Exploring the Passionate Fandom of New York Jets Fans

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00:00And that brings us to the New York Jets.

00:07I've grown up in New York my entire life.

00:10I grew up in New York.

00:11Grown up my entire life, pretty much.

00:12That's why I'm here now.

00:13You're still growing.

00:14You're growing it.

00:15A lot of places, trust me.

00:18But I've never seen a fandom as rabid as New York Jet fans.

00:23And Joe was positing that there's a lot of pain.

00:26There's a lot of angst there, decades worth.

00:29And I really feel that if the Jets are winning,

00:32that building can be a tough place to play.

00:34We talk about Philadelphia being a tough place to play.

00:36The Jet fans have something to cheer about,

00:39something to let all those years of frustration out.

00:42It's time to shout at mommy and daddy, Jet fans.

00:45What do we have?

00:47Let me ask all that, really.

00:48Jet fans with expectations.

00:50What could go wrong?

00:51What could go wrong?

00:53I feel like here we are.

00:54It's like it's deja vu all over again, right?

00:57The old Yogi Berra thing where we're sitting here.

00:59We're exactly where we were last year, which is okay.

01:02Well, the defense is really good.

01:04So from a fantasy perspective, actually, the Jets defense.

01:06And they had Dalvin Cook.

01:08Remember that guy?

01:10Dalvin Cook.

01:11Right?

01:12He forgot about that.

01:13Dalvin Cook can really hurt Brees Hall.

01:15Remember that nonsense people were talking about?

01:17I was like, what have you watched that a Dalvin Cook,

01:19that means he's going to take away and carry some Brees Hall?

01:21What the hell is happening here?

01:23Serenity now.

01:24But Aaron Rodgers ran on the field with the flag.

01:26And then, you know, got carded off the field a few minutes later.

01:29And that's, you know, where we are here with this Jets team.

01:32They can go as far as Aaron Rodgers can take them.

01:34I still say I hate the fact that Aaron Rodgers isn't playing in the preseason.

01:38I think it's a mistake.

01:39I really do.

01:40I think that there's something to not playing football for a while.

01:44And then, you know, you're in your 40s.

01:46And I'm not saying he doesn't have anything left in the tank.

01:49Sure.

01:50But he is still at this stage of his career.

01:52He is a QB2 in super flex.

01:54That's what he is.

01:55Don't make any kind of assumptions that he's anything more than that.

01:58It is going to be a team that's going to run the football.

02:01And they are going to play defense.

02:02It's not going to be a team that's in a lot of shootouts.

02:04Right?

02:05That's not their MO.

02:06Run the football.

02:07Play defense.

02:08When you have a lead, run the football some more.

02:10So, that really bodes well for Brees Hall,

02:12as long as he can handle that workload.

02:14And it's going to be much better for him this year,

02:16because what you saw last year was already fantastic.

02:18But that more removed from the injury he is,

02:21the more scoring opportunities with an actual quarterback.

02:24The quarterback play was so bad last year.

02:26And Nathaniel Hackett is, frankly, a joke as a coordinator.

02:30He was a complete joke as a head coach.

02:33That experiment didn't last very long.

02:35The reason why he's got a job is, frankly,

02:38because Aaron Rodgers gets to do whatever he wants.

02:40And that's it.

02:41Period.

02:42End of story.

02:43Anywhere else, Hackett would not be employed if his last name wasn't

02:45Hackett and Aaron Rodgers wasn't the guy he was coordinating.

02:49And I use coordinating in air quotes because, really, it's not.

02:52It's just Aaron Rodgers choosing his place.

02:54But Garrett Wilson is the one thing, too,

02:56where we've seen Devontae Adams explode and be the guy.

03:00So, the reception total here is 95 in the projections,

03:031188 for the receiving yards, eight touchdowns.

03:05There's a world where this is greater than that.

03:07There's a world where he was well over 100 catches on the year,

03:10maybe closer to 1250 and maybe closer to 10.

03:13So, there's upside for Moore, depending on how Aaron Rodgers does

03:17and how long he stays on the field.

03:20And if he has any other issues regarding health or any other issues,

03:24period, that could hurt the chemistry of this team.

03:27Mental and physical health.

03:28And to think that that's not a liability in your investment, it's stupid.

03:33Of course, it's a piece that you have to consider.

03:36You know, I always used to bring this back.

03:39You're a baseball guy, Matt.

03:40I always used to talk about Milton Bradley.

03:42Remember Milton Bradley?

03:43Milton Bradley is one of these guys.

03:45And if you just took the talent of Milton Bradley, man,

03:48what an incredible talent that guy was.

03:50But he was nuts.

03:52And he made a lot of bad decisions, said a lot of wrong things,

03:55did a lot of wrong things.

03:56And sometimes things just did not work out for him in certain spots.

03:59Aaron Rodgers is a hall of famer.

04:01He's one of the great skilled quarterbacks that we've seen in the league.

04:04But he's also been a guy that sometimes when the stage gets big,

04:07he hasn't been big enough for the stage.

04:09And outside of that one run where he had the Super Bowl, I'm right.

04:12And you can tell me I'm wrong all you want, but the stats prove differently.

04:17The 8-8 record in the postseason proves differently.

04:19So don't tell me about the greatness of Aaron Rodgers

04:22and put him in the Brady, Manning, Montana.

04:24Because it's not even in the same breath as those guys.

04:27But this is about fantasy.

04:29This is about 2024.

04:30And Garrett Wilson, Brees Hall are first round picks regardless.

04:34And now the fact that they have Terod Taylor,

04:36a much more capable backup if things go awry,

04:39makes me feel personally a little better about those investments.

04:42Does the Terod Taylor edition make you feel better about Hall,

04:46about Garrett Wilson?

04:47Because you saw Taylor play pretty well last year for the Giants

04:49when he was going home.

04:51Listen, here's the thing.

04:52The Jets have everything they need,

04:54but the one thing no one's talking about is the defense.

04:56And I think that if Aaron Rodgers starts to make some decisions

05:00and do certain things that puts the Jet defense in a bad place,

05:03he's going to lose this entire team.

05:06And that to me, you've talked about it a lot.

05:09What goes on behind closed doors, things that we don't see,

05:12what goes on from the neck up can really impact a huge market team

05:17that is finally going to have the eyes and the lights of the city upon it.

05:21Let's see how they react.

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