On Thursday New York Jets defensive coordinator Mike Pettine addressed the media.\u00a0 Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets.<\/p>\n
On coming back after Monday night\u2019s game\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “The best thing for us is it was a short week. When you have as many things go wrong and play as poorly as we did, we played poorly and coached poorly, it\u2019s the one good thing about the NFL. Unless it\u2019s the last game of the year, there is next week. We\u2019re very eager to get it behind us. We\u2019re not in the business of sweeping stuff under the carpet. We addressed some issues. You have to walk that fine line of looking back for too long and letting things linger or getting into the issue of literally forgetting what happened and trying to move on without making any corrections.”<\/p>\n On being behind from the start against New England\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “It was tough. We put our offense in a tough situation. The plan they wanted to execute didn\u2019t involve being down that fast. That\u2019s just one of those things where so many things went wrong. It really had a snowball effect. We got overwhelmed. That\u2019s a disappointing thing. All of us picked a bad time to put our worst effort forth, especially on that stage. Like Rex (Ryan) said, the league deserved a better game than that. You can use all the adjectives you want: embarrassing, humiliating. The one thing about it, as we\u2019ve said, we woke up the next day and it was only one loss. We stand at 9-3 and have full control of our destiny. We\u2019re very eager to make amends for our performance.”<\/p>\n On if significant adjustments need to be made scheme-wise\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I don\u2019t think you can say scheme-wise. It\u2019s a totally different opponent. We already planned for Miami. It\u2019s a totally different game plan. How we approach things, we didn\u2019t want to panic after what happened in Houston. I thought we did a good job of circling the wagons and focusing and putting forth a solid effort and one that we are accustomed to against Cincinnati. What happened on Monday night, in a lot of ways is inexplicable. For us to take that step back, it\u2019s disappointing. It\u2019s not all on the players, it\u2019s on the staff as well. As I said, we didn\u2019t play well (and) we didn\u2019t coach well.”<\/p>\n On using Jason Taylor more on defense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I think Miami week is a big week for him. I know he\u2019s amped up and ready to go. We saw him originally as just a rotational guy on first and second down and more of a pass rush guy. His snaps haven\u2019t been that high as of late. I feel like we can add a little more to it. We had a combination of outside linebackers in Bryan (Thomas) and Calvin (Pace) from a year ago that were a good combination and that were playing well. We didn\u2019t want to disrupt that chemistry too much and put a full rotation in with it. I think JT, in the limited time that he\u2019s had, he\u2019s played well. He\u2019s graded out well. (It\u2019s) not necessarily on the stat sheet, but he\u2019s done his job. It merits more plays for him.”<\/p>\n On Jim Leonhard\u2019s absence affecting Taylor\u2019s playing time\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “Indirectly, that\u2019s accurate. Again, it had a lot of effects. The fact that it happened on Thursday and the whole demeanor of the defense, I can\u2019t help but look back at it and I think it definitely affected us. At the same time, it affected us in the short term. We can\u2019t let it affect us in the long term and I think we\u2019ve done a good job this week. The backend, especially, had a real good day today. The communication is much better. Guys are making plays. They competed very hard the last two days, both at corner and at safety. That\u2019s why I\u2019m confident that our performance on the backend will be much better.”<\/p>\n On Taylor saying he plays better the more he plays and if he is upset that he didn\u2019t play more\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “Upset isn\u2019t the word. He\u2019s a competitor. He wants to be out there. He\u2019s a guy that\u2019s been an every down guy for so much of his career. He wants to win and he wants to be a part of it. Anybody that\u2019s worth anything in this league, they want to be out there no matter what their situation is age-wise or where they are rep-wise. Everybody wants to compete. You look at a guy like LT (LaDainian Tomlinson) the same way. It hurts him to not be involved in certain groupings. I think JT is the same way. As we look at where he is right now in the season and if we\u2019re ready to make a stretch run, what he\u2019s done the times he\u2019s been in there merits more playing time. Plus, this being Miami week, I think it\u2019ll be a little added extra with him.”<\/p>\n On if Taylor was wondering why he wasn\u2019t getting more playing time\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I don\u2019t know if wondering is the word either. He\u2019s a competitive guy. As any guy should, if there\u2019s an issue, he\u2019ll come talk about it. You don\u2019t want a situation where things are lingering and they\u2019re telling all the wrong people. That\u2019s what we encourage in our room. If you have an issue, speak up. If you have an issue during the game, go to your coach or pick up the defensive phone that rings up in the press box.”<\/p>\n On if Leonhard\u2019s injury was a letdown for the defense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I think it has to be. We\u2019re not in the excuse business, but when you look at how everybody was affected and how everybody\u2019s level of play was low and you even had the other team saying, \u201cThat wasn\u2019t them. That wasn\u2019t their best shot. They didn\u2019t have a good night, \u201c it was something. If I had to point at it, maybe that\u2019s the best explanation. We need to move on. It was great to see (Jim). Jim has a little scooter. He was in the building today. We\u2019re going to put him to work coaching next week and get him watching some tape for us. We need to move on and I think we\u2019ve done a good job so far doing that this week.”<\/p>\n On if today was the first day Leonhard has been in the building since his injury\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I think in the building, yes.”<\/p>\n On how Bart Scott is playing this season\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “Bart\u2019s had a better year this year than he did a year ago as far as doing his job within the structure of the defense. As with all guys, there will be hiccups here and there. When Bart makes a mistake, it\u2019s usually because it\u2019s competitiveness. He wants to do more than just his job. If you\u2019re going to have a guy make a mistake, you want it to be that way because you know the guy is competing his rear-end off and wanting to make plays for the defense. Sometimes you get caught up in statistics. It\u2019s not like baseball where you can just look at a guy and say he\u2019s having a better year and I can back it up numerically. For us, it\u2019s different. Depending on the scheme and where we\u2019re putting guys and what the offense is doing and identifying a guy as a good player and wanting to get a helmet on him, different guys are freed up to make plays. We don\u2019t really get as wrapped up in the numbers as maybe some other people do.”<\/p>\n On Brodney Pool\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “He\u2019s been inconsistent, but I think that\u2019s probably (a) characteristic of a safety who\u2019s in the first year of a system, where Jimmy had the advantage of already having played in it. Eric Smith (is) just super intelligent and (picked) it up very quickly. There were growing pains there as well. I think those were some of the issues with Kerry (Rhodes) last year, (he had issues) with the same thing. That\u2019s the one thing about what we do with our safeties. There\u2019s a lot of communication. There can be moving parts. Brodney\u2019s made some plays. He made the play at the end of the Miami game. He had the interception against New England the first time. He\u2019s done some good things for us in the run game. I think he\u2019ll only get better with more repetition. I certainly wouldn\u2019t say he\u2019s underachieved for us, but, and I\u2019ve used this phrase a bunch in here, it\u2019s just growing pains.”<\/p>\n On if Leonhard will have a role on game days\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “We\u2019re not sure. If he\u2019s at the point where he can\u2019t stand, I don\u2019t know how he is. The majority of the day, since it\u2019s so few days post-op, he needs to have it elevated. Once he gets going, I don\u2019t see any reason why he can\u2019t, on game day, help us somewhere. We\u2019d have to meet on that to figure out what we need and where we can best utilize him.”<\/p>\n On what adjustments they need to make to get better against offenses that spread them out on the field\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “First, if you want us to spread us and you have a quarterback like Tom Brady, you\u2019ll be a lot more effective. Most teams usually stick to what they do. They can change here and there and copy some things. We\u2019re just going to look each week and try to put yourself in the other teams shoes and say, \u2018Ok, if I\u2019m them, what do they do? Is this a copycat coordinator? Are we going to see some of the things that have hurt us?\u2019 We\u2019ll do that. We\u2019ll throw practice cards in every once in awhile that are things that hurt us the previous week (and need) corrections. I think a big part of what happened Monday night was effort, intensity (and) technique. It\u2019s hard to put a finger on it, but I think we\u2019ve defended spread teams before and done very well against them. I don\u2019t want to just look at a snapshot of one night and say throw that out there as an issue for us.”<\/p>\n On Miami moving away from the Wildcat\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “We\u2019ve talked about it. I think we\u2019ve borderline over-prepared for it this week. I think we\u2019ve done a decent job. They got after us a little bit the first game last year, but the two times since, we\u2019ve defended it pretty well. They do a good job of each week adding a new wrinkle or a new personnel grouping, so it\u2019s hard to anticipate exactly what you\u2019re going to see. I feel good about what we\u2019ve done against it in the past. I feel good about our plan for some of the newer stuff. I do expect to see it. If it\u2019s a bad weather game, add that to the quarterback potentially (lacking) confidence. He seems to struggle against everybody but us. We\u2019ll see. Like I said, we\u2019re certainly anticipating a good amount of it.”<\/p>\n On if the league has gotten better at defending the Wildcat\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “Probably statistics would back that up. When it was a new thing, I think there were some more big plays off of it. Also, defensively it\u2019s a copycat league. If somebody defends, most teams have the ability to adapt it to their system pretty closely. I think until the Wildcat gets a guy that\u2019s a true running back and a legit throwing threat, I see it as being something that defenses will catch up to. That\u2019s why I think Brad Smith is such a unique guy because he\u2019s such a good runner, but also here\u2019s a guy that\u2019s thrown for 8,000 yards in college.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Thursday New York Jets defensive coordinator Mike Pettine addressed the media.\u00a0 Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets. On coming back after Monday night\u2019s game\u2026 “The best thing for us is it was a short week. 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