If you liked Alen's first installment, no reason you won't like this. Enjoy. Attacking the Jets Defense, Part II
In my opinion, the Jets need to jam and reroute wide receivers more often and do it better when they are called upon to do it. IMO when you have a team that spreads out their receiving threats like New England does and you blitz them, you have to jam the hell out of them at the line. I think they have the right idea, I'm just dumbfounded as to why they don't jam them more often. They run a ton of Cover 0 and they don't jam. I will also be doing this same thing for the New England game in the final game of the season. Will do part one for offense, part two defense and part three conclusion.
It's not that they are wary. It's a calculation. From that point a single safety can fill ANY run at 8 yards from the line of scrimmage. From that point a single safety can rotate weak or stong to double cover or bracket any receiver. They CAN rotate to Cover 2. ANYTHING can be done with a safety at that depth. It's not fear. It's freedom. I can't argue with that. The fade is THE deep route versus man-free. Chad Henne has thrown it and Chad Henne has completed it for big gains. That's why nobody is giving it to us. It's not fear. It's stupidity to throw where a man is standing. Here is what went unmentioned. This was a play action pass. As a result of the blitz, a total of two routes went out in the pattern. How many times has Dan Henning been criticized for that? Again, the versatility is the reason for the depth of the free safety. It has nothing to do with fear. If they want to rotate this to Cover 2, they can. Start in the secondary at the bottom of the screen. Corner drops immediately after starting seven yards off. Nickel defender (on Welker) rotates outside to assume corner flat. SS wandering at the hash jams Welker and assumes coverage at the hook zone. Mike backer drops to Hook. Weakside rusher drops to Hook. Or they could rotate the entire coverage (in reverse) to the other side of the field and MAN up the weak side. It's called loaded zone. The opportunity is endless for the defense. The quarterback has to read the coverage.
nice write up. i think you'll see us attack the deep middle this game not becuase of tendencies or scheme but because thats the weakness of the Jets secondary and Henning always targets the weakness over and over again. Game 1 he targeted rookie Kyle Wilson, this game it will be the safeties. You get your wish Alen
