My guess is we are going to be sending the house at losman

The following is an article over at msgnetwork.com and i did not realize the bills o-line was struggling this much. We should have our way against losman if mangini and sutton apply some pressure on him because he is mistake prone. I feel alot better about sunday after reading this article. The only down side is the bills wide recievers roscoe parish, pierce, and evans all have big play ability to take one to the house so its going to be a blitz if you dare type of game. My guess? mangini sends the house the way he did vs. new england and the jets come away with a 20-10 win.



Dan Leberfeld
Cashing in on Bills


Dec 07, 2006
So often when previewing a Jets game, you say the key to the outcome is the performance of Pennington.

And this game is no different. When the Jets and Buffalo Bills face off this Sunday, there will be a lot of pressure on Pennington.

But in this game, the Jets want Pennington to struggle.

Say what?

Yes, if the Jets can exploit Bills rookie right tackle Terrence Pennington and the rest of Buffalo's patchwork offensive line, and harass the Bills’ antsy, mistake-prone quarterback J.P. Losman, this could help spearhead a Jets win.

At the bye week, the Bills were struggling, and coach Dick Jauron decided to reshuffle his offensive line. One of the moves was plugging in Pennington, a seventh-round pick from New Mexico, at right tackle. Left tackle Mike Gandy wasn't playing well, so Jauron moved the team's most athletically gifted lineman, Jason Peters, to left tackle. The right tackle spot was filled by Pennington.



Losman should feel the heat from the Jets 'D.' (AP)
In the two games following the bye, this reconstructed line gave up nine sacks. And not helping matters was the season-ending injury to veteran right guard Chris Villarrial, who was like a coach on the field to Pennington. Now the rookie is lined up next to second-year guard Duke Preston, who can't be much help to him. He’s trying to figure things out himself.
And young offensive linemen can really have a hard time against 3-4 defenses, a front that is a lot more difficult to figure out than a conventional 4-3 front. Last week, the Buffalo line struggled dealing with San Diego's 3-4; outside linebackers Shawne Merriman and Shaun Phillips combined for three sacks.

After struggling during the first half of the season, the Jets’ 3-4 front is starting to get its act together, especially in the pass rush. It certainly has helped in the last two games that the opposing offensive lines have been rife with dysfunction and inexperience. And that will clearly be the case again this week.

Two guys who have spearheaded the improved pass rush are defensive end Shaun Ellis and outside linebacker Bryan Thomas. Against Houston and Green Bay, Ellis had 2.0 sacks and Thomas 3.5.

Ellis and Thomas should be able to dominate Buffalo’s right side of Pennington and Preston and make Losman's life miserable. While Peters is an athletic freak, a 6-foot-4, 345-pound dancing bear, he's not close to being a finished product.

Remember, Peters was a tight end at Arkansas, who the Bills made into an offensive tackle. He has been starting for just a year, with most of his work on the right side. The Jets also should be able to exploit Peters, who is still getting comfortable at the position on the left side.

And if the Jets can dominate the Bills’ offensive line like they should, they will force Losman into some bad decisions. Buffalo offensive coordinator Steve Fairchild tends to keep the shackles on Losman, rarely calling risky plays. The team's red zone approach is a case in point. Against Indianapolis, the Bills had 11 red zone plays that netted minus-2 yards. Fairchild seemed fearful of calling passes in the end zone very often, concerned about a turnover.

Losman seems to be another one of those one-read quarterbacks. He has just 12 touchdowns in 12 games, and leads the league in three-and-outs.

The creative defensive schemes of Eric Mangini and Bob Sutton could turn Losman into a basket case. They seemed to have him baffled in Week 3, a Jets win at Buffalo, where he fumbled twice on blitzes by safety Kerry Rhodes, and was also picked off by cornerback David Barrett. And since the Jets defense is a lot more comfortable now in their first-year system, this could get ugly.

But so much of the ability to send the dogs after Losman will depend on the Jets’ ability to stop the run. While the Jets’ run defense has improved a little in recent months, it's still not where it needs to be. Even in a blowout win last week, the Packers rushed 23 times for 149 yards.



The Jets hope McGahee doesn't get the better of them this time around. (AP)
Bills running back Willis McGahee must be licking his chops. He ran 26 times for 150 yards in Week 3.
But Gang Green’s run defense actually wasn't that bad last week, except for back-to-back plays in the second quarter, where Ahman Green ran for 11 and 35 yards up the middle.

The Jets can easily fix what broke on these plays. On both big runs, backup nose tackle Rashad Moore was blown off the ball and taken out of the play. He shouldn't have been dressed for the Packers game. He has a broken bone in his left hand, and was forced to wear a club. Why would you play Moore, who has been struggling when healthy, with one healthy hand? This was a personnel decision that made little sense.

The Jets should deactivate Moore until he's healthy, and play nose tackle C.J. Mosley, acquired in a September trade with Minnesota.

Speaking of running the football, the Jets’ ground attack, which got its act together last week, should pick up where it left off against Green Bay. Buffalo’s smallish front seven is really struggling against the run and getting pushed around quite a bit.

The Bills gave up 207 yards rushing against the Jaguars two weeks ago, and the Chargers gashed them for 199 last week.

A physical, downhill back like Cedric Houston should be able to get a lot done against the Bills’ undersized defense, which is without their second-leading tackler, linebacker Angelo Crowell, who was put on IR this week.

And if the Jets run the football, Chad Pennington should be able to torch a secondary, featuring two rookie safeties, with play-action passes. Young defensive backs historically bite a lot harder on play-fakes than veterans.

So as you can see, the Jets have no excuse to lose this game.

The Bills have a lot of exploitable areas.