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🗓️ 19 September 2024

⏱️ 40 minutes

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Stephen A. Smith, Dan Orlovsky, Jason McCourty, and Mina Kimes debate which side of the ball will have the edge in tonight's game: the Jets' defense or the Patriots' run game? Joe Fortenbaugh joins the show with his best bets for this weekend's NFL and college football action. Kimberley A. Martin joins the show to discuss the NFL quarterback who will maintain their hot start to the season. The crew also debates if the Eagles must win their game against the Saints this Sunday. Lastly, the crew share their predictions for tonight's game between the Jets and Patriots. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	All right, Thursday night football kicks off tonight.
0:01.8	The Patriots visiting the Jets, New England is coming off of a tough overtime loss in week two
0:06.0	against the Seahawks. The team did, however, play true to their identity and running for
0:10.5	185 yards in the loss, which,
0:13.8	speaking up, the biggest strength for this Patriots team
0:17.1	through two games has been their run game.
0:19.5	New England has racked up 213 rushing yards
0:22.4	after contact,
0:23.5	which is 41 more yards than any other team.
0:26.4	You'll be facing a Jets-run defense
0:27.8	that ranked in the bottom half of the league.
0:30.9	We got Meena Kimes here to join the party. Meena, great to see you as always.
0:35.0	Stephen A. Dano and J. Mack here as well.
0:38.0	All right, Meena, I'm going to start with you on this one.
0:40.0	Who do you think has the edge in this one that Jets defense or the Patriots run game?
0:45.3	I think it's New England. This is a particular matchup that favors them going beyond just
0:49.7	the numbers you showed there. Think back to week one. San Francisco 49ers are missing
0:54.3	Christian McCaffrey so they come out with more of their traditional zone
0:57.1	running game with Jordan Mason and they just bulldoze the jets and we realize
1:02.2	watching that. Dan I talked about this a lot the next day
1:04.4	this New York Jets front which of course plays that wide nine alignment is actually
1:08.8	quite vulnerable to the run meanwhile this New England rushing attack is not only successful, they can
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