JetNation Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 On Thursday New York Jets offensive coordinator Brian Schotttenheimer addressed the media. Here is the transcript courtesy of the Jets. On whether you can still see Rex Ryan’s influence in the Ravens defense… Yeah, I think so. A lot of the schemes are the same. They have excellent players. They are very well-coached. Definitely, there’s things that we see, that we’re like, “Okay, that’s this.” We obviously know what our guys call it now, because of going against it for a couple of years. You’re like, “Okay, yeah, I see that. Oh yeah, that would be Bart (Scott). Or that would be this, that would be that.” Absolutely. They’re like our defense. They disguise things well. They move around fast. They play at an excellent tempo. On whether playing against a similar defense in practice will help… I mean, it does, because we’ve seen a lot of these things. You’ve gone against a lot of them. I think that works on both sides. Obviously, our system is very similar to what Cam (Cameron) runs in Baltimore. You still have to go out and perform on Sunday night. On how much of a challenge it is for Mark Sanchez to face a defense that is versatile in that atmosphere… It is. It’s a great challenge. You look at their record at home, it’s like 20-5 or something. The crowd noise obviously helps them. They’re excellent up front. Extremely strong, great get-off. So it’s quite a challenge. As Mark (Sanchez) grows and gets more and more comfortable, he’s used to playing in big games, he’s used to playing against teams who do quite a bit of stuff. Things don’t catch him off guard as much as they used to. On Sanchez having to account for Ed Reed… We try to tell Mark, Ed is a guy who has a lot of freedom back there, a great player. (He) roams around a lot. He hasn’t played against Ed, but he’s played against guys that are similar, Troy (Polamalu) is very similar in Pittsburgh. They have a lot of freedom, they’ve been in the system a long time. Obviously, a great player, and we’ll be looking for him. On assessing Sanchez’s play through three games… I think he’s played well, with the exception of probably a dozen or so plays. With Mark, (he’s) such a perfectionist, he wants to be perfect. The interception last week is not what we expect from Mark. It’s not what he wants. We’ve continued to work through the competitiveness. I break out, there’s nobody’s open, I’ve got to say, “uncle.” We had the big punt return to get down there. That affects momentum. Other than probably, honestly, a dozen plays or so, I thought he’s played well. On whether struggles running the ball are a result of the offensive line play or Shonn Greene’s performance… I’ll be honest with you, when you look at the numbers, the numbers aren’t where they’ve been in the past. It’s not Shonn, it’s not just the offensive line. It’s a whole unit. We’re looking at a lot of different things. We’re looking at some of our core runs, and what are we really good at. We’ve talked a little bit about some Seminole stuff. That’s always been good. We have an idea of kind of what their checks would be versus Seminole. We’ve run the ball well in stretches. Last week was hard (to judge on). You come out of the game and the last nine or 10 minutes you’re in no huddle because you’re down two scores. It’s just hard to get in the flow. There’s been good stretches throughout the course of the season where we’ve hit some good runs. We just have to put more of those plays together back to back. On whether it’s difficult to establish a run game when you want to keep your playmaking receivers on the field… I wouldn’t say it’s difficult. I think it’s different. Obviously, running out of multiple receiver sets is different than always having two tight ends and two fullbacks and things like that, but it can certainly be done. You guys know how I feel about the staff, Bill (Callahan) and Anthony Lynn, those guys. We go in with great plans. Our guys work extremely hard. It just hasn’t paid the complete dividends that we expected it will in the near future. And it won’t be any easier this week. They’re excellent up front. They’re a force to be reckoned with. On whether Sanchez’s competitiveness is something he may not be able to change, much like Brett Favre… I don’t think so. I think that Brett (Favre) was awfully stubborn, and I got him really late, so I (couldn’t) change it. (joking) I really do think Mark has matured. You hate to see the one last week. He knew it. The thing was, he knew it. He knew it the minute he did it. He was like, “God, that was so dumb, I shouldn’t have done that.” It’s something that we have to continue to stay on him about. You can definitely learn that. I think being around some other quarterbacks. Drew (Brees) was that way. He got benched four or five times one year in San Diego for turning the ball over. It’s a maturity process. He doesn’t do it as much now as he’s done it before, in the past. I totally think he’ll get it, he’ll figure it out. Again, the fact that he knew it the minute he did it, makes me feel like, okay, we’re good, let’s move forward. On why Santonio Holmes was only thrown two passes last game… You guys know I always say this, “I want guys that want the ball.” We have huge plays and huge packages in for Santonio. You got to give the Raiders some credit with some of the things that they did to take him away. Once we got up on them, they started playing a lot of zone. We had hit kind of a stale spot. There were clearly some things that I wish we probably would’ve recognized as a staff quicker. Tone (Holmes) is a huge part of what we do. He’s a guy that we want to get the ball to. I feel like every week when I walk in there, there’s going to be a guy that’s disappointed, (because he) didn’t get enough balls. That doesn’t bother me. I want guys like that. On whether he has noticed Holmes’ success against the Ravens in the past… Absolutely. You can’t be a fan of the league to recognize a punt return here and a big touchdown to win the game a couple of years ago on fourth down. He’s a great player. He’s had success against a lot of teams. That doesn’t change the focus. It doesn’t change what we do. We go in with our plan. You don’t want to see Plax (Plaxico Burress) get shut out the week before. Sometimes it happens. The main thing we’re concerned about is not stats, it’s winning games. On whether he spoke with Holmes about adjustments to the offense this week… He and I talk all the time. I talk to all the players just about different things. One of the things about being around a guy for a second year is our relationship is so good that we could talk about things. I knew he was frustrated and I get that. The beautiful thing about it is we were all here last year for the three or four games that he helped us win. Believe me, it’s something that we want to do. I’ve talked in here, it’s something that I can think about, but it’s nothing that the quarterback needs to worry about. He needs to go through his reads and throw it to the open guy and not force the ball to anybody. We have good players. They’ll get open and when they get open, they’ll get the ball. On Derrick Mason and his role thus far… I’ll tell you what, I think he’s had a great week of practice. Obviously he’s extremely motivated this week going against his old team. I think there is a comfort level now with him with the system where he’s feeling really good, moving him around to different spots and stuff, but again (he’s) just another great player that I think you saw late in that game last week he stepped up and did some really good things for us, made a couple big plays late in the game in the two-minute drive and again, I know one thing, we feel very comfortable and Mark feels great and he sees (Santonio Holmes) on one side with (Plaxico Burress) and Mason is on this side, he has Keller and Shonn and (LaDainian Tomlinson). We feel pretty good about that because we know we have good players. On Burress’ blocking… Well, it’s funny because you know he’s a big guy, but I didn’t know him for being a great blocker. But it’s been every game, we do a thing where we always pull physical plays out of the gameplan. There’s always been a clip or two. I think the peel back block that he had the other day was great. He got Mike Jenkins in the opener. It’s been a very pleasant surprise. He just loves to play, he’s truly a joy to be around on gameday. He just loves to play. He loves to compete and you see that fire in him. On success running to the outside against the Ravens… Obviously (the Raiders are) extremely big inside with (Tommy) Kelly and (Richard) Seymour, but they played a lot of man-to-man and things like that and we have backs that can run on the perimeter. And so, we did a nice job a couple times of kind of getting the thing washed out from the outside-in and getting the backs out in space. That helps, but again it’s a weekly gameplan thing, but we were very pleased with our perimeter runs. On the matchup at center… Well, I think Colin (Baxter) is learning awfully fast that in this league, every week is going to be a challenge. You go from Richard Seymour and Tommy Kelly to Haloti (Ngata) and they’ll move all those guys around. The thing I’ll say, it was fun to watch Colin play. He battled his tail off, he did a terrific job in there. It was fun to watch him compete. And there was a play I know late in the game where we threw a little under route to Derrick Mason and he and Brandon Moore, and the Raiders kind of had Mason—they were holding him up, and they (Baxter and Moore) just kind of came down and just kind of blew up the pile. He plays extremely hard and if he plays it’ll be another great matchup for him. </img></img> View the full article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetsfan80 Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Dunce. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joewilly Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 good interview. said all the right things. quashed any holmes issues media tried to create. Now go out & dazzle us on sunday less the Seminole crap. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joe Jets fan Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 "Once we got up on them, they started playing a lot of zone. We had hit kind of a stale spot. There were clearly some things that I wish we probably would’ve recognized as a staff quicker." Yea, Brian, we all would like you to recognized that a little quicker. Man has to learn to adjust faster. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Barcs Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Why didn't they ask him why he ALWAYS does runs and screens in long yard situations? I really want to hear an explanation for that decision. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Why didn't they ask him why he ALWAYS does runs and screens in long yard situations? I really want to hear an explanation for that decision. Because everybody knows that it is to protect Sanchez, both figuratively to keep him from having to throw into the teeth of the D and literally so he doesn't die. Everybody wanted more screens. Now that he is running them in a down and distance where they should effective you are complaining? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted September 30, 2011 Share Posted September 30, 2011 Establishing the run in the NFL in 2011 is like having the best light horse cavlary in the world at the onset of WWII; utterly pointless. The rules beg you to throw the ball. Further this team sunks serious money into 2 primo WRs that this dunce refuses to use. Running the ball is wonderful, but not essential.You need to score 4 TDs to win most weeks. Youa ren't doing that with a bunch of 15 play 85 yard heavy running play drives. It's really nice if you can run late in the game if you have a lead. And if you big idea is to repeatedly run into the fatbodies on the interior DL when your All Pro center is out, you are a fool. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 Establishing the run in the NFL in 2011 is like having the best light horse cavlary in the world at the onset of WWII; utterly pointless. The rules beg you to throw the ball. Further this team sunks serious money into 2 primo WRs that this dunce refuses to use. Running the ball is wonderful, but not essential.You need to score 4 TDs to win most weeks. Youa ren't doing that with a bunch of 15 play 85 yard heavy running play drives. It's really nice if you can run late in the game if you have a lead. And if you big idea is to repeatedly run into the fatbodies on the interior DL when your All Pro center is out, you are a fool. C'mon Bugg. 4 Tds? Please. Six teams out of 32 scored more than 28 points last week. Four of them were in two games. I would assume the Jets are better defensively than average, so I would assume they could pull off a few wins without scoring that much. Last year two teams scored more than 28 against the Jets. Four times in 2009 once on the 2 returns by Ginn. The Jets lost, but let's not start acting like they need to become the ******* Colts. It's been three games after an abbreviated preseason/camp period. Let's not act like the team needs to be reinvented. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JetsFanFromQueens Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 C'mon Bugg. 4 Tds? Please. Six teams out of 32 scored more than 28 points last week. Four of them were in two games. I would assume the Jets are better defensively than average, so I would assume they could pull off a few wins without scoring that much. Last year two teams scored more than 28 against the Jets. Four times in 2009 once on the 2 returns by Ginn. The Jets lost, but let's not start acting like they need to become the ******* Colts. It's been three games after an abbreviated preseason/camp period. Let's not act like the team needs to be reinvented. Exactly. And if anything, we've struggled on offense this season, all because we haven't been able to rush the football as in years past. People have said the NFL is a "passing league" for years now. That never stopped Rex Ryan and the Jets from making it to consecutive AFC Championship Games due to the fact that we had a great defense and top 5 rushing attacks. The Jets, over the past two years, have proven that you can have major success with an old school, ground and pound, grind it out, smash mouth style of attack. Of course I'm excited that we're throwing the football more often this season, allowing Sanchez a chance to come into his own as a developing franchise QB... But at the same time, I hope we start the run the football alot more often, and with alot more success. But of course, our offensive line has to step it's game up, or our rushing attack of previous years won't have a chance to break through. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Larz Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 There were clearly some things that I wish we probably would’ve recognized as a staff quicker a$$hole Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
#27TheDominator Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 There were clearly some things that I wish we probably would’ve recognized as a staff quicker a$$hole I was 50-50 on that one. It seems lame that he spread the blame across the staff, but it does absolve the players and gives more weight to Holmes comments. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SenorGato Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 You still have to go out and perform on Sunday night. That SOB POS already lining up his excuses. JUST CALL THE RIGHT PLAY BROOOOOOO! It's not that f'n haaaard maaaaaaaan! I do it from my couch ery week! Early! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chotobaka Posted October 1, 2011 Share Posted October 1, 2011 He is as predictable as the offense. How long until pitchers and catchers at St. Lucie? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bugg Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 C'mon Bugg. 4 Tds? Please. Six teams out of 32 scored more than 28 points last week. Four of them were in two games. I would assume the Jets are better defensively than average, so I would assume they could pull off a few wins without scoring that much. Last year two teams scored more than 28 against the Jets. Four times in 2009 once on the 2 returns by Ginn. The Jets lost, but let's not start acting like they need to become the ******* Colts. It's been three games after an abbreviated preseason/camp period. Let's not act like the team needs to be reinvented. Every other team dealt witha short camp. We didn't sign Burress and Holmes to be blockers. We aren't getting past the Pats scoring 14 points a game. If you learned anything from the last 2 AFC title games it should be either th Jets are going to have to score more than 24 points to get anywhere. Or you're locked into the wonders of "establishing the run" like it's 1952 or some such nonsense. And for all thw wonders of the vaunted running game the past 2 years, we found ourselves slinging the ball all over the field when it mattered and in the playoffs. Grant you this-the OL play either gets way better or forget it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jetsfan80 Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 That SOB POS already lining up his excuses. JUST CALL THE RIGHT PLAY BROOOOOOO! It's not that f'n haaaard maaaaaaaan! I do it from my couch ery week! Early! Rex Ryan made a tangible difference to our defense, with mostly the same players as Mangini had. I suppose when it comes to offense, Brian Schottenheimer is absolved from all blame and that its on the players? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BroadwayJoe12 Posted October 2, 2011 Share Posted October 2, 2011 Every other team dealt witha short camp. We didn't sign Burress and Holmes to be blockers. We aren't getting past the Pats scoring 14 points a game. If you learned anything from the last 2 AFC title games it should be either th Jets are going to have to score more than 24 points to get anywhere. Or you're locked into the wonders of "establishing the run" like it's 1952 or some such nonsense. And for all thw wonders of the vaunted running game the past 2 years, we found ourselves slinging the ball all over the field when it mattered and in the playoffs. Grant you this-the OL play either gets way better or forget it. I get what you're saying, but currently we're averaging roughly 28 points a game, more than enough to win every game we play as long as our defense doesn't implode like they did in the second half last week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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