I live outside the NY area so I don't get to see many Jets games and when I do it is tough to focus on what the CBs are doing because a lot of time they are not in the frame of the camera. I was wondering what the dominant style of coverage we played. Is it man to man or more zone type? The reason I ask is because if this is a trend than it greatly shapes the type of DB we target because some simply flourish in some schemes and some can't play both. Thanks in advance.
It's mostly man to man coverage. But it's tough for me to tell, I don't go to many games, but it looks to be man to man to me.
this is sought of on and off the topic. i dont know about yall but i hate the way the camera's are for fox when the jets played on there it was like the camera's acts as if its a man on the field and its running up the field with the players and its down on the field level. to me it sucks and they should just go with what they have been doing. i dont know what style of coverage the jets run but just thought id shed some light on that.
I don't claim to be as up on the Jets coverage schemes as I'd like, but it appears to me to be very complex, and it changes not only from week to week, but also during the game based on the situation. Sometimes it's the OLB who moves towards the flat and has short coverage reponsibilty, with the CB laying back and one of the safeties moving up for short middle coverage, while on the other side that CB might be in man, and playing closer to the WR, with deep help from the other safety. It seems to me to be a sort of hybrid zone/man scheme and will flop flop that package I just described to the other side of the field. Against 2 TE sets I think's it's more often a man coverage scheme for the CB's. That's as best I understand it, but would love to hear from someone with a better handle on it.
I believe it is a type of a cover 3. Especially when you have rhodes down in the box. This means corners are in Man unless they cross the field where the LB will pick up. Then you either have a corner or safety coming into the strong side flat. Most of it seems to be cover 3/man except for a few occasions where we blitzed both safeties.
thanks for the explanations guys. I expected it to be hybrid/changing to some degree but I was looking for a general stance such as Tony Dungy with the cover 2 scheme. Any other insight? Keep it coming!
Jets' coverage style seems to be more situational, than a steady every down/same defense philosophy. Remember, they play a 3-4 defense....on 3d downs; you might see Jets' in the nickel or dime defense. More dictated by down & distance....Thats what I notice. Jets' get beat on short patterns, but not on too many long passes I notice. Alot of crossing routes they give up.
I would guess a complicated cover three where the Corners play the deep zone and stay mostly in man with the WR...... Than Kerry Rhodes roams all over the middle of the field......
Thanks guys...that makes sense. In summary we play a little bit of everything mixed together, but I appreciate y'all's breakdowns to the details. So to address the original question, a CB who excells in both is what is needed- aka no man skills=not for us (coughJustinMillercough)
I don't know the exact scheme but to me it seems rare that we ever have our DBs up tight on the WRs and that we're always giving them a few yard cushion giving up the short pass. I'd like to see us get away from that a bit more but that may be due more to talent then anything else, health too when you think about how Brady picked apart Dyson in the playoff game.
It was, oh shit our defensive line sucks, it is going to be a long day coverage.:smile: ok maybe sucks was too strong.............How about mediocre. For the most part with that handicap the Secondary played rather well.
I wouldn't be surprised if you're right. I think I mentioned it might be due to talent but to me it's still frustrating seeing us give up so many 3rd down conversions because of soft coverage. Of course it also helps if you tackle the guy right away keeping it to a really short gain. As someone else mentioned a better pass rush would help this tremendously too.
