{"id":28906,"date":"2015-06-22T10:47:01","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T14:47:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.jetnation.com\/?p=28906"},"modified":"2015-06-22T10:47:01","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T14:47:01","slug":"buster-skrines-dream-team-comparison-may-not-sit-well-with-new-york-jets-todd-bowles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/2015\/06\/22\/buster-skrines-dream-team-comparison-may-not-sit-well-with-new-york-jets-todd-bowles\/","title":{"rendered":"Skrine’s “Dream Team” Comments may not sit Well With Bowles"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Cornerback<\/a>

Buster Skrine has been impressed by Jets defense during offseason workouts.<\/p><\/div>\n

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By Glenn Naughton<\/p>\n

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In a recent interview with Don Banks of SI.com<\/strong><\/span><\/a>, newly acquired Jets cornerback Buster Skrine had an interesting take in regards to the Jets defense as the team readies for the 2015 season, and it’s one that may rub head coach Todd Bowles the wrong way.<\/p>\n

“I’ve never played on a defense with this much talent. Our front seven has all-stars and then in the back end, we have all-stars. I’ve never seen anything like this. Everybody said the Philadelphia Eagles were going to be like the dream team, but we have chemistry on this defense already, and you can see it out in practice. I mean, we can match up however you want to match up. We can match up with any offense.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Skrine isn’t saying anything here that many fans and insiders aren’t already thinking, but Bowles, who recently\u00a0told his team\u00a0to dial down the rhetoric,<\/a> is clearly downplaying an offseason spending spree that led to significant upgrades on both offense and defense to temper expectations as he prepares for\u00a0his first season as a head coach.<\/p>\n

Bowles’ approach is the\u00a0complete opposite of\u00a0 the boastful Rex Ryan who failed deliver on may of his promises, and there is a segment of the fan base that would rather see Gang Green show what they can do on the field come September, rather than talking about it in June.<\/p>\n

Given the additions of Darrelle Revis, Antonio Cromartie, Skrine, Brandon Marshall, James Carpenter, Marcus Gilchrist and Leonard Williams just\u00a0to name a few,\u00a0the Jets have every reason anticipate\u00a0a much\u00a0improved team in 2015, but the old Philadelphia Eagles “dream team” that Skrine referenced\u00a0was in a similar situation while handling the\u00a0expectations that come along with high-profile additions\u00a0back in 2011 only to see the team go from 10-6 in 2010, to 8-8 in 2011, before stumbling to 4-12 in 2012.<\/p>\n

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GM Mike Maccagnan spent big to address his team’s offseason needs.<\/p><\/div>\n

During his introductory press conference to the Philadelphia media during that 2011\u00a0offseason, quarterback Vince Young\u00a0proclaimed that the Eagles’ re-built secondary with cornerbacks\u00a0Nnamdi Asomugha and Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie along with pass-rusher Jason Babin meant that Philly had essentially assembled a dream team.<\/p>\n

With the major focus being on Asomugha and Rodgers-Cromartie, nobody had a closer look at Philadelphia’s collapse than their 2012 defensive backs coach and interim defensive coordinator, Todd Bowles.\u00a0 Bowles’ lone season in the City of Brotherly Love was just one year removed from Young’s then-brash statement that is now largely viewed as a punch line.<\/p>\n

Having allowed 31 touchdown passes in 2010, and 27 in 2011, Bowles got to witness a catastrophic defense in 2012 when the Eagles surrendered an NFL-worst, 33 touchdowns through the air\u00a0while intercepting only eight passes.\u00a0 All of this with Asomugha and Rodgers-Cromartie,\u00a0previously viewed as the defensive saviors, starting all sixteen games on defense for the Eagles.<\/p>\n

So while Skrine is justified in expecting big things from the Jets defense in 2015, would anyone be surprised to find out Bowles wasn’t thrilled with Skrine’s assessment based on past experience?\u00a0 With Rex Ryan and his coaching staff now operating out of western New York, it’s likely that Jets fans and Bowles would much prefer his players live by the old saying and simply “walk softly and carry a big stick”.<\/p>\n

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  By Glenn Naughton   In a recent interview with Don Banks of SI.com, newly acquired Jets cornerback Buster Skrine had an interesting take in regards to the Jets defense as the team readies for the 2015 season, and it’s one that may rub head coach Todd Bowles the wrong way. “I’ve never played on […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":28670,"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":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1337],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-28906","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-editorials","8":"category-home-slider"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/Bowles.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-7we","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28906","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\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=28906"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28906\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":28908,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28906\/revisions\/28908"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/28670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=28906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=28906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=28906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}