 Levy I'm Bell and he joins us here on the case show down the wrecking Bob with shoes and how are you buddy? I'm doing good. I'm good. Very good, man. We're just Excited to see you, you know with the the fans really wanted you all offseason I don't know if you got a sense of that and we joked with you at the Super Bowl in Minneapolis We kind of mocked you know making the the contract negotiations, but this just seemed to be I don't know if you thought about it But a destination that you were gonna end up here. Did you feel that that fate just had you eventually being here in New York? Honestly, yes, you know, I mean, it's actually a funny story cuz growing up. I was a New York jet fan, you know, so Just to have the opportunity when I was in free agency. It kind of like kind of led towards that in a way You know everything else kind of fell in place to kind of help everything happen But it just felt so right, you know, so everything fell in place and I'm happy. I'm so happy here I'm here. Yeah, it's and people want to heat you here because you can make the case Bob jump in if I'm wrong But when you look at just pure skill set You're the potential to be one of the great jets of all time Really when you think about it because you come in as arguably if not the best running back in football I mean, this is something that the jets really haven't had they've had Curtis Martin They've had Joe Namath when you look at the ability to catch to be able to block to be able to run I mean the fans are just really excited to just put all this skill set together Yeah, I'm so I'm so happy to you know be here and be able to give people hope, you know Um, you know, I think we got a great offense, you know, I think I'm gonna fit in Perfect, you know, I think, uh, you know, we got a great quarterback a golf line is working together and starting to jail and I'm coach Gates. He's like a mastermind of offense, you know So I think he can put me put us in a lot of good situations to allow me make plays. It's okay It's my talent and um, you know, I think this office can be really explosive I just want to make sure it's okay for you to be up here because like when you leave practice for three minutes It's like a mushroom cloud. I know right. I'm okay. I'm okay. It's all right being up here I think so, right? Just want to make sure check it Twitter to make sure it knows where you are Um Knowing where you are Physically, I think is one of the most interesting things about this training camp because taking a whole year off Not doing football you train. I know you kept him You could we could see yeah, you're the labiond bell that Athletically you were before you took a year off, but how about just football wise man? It's like It's so hard to describe because when you you can do all the training and things that you want But it's so different when you actually get out there and play football, you know You can never really be in football shape unless you're playing football, you know So the first couple days obviously I went out there did the conditioning test. I did it twice I did with two groups, you know, I felt good But it's like soon we start playing football. It's like oh, I start cramping a little bit No things this way or that way just because I haven't been in that flow, you know over a year, you know And I'm really two years three years since training camp because I didn't go to training camps in Pittsburgh You know, so this way my first training camp, you know in three years two years So do you want to play in the preseason games? I want to get on the field because like if you're a levy on bell Pittsburgh I wouldn't put you anywhere near the field but in preseason games You know, I'm a ladenian Tom and someone like eight years never taking a snap in a preseason game That valuable player that much tread off the tire. How many times do I want you to get hit? But with the year off. Do you want to play in the preseason game? I mean, honestly, um, No, whatever coach gazes up to I'm up for you know, if he wants to play me in a couple games I'm a couple serious or plays or whatever. I'm open to it. If he doesn't I'm Could be open to it too because just gonna fact that I know he's gonna protect me from myself, you know But at the same time, you know, it might be okay to get or get tackle once, right? No, but you know just to get ready for the for the regular thing and you know Just get get to get everything off you just get tackled to get up like I put that in a little bit Because you haven't been hit in anger since what January of 2018, right? I mean, we do a little thudding in practice. It's not like somebody wrapping you up Right and three people jumping on you like it's a power like, you know, so Nobody's hitting you more than fun in practice You're probably as close to wearing a red jersey That's so funny cuz you're more than the same thing You know, there's so much optimism around this team the one area is that that beast of the start of the schedule I mean as a player, do you look at those first six games and go wow that that's a hurdle? Or are you just literally just taking it one game at a time? It's Buffalo and there's nothing else Yeah, honestly me personally I want to take it one game at a time because that's all we really can do is focus on, you know one opponent No, even like right now I'm not even necessarily worried about the preseason games because I'm just worried about all right I got to perfect my craft and you know learn all the plays make sure I'm not thinking too much when I'm out there Make sure everything is I'm playing football so I can play fast I don't got to think and I could be myself, you know, that's my first step Then, you know, we start getting to game-planning things for you know, if I play in the preseason or the first regular season game when I play When we start game-planning things, I think that's when that mindset got to go like, okay We got to worry about this game, you know, but I just I take it step by step I don't necessarily worry about no six weeks down the line things like that because you can't control, you know that far I'm a dumb question there's really no way to answer this I guess hypothetical but What do you think you did for the long term in your career even if it was inadvertent by sitting out? Last year, I wonder if there was if you took 50 football players and have them all sit out for a year And then compared and contrasted the ends of their careers with guys who are the same age Same number of reps same role on their team same position Like do you think maybe you might play two or three years longer than you may have Just because you had a maintenance year, even if it wasn't what you probably would have wanted to have had happen Yes, that's literally how I feel because it's like usually so I've been playing football, you know Literally like 20 years. I've been playing like four or five years old, right? So every year you play football and then you have offseason or you play basketball like using me in younger basketball track right, you know so that so it's like Football you recover a little bit, but you still got needs to keep, you know Little bumps and bruises from the prior season that don't fully heal They might 95% heal, you know, and then that's resets resets and over the course of your career You know your shoulder or maybe your knee or whatever this your ankle your toe you just kind of get used to it hurting So you're just playing with it hurting and you're used to a hurt. You know the effect Effect literally when I took this whole year off That past year and I came back this year and I've been training everything. I literally can't remember well It was hurting when I was in Pittsburgh. I can't remember like You know my shoulder like, you know saying over my elbow I remember you always have a wrist or like a thumb or something it would always be something Because you play running back as a brutal sport, but I literally can't remember what aches I had You know, I feel so good, you know, I haven't been hitting so long So I'm excited, you know for my for myself and see how my longevity I was gonna take and I'm sure you know the guys behind me won't watch and you know use it Let me I'm Bell here on the Michael case show before let you go You just mentioned the whole missing the whole year, right? And you know how it is with fans that always comes across as a negative, you know million-dollar athlete holding out There's a does that perception bother you that you feel like you've got to rehabilitate your image because you sat out on tire year Um, it only bothered me just cuz I feel like some people don't understand Where I'm coming from, you know, that's only why it may bother me Everybody's gonna have their opinion and feel the way they feel And you know rightfully so they're allowed to but at the same time I made a decision You know because of how I felt and what I thought was right for me, you know And some people may not agree with it some people may but the only reason why it may bother me Just cuz some people don't really understand what I was doing and that's what it is Let me just tell you Bob and I have been in this market forever been around this team forever 16 years I did pre and post for this team and I know you've been a little defensive on Twitter and Instagram Don't be I mean the the fans want you here in New York wants you here and the people that get it are gonna get you right So that's the one thing I might have if you needed any advice about New York is don't let the eggs bother I call them the eggs the ones don't even bother putting a profile picture up on their Twitter I know the fans. We talked to the fans on this show. They love you. They want you here And that's all you need to really care about I love being here to me. I feel like everybody been welcome to open arms here, you know So I'm excited, you know, and I'll make sure you know, I'll give it my whole effort and everything I can