Here's an article I came across today that's sure to raise some eyebrows: http://www.newyorkjets.com/news/articles/show/1911-sutton-likes-what-he-s-seeing-on-d-line Sutton Likes What He's Seeing on D-Line Published: 12-01-07 By John Beattie Reporter There were several instances against Buffalo, Washington and Dallas when the Jets defensive "line" was anything but a line. The Green & White trenchmen got up out of their stance and shifted around with the linebackers while the quarterbacks barked out their cadences. What started off as either three or four down linemen ended up as a controlled and furious glob of blitzing maniacs. ?The players do that. They take that upon themselves,? said defensive coordinator Bob Sutton at his informal biweekly news conference Friday afternoon. ?It?s just something that has kind of taken on its own life. We did something like that last year with linebackers walking around and they've kind of taken to it. They study and they say it?s the best way to do it this week.? And the scheme has worked. The Jets have called the formation five times since Week 8 vs. Buffalo. The opposing passing line: 1-for-5 for minus-2 yards and an interception for a Blutarsky passer rating: 0.0. ?It?s a good changeup. It?s like when an offense shifts and motions,? Sutton added. ?It creates some kind of mental pressure for the offense to identify who?s who and how they are going to identify. I think the players have enjoyed it and have done a good job with it. It?s not going to be every play or every game. It?s just one of those things that?s in the package now.? That package has shown vast improvements in the last month. Heading into their battle with Pittsburgh, the Jets had just nine total sacks. They not only left that game with a win, they nearly doubled their season?s count with seven sacks of Ben Roethlisberger. Since the overtime loss to Washington, the Jets defensive line has shown signs of improvement ? much like the positive transition they went through following last season's bye week. Part of the recent success has been the play of defensive tackle Dewayne Robertson. D-Rob is tied with Shaun Ellis for the team lead with a career-high four sacks. Of those four sacks, 2.5 came in that one game against the Steelers when the Jets came away with a 19-16 victory over the AFC North leaders. ?I think Dewayne is a very ?sudden? player. He has playmaking ability,? Sutton explained. ?Things that have happened come from what?s happening in the scheme, and some of it is his improvement. He?s taken advantage of those opportunities.? But Sutton has always seen that spark in Robertson. Sutton is in his eighth season with the Jets, spending his first six as linebackers coach. Roberson was drafted by the Jets in 2003, so the two have been through a great deal together. ?Since he?s been here, he?s always had that explosiveness and the ability to get off the block and go make a play,? said Sutton. ?We hope we can continue down that road. He?s an effective player who can make plays on his own regardless of the scheme, and that?s what you need. You have to have guys like that.? Alongside Robertson has been a newcomer to the AFC East. Kenyon Coleman was signed as an unrestricted free agent after spending the previous four seasons in Dallas. Coleman, who has started all 11 games this year, ranks third on the team with 64 tackles and has also chipped in with two sacks. Part of his success stems from his knowledge of the 3-4 defense that former Cowboys (and Jets) head coach Bill Parcells ran in Big D. ?The one advantage with Kenyon is that he came here pretty well-trained in the fundamentals of the defense because it was a very similar style under Coach Parcells,? Sutton said. ?He understood the technique. What we saw on film when he played in Dallas are the same things he?s doing here. He?s taking advantage of the opportunity here ? I?m sure that?s one of the reasons why he came here. I think he recognized what he?s good at, it fit our style, and he?s been an improving guy. ?To me, he is kind of your 3-4 defensive end. He?s hard-nosed, tough, strong, he'll battle you to the end of the day,? added Sutton. ?If you want to keep playing, he?s going to keep playing.?
So the scheme that works is the one the players call, not the CS. Guess they really dont need him after all. :lol: Nice Animal House reference. LOL
Has Kenyon Coleman done anything at all this season? He's practically been a ghost despite what his stat line says.
so despite leading the NFL in tackles for d-linemen you feel he's done nothing? I understand he hasn't been a sack machine or caused turnovers or anything but he's certainly doing SOMETHING.
Oh yeah, positives galore in this defense that can't stop the run and has allowed 24 pts a game despite facing Buffalo and Miami twice each. I'm just sick and tired of losers who see bright spots in every solid tackle in an otherwise dismal season. Personally, I don't care if the Jets have done some things right in this awful progression, as a whole they have sucked and I'd be much happier if Sutton just came out and said: "yeah, we've sucked. It's been an across the board bad effort by the players and coaches and we're working on it." That'd at least be accountability in action.
He's not contributing positively to the defense.. He's chasing down ball-carriers downfield, but that's about it... He does a TERRIBLE job containing outside running plays (although it should be noted that Thomas and Hobson have not helped much) and he RARELY gets anywhere NEAR the QB.... He was very good as a situational player in Dallas.. He is not an every down player, and should not have been given the contract he got
i honestly don't pay a hell of a lot of attention to him, but i do notice him making a lot of tackles on ellis' side of the line chasing the play down.
A long article to tell us just that. uts on Monty Python voice:.....and now for something completely different.
Bingo. The Jets need to stop playing "Find a Plum" amateur night and start getting talent the way good teams in the NFL do: by drafting a good prospect and developing him or by signing an established starter in free agency. Sam Garnes, Brent Smith, Brandon Moore, Justin McCareins, Doug Jolley, Derrick Blaylock, Kevin Barlow, Rashad Moore, Brad Kassell, Matt Chatham, Hank Poteat, Darian Barnes, Adrien Clarke, Kenyon Coleman, etc. The Jets have become like a halfway house for the "not quite good enough but we'll hype them anyway" crowd and many of them have gotten absurd contracts so people like Terry Bradway could crow about what a catch they just got for cheap. The really good impact free agents that the Jets have signed over the last 6 years can be counted on the fingers of one hand, and NONE of them were more than an answer for a year or two. This is because NONE of them were topflight free agents signed to long-term contracts. On the other hand there are a host of players who left the Jets and are still contributing at a high level on the team that signed them. People like James Farrior, Randy Thomas, Kareem McKenzie, Santana Moss (have to include him because we lost him due to Coles going free agent.) If you keep playing cheap genius you really need to show better talent 5 years down the road than the Jets have managed to assemble, otherwise you just look CHEAP.
You can't be a little retarded, that's like being a little dead. You're either retarded or you're not. Sutton is.
Matthew Hatchette, Damien Robinson, Yatil Green, Aaron Beasley, Sam Cowart, Donnie Abraham, Reggie Freaking Tongue...
I intentionally left out the people who had been starters elsewhere since the thing that freaks me out the most about the Bradway era is that he seemed to think that anybody who could run fast or was strong or was big or was not a unidexter was likely to be the next big superstar and that only he could see that. My sentence construction in the last paragraph is better than Terry Bradway's talent evaluation capabilities. Oh, and you were dead on about Hatchette, I had totally forgotten the first and worst of Bradway's projects.
God........, That was brilliant, it really was. Can we add Pete Kendall and maybe the Rent-A-Whore of all times, Ty Law, to that list please?
