 happy that we are joined right now by one of the newest jets and certainly one of the most important jets and that's levy on bell he joins us now on the show Levits Michael and Don how you doing? I'm doing good. How y'all doing? Good. We talked to you a couple of years ago at the at the Super Bowl and you joked about how when you know one day you play for the jetting set something like a hundred million dollars when you're here not a hundred million dollars so is it everything you expected so far? Yeah so far you know I mean I definitely can't play you know I'm happy where I am you know just to be back in the you know in the groove again back in football you know it means you know a lot to me and you know I'm thankful to be here and today felt great. What do you think of Sam? Matt Sam was a special player man he so athletic I didn't realize how athletic he was until I really got to see him in person today you know obviously you see him on TV and you see him running around and making throws on the run and getting out of the pocket but to see in their practice today was really really crazy to me because you know it looked so much faster in person but yeah he's a special player I'll just look how he you know taking the man of the huddle and he's in there getting guys in a in a places for such a young guy he has great leadership qualities and that's what you wanted your quarterback. Now obviously when you look at a guy like Gase he's got an imaginative offensive mind and people are saying he's really gonna be able to use Levy on well but I mean you got so many touches with the Steelers I mean how much better can you be used than you are with the Steelers and if you use the same way you are in Pittsburgh would that be cool with you? You know I think I'm gonna be used differently here you know. How so? Just I can just tell you by the way the offense is you know the offense is different you know it's not how it was in Pittsburgh you know I think in Pittsburgh I was more they kind of depended more power on power you know I was more of a power type runner so they had me inside a lot you know every round that we run our offside runs we'll run our counters and gorges and things like that but you know here I think it's gonna be more me in space you know and I think that's where I really excel at when I get the ball more opportunities an open field to make guys miss to maybe even lower my head they keep guys off balance more so you know I'm not saying it didn't happen in Pittsburgh but I'm just saying I think it will be more opportunities here just because the type of players that are around me the type of quarterback that we have and the office of mighty coach that we have so I think I'm gonna be a little different and I'm I'm I'm excited what are some of the challenges of getting ready this season after missing an entire year I'm just really get back in the groove you know today is really like my been my first day really like fully a full day and it's like a very long day but it's such a day where I enjoyed it you know I've been like you said I've been on football for a year and it's like I really missed this whole process you know getting up at 615 in the morning to get over here and work on my body get ready for practice you know have the meetings all day then walk throughs all day and after the meeting walk through get my body ready for tomorrow you know so I got a stretch and do hot tubs and cold tubs and make sure I'm ready for tomorrow to go so I just missed this whole process and you miss waking up at 615 in the morning ain't that crazy to go you know for just about a year I wake up when I want you know but you know the fact that I'm like asking on schedule it's like I have something to do like when I get up at 615 or I get up at 630 all I know what I'm about to go do I got something to do you know and I missed that you know I mean like it really goes or a lot of you heads a lot of times because you don't really necessarily appreciate it when you're going through it you know it's like a lot of hard work and things like that you know I was there too but I probably be here eventually again but it's like the fact right now the way I feel it's like I'm glad it out you know took my year off my body feels great and I'm just eager to get back to the groove with things and that's what I'm doing now Tom with Levy I'm Bell Jets running back here on the Michael K Show so so love I gotta ask you this there's two schools of thought his body is well rested he didn't play for an entire year that's one school the other school is he didn't play for an entire year he's going to be rusty he's not going to have the same moves he's not going to have the same fluidity what do you say to the people on each side of that obviously it'll be a little rust that's understandably because you know how to call a ball you know from like I guess a NFL quarterback in you know kind of games like I gained speed but practice speed in over a year you know so like rust like that you know is is is you know I think okay you know I'll get that out of the way you know me just playing football is gonna come back but rest as in my body and my cuts and my speed and things like that I've been training you know for years not like I lost that you know it's something I've been doing even though I haven't been running behind people or haven't been juke and defenders but I've still been doing my normal drills that I've been would have been doing in practice if I was playing you know so my rust in that sense hasn't you know it's not too off but I think catching the ball like with defenders around me and things like that yeah of course it's gonna take me playing football and getting back to that groove but you know be reading the holes and things like that that is all mental I mean I think my first day that everything felt slow you know I mean I'm still I still got the ball every make all my reads comfortably and I'm so good are you didn't go to the voluntary workouts which is fine because they're voluntary that's what they mean but will you tempted at all to go just be to get a few extra reps before minicamp I mean it's crazy how everybody say I didn't go to voluntary workouts the whole first week I went to the fatherly workouts I didn't go to OTA's right but yeah the voluntary workouts I came the whole week talking to everybody I'm getting around letting everybody see my face and mean everybody in the building I talked to Coach Gates me and him had that whole conversation and he knew I wasn't coming OTA's and he understood why I explained to him why because the fact that I want to make sure my body is straight I want to make sure I'm getting back right I want to give the jets the best me the same way I've been given I've given the whole league the best me since I've been playing this league so I don't want to change the formulas from what I've been doing my whole career I understand I'm in a new situation new environment new players around me new coach a new system but at the same time you know if I want to be my best me I got to do what I know I got to do to make my body makes my body straight so when the season comes you know if they if they need me to have 38 touches I'll be ready you know a lot of people won't worry about the OTA's when you know the end of December come around we find for a playoff spot or if we secure the playoff spot already nobody's gonna be worried about OTA's that I was in that OTA's all right love let me ask you the question that everybody wants to know so obviously the guy who signed you the GM gets fired then there's stuff that leaks out that the coach likes you as a player but didn't think that they should give you as much money as they did do have you spoken with Coach Gase about this is there an issue between the two of you there's absolutely no issue between me and Coach Gase you know obviously like I said even if those were reports were true they just say for the sake of argument if he did feel that way what a human doesn't you know it's like you always want more for your butt you know I'm saying more for less of course you know so you know he might I mean even if he did feel a certain way it's okay because at the end of the day he's gonna utilize me right you know in a way that he wants me to be successful cuz at the end of the day I know he wants to be successful we both have jobs we got to do I mean he wants to do his job you know he's new I'm new so we both want to win so at the end of the day our relationship is great the whole off season I've been talking to him just about every day me him on the phone Texan I'm sending my workouts he's sending me no new plays and ideas about you know things I like or I may not like you know me he'll be in a full communication and that's the biggest thing for me so long as we don't have that relationship like that I don't really care what we say outside of that you know well listen he wants you here he just didn't want to pay you nobody wants to pay running backs for some reason right right right I mean they feel like you know running backs is dime a dozen you know anybody can do it but I think you know it should be a good year to kind of kind of show a lot of people you know know everything's not the same you know every every player is not the same every running back is not the same every receiver is not the same I'll just feel like there are special players at different positions you know running back is still a position where you have special players that's different you know it's amazing you you leave the team and yet still there sit the New England Patriots for you right when you were in Pittsburgh you had to deal with them and now you're gonna have to deal with them twice during the course of the year just your thoughts on having to deal with the New England Patriots I mean that's gonna be a great challenge you know me every year when I was in Pittsburgh that I had to play against the Patriots and Bill Belichick they you know he always you know has something special you know scheming wise you know and that's what makes that's what makes football so fun as well no the way guys are scheming you and you still got to find a way to be successful you still got to find a way to be efficient for your team I think that's why I love about the game of football because I love challenges and I love overcoming challenges so the Patriots are you know the defending champions and and those those guys you know at the you know at the top you know so I want to be you know a part of the team or you know a team that kind of knocked those guys off or we eventually you know climbing up on them I mean I say why would I not want that I want that challenge of course and I'm gonna be tough you know but I'm looking forward to it lab thanks for coming on don't be shy you could call him whenever you like we wish you luck this year all the time hey hey y'all the man man I appreciate y'all thank you so much