what offenses in the NFL are built mostly on having elite speed? Our defense is built on being big, strong, and physical and doesn't put a big premium on elite speed. We just don't match up well against those teams and they took advantage. Not having beat a good team this season is definitely not a good sign. After getting our doors blown off by a 6-8 team it may not look like we "deserve" a playoff spot or whatever. I do not think we will face another team with an offense that has that kind of elite speed on offense. If we can get back to protecting Sanchez and moving the ball on offense, our defense should be able to contain most teams. The sun may be setting on a disappointing season, but I'm not ready to put it to bed yet. Let's see if they can win the next two.
Denver is built on Tebow's 4.4 at the moment. Pittsburgh is built on Wallace's 4.3, Mendenhall's 4.4 and Roethlisberger's escapability. The Jets lack of speed in the linebackers and safety and the fact that Cromartie is poor in run support are going to be big issues if they get to the playoffs.
If you want to play a 3-4 defense, you need big fatties up front and fast guys at LB and in the secondary. We have big fatties everywhere.
Many teams have one guy with elite speed and we've done fairly well at limiting one guy. I'm talking about teams with several guys with elite speed that prevent us from focusing on taking one away. Tebow did nothing against the Jets for 58 minutes.
Yea we get beat by TE's all year because our safeties are trash. That in and of itself never really resulted in the other team throttling us on offense though. If we had more speed at the safety position it would help in both regards.
The Jets offense and special teams get the blame for that game so far as I'm concerned. The Broncos offense put up 7 points the entire game. That was a great drive by them at the end, and our defense shit the bed, but we shut them down for the majority of the game. It was nothing even remotely close to the whipping the Raiders or Eagles offenses put on us.
The point is that when the Broncos were forced into all-Tebow, all-the-time mode the Jets had no answer because a QB with 4.4 speed was faster than everybody on the field for them and much faster than the linebackers and safeties.
The Jets panicked on the last drive and changed there personell grouping from the one that worked the entire game to one that included more d-backs after Tebow completed one pass. He then ran all over a bunch of d-backs who failed to maintain gap integrity or contain responsibility. Tebow was at the very least contained by the Jets that day. He was mostly shut down all together. The point I was trying to make with the thread was that there are no teams left on our schedule or who we could possibly meet in the playoffs who seem to present the matchup problems the Raiders or Eagles presented with multiple guys having elite speed. No other team IMO has the ability to completely destroy our defense all game. The Pats can sure put up points but we tend to slow them down for large parts of games. Our defense should be good enough if our offense shows up.
This is the same thing that happened against the Patriots and the Raiders at the end though. This defense has no stop in it at the end of the game. Long drives for crucial scores are the norm for them. It's like bend-but-don't break, only they break in the end.
I agree, but that's a much different story than what happened yesterday. I'd much rather have a shot at the end. To be honest, I might actually be more comfortable down 4 points with the ball with 2 minutes to go than be up 4 points and on defense.
This team lacks speed in some key spots. I don't think drastic changes are needed..but we have some real clearcut spots where upgrades are needed. Both linebacker and safety need major upgrades in terms of athleticism and closing speed.
