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Glendale – There is some stuff going with the Jets that doesn’t make a ton of sense to me. Let’s take a look at some of what I’m talking about.
Carson Palmer was coming off a concussion and he wasn’t been throwing down field particularly well this season.
So the Jets defense gave him exactly was he was looking for tonight, the ability to get rid of the ball quickly and dink-and-dunk.
“We knew we can could throw in front of them because they were playing off,” Bruce Arians said.
How does that make any sense?
Even though the Jets had no sacks, they were getting a lot of pressure on Carson Palmer, but it’s hard to get sacks when the defensive backs are given the quarterback stuff underneath.
One thing Seattle does so well is they get after you with their rush, and play great press coverage on the line, and this messes up the quarterback’s timing, and ability to dink-and-dunk.
The Jets’ defense, schematically, is a head-scratcher this year.
For instance, Sheldon Richardson was playing inside linebacker on David Johnson’s 58-yard touchdown. That’s crazy man.
The Jets made a huge mistake right before the season.
They started to toy with the 4-3 defense late in camp.
They wanted to get their four defensive lineman on the field together – Richardson, Wilkerson, Williams and McLendon.
And this was after an entire off-season, and much of camp, playing a 3-4 defense.
It was huge mistake.
Mo Wilkerson is lining up over offensive tackles a lot – that isn’t his game. Sheldon Richardson is basically playing a OLB/DE spot – that isn’t his game. He’s a 3-4 three-technique interior player. Steve McLendon was a 3-4 nose tackle in Pittsburgh for six years. He’s not playing that position now.
And the linebackers are often out of position now; the spacing for linebackers is different in a 3-4 compared to a 4-3.
It’s a mess.
To me, the Jets should be playing a 3-4 defense with Wilkerson and Williams at end and McLendon at nose tackle – all three would be playing their natural positions.
And I would trade Sheldon Richardson for high pick/player or both. There are plenty of teams that would jump at the chance to get a three-technique of this magnitude.
The Jets are also using Mike Catapano at some kind of position where he’s getting no pressure on the quarterback. He’s got a great motor, but limited speed and flexibility. He’s a great kid, but I just don’t see it.
Go to a 3-4, and play Jordan Jenkins and Lorenzo Mauldin at outside linebacker.
Stop putting square pegs in round holes . . .
While Ryan Fitzpatrick is struggling, I wouldn’t go to Geno Smith. I’d play Fitz a little longer, and then go to Bryce Petty.
Geno Smith isn’t an upgrade over Fitz, so what is the point of going to him? He came in the game late and did nothing, and he didn’t look that good this summer.
And here is another problem. When QB coach Kevin Patullo was going over formations and schemes on the computer with Fitzpatrick when the Jets defensive was on the field, Geno Smith wasn’t participating. Christian Hackenberg and
Bryce Petty were looking in to learn.
How on earth can a QB be prepared to go into a game as a replacement if your not looking at the formations during the break with the coaches?
It’s like he’s so pissed about not playing, he wants nothing to do with this stuff.
With Geno, that ship has sailed. So when you pull the plug on Fitzpatrick, go to Petty, and see what he can do.
October 17, 2016
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