I'm Not Worried

[cowboy4life]

Just coming off of the ledge here. The first two games, Jets and 49ers, are teams that do not scare anyone with their pass rushers. The Jets use a lot of secondary and LB blitzes. Can anyone name their starting LE? With Tyron out, we can use a TE to chip and help. And if the Jets bring their blitzes from that side, we have a QB who can adjust and get rid of the ball. The only worry I have is when we play Washington with Orakpo.

Jason is a smart coach and I feel he has prepared this team a whole lot better than Wade Phillips ever did. In the Wade era, any injury was just about an automatic loss.

If we get 10 points up on them, they're in trouble.

 

[jimmyxx7]

Just coming off of the ledge here. The first two games, Jets and 49ers, are teams that do not scare anyone with their pass rushers.

It's not about individual players. It's about the team. For example, Bryan Thomas led the Jets with six sacks last year. By contrast, DeMarcus Ware led the NFL with 15.5 sacks. Yet the Jets had 40 sacks for the season (8th overall), whereas the Cowboys had 35 (16th overall).

 

[cowboy4life]

The Jets have to use blitzes to get to the quarterback. The opportunities will be there for the Cowboys to beat those blitzes. I look for a lot of screen passes and runs early. The Jets are not world beaters, they play very well when they have a lead. Parnell will not be left alone on an island. That was the point I was trying to make.

 

[Cowboy4ever]

It's not about individual players. It's about the team. For example, Bryan Thomas led the Jets with six sacks last year. By contrast, DeMarcus Ware led the NFL with 15.5 sacks. Yet the Jets had 40 sacks for the season (8th overall), whereas the Cowboys had 35 (16th overall).

But the point is that the front are not great rushers. The Jets us multiple blitz packages and loops to get guys free. So communication will be the key to OL success, not necessarily who is playing RT. Smith being out will HURT a lot no doubt especially when it comes to our gameplan and keeping people in to help block. But I don't think Romo will be killed as some think. I think we will be ok and the WR will have to win their match ups more this game, because the TE and Backs will be held in to protect. The good news, I have lots of faith in our WRs to beat their DB's and a coach that knows how to game plan.

 

[Ren]

Or you can put it another way maybe the Jets don't have good edge rushers cause they go against capable tackles for the most part not Jeremy Parnell, who only made this team cause others out sucked him

 

[jimmyxx7]

The Jets have to use blitzes to get to the quarterback.

Well, that's pretty standard with base 3-4 teams. After all, you're putting three down lineman against five or six offensive linemen. The job of 3-4 defensive linemen is to set the edge and two-gap, not to shoot gaps and come flying off the edge. Whatever pressure they generate is a bonus. The pressure comes from blitzes, which the Jets are ideally suited to use because they have great corners.

 

[Aven8]

I would be worried with everybody healthy.

It's just the way it is. It will still be fun to watch though and I can' wait.

 

[burmafrd]

Well, that's pretty standard with base 3-4 teams. After all, you're putting three down lineman against five or six offensive linemen. The job of 3-4 defensive linemen is to set the edge and two-gap, not to shoot gaps and come flying off the edge. Whatever pressure they generate is a bonus. The pressure comes from blitzes, which the Jets are ideally suited to use because they have great corners.

considering the youth that is 2/3 of the center of our line; and now the RT, one could say that even mediocre pass rushers could have a career day.

 

[jimmyxx7]

But the point is that the front are not great rushers.

No, they're not. They're not made for a 4-3 system. They're 3-4 players, and they excel at doing what 3-4 DLs do: two-gapping and setting the edge.

The Jets us multiple blitz packages and loops to get guys free.

Again, that's what most 3-4 teams do. How many 3-4 DLs were in the top 10 in sacks last year?

So communication will be the key to OL success, not necessarily who is playing RT. Smith being out will HURT a lot no doubt especially when it comes to our gameplan and keeping people in to help block. But I don't think Romo will be killed as some think.

Well, it all depends how committed the cowboys are to protecting him. You can keep a QB upright with just about any offensive line in front of him if you're committed to max-protect and three-step drops. Thing is, when you do that, it becomes much harder to make any plays downfield.

I think we will be ok and the WR will have to win their match ups more this game, because the TE and Backs will be held in to protect. The good news, I have lots of faith in our WRs to beat their DB's

If the cowboys' game plan is based on beating Revis and Cromartie, it's a very stupid game plan.

 

[NYJET624]

Well, that's pretty standard with base 3-4 teams. After all, you're putting three down lineman against five or six offensive linemen. The job of 3-4 defensive linemen is to set the edge and two-gap, not to shoot gaps and come flying off the edge. Whatever pressure they generate is a bonus. The pressure comes from blitzes, which the Jets are ideally suited to use because they have great corners.

Someone gets it.


It's a common misconception by the media and fans when they say things like "The Jets can't rush the QB without blitzing", when they either don't understand or are trying to relate to the general NFL fan who doesn't understand how a 3-4 system works.

I'm not talking to the Cowboys fans on this site directly, but just in general, because in my time here most of you have been pretty knowledgeable, but a 34 linemen's priority is to penetrate and free up linebackers, NOT rush the quarterback.

Any 3-4 defense has to "blitz" if they expect to rush the quarterback, because their is no natural pass rush in base formation, as opposed to the 4-3.


The Jets may not have an elite pass rusher like DeMarcus Ware, but they are built from the back to the front as opposed to the front to the back. Instead of using a greater amount of less talented players to cover and a smaller amount of more talented players to blitz, they reverse this and put less but more talented guys in coverage, where their less talented pass rushers are made up for in numbers.

It's worked so far and made them an elite defense the past, and that can't be ignored.


Us Jets fans have heard the "they can't generate pressure without blitzing" for way too long, it's a true statement that is for some reason portrayed negatively...and not just a way of playing defense.