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The pressure we put on the quarterback won the first 3 games for us. Putting Matt Schaub, Tom Brady, and Kerry Collins on the ground made our defense dominant and had people talking us up as Super Bowl contenders and possibly the best team in the NFL. We lost to the Saints, yes, but our pressure on Drew Brees made him look like an average quarterback rather than a man who threw for 5,000 yards last season. The stats don’t reflect our pressure because of our low number of sacks, but that is only because of the ability and intelligence of the opposing quarterbacks to get the ball out quickly. This past Sunday against the Dolphins, our defense got lit up. I didn’t see many plays on defense where we attempted to confuse the quarterback and the offensive coordinator.

Chad Henne isn’t the caliber of the other 4 quarterbacks we have faced, but his 130.4 passer rating made him look like Dan Marino. I saw too many defensive setups with 4 down lineman and zero movement and chaos at the line of scrimmage. I also saw too many plays where they brought a 4-man rush with those same 4 down lineman. It was the most predictable defense I have seen from the Jets since Mangini. We don’t have the talent on defensive line to pressure the quarterback with those kinds of rushes.

Now I love Rex Ryan at head coach and I love this defense, but that was not Rex Ryan’s style of coaching and that was not this defense’s style of play. If we stuck to the game plan we used the past 4 games, we could’ve recorded a huge number of sacks against the Dolphins and probably won the game. A quarterback in his second career start wouldn’t have had the ability to get rid of the ball like Schaub, Brady, Collins, or Brees. Regardless of who we are playing or what quarterback we are facing, the defensive approach should be the same. We need to get to the quarterback.

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I mentioned in another thread that “The Big Cat” is more like a little kitten these days and Douglas is ok .The quick fix slide Pouha over to DE and give Ropati a chance. The sheer size of this line-up would demand double teams and free up the LB’s more to make plays, example offense lines up in 3 wides twins right,TE left, 1 RB, our D line-up Ropati straight up over LT, maybe gets chipped by TE so what as long he pushes the pocket a little job done. Jenks lines up between LG and C pushes the pocket more job done,Pouha lines up between RG and RT another dbl team hold the wall job done, blitz Harris or Scott as well as LOLB so RB has to make choice even if TE goes for pass non blitzing LB’s play short zone and safties keep an eye on RB dump off with the size of the 3 DL’s this scenario would work.

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