 coach Michael Don and Peter first off. How are you holding up? I'm doing I'm I'm good just just grinding just trying to get our guys kind of back on track after after Sunday. Is this talent a one in seven talent or is it better than this? I think it's hard to say if I'm going off of talent that we started with we've had some guys kind of rotate through and you know I mean three games we don't have our starting quarterback it's just what we were kind of been mixing and matching kind of some of the guys that are playing together. But you beat Dallas and that seemed like it was the jumping off point because you're absolutely right you had a quarterback with mono you lost the biggest free agent signing on defense in Mosley and it crippled you defensively but it seemed like everything clicked against Dallas since then three consecutive losses so what went wrong where's the disconnect between what we saw in the first half against Dallas and what's happened since? I think New England we we just we just got smoked there they just they beat us and Jacksonville we just Jacksonville in Miami we didn't do enough all three phases we just not playing complimentary football we're just not doing enough to put ourselves in position to win the fourth quarter. Adam are you and your staff being outcoats in these games? I mean as for somebody else to judge I know we're we're trying to put our guys in the best position possible you know week in and week out I mean it's I mean you guys can can discuss that part of it but I mean I know what I'm watching on tape I know what's what's happening during the game it's just hasn't worked out the way we needed it to are you I know you try to hold that outside noise and for the most point I believe that you do do that but do you understand that jet fans are furious right now and many of them are calling for your head saying that you're doing a bad job yeah I mean all I can even say is you know we're gonna get these things better this thing better trying to get our guys to to play well together and you know I promise you nobody's more angry than I am so I know nobody cares but you know it is what it is what was the most frustrating thing in particular on Sunday about the way the team played well I mean we just we didn't we didn't play well as a group I mean it's just it's not one guy it's not one thing it's you know we have two kind of two areas of the parts of the game where we play complementary football and you know we need that more consistently I know that's something that we're constantly stressing and a guys understand it we we know we can do it we just we just got to put it together now it comes together on those first series audience jackson will you score in your first possession you scored on your first possession against Miami had a great second possession that stalled on the missed field goal why is it clicking early and then just not clicking as the game goes on penalties we're hurting ourselves you know we have an explosive play we get illegal hands to the face and we have an OPI those are going to kill your drives every time is Sam taking steps back no he's doing a good job as far as the last two games he's done well getting to the right place I was going the right place where he's kind of his body alignment decision-making we just got to eliminate the couple couple decisions that are causing turnovers and he's aware of it he knows it that's something that he's working on he knows that it's it's coming along for him and and he's he's close to really clicking in this thing and I feel like he took a better control the offense at the line of streamers last game that was really good to see for us with kind of how he was directing traffic we just got to keep it clean for four quarters and and make sure that we make the right decision one you know when we have the ball in our hand Adam you've always been fourth right with us so I'm going to be fourth right with you the thing that jumped out at me about Sunday's game after the game when you said you weren't embarrassed by that I mean you lost to a team that's not even trying to win how's that not embarrassing to you in the organization well I know this when you're when you're in the arena and you're competing and these guys are putting everything they have into this preparation wise and land it on the line you can't be embarrassed about anything you have to you have to go to work you have to try to make things better you have to do everything you can to put ourselves in position to win the game and then we have to go go do it and we haven't done that yet but did this sting you more because this is the team that let you go and then you lose to them that was their first win yeah I mean it's really irrelevant how I felt about it so my job's got to be move on to the next one all right so as you move on though I guess the thing that frustrates the fans and and even my myself you know covering the team is all three phases you said that last few weeks it does it does it at some point have to get better right I mean you want to see the team grow you say your quarterback is not regressing but it at least from a statistical standpoint wins losses it seems to get worse and worse as each week goes on maybe not to you the expert but from from us the naked eye just doesn't look like the quarterback is moving forward don't you have the talent and the ability and the staff quite frankly that this should be a team getting better at this stage of the season rather than getting worse yeah well everybody's looking at the result we're not winning so nobody's going to look at the fine details everything we are that's what our job is to do that's what we're we're always looking at we're trying them to put ourselves in good position and the things that we're messing up right now offensively is we're turning the ball over you know we're having a bad turnover in the red zone and we can't do that and the other 39 throws that nobody pays attention to you know there's a lot of good stuff in there we just gotta we just got to eliminate the bad plays any news on the MRI would love you on bell yeah I mean we'll we'll see where he is tomorrow like right now I know he's not practicing on Wednesday and we'll just kind of see kind of the rest of it goes but I think he's feeling better we'll just kind of see where it goes from there and you put the cornerback Tremaine Johnson and the wide wide receiver Josh Bellamy on IR this is a good possibility this could be Tremaine Johnson's last time with the Jets then after being put on the IR and the way the contract stacks up yeah I haven't really been diving into any contracts so you know I mean I know we put them on IR and him and Josh and you know it's kind of that that time of the year where some guys you know they're not going to be back in time and you know we got to get guys up to be able to play you you left the game you had the three timeouts at the end of the game you didn't use him you've just said you've since said that that was a mistake but the question I have to ask you why did you call a timeout and when they when they were kneeling why did you say we had three timeouts left and we screwed that up by not not getting fits you to the ground right away and him kind of danced around back there that was that was not not what we needed we needed to get him down and we start enough time maybe we could have got one more play and who knows um your quarterback Sam was on yesterday talked about communication like with the safety you know there's the lack sometimes of that communication is that on the players that on the coaches when there's a lack of communication where do you correct that well I wasn't in in the huddle and it's one of those things where not sure what was actually said and what was communicated moving in the line of scrimmage if anything changed so I mean I've talked to we've talked as a group and and we just know that that can't happen again we got to make sure that everybody's on the same page Sam's such a good guy we asked him this yesterday about Brian Winters he said listen no problem we spoke about it afterward but I mean do you tell your guard who's not having the best year of his life don't you ever try to show up our quarterback on the field in front of the cameras and people I think Brian was just he was frustrated and upset and you know Brian's Brian's playing through a lot of little different things and and trying to do everything he can to help us win and you know it's one of those things where we'd rather not that happen I know in the heat in the game sometime there's a lot of things like that that occur that not everybody always sees that was just happened to be one of those situations that everybody could see you know we'd rather not that that go on you know but sometimes we gotta hash those things out is your owner upset at the way the team's played have you spoken with Christopher Johnson guys I talk to him every day and what is what does he say about a loss like Sunday he shares the same vision that really Joe and myself and and and I mean kind of put together and we're he knows that we're working to get things corrected and we're putting everything we can in to trying to get a win when we get a time and we gotta do a good job this week and and get ready for this game and and make sure that when we go out there we're ready to go and and we we perform better than we did last week is I mean he seems like a very even keel guy but is he upset is he angry at the way the team is one in seven I you have to ask him that he's I've never seen him angry angry yet so I don't know that's something you'd have to ask him um coach I know this is a challenging time and even having to do these interviews probably not the best of things to do at this moment but you've done a great job keeping your cool moving forward but personally in terms of challenges you've had in football this game that is your life where does this current circumstance rank among the hardest challenges you've had in the game I don't know that might be a better question from the end of the year we'll kind of see how the next eight weeks play out we'll see how you know how our injury status kind of goes through the rest of the rest of the season and we'll see how much better we can get when you know I just feel like we're we're close to turning the corner especially on offense it's just we just have to protect the football we can't put our defense in bad spots we can't miss out on red area opportunities feel like we just get these red you know turnovers cleaned up that would help us a lot I want to circle back to something I had said before coach I didn't get a chance to follow up when when I was talking to you and criticizing the team based on the losses you said that I'm just judging it on wins and losses that you go deeper into that and I get that but are you asking me not to judge it on wins and losses what what can I judge it on that's not what I'm saying okay that's what I like I have to look deeper than that right you know I mean I mean trust me I want to win as much as anybody else it's just when you don't you you got to dig deep and and look at all the things what's good what's bad what do we need to fix what what did what do we feel like is closer to a finished product than something else like we have to really dive into those type of things if I just struck my shoulders that we lost like let's scrap everything then we're not gonna be able to build anything now I don't know if you know the answer to this but I just want to know your feeling coach do you feel with the with the fan base so uh angered right now and inflamed and the fact that the teams one and seven do you feel that by the end of the year if it doesn't get better that your job could be in jeopardy that's something I don't it doesn't cross my mind because I can't think that way I gotta think getting the guys better that's what I'm worried about and you never even in a quiet moment think about stuff like that boy this is not going well no because like I have 53 players probably more than that really if you count all the guys that are either on IR practice squad I got 26 coaches I got all these guys counting on me to do my job so and I got the front office counting on me I got ownership counting on me I got our our staff counting on counting on me I got our front office upstairs counting on me to make sure that I do everything you can to help these guys get better and if I'm wasting my time on that then I'm not doing my job all right thoughts on the Giants it's a bit you know they're showing some some good stuff on offense I know that watching Saquon and he's gonna be a he's gonna be a challenge for us obviously you know Daniel's had some some good good stuff you know he's kind of having you know a couple of turnovers which happens with the young quarterbacks the defense you know they have a lot of really good plays Betcher's a hard hard guy to go against has been for me in you know over the last four or five years so you know we it's gonna be challenging for us we got to make sure that we're ready to go you know we've thrown a lot at you there's a lot to kind of dissect and as Peter said I know it's difficult but when you hang up this phone after this interview what's the what's the first thing you work on what's the what's the first thing that has to get accomplished as you march forward for this giant game I'm gonna be watching this next cut up I got pulled up once I get off the phone with you guys we're just we're working on our first second down game plan do you look at this giant game as a big game because of what it means to your fans and it's a home game I mean in NFL every game is a big game and anytime you get a chance to play at home like you those are the games that you look at as you have to win and that's what that's kind of how we've approached every game and we just have to make sure that we do a good job getting ready this weekend and go play well I guess the reason we do this is because the fans just want to know you know what the coach is thinking do you have a message for them what would you tell the jet fan as they get ready for the second half of the season we need to play better we need to play better we need to coach better we need to make sure that we have better results on Sunday now final thing I don't think you'll answer this but I'll ask it anyway usually at the halfway point of anything you give a grade give yourself a grade how have you coached or have you done a good job I mean I'm best for somebody else to throw a grade on on things like that I don't I don't think that way you don't think you have done a good job this week or a bad job that doesn't enter your mind no because it's irrelevant I don't waste my time thinking about things that don't matter yeah but you've got it you've got to judge your the coaches that you work with whether or not they they're doing a good job so I mean you must self-evaluate too we're eight games in we're eight games in and we got eight more to go so we got a we got a long ways to go we got a lot of things to get accomplished all right coach thank you good luck this Sunday thanks all right guys all right that's 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