On Friday New York Jets linebacker Calvin Pace addressed the media.\u00a0 Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets.<\/p>\n
On how he feels\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I had surgery on my foot as everybody knows. The doctor said last year there was no way I could hurt it even worse. As the season went along, the pain went away gradually. Mentally, I started trusting it (his foot) again, so that\u2019s why I feel a lot better.<\/p>\n On whether he is 100 percent\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Yes, 100 percent.<\/p>\n On how him being healthy will affect the pass rush\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Every year it\u2019s the same thing, pass rush, pass rush, pass rush, but I think people need to understand that we pressure the quarterback a different way. If you go just down the road to the Giants, they pressure with four. They bring blitzes every now and then. We spread the wealth around. Would I love to have 15 sacks? Yes, but they ask me to do more things than just line up and rush. That\u2019s how we do it. I might have eight. Drew Coleman had six last year. James Ihedigbo had three or four. That\u2019s just how we do things. I think a lot of it is predicated on us being able to get there, but ultimately, whatever rush comes, we need to run it and get there. A lot of times I\u2019m sacrificing, fighting and taking on two people so someone can come free and just make the play. This is going to be a better year, I think. It\u2019s going to be better, but 47 sacks last year wasn\u2019t bad. We just were seven out of the lead, if I\u2019m not mistaken. I think we\u2019re going to be better to answer the question.<\/p>\n On when his foot stopped bothering him last year\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I would say by Week Nine or 10, I started feeling good. The only thing I never really factored in is that we play on field turf. It\u2019s not the softest surface in the world. It\u2019s a good surface, but if you\u2019re coming off an injury that\u2019s a broken foot, it\u2019s not probably the ideal place you want to start off. As the season went on, like I said, I started getting more and more comfortable on it. It helped me to come in, rehabbing every day, getting stronger and as the season went along, I started feeling better.<\/p>\n On whether he is surprised that teams have not begun copying their defense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n In the end, I think people just think it\u2019s a gimmick. It\u2019s like (they think), \u201cWell, if we block him up, we can stop him from getting there.\u201d Well, we always seem to get there. People think we\u2019re blitzing, and a lot of times, we\u2019re not blitzing. It\u2019s just a lot of it is moving around, giving different guys different looks. Especially with Tom Brady in our league, you have to give these guys different stuff because if you just want to drop back and play cover-two or cover-four, he\u2019ll pick that apart all day. I think the beauty of what we do is we have a lot of different guys who can do different things. If you look at the last two years, a lot of guys other than (Darrelle) Revis and (Antonio) Cromartie have come in and done great things (when blitzing). Drew Coleman, Dwight (Lowery), all of these guys have stepped in, one, because they bought in and two, because of the defensive philosophy, you\u2019re put in the right place to make plays.<\/p>\n On how excited he is to be healthy and ready for a full season\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n That\u2019s the goal, to be able to go out and play 16 regular season (games) and then make a deep playoff run. The last two years weren\u2019t scripted or how I would\u2019ve planned for it. But again, the beauty of what we do is if somebody goes down, we have the luxury of having guys that have played quite a bit and can step in and do a good job. My goal is to stay healthy (and) not get suspended again (joking). I intend to do that, for sure.<\/p>\n On Muhammad Wilkerson and Kenrick Ellis\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I like both of them. You never really know what to expect with rookies because it\u2019s a whole different league. Everything that you learned in college, you can scrap that. It\u2019s kind of like you\u2019re starting over with a clean slate, but the one thing that they do have is a big motor. I think they are going to add a lot to our team. For the veteran guys, it\u2019s our job to kind of bring them along and tell them how we play, how we do things and they\u2019re buying in. That\u2019s the start right there. I think this work that they\u2019re getting out here is good. Obviously, they didn\u2019t have a chance to get their OTAs and their rookie camps, but they\u2019re going to be good players.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Friday New York Jets linebacker Calvin Pace addressed the media.\u00a0 Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets. On how he feels\u2026 I had surgery on my foot as everybody knows. The doctor said last year there was no way I could hurt it even worse. As the season went along, the pain went […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[488],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-8747","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-jets-press-conference"},"acf":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peLffi-2h5","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8747"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8750,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8747\/revisions\/8750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}