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Florham Park – One big project, next off-season, whoever the Jets coach is, has to be fixing the team’s defense.

The current scheme, that former coach Robert Saleh installed, might be a little outdated. Some would argue it’s too static. In other words, they tend to line up the same way consistently, so the tendencies can be easy to attack.

Jets defensive line coach was asked about the Jets approach upfront over the summer and said:

“We line up pretty similar over and over and over. So in that way, you need to be really, really good in your technique. If you line up in the same spot over and over, your technique has to be on point. We ain’t trying to trick nobody. We are where we’re lined up at and we’re going to go play.”

And if you play this static front, and you don’t dominate up front and play consistently great technique, you will have issues.

“These teams that are staying in one front for the majority of the game are making it pretty easy for the running game to get the blocking angles they are looking for,” Bill Belichick said early in the season, not specifically about the Jets, who are not only team that plays this scheme.

Belichick doesn’t seem to like this approach.

“Some of these teams just believe in playing their front and playing it better with more and more reps – that is fine until it isn’t,” Belichick said.

“You need to use scheme to help your team out,” said a former NFL executive. “You need to expand your portfolio to help them.”

It’s pretty clear the Jets need to move on from this scheme after the season. However it’s hard to change the playbook/scheme in November, so it’s limited to what they can do now.

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Dan Leberfeld
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