On Wednesday New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan addressed the media and answered several questions about Sunday’s match-up against the Jacksonville Jaguars.\u00a0 Here are some of the notable quotes from the press conference:<\/p>\n
On whether he worries about an emotional letdown after so much energy was invested in the Dallas game\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “In my strange math, this one counts as a game-and-a-quarter because it\u2019s an AFC team. Your divisional games count as a game-and-a-half. For whatever reason, it always seems like when the tiebreakers come out, that math usually works. Now, of course, I should have known better because you guys are going to go back and say, \u201cWell, it never really worked these five years,\u201d so I appreciate that (laughter). I always think it did. This one is huge and this one is easy (to motivate the players) because all you have to do is pop on the tape from two years ago when we played Jacksonville. We pride ourselves on being a physical football team and all that. They handed it to us. They imposed their will on us. They ran the ball better than we did. They were more physical than we were. They came up with three turnovers, so this one won\u2019t be hard to get our team up for. We know what happened the last time we played them. They beat us at our place, so we\u2019ll let the video do most of the talking.”<\/em><\/p>\n On if he thinks it\u2019s possible that the team could come out flat for Jacksonville\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “The last game was a very emotional game. There is no question about that, but when you look at it, this one is a huge game for us. I love the fact that we\u2019re playing at home to feed off the energy of our crowd as well. I think that\u2019s going to be huge for us. Like I said, when you see the tape and you get beat physically, the competitor in all of us would probably say, \u2018Alright, let\u2019s get back out there and let\u2019s see what happens this time.\u2019 Maurice Jones-Drew is a great back, so we better be ready to go or we\u2019ll get embarrassed again.”<\/em><\/p>\n My thoughts:<\/strong> Rex is saying all of the right things but there has to be concerns with an emotional letdown for the Jets.\u00a0 Last week’s atmosphere was very unique and the team will more than likely not come out with the same energy as a home opener in front of a national audience.\u00a0 The key is for Rex and his staff to find a way to give the team an early spark on both offense and defense.<\/p>\n More from Rex Ryan:<\/p>\n On how Jacksonville will pressure the quarterback\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “Each game gives you different problems that you\u2019ve got to look out. This team, their defensive tackles are big, strong guys. They don\u2019t have to do a whole lot of pressure things. They\u2019re very solid up front. They\u2019ve got a veteran core of linebackers, and they\u2019re doing a good job. Each week\u2019s different. I know Dallas relied on a lot of pressure. That\u2019s really not Jack (Del Rio)\u2019s style as much. He\u2019ll pressure you, but he doesn\u2019t pressure the run as much as Dallas did. Sometimes if you do pressure, I think Jacksonville maybe gave up 8.5 yards a pass last year, which was one of the worst in the league. It\u2019s a little give and take there. The thing Jacksonville did was bring in six veteran defensive players, so they\u2019re kind of a different look right now.”<\/em><\/p>\n Sanchez talks Jags, letdown-<\/strong> On Wednesday New York Jets quarterback Mark Sanchez addressed the media and talked about the Jets upcoming game against the Jaguars.\u00a0 Here are some highlights from his interview:<\/p>\n On if the Jaguars run more base defense than the Cowboys\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “It\u2019ll be different, maybe not as exotic as a Ryan defense but still a tough, in your face (defense). Their front four, we faced Roth last year, and then they went out and got a bunch of defensive players, stud defensive players in the secondary and the linebacking corps. So, (Paul) Posluszny and (Clint) Session from Indianapolis that we played before. (Dawan) Landry from Baltimore and then obviously Dwight Lowery and Drew Coleman, guys we have a lot of respect for. We\u2019re going to have our hands full. Whatever they run, it\u2019ll be a good, tough defense for us.”<\/em><\/p>\n On if he thinks there will be a letdown after the Dallas game\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I disagree, I think each week has its own storyline. This one being an AFC opponent, we\u2019re putting a real big emphasis on playing at home and protecting our home stadium. And we can\u2019t lose at home. We can\u2019t. We want to get a home playoff game, and there\u2019s no point in getting a home playoff game if you keep dropping games at home. It just doesn\u2019t work. This has to be huge for us. We say it every week, must win, but this is a big one. And we know they\u2019re tough. This is a disciplined team. They\u2019re not going to have penalties. They\u2019re not going to turn it over. They\u2019re going to control the game by running the ball. So if you don\u2019t sustain drives and convert on third down, you might not get the ball for another quarter. So we can\u2019t have that, we have to be sharp.”<\/em><\/p>\n On whether the lack of touchdowns in the first quarter is pyschological\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I don\u2019t know if it\u2019s psychological. Nobody thinks we\u2019re going to come out and go three-and-out. <\/em>I hope they don\u2019t. That\u2019s not the kind of team we have. We\u2019ve been a slow-starting team, for 16 games, like you said. Something\u2019s got to change, maybe it\u2019s just our attitude. I think the play calling is fine. We just need to convert on third down, whether it\u2019s me throwing a more accurate ball or not getting sacked on the first play, that kind of stuff. You take a sack, I think the stat is like, 12% of the time you\u2019ll end up scoring a touchdown on that drive, so a sack is a drive killer. We can\u2019t have negative plays on first down. We need to be much better on first down, to convert at least.”<\/em><\/p>\n Plaxico discusses working with Sanchez-<\/strong> On Wednesday New York Jets wide receiver Plaxico Burress discussed the progress that he is making with quarterback Mark Sanchez.<\/p>\n On Sanchez speaking to him and saying, \u201ctrust me\u201d\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I was just staying patient. I\u2019ve been in games like that a few times in my career. You just keep working. It\u2019ll come and as you can see, it did. We\u2019ll just keep fighting, keep working for the quarterback and pretty soon he\u2019ll find us. You just have to be patient, you can\u2019t rush it. Dallas was doing some great things schematically and disguised some of the blitz packages that they were running. So it took us a little time to get adjusted to it, but we did and we made some plays into the blitz with Santonio (Holmes) and (Dustin Keller) making plays into the blitz. You have to be patient and know the coverages.”<\/em><\/p>\n On what he said to Sanchez during the game after Sanchez told him he would get him the ball\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n “I just said, \u201cHey, just relax. Everything is going to be ok.\u201d He was probably a little shocked at me saying that, but I was out there so I saw some of the blitzes and different things they were doing. (It was) the first game of the season, (so there were) new packages, things we weren\u2019t used to or thought that Dallas was going to do. So we made the proper adjustments and when it came time to get guys involved we did and we made plays when we had to.”<\/em><\/p>\n My thoughts:<\/strong> <\/em>The Jets offense as a whole is going to experience growing pains as it is very difficult to incorporate 2 new receivers with limited practice and no OTAs.\u00a0 I think both Plaxico Burress and Derrick Mason understand this and will not be a distraction any time soon.<\/p>\n Jets make 3 roster moves: <\/strong>On Wednesday the Jets announced that they have signed wide receiver Patrick Turner to the active roster, and signed tight end Josh Baker and safety Andrew Sendejo to the practice squad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Wednesday New York Jets head coach Rex Ryan addressed the media and answered several questions about Sunday’s match-up against the Jacksonville Jaguars.\u00a0 Here are some of the notable quotes from the press conference: On whether he worries about an emotional letdown after so much energy was invested in the Dallas game\u2026 “In my strange […]<\/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":[213],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-9197","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-2ol","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197","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=9197"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9202,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9197\/revisions\/9202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9197"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9197"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miletestsite.com\/jets\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9197"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}