On Friday New York Jets defensive coordinator Mike Pettine addressed the media.\u00a0 Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets.<\/p>\n
On what he anticipated from the Patriots on their last drive last week and what they did differently\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n In having studied them in the past, it wasn\u2019t one where we felt we were going to get a steady diet of run. It was to their credit, they hit some runs. They got them out to midfield and they got a chance to get some heavier people on the field and make it hard to substitute. It was just kind of a pick your poison thing. We were in a couple of calls and (had) just slight errors, it was an indication of the way that day was going. A lot of the times you\u2019ll have 10 guys doing the right thing and one guy not. It seemed that they found that one guy, the play found that one guy every time. Whereas you have other games, you get a guy that\u2019s not on point and you end up getting a sack, an interception, a tackle for loss. It was a combination of things. To do it over again, in hindsight, you\u2019d probably want to heavy it up a little bit more and dare him to throw it. Daring Tom Brady to throw probably isn\u2019t the best way to try to get off the field, so that was that last drive.<\/p>\n On Rex Ryan planning on getting back to \u201calignment, assignment and technique\u201d\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n It\u2019s just basics. Do your job and good things will happen. Part of the ability to do your job, is to know your job. So, \u201cOkay, what\u2019s my alignment? What\u2019s my assignment?\u201d And then, \u201cWhat technique am I playing?\u201d It was something that we had a lot of guys who have been playing well. I was upset after the game after we watched the tape and addressed the players the day after. We probably wasted Mike DeVito\u2019s best performance of his career. (He) did an outstanding job, and that kind of got lost in the mix. So, we need to be more consistent. Some guys are playing at a high level and (we have) other guys that are hit and miss. I think if we can raise our level of consistency, I think we\u2019ll get back to where we need to be.<\/p>\n On what stood out about DeVito\u2019s performance\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Just every play was plus after plus. It\u2019s not like he was going against that was kind of an unknown guy. He was up against (Logan) Mankins and just did an outstanding job against him.<\/p>\n On Jamaal Westerman\u2019s performance against New England\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n He\u2019s improving. As we talked about with Jamaal, we just felt that if he got some more game experience, that he would show what he could do. He\u2019s another one that needs to work on consistency a little bit more, but he did grade out fairly well. He did have one mistake on the pressure where Kyle Wilson got called for the penalty, that he was a little slow to react. He was the guy who was unblocked and was slow to react to it, where he should have been full speed. That ball never should\u2019ve gotten off, it should\u2019ve been another sack. But we\u2019re pleased with Jamaal. He\u2019s come a long way for us and it\u2019s credit to him, that he\u2019s very coachable, one of the hardest working guys down in the weight room and it\u2019s showing on the field.<\/p>\n On whether Westerman needs to improve in run defense\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Some of it with him is physics. He\u2019s a smaller outside backer. You go from a Bryan Thomas, who\u2019s 265, 270 pounds, where you\u2019re looking at Westerman, where he\u2019s given up a little bit from a weight standpoint. So, his technique is what he needs to rely on out there. There\u2019s some things with that that he needs to clean up. He\u2019ll only get better with the game experience.<\/p>\n On Donald Strickland\u2019s status this week and whether Marquice Cole would play in his place\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Correct, yeah, and we have four multiple packages, and Strick\u2019s (Donald Strickland) been limited. So, again, it\u2019ll come down to, I\u2019m not sure, whether he\u2019ll definitely go or not, but we\u2019ll be ready to go either way.<\/p>\n On whether Kenrick Ellis will make his debut this week\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I think it\u2019s looking that way. This is a team that we feel is going to try to establish the run. It\u2019s a pretty good offensive line we\u2019re going against. Again, not sure of Ropati\u2019s (Pitoitua) availability, so I could see this being the week. He\u2019s certainly getting the reps in practice. That decision hasn\u2019t been made, but he\u2019ll be ready to go if he gets the call.<\/p>\n On what they saw from Jason Taylor last season\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n We really haven\u2019t had a chance to watch him (this season). He was great for us to have and we\u2019ve talked about this before, where sure he was productive and he found ways, that was what JT (Taylor) did. He made big plays at big times for us. You look at the first New England game here, where he caused the sack, (with the forced fumble) at the end of the game. The Pittsburgh game with the safety. He just made some big plays for us. Just kind of the hidden effect, he was really good for our room, especially with our young outside (line)backers and our young pass rushers, just (in terms) of being a professional, how to prepare for an opponent and how to prepare for a particular offensive line. Understanding protections, just a lot of the little nuance stuff of rushing the passer he did a real good job of it.<\/p>\n On correcting the penalties\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n Again, as we\u2019ve talked about before, we submit and we get them back (the penalties that were called). So some of the ones, we don\u2019t coach them any different based on the report we get back from the league. The other ones, it\u2019s practice habits, where we have the officials at practice and we tell them to be super hard on us. And if they see a penalty, they\u2019ll throw it. A lot of it, it\u2019s practice habits, you can\u2019t really just point to one thing from a technique standpoint, but it\u2019s certainly something that we\u2019ve talked about.<\/p>\n On the penalty called on Donald Strickland when he was defending Aaron Hernandez last week\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n No comment. We send (all the penalties) in. At the end of the day, the balls in the air, and I think what the league prefers is the defender going for the football. I think if you are not going for the football, you\u2019re putting yourself at high risk of getting a penalty.<\/p>\n On the long pass to Wes Welker\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n It was a good call by them. They set it up, it was a run-action fake, a run they had run earlier in the game. We were a step or two slow on the back end.<\/p>\n On Matt Moore\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n He\u2019s a guy who has some game experience, obviously started some games at Carolina. He\u2019s big, he\u2019s very athletic. The thing that worries us is his ability to run with the ball. It\u2019s obvious that it\u2019s being coached down there. Chad Henne really made some big plays for the Dolphins this year scrambling, averaging eight yards a carry. He\u2019s a guy, that depending on your coverage, you have to account for the quarterback. He\u2019s very mobile. It has helped us to have Kevin O\u2019Connell here, who was down there camp who gave us some insight on Matt Moore and some of the things that they are doing down there, so that was helpful. He\u2019s a confident kid, he can make all the throws and he\u2019s certainly not anyone that we are going fall asleep on.<\/p>\n On whether or not film can be too old to tell you about a player\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n We didn\u2019t really go back and look at (Moore\u2019s) Carolina stuff. We had enough between this year\u2019s preseason and he got some quality reps in the San Diego game.<\/p>\n On if he is hopeful that Brandon Marshall will follow through on his comments to get ejected\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n I shook my head when I saw that one. As long as it is not a one-for-one trade, he can go right ahead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Friday New York Jets defensive coordinator Mike Pettine addressed the media.\u00a0 Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets. 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