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NEW YORK JETS

Do the Jets have a bona fide pass rusher to make their 3-4 defense dominant?

No. Despite making a playoff push last season, the Jets defense needs to improve its ability to get after the quarterback. The Jets lack a pure pass rusher off the edge and have to manufacture their rush with exotic pressure schemes. Bryan Thomas led the team with 8.5 sacks last season, but most of his production came during a five-game stretch near the end of the year. By not addressing OLB or DE in the draft or free agency, the team is gambling that Thomas can duplicate that production. The odds are against him, considering he only had 6.5 sacks in his four seasons prior to 2006.

This guy clearly doesn't know anything about the Jets, or he would see the sacks coming primarily towards the end of the season as a POSITIVE thing because Bryan and the rest of the squad got used to the scheme and played great D down the stretch. Why would the odds be against him to continue to play well? He is physically in his prime and got his first shot and being an everydown contributer last year, I expect him to play EVEN BETTER with the FA pickups and draft picks.

Also, although our FA aquisitions weren't Breaking News on ESPN or anything, Coleman was a solid 3-4 DE addition, as well as the flyers we took on guys like Wadsworth, Haynes and Bowens.

I'm sick of reading these "experts" never knowing what they're talking about. Articles will say things like KVO playing nose tackle for us.. Hobson playing ILB.. it boggles my mind how people who clearly don't watch all the games or know anything get paid to right articles.

I will concede that our pass rush wasn't great, and was something I hoped we addressed a little more. But if you are going to critique it, Bryan Thomas isn't the problem, its the D-Line and other available pass rushers. The Patriots top sack getter had drum roll please...... 8.5 sacks! The 3-4 is all about bringing pressure from different places. I expect Hobson, Vilma, Barton, Harris and Thomas to have better years and put better pressure on the QB.

[theanalogkid]

Although the Jets improved the line, they are still lacking a big enough NT to get the job done. Robertson can't 2 gap, and he is a terrible run blocker, I'd expect teams to rush all over us this coming season. The D-line needs help, and until that happens no pass rusher is going to do anything.

[titmouse]

i know the Jets improved in the 2nd half of the season but have they really done anything about their upfront push? they picked up a lot of question marks so we will see.

[gmany3k]

Although the Jets improved the line, they are still lacking a big enough NT to get the job done. Robertson can't 2 gap, and he is a terrible run blocker, I'd expect teams to rush all over us this coming season. The D-line needs help, and until that happens no pass rusher is going to do anything.

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it was about snakes and arrows.

[bluelinecop]

This guy clearly doesn't know anything about the Jets, or he would see the sacks coming primarily towards the end of the season as a POSITIVE thing because Bryan and the rest of the squad got used to the scheme and played great D down the stretch. Why would the odds be against him to continue to play well? He is physically in his prime and got his first shot and being an everydown contributer last year, I expect him to play EVEN BETTER with the FA pickups and draft picks.

Also, although our FA aquisitions weren't Breaking News on ESPN or anything, Coleman was a solid 3-4 DE addition, as well as the flyers we took on guys like Wadsworth, Haynes and Bowens.

I'm sick of reading these "experts" never knowing what they're talking about. Articles will say things like KVO playing nose tackle for us.. Hobson playing ILB.. it boggles my mind how people who clearly don't watch all the games or know anything get paid to right articles.

I will concede that our pass rush wasn't great, and was something I hoped we addressed a little more. But if you are going to critique it, Bryan Thomas isn't the problem, its the D-Line and other available pass rushers. The Patriots top sack getter had drum roll please...... 8.5 sacks! The 3-4 is all about bringing pressure from different places. I expect Hobson, Vilma, Barton, Harris and Thomas to have better years and put better pressure on the QB.

Good post dude!

[VaNDelaYInDusTrIEs]

He's not totally off base. They really didn't add a pass rusher other than Bowens, who is situational at best. I liked that they got more sacks down the strech when they actually started blitzing last year, but they lost to NE in the playoffs primarily because they couldn't get to Brady. If Kenyon Coleman pans out, that will definitely help Hobson get more sacks. Still, I think the pass rush will be the weakness of the defense.

[Smedsthejet]

He's not totally off base. They really didn't add a pass rusher other than Bowens, who is situational at best. I liked that they got more sacks down the strech when they actually started blitzing last year, but they lost to NE in the playoffs primarily because they couldn't get to Brady. If Kenyon Coleman pans out, that will definitely help Hobson get more sacks. Still, I think the pass rush will be the weakness of the defense.

We only really put Brady under any pressure when we threw 6 or 7 man rushes at him but even then that allowed him to exploit the weaknesses created in the middle of the field by throwing every LB at the QB.
I don't see the pass rush being improved that much - Bowens isn't going to start because Barton was not traded away on draft day and we drafted ILB David Harris meaning it seems the FO is comfortable with Thomas and Hobson on the outside. Sure Bowens could be a 3rd down pass rush guy but for him to be effective then we need to get teams in more 3rd and long situations because a lot of the time we gave up big chunks of yardage against NE on 1st and 2nd downs because our pass rush was mediocre and they just threw on 1st and 2nd down.
Hobson is a solid LB but he doesn't have the speed needed to get around the edge which is why I'd have preferred they moved him inside and looked at acquiring a pass rusher in the draft (I'm not upset with the Harris pick though).

[VaNDelaYInDusTrIEs]

I agree with everything you said, Smeds.