There were several reports today stating that the Jets defense was ahead of the offense in the OTA on Thursday.\u00a0 This is to be expected, the defense is already in place and the offense is brand new. Public Service Reminder: Brian Schottenheimer can’t hurt you anymore Jets fans.<\/p>\n
On the topic of defense, the best person to give an update on that is Rex Ryan.\u00a0 Here is what he had to say today:<\/p>\n
On if LaRon Landry was the only player to miss all voluntary workouts\u2026<\/strong> On practice today\u2026<\/strong> On the change in Bart Scott\u2019s demeanor since last season\u2026<\/strong> On whether Bryan Thomas and Matt Slauson\u2019s will participate in mini-camp\u2026<\/strong> On whether Landry will play at mini-camp\u2026<\/strong> On whether he plans on using more 46 defense\u2026<\/strong> There were several reports today stating that the Jets defense was ahead of the offense in the OTA on Thursday.\u00a0 This is to be expected, the defense is already in place and the offense is brand new. Public Service Reminder: Brian Schottenheimer can’t hurt you anymore Jets fans. On the topic of defense, the best […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12922","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jet-news"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-3mq","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12922"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12923,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12922\/revisions\/12923"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nHe was actually in attendance for a few of them.\u00a0 Yes, he was.\u00a0 There were players, where there were a couple of things that came up that caused them to miss a workout.\u00a0 There were some, they actually even came back and tried to make up things.\u00a0 I know one player missed one workout.\u00a0 These are all of the things we still had 99% attendance.\u00a0 Again, I am confident that Landry is going to be ready to roll.\u00a0 I think he is doing what he thinks is in his best interest for him, I am confident of that.\u00a0 Again, these are voluntary.\u00a0 The fact that 99% of these workouts were attended by our team here, I would challenge any other team to have these numbers.\u00a0 I don\u2019t believe that happened anywhere else in the league.\u00a0 I think that is a real positive that the Jets are heading back in a good direction.\u00a0 Again, how many games this is going to affect us on the field?\u00a0 We will find out.\u00a0 I like to quote a guy that I really think a lot of is Channing Crowder (laughter), he crowned us, and I do like Channing, but he crowned us the OTA champs.\u00a0 Going into this, I wanted to be the OTA champs.\u00a0 Clearly, our goal I want to be Super Bowl Champs like the Giants were, no doubt. But this is a step in the right direction, all we can affect in the off-season is to win this.\u00a0 The facts are whatever. \u00a0You guys can dig them up on any other team in the league, I have a funny feeling that no team will approach this.\u00a0 Again, these are voluntary type things and I am proud of this, there is no doubt.\u00a0 When we say this is going to be a close football team, I think these are strides that you make that way, guys working out in the off-season together, all that.\u00a0 When you get up to Cortland, these are all things that I think will bring this team closer.\u00a0 Now will it give us more wins on the field?\u00a0 We will find out when the season kicks off.\u00a0 I feel good about this right now.<\/p>\n
\nObviously, I think the defense was pretty impressive, there is no doubt.\u00a0 Do we need to fix a few things? Probably.\u00a0 We missed a high throw, guys come in and it looks like a sack.\u00a0 There are some things like that.\u00a0 We have had some hamstring issues at wide out.\u00a0 That is really the only spot that we have had some.\u00a0 Tone (Santonio Holmes) just getting back, was a little limited when put in those situations in that team period.\u00a0 But again, I think this defense, I know Mr. Johnson talked about this defense, he thinks it is going to be special and so do I.\u00a0 I always think this defense is going to be special.\u00a0 We believe that.\u00a0 I think we have so much depth on defense right now.\u00a0 This might be the deepest that we have been.\u00a0 We can stack up a lot of good football players.\u00a0 The depth we have at linebacker is crazy.\u00a0 We have five or six inside backers that can play.\u00a0 We have got guys, our young D-Line looks impressive.\u00a0 Some of the young guys are really making strides, so I really like the depth of our defense in particular.<\/p>\n
\nYou guys see it.\u00a0 Bart is back.\u00a0 Bart is back to being the guy that we brought in here.\u00a0 I had somebody say \u201cCan we turn Bart down?\u201d and I am like \u2018No.\u00a0 This is exactly the guy we brought in.\u2019 That is what we want as a football team.\u00a0 We want guys to be themselves, enjoy practice with better tempo and all that kind of stuff and Bart brings that to the table.\u00a0 It is hard to have a bad practice when Bart Scott is on the field because he is just energized like that and he stays that way.\u00a0 That is when you know he is really playing.\u00a0 I have said it before, I don\u2019t know if this isn\u2019t the best Bart Scott we have had since I have been here with the Jets.\u00a0 I think he is better now than the first year we brought him in here.\u00a0 He is running great, he is in super shape, he is smart, he is really leading.\u00a0 I think that was what we needed.\u00a0 Last year, for whatever reason, I think part of it was our plan for Bart wasn\u2019t what it should have been, maybe like hit this number I am going to be a little bigger. Well no, let\u2019s be faster and I think he has taken it upon himself to get in unbelievable shape and he looks great.\u00a0 He ran with a wheel route the other day by Joe McKnight and he was staying on top.\u00a0 It was a veteran move.\u00a0 He saw the thing and started heading deep.\u00a0 There are very few linebackers in the league that can run with Joe McKnight.\u00a0 I am not saying Bart can, but he did.<\/p>\n
\nI expect them to be able to do some things. They\u2019ll probably still be limited. Both of them are coming off of surgeries. They\u2019re both itching to go. We probably won\u2019t use them a whole lot. They will be limited.<\/p>\n
\nWe\u2019ll see what John (Mellody) tells me. I know for a fact Bryan Thomas and Slauson will be limited. I haven\u2019t seen the updated injury list and probably won\u2019t until Monday.<\/p>\n
\nWe think we can use it. There\u2019s no doubt we can use it. I think we\u2019re built for it. That was a specific period of the offense going against a 46 look. That\u2019s where there was some kind of version it every snap, whether it was 46 or something very similar to it. It\u2019s obviously a defense I think we can play more of based on the personnel we have.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"