On Thursday New York Jets offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer addressed the media.\u00a0 Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets.<\/p>\n
On Mark Sanchez\u2019s ability to bounce back after losses\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “You hope you don\u2019t have too many games you have to bounce back from (laughing). When they do happen, I think he has shown an ability to put things behind him. We\u2019ve all talked in here about how emotional he is. He\u2019s a very emotional guy. Tuesday he was in, obviously, watching the game. (He) was here most of the day, until late in the evening. Wednesday, he was great in meetings. I don\u2019t know what it is. I think it speaks to his competitiveness. I think it speaks to his mental toughness. You\u2019re still talking about a young player. To be able to come back from some difficult games, even going back to last year and bounce back from those things, show you number one, that he\u2019s all those things (competitive and mentally tough), plus, that he\u2019s confident. We realize that\u2019s who we have and we expect him to bounce back this week, along with the rest of the guys.”<\/p>\n On Sanchez trying to bounce back from two subpar games in a row\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I\u2019m sure last year there were two bad games in a row. I think, Cincinnati, he probably didn\u2019t play his best game, but obviously, we didn\u2019t have the turnovers. I think he\u2019s learning that you have to play this thing one game at a time. That\u2019s the way the season goes. There\u2019s going to be bumps in the road. You ask the Peyton Mannings. You ask, well maybe not Tom Brady, right now (joking). Everybody goes through it. Drew Brees goes through it, Philip Rivers goes through it, and if you don\u2019t have the mental toughness to overcome that, then I think you\u2019re probably in the wrong profession. I think that he does have that. I know he has that, for a fact. Again, I think he\u2019ll bounce back. His focus has been great. He wasn\u2019t the only reason that we didn\u2019t perform very well. He wasn\u2019t the only reason we didn\u2019t win the game. There was plenty of blame to go around, myself included.”<\/p>\n On whether Coach Ryan can impart any new knowledge on Sanchez during their lunch meeting\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I think it\u2019s really important that a head coach and a quarterback have a great relationship, and they obviously do, whether it\u2019s our Friday meetings with myself, Mark, Rex and Cav (Quarterbacks Coach Matt Cavanaugh). I know for a fact that Rex has insight into Mike Nolan (Miami defensive coordinator), completely different than I do. I can look at the film and say, \u2018Here\u2019s what I think Mike\u2019s going to do to us on third down and four to six (yards). Here\u2019s his philosophy when you\u2019re backed up.\u2019 As much as we try to mask it, we all have fingerprints. We all have philosophical things that we do, so if you have inside information on Brian Schottenheimer, Rex Ryan or Mike Nolan, I think it\u2019s a benefit. I think that\u2019ll help Mark. Rex is great. Rex\u2019s strongest suit is (his) people skills and he and Mark are great. Anything that he can give him from that vantage point, I\u2019m all for it.”<\/p>\n On if he thinks Coach Ryan can help him with preparing for Mike Nolan and his defense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “It\u2019s the same exact thing. Rex, he looks at the film, and he gives us some thoughts and ideas. There\u2019s some things, formationally that he\u2019s been around with Mike. All that stuff is priceless because, again, in certain situations, we\u2019re all going to revert back to our final core of beliefs (and) what those things are. In crunch time, whatever I might call, there\u2019s going to be something that Mike\u2019s going to call. I think having that insight is very valuable. That\u2019s one of those things, when you go back to the Cleveland game, it was good on both sides of the ball. I felt that we knew Eric a little bit, whereas, Rex knew his brother, obviously. That stuff does help.”<\/p>\n On if starting the game on offense would affect his play-calling\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I think that\u2019s nice of Rex, I really do. I think our guys will be excited about it, but bottom line, we have to execute. I think we went into that game last week, you guys saw it, where we had some openers that we had worked (on). We talked about it. Then, when we got the wind, we decided to go two-minute, no huddle, up-tempo. You guys all saw it. (It was) to try and take advantage of (the wind), make them have some communication issues. For him to show that confidence in us, I think our guys will be excited about it. At the end of the day, it\u2019s more than that. You have to go out and execute. Hopefully, if and when he does that, we\u2019re able to pay dividends on that.”<\/p>\n On if he believes Coach Ryan will actually choose to start on offense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I believe Rex. Whatever he says, I believe Rex is going to do that. He might forget sometimes and have to be reminded about it, but no, Rex is awesome.”<\/p>\n On LaDainian Tomlinson saying sometimes the offense can start flat when waiting on the sidelines\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I\u2019ll never make that excuse, not that LT (LaDainian Tomlinson) is making that excuse. It\u2019s different for a player. You\u2019re warmed up, (then) you have to sit down. You guys have probably seen Mark (Sanchez), he rides the bike all the time now trying to stay loose, so it is a little bit different. We all know that Rex is going to make decisions that he thinks give us the best chance to win. The fact that he\u2019s willing to do this or talk about doing this is awesome. I think our guys will respond to it and be excited about it. There\u2019s not a magic formula. You still have to go out and perform, and unfortunately, that\u2019s where we came up short the other night.”<\/p>\n On why Sanchez has not seemed as effective in their base, non up-tempo offense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “That\u2019s a great question. It\u2019s hard to answer, to be honest with you. I\u2019m not trying to avoid the question. It\u2019s unfair to say it\u2019s all Mark when we do poor. It\u2019s unfair to say it\u2019s all Mark when we do (well). There\u2019s (been) some unbelievable catches, some plays on the two-minute drives that people have made for him. I think it\u2019s just really us. We\u2019ve always prided ourselves on being a team that can go the long, hard way. We run the ball well. We sustain. We\u2019re supposed to throw completions. When we get off that formula, (that) is when we get in trouble. We go back to the Cleveland game. I think we had a 19-play drive. We come up short in the red zone and we miss a field goal. I think we just have to go back and the focus is (to) play one play at a time. That\u2019s all you can do. To sit there and say that there\u2019s not (going to) be bad things that happen in a football game is crazy. There\u2019s going to be bad things, but the great offenses, the high-powered offenses, overcome those things. Whatever kind of ball we want to play, Mark is capable of doing that, but we have to do it better.”<\/p>\n On if Sanchez has too much responsibility on his plate\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I know for a fact that he doesn\u2019t have too much on his plate. I think one thing that he does like to do, which you\u2019ve made mention (of), is that he likes to go faster. As a matter of fact, it happened today in practice. We kind of (were) not going through the motions, but we weren\u2019t as crisp as we\u2019ve been. We went really up-tempo, and we huddled, but it\u2019s kind of like more of an up-tempo (pace). He likes that. That gets him going. The quicker we can get in and out of the huddle, the quicker I can get the calls to him, the quicker we can get to the line of scrimmage, (the better off we are). One of the challenges of playing so many people is, a lot of times, you\u2019ll have people running in and out of the game You saw us try to avoid that last week. Obviously, the game didn\u2019t lend itself to where we could substitute a whole lot, but there\u2019s no question that he likes to play at a fast tempo. Again, that\u2019s everybody\u2019s responsibility. One of the things we were talking about this week was cleaner substitutions in and out of the huddle to where, \u2018Hey, if we\u2019re going from one personnel grouping to the other, make sure everybody\u2019s eyes are on the sidelines so it\u2019s clean and so we\u2019re not getting him up to the line of scrimmage where he has 15 seconds on the play clock and he has to go through a shift, a motion or a check.\u2019 That\u2019s hard for any quarterback.”<\/p>\n On whether he thought the wind affected Sanchez\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I don\u2019t. I know the one ball, the interception (on the pass intended for) Braylon (Edwards), he just felt like he missed it. He ended up taking too many steps. He took two steps too many to try to get up and down. To say that the weather didn\u2019t affect the things we were doing would be wrong because, like I said, we probably wouldn\u2019t have started the game in no-huddle if we were going the other way. No, I don\u2019t think (it affected him). He threw the ball well. There were some things, a couple of balls that looked behind guys, where it was miscommunication. They weren\u2019t on the same page. Those are the things that we\u2019re trying to get cleaned up and that you have to stay on. When you work through the course of a week, you just have to keep correcting that stuff, teach it and get it fixed.”<\/p>\n On where Sanchez is in his ability to read defenses\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “It\u2019s getting a lot better. He sees things better. He comes off the field now and before even looking at the picture, he can actually tell me, \u201cHey, I saw this guy go back to the middle, which is what took me over there.\u201d Obviously, the last interception, which was probably the worst one, he never saw the guy. He kind of made up his mind (after) he saw the one safety start to go back to the middle (on) the (ball) he threw right to James Sanders on the big end. He just never saw him. It had nothing to do with reading the defense, he just kind of started to look over here, felt him going and assumed that he was going to take a different path. He has to see him. That\u2019s his job, to see him, but he\u2019s understanding coverages. He sees every coverage known to man from our defense. That\u2019s helped him, but there\u2019s always room for improvement.”<\/p>\n On whether there were two interceptions where he didn\u2019t see a defender\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “The one down on the red zone, he never saw Brandon Spikes. That\u2019s a red zone rule. When you\u2019re throwing something like that down there, because most people will play a split-safety zone defense where they\u2019re all back there, we have a rule. It\u2019s called a crossbar throw, where you try to put it up high, (towards the) crossbar obviously, because that\u2019s the level you want to throw it. (That is) why a guy like Braylon (Edwards) is a dangerous target down there. He just never saw him, so he never though he had to put that much air under it and it was intercepted. The difference with there was that one was a hard-run action. If you see him, he kind of took his eyes off of it to make a fake, whereas the other one, he needs to see because it was a drop back pass and his eyes are downfield the whole time.”<\/p>\n On if he thought Edwards was well-covered on that play even without Spikes intercepting it\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “We were in cut splits. If he\u2019s going to make the throw, he has to make a crossbar throw. That way, you make sure nothing happens. I think if you go back and look at it, on second-and-eight or nine, LT (Tomlinson) probably would\u2019ve been a nice outlet underneath for him.”<\/p>\n On if that play was similar to the touchdown pass to Dustin Keller at Miami in Week Three\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “It was very similar, not the exact play, but very similar. It was the exact play that he hit (on) the opening play against Minnesota. The first play of the game, he hit Braylon (Edwards) for about 35 yards or something. (That) was the exact same play.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Thursday New York Jets offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer addressed the media.\u00a0 Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets. On Mark Sanchez\u2019s ability to bounce back after losses\u2026 “You hope you don\u2019t have too many games you have to bounce back from (laughing). 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