Not sure how true it is, but on Mike and Mike, they said the Jets have blitzed 62% of their defensive downs so far this season. Can anyone confirm that?
That actually sounds low. How often have the Jets started with 3 or 4 guys with theit hand on the ground and only rushed those guys? I can recall a few times but not anything like a third+ of the time. The run blitzes are basically linebackers in a gap at the snap and that seems to be the norm also.
That number was probably significantly higher prior to the Titans game. They didn't seem to be blitzing much at all this past Sunday.
I still have to pinch myself too, I keep thinking they're running the opposite way and are supposed to be dropping back into coverage, haha.
I actually don't think that sounds low at all. We didn't blitz nearly as much in the Titans game as in the previous two (Due to a combination of the Jets respecting the Titans running game along with the fact that the Jets were missing their 2nd and 3rd cornerbacks)
As you saw against the Titans you can get burned from blitzing as much as we do (Collins was shredding us at times) but eventually if you bring more ppl than they can block it's gonna wreck havoc
The game is 3 hours long. There are going to be situations in where the quarterback is able to get passes off and they'll be able to run past the blitz. This is expected. The point of it is to disrupt and rattle the QB. Get in his face. Look at some of the passes that Collins and Brady made when under pressure! Terrible passes! This is a direct result of not being able to hang back in the pocket and read the defense, and of expecting to get hit. Don't stop Jets. This is the defense we were made for! I LOVE IT!
That's a big part of my Ghoslton defense. People are enamored with shiny statistics when sometimes you just can't quantify the impact a player is making via numerics. Not to derail into another Ghoslton thread. That's not the intent. I'm just agreeing with the point. Pressure the QB, ignore the Pro Bowl voters and fantasy fans, and you'll win more games. Force QBs to beat you while on the run. Most just simply cannot do it.
I'd hardly call what Collins did to us "shredding us" but anyway the passes he did complete was mostly in the first half when we weren't blitzing all that much. Towards the end of the game when we took the lead we started to blitz and Collins finished 0 for 13.
I think if you don't bring more than 4 its not considered a blitz... the Jets have successfully overloaded one side of the o-line by brining only 4 and droping others into coverage. While that might look like a blitz its not necessarily considered one.
I always understood a blitz to be any player other than a defensive lineman applying pressure behind the LOS. In a 3-4 set, sending one linebacker is a blitz.
