Mike Pettine (Defensive Coordinator) Press Conference

[Maxman]

http://www.jetnation.com/?p=2031

[green_blood]

The thing I like about Pettine is that he has coached at every level (high school, college and pro) and what I like about him is that he seems to be a players' coach. That was the one good thing about Herm and why the Jets had more success than Mangini in my opinion because every apple from the Grumbles Coaching Tree seems to just truly suck.

[Jet Moses]

On his biggest challenge in making the transition from position coach to defensive coordinator…

For the last three years, Rex and I have implemented the defense. I don’t feel that this is a huge job for me in actual work responsibility. He and I, every Tuesday, locked ourselves in his office and worked on a game plan. When it came to game time, it was a collaboration. He primarily called the game. A lot of our calls had already been determined based on down-and-distance situations, when a team comes out in a certain personnel group and they’re on a certain hash mark on a certain area on the field. Our calls were already set.

The game plan really runs itself and that’s something that he and I both set up together. That’s really not unfamiliar territory for me. Rex and I have stood up in front of the defense and presented to the team. That’s not unfamiliar for me as well. For the challenge, I’ve been looking forward to it for a long time. Rex has prepared me very well for it, I think anticipating that this might happen some day.

On LB Vernon Gholston…

I thought that he was a tremendous athlete if you just look at what he did at the combine. But being in shorts is one thing, how it carries out on the field is another. We liked him. Some of the issues were a lack of consistency in some of his play. He would flash brilliance for two or three snaps and then, for a while in the game, he would disappear. That’s one thing that we had in our notes. If he became a Raven, he was going to have to work on being more consistent.