Episode 2,676 - Geno Smith: A Season in Silver & Black w/Marcus Johnson

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2:01Stop behind the line. What a play turned in. There he is. Jimi, I'm sure one. Put your seat belts on. And get ready for the ride. This is Play like a jet. My name is Scott Mason. You can follow me on Twitter. Play like a jet one. And I'm glad to have back a return guest. Love talking to him when Derek Carr was in the news. And I looked at the jets. Michael after him. He did some incredible film breakdowns of Derek Carr. But he does great breakdowns of all the Raiders stuff. And he's one of my favorite Raiders pundits out there. Writing for Silver and Black Pride. Marcus Johnson. Marcus. Welcome back to the show. Sir, let's talk some Gino Smith. All right. All right. Thank you for having me, man. Happy to be back. And I'm really glad to have you here tonight. I'm really glad to have you here tonight. Thank you very much. We're still in part two because obviously the jets made two transactions involving the Raiders. One was a trade and one was a free age and signing. We'll start with Gino Smith. The jets get him with a sixth for seventh round pick swap. And they eased the Raiders pain of how much they had to pay. Gino Smith by $1 million. So not really much ventured on the jets part. They get Gino Smith for about $3 million and dropping 20 spots

3:02at the end of the draft. And we all know that Gino Smith, at least on paper, had a terrible dinner. that Geno Smith, at least on paper, had a terrible season with the Vegas Raiders last year. But I wanted to dig into it a little bit more. Let's start from the start, as Leverboy once sang in Working for the Weekend. Geno Smith comes to the Raiders after Pete Carroll gets hired. Pete Carroll was a weird hire, I thought, because to me, the Raiders were a team that looked like they were in rebuild mode, but they hired a 73-year-old coach who you would think would want to try and win now. But on the other hand, you did understand that they wanted to stabilize the organization. So maybe the idea was Pete Carroll comes in, gets things going, and then after a couple of years, hands it off to somebody. So Pete Carroll comes in, and one of the first moves that they make is to make a trade for Geno Smith, who had been Pete Carroll's quarterback in Seattle. He had done really well there, too. After sitting on the bench behind Russell Wilson for a couple of years, Pete Carroll believed in him enough to roll with him instead of going out and getting somebody else. And a lot of people thought he was crazy for doing it, but Geno rewarded him by having

4:05three really nice seasons there, and then Pete Carroll goes to the Raiders, and he takes Geno Smith with him. I believe it was a third-round pick that the Raiders traded to get Geno Smith. So the Raiders could have gone in the direction of getting a younger quarterback or trying to, like I said, rebuild overall instead, it looked like they were going for half measures here with Geno Smith. So tell me what the thoughts were in Raiderland when the Raiders went out and hired Pete Carroll and Scott Geno Smith. You know, I think with Pete Carroll, it was a mixed bag. I think some people kind of saw he was an older guy, and they kind of figured it wouldn't be somebody who would be here long. I think they were kind of hoping that he would kind of bring some stability. And you know, because you know, he had to, didn't have a losing record in a long time. I mean, it wasn't expected him to kind of have that type of season, even with the talent around it. And it ended up being a disaster because I think that he kind of believed in his coaching

5:05a little bit too much and that the hire of his son and all those things, it just all kind of went away. But I think a lot of people in Raider Nation were excited. They were excited when they brought him in, because they thought he was going to bring stability and, you know, a philosophy of winning, right, because he hasn't lost a long time. I mean, even his press conference said, I have a loss less than 10 games. You know, it was, it was true. But I think he just got a little in over his head a little bit, just with not having the talent and expecting just because I'm a, I'm a, I'm a carol that I'm going to win with this talent. And I think his biggest gamble was taking, you know, Smith, I thought he thought, you know, Smith would bring stability to him, right, and bring stability to the offense. And then, you know, just just because what he did in Seattle, and I think that that was kind of a little bit misguided too, because just him working with Chip Kelly, I think that never really worked out because, you know, Pete didn't hire Chip Kelly. I think that was like an outside thing a little bit. They went a little bit outside of Pete to do that.

6:06So there was a little disconnect there with genos within the offense a little bit. But I think that Pete thought Geno was coming there just because I mean, he was 27 and 22 with the record coming into that Raider season, right, but with the three years of Seattle, they had, they, they had never had a losing record with him when he was a starter, right? So you're thinking, okay, he's going to bring stability to, right? As Lisa, I thought, you know, he had pretty good film going in there, you know, I'm a film guy. So like, yeah, pretty good film. I was, I thought he would least bring some excitement to the offense. I thought they were going to be a good offense, at least, right? I thought the defense would kind of struggle a little bit. But honestly, like it kind of ended up being the opposite where the defense played better than I expected. They still had them some ugly, ugly blowouts, don't give me wrong. But the offense was just an eminemick. It was just an eminemick. It was just disgusting to be honest. It was bad. And, you know, it's just, I don't know other way to describe it, but it was just awful offense, you know, and it was most of it chip, yeah, but a lot of it was Geno Smith too.

7:06I think Geno, all his flaws were brought out, right? And I think he had some flaws there that, you know, even before the system, you know, when some of my breakdowns that I did, if you, you know, if you watched my Geno Smith breakdown, like from last year before the season, I kind of pointed those things out. But I was hoping Chip Keller was going to be good enough to kind of mitigate those things, but what happened is it ended up being the opposite where Chip Kelly, the way his offense is designed. It brought, it basically put those things to the forefront. And that's why Geno started to struggle. Marcus, before we talk about what Geno Smith do with the Raiders, as you said, you're a film guy. And I've always really liked your film breakdowns. Did you see on tape before Geno Smith got to the Raiders in a positive and negative light from his time in Seattle? An extremely accurate quarterback, very accurate, right? I mean, they'll be basically put the ball wherever he wanted to. That was something that really stood out to me on film, is that? Yeah, I think he holds the ball a little bit too long.

8:08I think that kind of showed his head a little bit. I think he doesn't let plays die sometimes. I think he's got to just kind of get rid of the football, check down, but he was extremely accurate. I mean, that was every throw that he would make, especially downfield, he was extremely accurate, downfield. He was an intermediate part of the field, short, it didn't matter, especially short passes. He did not miss short pass on film, especially like in the past two years before that. He never missed a short pass at all. He was extremely accurate. I mean, that was the most thing you pointed out, like that pointed out to me, because even if he was, you know, had some other, some issues, he would be able to make up for it with his arm talent and his accuracy, right? He was just so pinpoint accurate with Seattle, like it was consistent throughout the three years, accurate, accurate, accurate, he's one of the most accurate quarterbacks in football. During that three years span, and you could check out accuracy, charge, completion percentage, whatever you want to look at, he was accurate.

9:09And you know, that's what was the main problem with, you know, and if you want to get into that a little bit in a second, but that's what, that's what I noticed on film was he was accurate. And, you know, if you're a jetz fan, that's what your hope in his coming is that accuracy comes back because if he is accurate, he can get it done. I mean, that's, that's really what it is. I mean, you could find ways to win games, which, you know, Smith, if he's accurate, if he's accurate, like he wasn't Seattle, you can win games with him. But that's kind of the issue is like to what happened to that a little bit. Yeah, that's, that's what I noticed on film. Like, even if some of the flaws that you could still see him on film, his accuracy made up for it. If he was late, he was, he was so accurate. It didn't matter. And the arm talent was there. And then, you know, he was able to make plays a little bit. I think he, it was more athleticism he had a little bit back then too, as well. But yeah, I mean, accuracy was crazy. The first week of the season, the Raiders beat the Patriots who went on to the Super Bowl.

10:09The Raiders went on to the number one pick. So if you would have handicapped what would happen based on that one week, you would have been way wrong because Gino Smith was awesome in that first game. I would imagine Raiders fans were pretty excited after week one, right? Yeah, yeah. I was pretty excited, too, man. It's funny. I put a tweet out there that we like, we finally have a quarterback backfire a lot. I don't know if I cursed a team or with that tweet. I don't know. But when I put that out there, because it's like, yeah, you do for 365 yards and had a big game, you know, had a touchdown, they made a lot of big throws down field. But you know, one thing that did happen was interesting, but again, they had a healthy Brock Bowers. Fully healthy, right? And then he got hurt in that game and it's a little bit to do with the offense a little bit. So if you want to make some excuses for, you know, that could be one of them. But he had a fully healthy team at that point, especially even I think the office of line was a better pass blocking office of line two than run blocking during that time period too. You know, if you didn't have the help of the run game, he had a pretty good pass blocking

11:10in that game. You know, you did get sacked a couple times, but I feel like some of those acts were on Geno. But yeah, also I think that, you know, nobody really kind of figured out what Chip Kelly was trying to do, especially in the past game, that game either. So I think that kind of changed it up a little bit with that. But you know, it was funny when I when did my breakdown for like my members, I do like a breakdown of the quarterback every single week for members on my film channel there. And that happened. I kind of pointed out to them that like, you know, if Geno plays like this for the rest of the year, though, I don't know how much, how sustainable this is. Right. And that kind of did show it rears ugly head that the way that they're playing that in that game, which was like basically all budget downfield throws. It was just like, it was like they're playing called triple really, that's what it looked like. You're watching the cultural offense where they just dump, dump, dump, dump, dump, like, you know, all those super explosive spread out the field air raid offenses that you see on Saturdays. Right. That's what they look like. And that's what I talked about in there, like, I don't know if that's sustainable.

12:11And then the next week we found out it wasn't sustainable very quickly. So it, you know, that that, but in that game, though, he was accurate and that's the thing. So it all comes back to that with me for Geno Smith. If he's accurate, then you know, maybe he can revive himself a little bit. Marcus, you touched on Brock Bowers and I want to get into him a little bit. How much of a factor was the fact that he was hobbling around on one leg for a lot of the season when he did play? And then of course he did miss some games. Jacobi Myers got traded around the trade deadline. Brock Bowers wasn't fully healthy all year. Got to imagine that played a role in Geno Smith struggles, right? It did. It played a role. I think it did a little bit. I, you know, you, you never really know how good Geno would have been if, you know, you had Brock Bowers after the whole season healthy. But you know, I also think that there's just times where, you know, Geno was just kind of making bad decisions or not seeing things like he usually did the years before either.

13:16And like I said, he was in a new offense, right? And the offense was not really a based on like a NFL timing offense. So that really kind of brought out his worst flaw, which is that he's late. Geno Smith is always late. He's like, he was late in Seattle. He's late. He's not an anticipatory passer, right? He's not a guy that's going to throw the ball really early, like get the ball out with anticipation. That's not what Geno Smith does. He's, I mean, he's like, he's 36 now. It's not going to happen, right? So, so, so you have to design your offense a little bit around that. And I think like a West Coast normal offense kind of keeps him on time a little bit more, right? Which forces him to be on time. But Chip Kelly's offense didn't force him to be on time. So like, he will be late, like waiting for things to open. And the next thing you know, the offense line can't hold that long. He's getting sacked and things like that. So I think while having Brock Barrett's in there would have helped him, right?

14:18And probably would have just kept the raise for getting the number one pick. I still think those struggles would have been there because the offense wasn't based on timing, which then, you know, for a quarterback that has to be pushed into being on time. If the offense isn't based on that, he's going to be even later than he usually is. And that's what happened. And that's what led to interceptions and, and then, you know, it kind of just spiraled from there. Marcus, you talked about how Chip Kelly's offense didn't seem to be a very good fit for Geno Smith. Didn't seem to be a very good fit for anybody, honestly, after that first week seemed like a pretty big disaster after the week one victory where everybody was excited. Tell me a little bit about how much of a role Chip Kelly's offense played. We know he didn't even make it the entire season. We heard stories as you were telling me Tom Pellicero wrote that Chip Kelly was calling plays that weren't installed during the week. And any quarterback is going to get confused by that, not just Geno Smith. You have Pete Carroll, son who was coaching the offensive line and the offensive line was

15:20absolutely horrible. So the offensive line played very poorly around Geno Smith. Now Geno Smith didn't have great offensive lines in Seattle either, but it sounds like the Raider's offensive line was next level bad. So tell me a little bit about the coaching and how that was a little bit of a square peg round hole situation and the offensive line and how all of them seemed to struggle except Dylan Parham, who's obviously awesome because he's a jet now. So we have to say that he's great. Well, I'll say this, I'll say this with the offensive line, what really happened with him. It's a mixture of Chip Kelly and Brennan Carroll. Like I said, I think there's a disconnect between that that the coaching, the coach and the coaching staff because the way that Chip Kelly was playing offense was a college offense. And so it wasn't really designed for, I would say NFL past run blocking and past walking, right? So since that happened from that kind of situation, it just led to disaster. That's why, you know, once Chip Kelly kind of went away, they're running game got a little

16:25bit better. He saw some, as just you have a couple of better games there. Once they kind of changed it up a little bit, but of course, it was just just way too late. But you know, Chip Kelly did have a huge factor that Chip Kelly, like I said, NFL is based on timing. You call for boys and it's based on timing as I would say the NFL is like most NFL offense yet to be on time. If you look at the ball on time, like the guys move too fast. Right? I mean, these guys, those windows were the clothes, this isn't called Shuffle. And there is a lot of times where like, you know, you get to the back of his drop and this is not something you normally see in the NFL and the routes wouldn't be done. So that just would make him late naturally, right? So they didn't help Geno at all that way. I think the offense just wasn't designed to help Geno. It didn't, you know, but you know, when it comes to the sacs though, you know, I think Geno did make it worse at times because he just hold the ball too long, trying to wait for somebody to get open deep downfield or trying to do those things. And I think the clock his head wasn't running.

17:27And then, you know, he always, too, which bothered me is when he got pressure, he's always trying to break it himself, like, you know, you got to throw the ball, get rid of the ball. And, you know, keep the down elite, you know, second and 18 is not as worse than second and 10. If you, if you, nobody's open, you just got to get rid of the football. You just can't try to do a spin move all the time. You're like, you're not the same guy. You can't do those things. He's got to get rid of the football. And that's, that's kind of the, a little bit of the issue with Geno Smith is that, you know, sometimes he just holds the ball too long and I kind of made the offense a line worse. He's not a guy who's going to help the offensive line. Let's say that. Like, so if you have a bad offensive line, you're starting quarterbacks in a fell where they can make the offense a line look a little bit better than actually is. And that's really kind of a quarterback's job in my opinion a little bit. But like Geno's, he'll make it, he'll make it worse at times. So it, because to me, from a passports and protection perspective, before all the injuries when it was like Miller, Parham, J.P.J. Jordan, Meredith and Glaze, from a pass protection

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21:30No hangovers, no buzz, no subbing out for water in the second half. Stuck the fridge for tip off with a variety of non-alcoholic craft styles available at your local grocery store or online at AthleticBruing.com. Near beer, fit for all times. Two teams. One cup. The prime time stage is set for the TGL presented by SoFi Finals, Los Angeles Golf Club versus Tiger's Jupiter Links. Keep up, it's playoffs. Tune in Monday, March 23rd, 9 p.m. Eastern on ESPN2 and Tuesday, March 24th, 7 p.m. Eastern on ESPN and on the ESPN app. Play like a jet. Play like a jet. First Sims had an interesting observation and I was curious what you thought about this. He said, Geno's struggles look even worse on paper and if you look at a lot of the statistical categories, except for funding enough completion percentage, which was relatively high for a guy who struggled all year, which shows you that completion percentage doesn't really tell you the full story. It's just one of a variety of different categories you look at, but Chris Sims said Geno Smith

22:33is a player who doesn't know how to do anything other than play aggressively. So whereas other quarterbacks, when the situation is bad around them, we'll get political as the way he phrased it. And in other words, what he means by that is they'll play it safe. They might check down. They might try to limit mistakes so that even if the team is losing by a bunch of points, they can say, well, look at my numbers. I wasn't turning the ball over. I wasn't the problem. I'm not the reason that this team lost. Geno Smith goes zero to 120, no matter what. And so you're going to get the turnovers and you're going to get the ugly plays and holding the ball too long and trying to make things happen when maybe you should just live to fight another day because that's the cure that he has. Is that something that you noticed from watching him week to week that he wasn't good? I'm not trying to absolve him, but that he might look worse on papers than he was during the games simply because of the aggressive nature of how he played. So that's going to play out even worse on the stat sheets.

23:35Yeah, he's a big play hunter. That's one thing. That's why he takes a lot of sacks is because he's a big play hunter. So that means he's always trying to wait for a big play. And then when you're late on those types of throws, and you don't have to go off its line, I say get sacked all the time. That's what a quarterback can make his offensive line better by getting him into the football, checking down, getting to the check down quicker, and those type of things. But it always felt like Geno was trying to be a big play hunter. And he's talking about the police percentage, but Geno's problem last, the main problem with Geno Smith last year though was that he was inaccurate for the first time in three seasons. It was bothered the hell out of me. That's what bothered me the most was that I wanted to know where his accuracy went the whole year. He was missing throws. He never missed before. And even the throws that he would be aggressive this year, he would miss them so they get picked off. Right? Because even his interceptions with the C-ox, I mean through like 15 those last years,

24:36but a lot of those were just tip balls. Kind of balls tip the line of scrimmage, which I think is a little bit of a problem too with him kind of bird-dogging receivers sometimes, and he does get a lot of passes knocked down. Right? And I let a lot of your resistance Seattle and that happened to let some interceptions here with these with the Raiders, but like his main problem last year to me was was him holding the ball too long, but it just even in Seattle, when he did that and he got rid of the ball, he would just hit it in between that window because he was so accurate. And last year he was missing and then he would miss like the easy throws. The easiest throws that he would never miss in Seattle, he was missing them like crazy, just like tire lockets wide open for a third down throw, he's throwing it over his head. You know, it was the craziest thing and a lot of it to me, which is mental. I think he spirals mentally a lot. That's his biggest problem is that like he can't pick himself up an interception. He thinks about the whole game and it's kind of just spirals from there like like if

25:40you know Smith, those interception, if you're a jet fan, he feels interception, I would be worried because is he going to pick himself back up after that? I don't know. It might get worse and that's what so you learn about him is that especially if he gets to two, because a lot of quarterbacks take a two and a half, right? And then come back out and you go four touchdowns. No, Gina, it's that two that might turn to four because he just spirals from there and that's what kind of what happened with the season and that's why he's flicking off fans and things like that because he's just mentally, he was gone. And you know, that's his issue as a quarterback more than anything. I could talk about the feeling on stuff, but like him spiraling mentally was like one of the biggest issues of all the whole season. Marcus, did you ever watch Ted Lasso a little bit? I watched a couple episodes. I watched a couple episodes. There's one episode where he's trying to give a pep talk to one of the players on the team and he says, my son has goldfish and I've always loved goldfish and you know why that is and the player says no coach. Why?

26:40And he says, because they have the shortest memory of any animal go out there and be a goldfish. In other words, he was telling them when you make a mistake, just forget about it. It sounds like Gino Smith doesn't know how to be a goldfish. No, he doesn't. He spirals like it is a little like the chargers game was like the char, since the chargers game, and he spiraled in the bears game when the raiders should have won that game. And he just throw in picks on the same concept over and over again. Yeah, he spirals spiraling. And then it just got worse from there. So Marcus, we talked about week one and then obviously we know that over the course of the season, it got worse and we've broken down a variety of reasons why that happened. Overall, how much of the disaster that was the 2025 raiders and their offense? Do you place on the coaching staff? How much of it do you place on Gino Smith? How much do you place on the offensive line? How much do you place on the subpar weapons around him? And then beyond that, do you see a path for him to potentially bounce back from this with

27:43the New York Jets? What you mentioned just now him not being able to be a goldfish inspiring is something that we've seen with many quarterbacks here, including Gino Smith when he was here the first time. But we also saw it with Zach Wilson a lot. We saw it with Sam Darnold. We saw it with Mark Sanchez. It's been a pattern for a lot of Jets quarterbacks here. And so obviously if you're a Jets fan, you're hoping that Gino Smith learns to be a goldfish and doesn't keep spiraling like that if he throws an interception early in the game. So talk to me a little bit about how much culpability you think Gino has compared to everybody else surrounding him. And then what you think he needs to do to potentially be successful with the Jets. And look, be honest, if you don't think there's a path for him to have a successful season with the Jets. And I don't mean all pro or anything like that. I just mean basic competency as a quarterback for a season. If you don't think there's a path to that, you can go ahead and say that too. I think most of it, if I'm being honest, I think most of it was on Chip Kelly.

28:44I do think. I do. I do think most of it was on Chip Kelly. I think Chip Kelly was just awful. I got awful. People used to get mad at me because they were always wanted to blame Pete the most, right? Or burning Carol. Like that believes to get mad at me because a lot of people like Chip Kelly, you know, and they're not running his offense. So I'm like, yes, they are. Chip Kelly was got awful. It was hard to explain how bad he was. And I think that had probably the biggest factor on Gino being bad. Like it really did. I think Gino spiraled because of that, right? And if they had a different offense accordion or that, I think that Gino probably plays better. So I think that Gino can be competent still. I think he can be competent. I think you can win some games with him still. I just think that, you know, he has to stay in there mentally, he has to stay in the game. He has to make sure he's got to fix that accuracy issue. He's got to get accurate again.

29:45I think that's going to be a big thing for him. He's got to get accurate again. You know, he's got Gary Wilson out there. So he's got to make sure that he has, you know, kind of that, that, you know, be able to work with him and get that accuracy back and, you know, not get out of his head, get out of his head. I mean, and make sure that he stays focused on what's happening in front of him and, and, and, you know, you know, there's always a piece of issues with Gino because he's a pure pre snap quarterback. If you mess with him post snap, it's going to be a long day for him, right? And so you got to be able to run the ball. You got to make sure the teams have to stay in the static coverage so he can read, read a pre snap because he's a pure pre snap guy. He's kind of like any Dalton in that way. So he can't be confident. He can't be confident. I just think that he's got to make sure he's got to get that accuracy back and, you know, he's always going to be late. That's not going to change. You know, he'll be anticipated guy. You're not, you're not getting any of that. You're going to get a guy that pre, you can read, read things really well pre snap and you got to keep that running game going.

30:45So he doesn't have a team of somebody trying to stop him and kind of confuse him because that's when he gets, that's when he really has issues when teams change coverage is on him post snap. So, yeah, he could be competent though, like I think he could be competent. Marcus, last question for you. We know how bad the season was, but we also know that Pete Carroll and Geno Smith remain very close. Pete Carroll really loves Geno Smith and vice versa. And we know that he had issues with Chip Kelly, but he was there for a year. How much did you hear about Geno Smith as far as being a teammate and presence in the locker room? Because we know that Aaron Glenn has been trying very hard to build a new culture with this Jets team. And he wants guys in the locker room that are going to be positive presence. Is Geno Smith somebody that you heard anything negative about from that perspective? I think with the Raiders, like, I mean, there was a lot of issues with him kind of like getting on teammates a little bit in the office of line and some of those things and kind of maybe

31:47when those teammates didn't deserve it, like I said, it was all body language. But it was later on in the season, right? I think like in Seattle and things like that, he showed a lot of leadership, right? I mean, there's a lot of leadership that he showed in Seattle. I mean, you can find clips of him in Seattle, like pumping up guys, doing those type of things. He showed a lot of leadership in Seattle. But like, it just felt like with the Raiders, man, it just, everything was just spiraling with him and he just, he couldn't really, I mean, the Raiders fan base, if you're not playing well, they can get brutal. And I think that was getting to him too, but I mean, the Jets fans, I don't see how they could be that much different. But he, that's really what it is with him, man. He's got to make sure that he stays focused and ignores the noise. That's what Geno's got to focus on, man. But yeah, I think there is some leadership skills to him that he really showed in Seattle during his time there. And he just got, he's got to ignore the noise, right? You know, especially because, you know, like, especially Jets fans too, I already know it's, that's the Raiders fans are very passionate, man, we're passionate.

32:49And, you know, we might tell you something, we might, you might get a DM. You might get one. So, you know, you might get a DM for one of us. You got to ignore it. You got to have that, you got to have that in it, you got to have that in you, man. You got to ignore that stuff. So, but yeah, that's the biggest thing with Geno, but I do think there's a leadership in there. As Geno Smith once said, if the critics write him off here with the Jets, he's going to have to not write back. I think that's his best path forward. If he's going to be successful here with the New York Jets, Marcus Johnson contributed to silver and black pride. Thank you so much for coming on and talking about Geno Smith's year with the Las Vegas Raiders. Really appreciate it. Those who want to check out your work, how can they find you on social media? What are they going to get when they delve into your work on silver and black pride? Yeah. So, you can check me out on Twitter at the at the Marchion NFL. So, check me out. I do a whole bunch of draft stuff. So, if you're into the draft as well, and you can check me out on YouTube as well.

33:53And, you know, look us up on YouTube there as well, and you've got a whole bunch of draft stuff too. So, like, you know, right now we're doing all draft, so it's not as much raider stuff there. So, just going to make sure you go look that up as well. So, yeah, check that out, and then also you can check out some of my writing to you at silverblackpride.com. Also, I do a lot of other podcasts with draft professors on Sunday morning, so, like, there's all draft, so you can check me out on that too as well. Make sure you check out everything Marcus is doing. Check out everything we're doing at playlikeagent.com and the playlikeagent YouTube channel. Some great videos up there. Watch them and subscribe if you haven't already, youtube.com slash play like a jet. And, be sure to give us a five star review for the podcast on iTunes if you haven't done that already. So, if you want to help out the show, be like, what we're doing, doesn't take you much time, doesn't cost you any money. But it goes a long way to help us out, so if you can go ahead and do that for us, it would be quite grateful. And for the latest and greatest in New York, just podcast 10 content. You know where to go. That's a playlikeagent digital and playlikeagent.com.