I think that rule is silly, as if NFL teams are incapable of coming up with an alternate set of safe helmets. The Bears get around it by just taking off the logo for an all navy helmet with their alternate uni.
The defense should be good. Let's see what Rodgers and Bowles decide to do with the personnel on hand. They have a surplus of talent on the defensive line and at CB. They have arguably 2 starting caliber strong safeties in Pryor and Allen. They have some real questions in the LB corps. If the Jets go with 5 DB's much of the time with both Pryor and Allen on the field in some situations and with Revis, Cro and Skrine in others, interchanging Allen and Skrine, they may cover up some of the slower LB issues that have hurt the Jets over the last few years. There are a lot of pieces to glue together on that side of the ball. Not having a top 10 defense would be a failure given the overall talent involved.
The hot read didn't have time to get in position? Could be the dumbest post I have ever read on a football message board.
The Jets were pressing everybody that year and leaving one safety back. When they weren't pressing the slot receiver they were blitzing his guy straight from the slot. The hot read was never where the opposing QB thought he'd be. When he was where he was supposed to be his cover was 2 steps from the QB a second and a half after the snap. It was one of the key parts of the defense to take away the QB's ability to do anything but throw the ball to his best guy and pray. Rex double-covered nobody. He had every DB either up on his man or in a blitz with Jim Leonhard playing at the edge of the box on most downs as a pseudo-strong safety. Every receiver had somebody making contact inside of 5 yards at some point. People were trying to run trips where 3 receivers lined up within a yard of each other where 2 guys were back a yard near the end. The hope was that one of those guys would get a free run off of the confusion. In 2010 the scheme changed some. Now the Jets were not blitzing quite as much but they were using phantom defenders to cover areas of the field. They'd line up with an area of the field over-covered and then at the snap everybody would vacate the area and flood a couple of adjacent areas. Again, the point was to take away the hot read because the QB would assign the role based on the defensive formation and then the guy he picked would have 2 guys in close proximity and somebody would be wide open in an area that had 2 defenders at the snap but was now vacated. With a blitzer bearing down on him the QB would throw the ball away because his hot read was suddenly a very bad throw.
Kinda wish Milliner, Skrine, and McDougle were going to train with Revis in arizona instead of some patriots -_-
WTF is a Jet doing working out with PATRIOTS players? Seriously... I've tried SO FUCKING HARD to get myself to forgive him, and like him again, blame it all on Idzik not wanting him... but seriously? Training, helping out our #1 (by a landslide) rival? WHAT THE FUCK Revis? And to think I just got my Revis jersey back out of storage..
The rivalry happens on the field on gameday, not off of it. Ravens and Steelers players get along just fine, I think Ray Lewis was best pals with Big Ben, Hines Ward, Polamalu, you name them. Same with the Redskins/Cowboys. They all respect each other for the most part, they work out each other in the offseason in training facilities that aren't owned by teams. Of course you have your Joey Porter, your Tom Brady, your Terrell Owens, who is hated everywhere, but for the most part players get along fine. This is a job for players, they respect each other doesn't matter what team they're on. Some fans can't/don't understand that but it's business. Why would Revis have any problems with the guys he hung out with last year every day almost? Just because they wear a different jersey? Come on, be a little more mature about it. Also, Revis doesn't invite them over to coach them up either, to show them how coverage works. They're all meeting up in Arizona to get coached up a legit coach, to get used to the heat, get their cardio up, that's it. Revis is being coached up just like the rest of the guys that are there. He's not hosting an annual "get coached by Revis" camp like Fitzgerald does. He made friends in NE and now they're getting ready for the season, big deal. The only thing that'd bother me a little is that he should be doing this with OUR players instead but we have no clue what the story there is. But the rivalry angle is immature.
Good. The players are a fraternity off of the field, and have been getting together in the offseason forever.
Lol not understanding the difference between a pass defensed and a target is probably the dumbest post I've ever read on a football message board.
Really? What exactly did a CB do to "take a team to the title game"? Love to hear some specific examples.
You're not even capable of understanding how good he was in 2009, why should anyone bother to explain to you how that was the entire reason the defense (which was the reason the Jets made it to the AFCC) was so good that year? Rex designed that defense around Revis' abilities.
He for one.. made our lack of SS irrelevant.. and he gave Rex a ton of flexibility for calling all those exotic blitzes. That flexibility made our defense top notch..and our defense is what carried the team so far. so if our defense carried that team and Revis was the cause for the way we were able to play that defense i think he kinda technically did take us to the title game..twice in a row.. and the first year he was there... POOF... all the success vanished.. and we haven't seen the playoffs since. Now if we do so happen to make the playoffs and maybe even a AFCC run... again, i'd have to tilt my hat to Darrelle Revis. His Last two full seasons played as a jet we were in the AFCC game. I don't think thats just a coincidence. that's just my two cents though.