On Thursday New York Jets offensive coordinator Brian Schottenheimer addressed the media.\u00a0 Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets.<\/p>\n
On LaDainian Tomlinson saying Schottenheimer\u2019s father had the best gameplan for the Raiders\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n He did, it was one of our years in San Diego. The openers were all listed as 50-Power, 50-Power, 50-Power. I can\u2019t remember the direction, it\u2019s pretty amazing that he (LaDainian Tomlinson) does. But he had an awfully good record against them and enjoyed playing against the Raiders.<\/p>\n On Buffalo\u2019s approach last week against the Raiders and what he learned from it\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n That\u2019s a good question. Obviously, what we try to do is take something from all the games. Denver, obviously, lost to them, but they did some good things. (The Bills) basically tried to spread them out a little bit and made their linebackers walk out in space and threw the ball quick- got it out of their hands. It was just a shootout. But, (they) hit some big runs, got some big runs that got through and put up quite a few points. So you look at that, you look at some of the things from the preseason, but we study them all very closely.<\/p>\n On where he thinks the offense is right now\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I think we\u2019re a little bit inconsistent. We\u2019re doing a lot of good things. There are some things we need to clean up. Some of the penalties are things (that) are just hard to overcome. Moving forward, the big goal this week is to be more consistent. I think if we do that, then we\u2019re ready to kind of take off. And again, there\u2019s a lot of really good things that happen, then we do something that doesn\u2019t make a lot of sense, then we do a lot of good things, and then we\u2019ll have another setback, but consistency has been the goal for us this week, as we\u2019ve talked about.<\/p>\n On how he feels about Colin Baxter\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I felt really good watching how he played last week. To get thrown into that situation, I thought he did a really good job. We won\u2019t make a ton of adjustments. The beautiful thing for us is that he\u2019s surrounded by a ton of veteran guys, all the way across the board. And you guys all know how I feel about coach (Bill) Callahan. But he\u2019s had a good week of practice, it\u2019s been good to see him working with that group and it\u2019s business as usual.<\/p>\n On how much the offense will have to adjust with Mangold out of the lineup\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n That\u2019s where we\u2019re going to lean on some of the guys around him. Lean on Brandon (Moore), lean on Matt Slauson, some of the guys that have been in there and seen it. There won\u2019t be a ton of adjusting. Again, we were pleased with how well he played and we go in with a gameplan. We\u2019ll always be ready to adjust. Obviously, (it\u2019s) a very formidable group inside with (Richard) Seymour and (Tommy) Kelly. So we\u2019ll have our hands full against that whole group. It\u2019s a whole group that is playing hard and we\u2019ve always had good battles with them.<\/p>\n On the Raiders primarily being a 4-3 defense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n They\u2019ll play some over though. It\u2019s not a head-up nose (tackle) but it\u2019s a shaded nose that they play, so I\u2019m sure that they\u2019ll look at some things and move guys around and things like that.<\/p>\n On if anticipates the Raiders will try to test Baxter…<\/strong><\/p>\n I don\u2019t know, they\u2019re a multiple front team anyway. They do a lot of different things. It being their (home) opener, I\u2019m sure they\u2019ll be flying around and ready to go. Obviously they\u2019re a very, very big front four, front seven really when you add in the linebackers. They\u2019re extremely big.<\/p>\n On if it is difficult to get Plaxico Burress integrated into the offense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I wouldn\u2019t say there\u2019s anything difficult about it. I think he has a good sense of the system, he has a good sense of what we\u2019re trying to do. I think obviously, Week One, he had some huge plays, a big touchdown pass. Last week it was one of the weeks where they kind of surprised us and played all this soft Cover 2 and just kind of doubled him. I don\u2019t know whether that was because they had a couple corners down or what, but I don\u2019t think it has been an adjustment. We go in with plays for everybody like I said, and when a guy like Plaxico comes out with no catches that means somebody like Dustin Keller has had a big day. And all we care about is trying to win the game.<\/p>\n On Rex Ryan trying to get the ball to Burress down at the goal line in the fourth quarter\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Obviously, we were in the red zone, and so I think one of the things, he\u2019s obviously a red zone target for us. But it was one of those situations where we were still working on some things. Obviously you never want to see Mark (Sanchez) take shots, take hits, but in that situation we had a couple plays we felt really, really good about. They looked great all week in practice and so we took a shot at it.<\/p>\n On Oakland playing a lot of man-to-man defense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Deep safety in the middle of the field. We went into the plan last week, Jacksonville played a lot of post safety man-to-man and they kind of surprised us with all the Tampa that they played. But again, the Raiders are the Raiders. They do what they do and they do it well. A lot of in your face man-to-man with a deep safety and a hole player inside. But you always have to be ready to adjust. I like the plan, I think the plan looks good. We have guys obviously we feel good about when they\u2019re singled, when they\u2019re isolated, and in that second half against Buffalo, they actually played quite a bit of split safety, which I was surprised about. So they obviously have that in their package, they used it some.<\/p>\n On practice against the defense helps his players win the one-on-one battles\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Absolutely it does. Some of those one-on-one battles are some of the premier players in the league on both sides and we get great work against those guys.<\/p>\n On how Burress is adjusting to a different role\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n We try to get everybody involved. I think when he comes off, it\u2019s generally just because we\u2019re using three tight ends and things like that. We have tags certainly where he\u2019s in some of those things. Maybe he\u2019s coming off more than he\u2019s used to, but he\u2019s a huge part of what we\u2019re doing. There\u2019s tags for him all over the place. He\u2019s obviously a starter and the role, we don\u2019t see it as any different, it\u2019s just how we play around here.<\/p>\n On if Burress\u2019 number of plays were scaled back against Jacksonville\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n No, I think we got up big. Late in the game obviously we were kind of doing some different things, rolling some guys through, stuff like that. But absolutely not. We want all those good players out there on the field, but at the same time we want to be difficult to defend by throwing multiple personnel groupings at people.<\/p>\n On Dustin Keller\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Obviously, we talked about this I think during training camp. He\u2019s just such an athletic guy. He\u2019s such a problem for linebackers and safeties. He has such great ball skills. I think the touchdown pass that he caught in the Jacksonville game, he literally took the ball away from, I think it was (Paul) Posluszny, that was underneath it. And then of course to have the ability to score. But, again, he\u2019s playing fast, he knows the system. He and (Mark Sanchez) have, obviously a great chemistry and he\u2019s just one big play after another. Again, when teams want to play us certain ways like Jacksonville obviously wanted to play us and they were going to open the middle of the field, whether it\u2019s the play coming out where he got behind the linebackers on a little play action, that\u2019s what they have to do. We hope that they pick their poison and we adjust based on their gameplan.<\/p>\n On trying to get Derrick Mason more involved in the offense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n You guys know I\u2019ve said this a lot. We have packages for everybody. We\u2019re not going to go into the game and say we have to get this guy five catches, we have to do that. We\u2019re not going to do that. That\u2019s not fair to the team. That\u2019s not fair to Mark. We don\u2019t do that. We design good plays. We moves guys around so they\u2019re in different spots. The best thing that we say is, \u201cKeep working, keep going.\u201d The game\u2019s got a flow to it. Some games, you\u2019re going to have four, five, six, seven catches. Other games you might have one, you might come out with none. We only threw it 24 times last game. Whereas the week before, it was 44 or 45. That obviously affects a lot of things. They\u2019re all good players. I wish there was more than one ball, but we\u2019ll try to spread it around as best we can.<\/p>\n On keeping everybody happy in the offense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n They\u2019re competitors. They want to help. It\u2019s part of a business. Coach (Henry) Ellard does a great job with it. I\u2019ve never one time taken offense to a guy coming and saying, \u201cHey, I want the ball, I can help.\u201d I don\u2019t take it personal. I listen. I take it in. Sometimes I agree with it and I say, \u201cYou know what, I need to get you a ball, you can help us go win this game.\u201d There\u2019s other times, I just kind of take it, and put it in the back of my mind, and say, \u201cYeah, if I can get around to it, I will.\u201d The biggest thing is these guys are all competitors. They\u2019re all great players. We want to get them all balls, but the main thing we want to do is win the game.<\/p>\n On what he saw on Sanchez\u2019s two interceptions last game\u2026<\/p>\n Obviously, the (second) one, we had the situation where it was third down and long and (Rashean Mathis) came off the route, and the guy squeezed it, (Sanchez) never saw it, to his left. In that situation, he probably could have just dropped it off to LT (LaDainian Tomlinson). And the second one, refresh my memory?… You can tell how quickly I put it out of my mind.<\/p>\n On what he has seen from Wayne Hunter\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I think, obviously, the thing with Wayne, the two penalites. One was kind of a glancing blow on the facemask, so that was an effort penalty. There\u2019s definitely some things where Wayne would like to have a set back or something, where he just kind of got out of sorts a little bit. We have complete confidence in Wayne. We talked about this last week. He went up against DeMarcus (Ware). We\u2019ve seen this guy go up against some of the best pass rushers in the league. We have no doubt that he\u2019s going do that. He\u2019d like to have a few plays back from the year. I\u2019d like to have a few calls back from the year. I\u2019d like to remember what the interception was to Middleton. I can\u2019t remember that. We have complete confidence in him. He\u2019s going to work through it and just keep working. He\u2019s a great player.<\/p>\n On whether he is pressing because he is a starter now\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Towards the latter part of last year, he was the guy. In the playoffs, he was the guy. In those last couple of games, he was the guy. It\u2019s a long season. It\u2019s a marathon. He played okay last week. Obviously, you get the quarterback hit, you get the penalties, that\u2019s going to draw attention, but we have a lot of confidence in him, how he\u2019s working, and how Bill (Callahan) is doing the plan.<\/p>\n On whether Antonio Cromartie has approached him about playing more on offense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I\u2019ll tell you what, don\u2019t be expecting that guy to be in the backfield on the around that we ran. Actually, we had a chance of blocking it. No, I guess when you lose a yard or you make zero you don\u2019t come to us. We want to use a lot of people. We always have that package up, but when I called and I saw that corner start to creep, I was like, \u201cHe\u2019s not going to come, is he?\u201d And sure enough, there he came. How about how amazing of an athlete Cro (Antonio Cromartie) is? (For) a lot of guys, that\u2019s like a 10-yard loss. He makes the guy miss, he outruns him, he gets back to the line of scrimmage. That just speaks to the type of athlete he is, and obviously, guys like that can help us.<\/p>\n On the NFL Films clip of Ryan saying Ground and Pound and how much he hears that each week\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n A lot. Generally it\u2019s early in the week, then it dies down a little bit, and then of course he always wants the Wildcat package. He loves that, so I hear that a lot. But a lot of it is in fun. It\u2019s always good when you can look back on a game like that and say you were having some fun in the fourth quarter of a game like that. But it\u2019s all in good fun, and when he says it and I know he means it, then that\u2019s easy. I can really, truly tell when he truly means, \u2018I want to run the football.\u2019<\/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 LaDainian Tomlinson saying Schottenheimer\u2019s father had the best gameplan for the Raiders\u2026 He did, it was one of our years in San Diego. The openers were all listed as 50-Power, 50-Power, 50-Power. 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