 We've been talking about the Jets and the Giants a rough Sunday for both teams and now as is what we do always on Monday at four o'clock We talked to the Jets head coach Todd bulls the Todd bulls report brought to my open road Audi of Manhattan and M&T Bank coach. How you doing? Okay, Mike. How you doing? Pretty good listening to you yesterday and reading what you said yesterday. You sounded almost like exasperated You've had some time to think about it. Well, what's what's your view of what happened yesterday? It didn't change still exasperated for the things we've been doing every day We just didn't do them as well yesterday, you know, that's frustrating but we'll go back to the drone board and we'll fix it and Move on from there. What exactly do you think is broken with this defense? Well, I'm broken Here and there play that we had every day that we practiced on some routine stuff that we just didn't do or got over Zellas and did something that we're not used to doing. So we'll correct them mistakes and we'll go from there I don't know if you feel like this, but I'm gonna ask anyway Wouldn't you rather guy not be good enough to do something rather than Be good enough to do it and just for some reason not do it the right way No doubt about it man. You know, they've been doing it the right way the whole time This is just a little bit. It was just it just went wrong for some reason. It went wrong and We make sure we get that corrected. Yeah, just I guess the thing that bothers me and listen I'm no expert on how to stop offenses, but the gaps the how wide open receivers were Just try to educate me on how something like that happens. Is that a mental breakdown or a physical breakdown? there was a mental breakdown that don't normally occur that happened and We understood everything that was happening and they were the mental breakdown with here and there and you know, we'll take care of it now You've lost the three games after the great game on The opening night against Detroit Do you feel like the season could be getting away? I mean a quarter of the season's gone and you're one in three What what's your feelings on that? I mean, is there some nerves involved with this? And then there's involved every week. I don't feel like it's getting away yet. We have a three-game homestam I think that'll be critical for us going forward So that went all three of these games one at a time and you know, we've made all mistakes We need to make and we need to show our things up for Sunday and make sure we're ready because we can't afford anymore Now obviously a coach's main job is you have to take the temperature of your team What's the temper of the temperature of your team after yesterday's game and today? That's all good. You know, they're mentally they're tough I don't have a problem with that and they'll be ready to play They're pissed off and we're pissed off as well as coaches and we should be and that was just One of those games out of the four games we played. I think that was the worst one for me Tremaine Johnson, you went out spent a lot of money for him. I think he's underachieved. How would you assess how he's played? Well, you have a ball yesterday the short-term memory of the corner He's taking away a lot of things that he doesn't get credit for but I'm satisfied with his play But we can't have what happened yesterday. We got to be smart on that part I know turnovers for Donald, but after the game he didn't sound as if you thought he had a great game So tell us tell us you're great on him. What'd you think? No, I thought he grew mentally I mean, I thought he grew mentally and I thought he made some good decisions There's some things he has to learn obviously that he saw that he'll adjust to but I thought he made a step forward from that standpoint I don't be anybody on either side of the ball play well because we lost I don't think we coast well, so the grades aren't very good all the way around But I think he's making progress. Is he where you thought he would be going into week five? He's right where I thought it would be I mean he's a little better than I thought it would be going into week five right now Now toward the end of the game yesterday you guys are down by you know a significant amount and it's fourth and whatever and you decide to punt Tell us the reasoning behind that. Why not just go for it? Which one it was two of them There was one with about 12 minutes and there was another one with about four for four minutes The four-minute one they were how we'd not gotten the first down. I think it was fourth and sixth There was about maybe the 20 yard line They already in field goal range and the game would have completely been over for two timeouts less and our defense have been getting turnovers We're trying to get the ball back and we think we have this cool We had to score to get anyway and so we say we have to get the ball back and we can on-side kick and get the ball back again But didn't work out a little less of an issue, but it was definitely raised at 26 three the field goal Well, we just needed points we needed points and we know we're gonna have to get a field goal Anyway, we needed point to go from there and that was fourth and eight or fourth and 11 And that drive didn't go very well So we needed the point to get on the board from pilot of standpoint I'm a lot of people had a problem although you didn't seem like you did and neither did your team With morone going for the two-point conversion when he was up by 19 with you know, whatever how short amount of time Well, did you have a problem with it in retrospect? I guess I can't control another coach coaches the team Me as a football coach and a football player You have to stop everything that comes your way whether it's the beginning of the game where the end of the game All right that being said would you have done that? Well, I'm not in a position to do that. So it's not I'm not a hindsight guy So I just go from there what what's the what's the biggest challenge right now coach bowls and keeping this whole Thing together because it at one in three. You're you're you're staring a you know potentially scary stretch of the season here Right in the face. It's not a challenge keeping it together. We're together We just got to make sure we understand who we are and what it takes for us to win in all three phases You know, we got to understand who we are an offense who we are on defense and what we do well on special teams And we have to do that and focus on that We got got certain guys that can do a lot of things and that's coaches We have to make sure we keep them in position and that's players. They got to make sure they make the plays I Want to go back to the world thing because I'm I'm with you actually he's entitled to do whatever he wants to do But for a team that's looking for an identity to change your culture, why not get ticked off? Why not be upset about it? Did it aggravate you that your players were didn't have a problem with it? Well, why not let loose and get upset about something like that? Nothing to do about it. We have four quarters to be upset and do something about it. We didn't do anything about it So we ain't no sense of getting upset after the game and doing not doing anything about it coach Are you okay with effort, but not okay with execution or both of them a problem? That first been outstanding Execution has not been consistent So is that on the player or the coach? I'm both I'm the head coach so it all falls on me, but everybody has to take it be accountable Do you believe that the offense is a bit? Vanilla because you have a rookie quarterback. Would you like it to open up more and take more chances downfield? I think it's opening up a little more. We took some chances in the game yesterday We're gonna take some more I don't know if we stayed on the field long enough the first half yesterday because the defense was out there in the first quarter, but It's gonna spread out and it's gonna open up more and more each week. So I'm confident that'll happen When you look around the league, it's even the young quarterbacks. You look what Baker Mayfield did to you Look what he did against Oakland Yesterday, it's routinely quarterbacks are going out throwing for 300 yards 400 yards chucking the ball down field I understand you're trying to develop a young quarterback, but maybe isn't that part of the development even if he If you lose yesterday thrown four picks, I can get it. It's a young quarterback But you won the turnover battle plus three and it doesn't happen too often you get blown out when you win the turnover battle So maybe can you be more aggressive? Well, we try to be more aggressive and certain covers that they had took away certain things not like we were trying to Just dunk and dink and dunk we were trying to go down the field a little more We had some played dialed up and they backed off some things that they normally don't do and they did some different things and Took care of that, but we we definitely trying to go down the field Can you learn anything from watching Denver tonight or would you just have to go deeper into the film Tuesday and Wednesday? You can see a little bit and then you got to make sure you see what you see the next day Now I don't believe in must wins unless it's mathematical That's that's my little quirk But do you look at these next couple of games as really really important for the season to stay on the track? Yes, I do. I mean I look at each game that way, but definitely definitely next three right now Coach we thank you. I will probably see you on on Sunday. If not, we'll talk to you on Monday