The 2025 season is now all about player development for the New York Jets, and the most

important players to develop are the team's young bookend tackles, because if they turn

into good players, they can turbo charge this rebuild.

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Welcome, this is the Locked on Jets podcast, part of the Locked on Podcast Network, your team every day. It is Wednesday, November 19th, 2025. And I'm your host, John B, from Gangreen Nation.com. Thank you so much for making the show your first listener first watch every day. And a big shout out to you every dayers. This is a daily podcast covering the New York Jets with new episodes each day through the week, Monday through Friday. And thank you for making locked on the number one sports podcast network. Today's episode is brought you by Fandual. Right now, new customers can bet just $5. And if you're a bet wins, you'll get $300 in bonus bets to use across the app. On today's show, we have our weekly mailbag. Each Wednesday, we'd try and do a mailbag with listeners of questions. Today we're going to talk about whether the defensive end spot might be a position that's overrated for a team like the Jets. We'll talk about whether the Jets might be better served by waiting for round two, three, or four to take a quarterback instead of drafting one high in the first round. But we're going to begin by talking about the development of young players. And we talked a bit about this on yesterday's

show, how the 2025 season for the New York Jets is not going to be successful in terms of the team

ending its playoff drought. That's not happening. The Jets will miss the playoffs for 15 straight years.

It's also not going to be

successful from the standpoint of the Jets ending their run of losing seasons. This will be a 10th

consecutive season where the Jets will end with a losing record. But the season still can be a success

in some ways if the Jets are able to develop young players. And that's where

our first question begins. John, the Jets have a lot of really young players that have an opportunity

to audition for next year. Which player are players are you most looking forward to down the stretch?

And my answer is not so much guys who are auditioning as much as guys who are trying to develop.

And for me, the two critical players to watch are the two guys who play tackle.

Olu Faschinoo at left tackle, Armand Membou at right tackle.

The Jets have invested back-to-back first round picks at the tackle position.

I'll be honest with you.

It's something I think

team should do more of. I was very pleased to see the Jets do that. See the Jets make a big investment in

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