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It is crossover Wednesday brought to you by my bookie, Matt Derry, John

Butchko talking lions and jets, Monday night football coming up this Monday.

What's going on, John?

Matt, I'm just excited that we're going to get to see some real football on Monday.

It's been a long off season.

Oh, my goodness gracious, man. It's been, and you have no idea in New York, and I know that they

dissect things a little bit differently in New York, like every single snap, every single play

on sports radio there here. It's been a rough August. The lines have not looked good. They

haven't played well at all. I think people

are very, very excited, like you said, to get this thing started for real. All right, so we're

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John in New York. I'm in Detroit.

All right. So, John, you know, what's the mindset of Jets fans and people covering that Jets team

on what to expect Monday night? Well, I think the mindset is really focused on one player,

and it should come as no surprise. The third overall pick, Sam Darnold.

It's been, you could make a case.

Now, there were a few decent quarterbacks that Jets have had in the time since Joe Namath,

but you can make a case that Jets have been searching for a franchise quarterback since Joe Namath.

So there's a high degree of excitement around Sam Darnold, who will be making his first NFL start Monday night. And beyond just the fact that Jets have not had a franchise quarterback, they've been going with Band-Aids the last few years.

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