from so rated him you
know I feel like I mean even last
year I think they were top five
in all categories or top three
in all categories they got they
got a hell of a defense you say
they gave you what it gets attention
I had $99.00 in the first half No you know
the team the team the team as a whole.
You're two worst points in the
yard to change were against.
I mean I feel like offensively we struggled.
You know the first game we had,
thank you so much, Josh had also got injured.
You know what I'm saying?
I think that played a huge role in it.
Like we had just got off to a hot start.
But I'm saying they made some,
they made some adjustments,
they did a great job,
feel like they had a great plan as well.
It's like it's playing chess out there
for like the OC and the DC They were
doing the hell of a job out there,
especially the first game.
But then you know we had got Josh got
injured and so obviously that's a huge blow.
The injury that he had was,
you know very rare but it's a quarterback
injury in sense, so it's hard to throw,
but there's no shade, it's nothing,
nothing against the defense.
I think the defense is one of the great,
one of the best defense we got right now,
especially going against year in the
year out and then the second game,
I mean I don't,
I don't remember too much of the details.
I know, I know we ended up with the dub,
but they they never was playing well again.
So I don't know.
You got to rephrase the question I guess,
Stephane, one of the different challenge.
I mean the New York Jets are different.
I mean, is it unique challenge?
I wouldn't say unique challenge.
I think it's everybody out there is eager,
everybody out there miss football.
It's your first time getting to compete
at a high level and it matters.
In the preseason,
you're kind of getting the wrinkles off
and in the back of your mind you know you,
you want to say it matters,
but you really, you know it doesn't.
And if you were a competitor,
it doesn't, it doesn't matter.
You want to win in all phases,
but that first game,
I feel like it's also finding yourself.
I'm saying what kind of team you got
figuring out your identity and all
the stuff that you've been putting on
tape consistently working at kind of
getting to actually put it to use.
So I feel like that's the
challenge more so than anything,
not necessarily the opponent because
you've been watching those guys,
they've been watching you and you
kind of get to figure out have
out has what I've been studying,
what I've been seeing consistently
is that what I'm going to get.
Because you don't know that I'm saying
all you got to really watch is the last
year's tape for guys from their their reps.
But you can kind of garner stuff
enough information to be like this
is what we're probably going to get.
But you never know.
You know, that's probably part of the
answer to this next question when you
actually get it out on the field regular
season condition to see if there.
But what's your sense?
I mean there's a lot of new
components to this offense this year.
What is your sense with your experience
of I don't Can it talk about being
less predictable this year with with
some of the new pieces of new elements?
Where do things stand offensively with
the Bills as you see it right now?
**** I don't know.
I mean, that ain't my job.
I mean, offensively,
I feel like it's going to come
down to fundamentals and execution.
They got a hell of a defense.
We got pretty much the same guys on offense,
couple of new wrinkles,
couple of new pieces,
couple of new weapons, more specific.
But it's going to come down to execution.
We got to ask you that at a high level,
We got to play what we see,
take what they give us.
And I'm saying keep everything in front of
us and I'm saying be where your feet are.
So it's kind of hard to gauge and I
wanted to give you a bunch of information,
but you know,
we haven't even played the game yet,
so it's kind of hard to,
but I know I trust my guys
been putting in a lot of work.
Today was a good day at progress today.
We're just trying to stack those
bricks so we also get started
at least inside of hope.
So
set in the spring he's ever
been more focused on football.
What have you seen now in this 4th
year together in the summer at training
camp in the crew season from him
just him putting that hat on it that
quarterback had that had that says,
all right this is the show, it's my show,
I got it and saying we trust him.
You know we've been trusting him but I
feel like this is him taking heed and being
like all right there's something out there.
I'm saying I could I could do it.
I could fix it.
I'm saying and I could put the
right guys in the right spots.
I'm saying just him taking taking on this
on the office that he is the quarterback.
I'm saying I can see the focus
and so I can see the grind.
So trying to as a receiver all you
want to do is kind of follow suit right
behind it and say whatever you need.
We can put in getting a lot of
reps and more So sharpening on the
mental aspect rather than in the
plan because out there we know that.
I'm saying he gives it everything he got.
You know,
we're going to play balls to the wall.
We going to give it everything
we got as a unit.
But instead of figuring it out as we go,
anticipating a lot of the stuff and plan
what we see and you know what I'm saying?
And really having that,
having that mindset of just like okay,
this is what we plan for this what we got.
And if we didn't get that,
you say maybe come back to it
or get us in the right place.
He's been doing that all throughout Camping.
I see the confidence.
So
if you've acknowledged the
urgency to go grab the ultimate
goal of winning the Super Bowl,
how do you manage acknowledging
and embracing the urgency?
I feel like we're in a great spot right now.
Last year. I hate to bring up last year,
but this is one thing like last
year they said we were favorite.
We were favorite, favorite in every game.
I'm saying. And that was a big stub.
I didn't even know that.
This year I feel like
we're doing a great job.
It's just kind of fun on the radar,
you know what I'm saying?
As a team we've we've been real high.
We've we having a conference with gold.
But you take it one game at a time,
one season at a time,
we got a new opportunity, brand new season,
spanking new season to kind of go push them,
fit things on the tape and show what
you could do as a office and as a team.
So for me, like, yeah,
that's, that's big picture.
But see the forest through the trees
and it starts with getting more.
I know everybody's extremely excited.
Yeah, I am too.
What
would it be to
the way last season ended with
on a Monday night with the
more hammer going down? And it
opened this season on a Monday night
in New York City on 9/11.
And knowing he is part of this team,
the significance of that to
you, I don't really think about
it too much, to be honest.
Just because like he's been
around for a little while now
and say he's alive and well now.
So it's not nothing that I mean I don't,
I haven't thought about it.
I don't think about it.
You gonna have to kind of take it
up with him and the other guys.
But he's been around for a little while
now even said we've he's been out there.
He made a couple of tacos.
I've been refreshed or had my little
moment of rejoice when seeing
him get active and make tacos and
being back to doing what he loves.
So I ain't thinking about that too much.
I'm more so focused on the game,
really just repping it like I kind
of alluded to it not too long ago,
earning the respect of my coaches
and he's my God, that's in my room.
And as a captain, I kind of want to have
him be able to lean on me to lead the
troops and especially the guys in my room.
Luckily we got two guys in the
room that that became a captain.
That really says a lot about
your position group.
And for me, just want him to trust me.
And I'm saying leading the guys
in the right direction, grinding,
stacking bricks and kind of like just
echo and everything that he's coaching.
And I'm saying how you build that trust is,
and you're going out there making plays,
doing what you're supposed to do.
And I'm saying and leading by example.
So he can actually go in the
meeting room and say like, okay,
like this is how we want things done.
This is how you want this rant,
you know what I'm saying,
and kind of just be in that example.
And for me, like, anytime I have a new coach,
I know how hard it is.
So I'm trying to just make
his job as easy as possible.
Catch the ball, you'd open the.
Catch the ball.
Do you
feel like
Monday night will finally be a
release after what felt like an
offseason where you, frustrated,
came up short of being on national stage
and had a complete senior emotion?
No, not too much. I look at,
I look at the game like I got a
hell of a opportunity. I'm saying I
don't even think about last year.
Like I feel like more so just
the timing of it, because there
hasn't been any football around.
Like, I mean, people only can talk
about what happened last year.
I feel like that's fair enough.
But for me, I'm, I'm,
my eyes are in the front of me,
not behind me.
So for me, I've just been focused
on each and every day put my left
foot in front of the right and going
on and grinding like right now like
I feel like I feel like a rookie
and I got a chip on my shoulder.
I got a lot to prove.
So for me, I just,
I'm more eager to get out there.
But it kind of starts out there.
I've been doing everything I can
and this **** mean a lot to me.
For
we
just echo and it be where
your feet are and everybody.
You know coach kind of always gives
us stuff to kind of like have a motto
and something that do your 111th.
And we kind of, like always all all
agreed that, Not a matter of fact.
Let's do more.
I'm saying it doesn't mean like you got
to do something outside of the ordinary,
but do more, do your 111th.
It's just requiring you to
do your job but go another,
go another step and make somebody next to
you better or put somebody next to you or,
you know what I'm saying?
Put a little extra time in
and do more than your job.
Because I feel like the
little by little is stacked,
you know what I'm saying?
And it'll make the guys around you
better to make the make the team better.
And I'm saying the more that you can get out,
I feel like that's the truth.
That's the true testament to
a leader and to a captain.
Can you make those guys around you better?
I don't view it anyway other than this.
The first game.
If it was on a Wednesday in my backyard,
I promise. Y'all for the same way.
It's definitely something that you get
fired up about because you're a competitor.
I'm saying I love football,
especially prime time and saying,
but for me it's another
game like I would have.
I'll play on a Tuesday night.
I'm saying the living room.
I don't really care but I love.
I love everything about it and I
appreciate the game more more specifically,
like being grateful that you
can go out there and get active
and do something that you love.
So for me, I look at it as A and I've been,
I've been working, so, so I've been working.
Thank you.