Comments on: Only When We Win – Part VI http://www.thejetsblog.com/2008/11/12/only-when-we-win-part-vi/ Ranting and Raving about the Gang Green Sun, 12 Feb 2012 06:28:16 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Surgebuster http://www.thejetsblog.com/2008/11/12/only-when-we-win-part-vi/#comment-109074 Surgebuster Wed, 12 Nov 2008 23:28:33 +0000 http://www.thejetsblog.com/?p=7475#comment-109074 DSmizzle, you are absolutely correct. Unfortunately, when you consider that 'a week is a long time in Football', two years of painful transition to a functioning 3-4 seemed like an eternity. :-) If Free Safety is addressed in the draft or free agency, we could be a top 5 defense against the pass and run next year...who knew? DSmizzle, you are absolutely correct. Unfortunately, when you consider that ‘a week is a long time in Football’, two years of painful transition to a functioning 3-4 seemed like an eternity. :-)

If Free Safety is addressed in the draft or free agency, we could be a top 5 defense against the pass and run next year…who knew?

]]> By: DSmizzle http://www.thejetsblog.com/2008/11/12/only-when-we-win-part-vi/#comment-108987 DSmizzle Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:06:22 +0000 http://www.thejetsblog.com/?p=7475#comment-108987 Gadies and Lentlemen: This is why you don’t abandon your schemes when you take over a new team as coach … you need those who will eventually fit and thrive in the system to stick around (Rhodes, Harris, Revis, even a Barton or Ellis), and you need to slowly replace those who don’t fit the system (like, unfortunately, Vilma & Co.). Those who were held over from the transition period now are fully versed in the defense, and they’ve added some of the remaining chips needed to make the system work. If Mangini played the 4-3 for the past 2 seasons while he waited for his Jenkins and Pace to arrive, they’d all be learning it right now, no? Gadies and Lentlemen:

This is why you don’t abandon your schemes when you take over a new team as coach … you need those who will eventually fit and thrive in the system to stick around (Rhodes, Harris, Revis, even a Barton or Ellis), and you need to slowly replace those who don’t fit the system (like, unfortunately, Vilma & Co.).

Those who were held over from the transition period now are fully versed in the defense, and they’ve added some of the remaining chips needed to make the system work.

If Mangini played the 4-3 for the past 2 seasons while he waited for his Jenkins and Pace to arrive, they’d all be learning it right now, no?

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