Welcome back. We are live from Jets Camp on this picturesque beautiful Tuesday afternoon here in

Florin Park, New Jersey and we are joined by a guy beginning his third year here on the New York

Jets and that's Solomon Thomas

Solomon you know Tiki I'm Evan Roberts thanks for coming on man yeah thank you for having me yeah appreciate you guys the first thing I noticed is you said to

Tiki you're a big fan. Yeah, yeah.

Now is that pandering or are you a big Tiki barber football fan?

No, I lived in Connecticut three years growing up and so the closest team to us was a giant.

So I had a Tiki barber jersey growing up.

How old were you at that time?

I think I was like seven or eight.

That makes me old as hell.

That makes me.

Did you want to be a running back when you were seven and eight

like Tiki Barbara and then got too big and said I'd screwed up.

I mean yeah I think growing up you always want to be like the cool players like

running back receiver quarterback but yeah but then I took pride in being

a linemen you know the getting my hands dirty be in the trenches you know you end up loving that kind of stuff.

Yeah you're one of the glue guys with this team and

specifically coach Sala and you know the journey that he's been on the journey that

this team has been on you've been a part of it how have you

seen it evolve because I mean there's 3,000 fans here today there's an excitement

about this jet's team how have you seen this thing come to be what it is now I've

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