Link: Short Weeks Mean You Know What’s Coming
A short week against a divisional rival means that it’s gut-check time. With little time to tweak alignments, sub packages and the like, it comes down to execution.
“Your preparation time is almost cut in half,” right tackle Damien Woody said. “On the flip side, both teams are going through a short week, [so] there’s not much [new stuff] you can really install. It’s going to be both teams just running their stuff, so it’s almost like who’s the better team.”
“On a short week,” safety Kerry Rhodes said Tuesday, “you have to deal with the loss of a couple of days during the week that you usually take to get your body back right. That’s one of the biggest things. I think in a short week the team that is more mentally prepared and the team that can get their body to jump back quickly is the team that definitely has the advantage.”
At least it’s a division opponent, which means both teams are familiar with one another.
“We saw them already once and play them all the time,” Rhodes said. “It’s one of those teams where you see them enough that you know what they can do, and you know what they will do. During a short week you don’t have much time to add new things in anyway. It’s going to be pretty much the same game plan. The team that out-executes [the other] wins.”
Woody agreed.
“That’s another big key,” he said, “that it’s a team we’re familiar with, unlike playing a team from another conference or another division that you’re not familiar with. We know Buffalo. We know their personnel. We know their schemes. I think that’s in both teams’ [favor].
Hopefully, that won’t be too hard for the Jets. After the Jets lost to the Bills 16-13 in overtime at the hands of Mark Sanchez’s five turnovers on that day, it’s hard not to think “how much has this team grown since then?” They proved that they could stop the Bills offense last time and their defense was gashed for 318 yards on the ground. It was Mark Sanchez’s spoiling of Thomas Jones 200+ yard performance that was the clincher. The Jets should be able to roll out the same gameplan as Kerry notes, with a few wrinkles of course, but it comes down to Sanchez’s execution again, and now we’ll get a chance to very clearly see if he’s learned from past mistakes.
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Yea, the same gameplan that lost us the game on the first place. Yea, let’s go with that.
The gameplan isn’t what lost the game in the first place. With Rex the Czar of Ball Secutiry, I think that gameplan is our best shot at winning (i.e. run the ball, shut down their run, take a few deep shots – with Mark’s leash short, obviously).
running for 300 yards again would not be such a bad thing…ideally it’ll be coupled with less than 5 INTs, so that would already be an improvement.
Seriously though, We did get to see some of Fitzpatrick already, so that has to help. He also showed some quickness last wknd, so we gotta be aware of that. TO has been getting a lot more attention since their coaching change so that’ll set up another great test for Revis Island.
One thing is for sure, I’d much rather be playing this game indoors in Toronto than outside in Buffalo in December. That should only help Sanchez.
I am wondering if with T.O. and Evans in there if we will be missing Kerry Rhodes. I am not sure about Smiths coverage skills.
I hope we run all over them again. Only with a different outcome. I have some bets on this one. I am surrounded by Bills fans here in northern NY.
The bills have decent db’s as Sanchez found out last time. SO ITS CODE RED SANCHEZ.
Starz makes an awesome point – the dome has to help sanchez.
If we use the same game plan from last time, of course we will win. The chances of Sanchez throwing 5 picks again is very slim, and lets not forget that the Bills needed 6 int’s and a holding penalty by Hartstock just to squeek by in OT. They keep saying when you play a team after a short week, its not so much about game-planning but who actually has the better team. If thats the case, im pretty conifdent in the Jets, who are WAY more talented than the Bills.
Final Score
23 – 7
I would like to say.. yall were all WRONG fo sayin d’brick iz a bust
Revis will shut down T.O. and if we can smother Williams/Stewart, we sure as hell can handle Jackson/Lynch. The only way I see the Jets losing this game is turnovers. It’ll be in a dome too, so no weather excuses for Sanchez either.
sanchez is gonna s**t all over buffalo’s db’s, if only b/c they’ll be in a dome game and he know’s there’s no excuses.
tym to step up boys, GO JETS!
If revis does what revis does we better win this game easy. The talent on our roster dwarfs there talent . NO EXCUSES! And lucky enought to be indoors.
Levi, not to fear, Rhodes comes in on passing downs.
You know, I was thinking “check the weather”, especially after Sanchez was clearly affected in Meadowlands, by the high winds, and then I realized, the games in Toronto, in the dome.
WHY do the Bills do that? Last year they decided to play Miami in Toronto, in December. I thought the only leveling effect the Bills had at their disposal was making teams trudge through the awful elements. I bet they’re regretting that decision now – it’ll be windless and warm in the dome….kind of like…UCLA weather. Hmmmmm
I always get nervous playing the Bills even more so since Jackson/Lynch have run well on us in the past. They have put some good days on us even with Jenkins in the middle.
Tackling will be huge this week. We have to get this below average offense off the field and not let their running game keep them alive
Hmmm…good thing they had those 6 days off during the bye week to not prepare for this short week…
but on the plus side, their bodies are well rested because of it….so what is Kerry talking about?
Drew, fix your name, you’re back from China (and john m is getting annngrrrry)
Bubby — I’m not going to defend the six days off, but if they had been preparing for the Bills game four weeks later in that time instead of the Jaguars I’d fire Ryan on the spot.
Goin’ Deep Thoughts…
Back, back, back to Toronto – Sounds Cold. Are we be playing in a dome?
— Warm = Fast
— Cold = Slow
I’d think that the short week, divisional rivals and cold weather will add up to a tough physical game that should suit Eric Smith, just fine — though he had no problem knocking the stuffing out of Anquan Bouldin in the desert either – lol.
That’s not a knock on Rhodes who seems to be taken his wake up call seriously with last weeks 2-INTs performance. Glad he tightened chinstraps and his lips. His play speaks for itself!
— Revis is to Football, what Clapton is to Guitar!
— Jenkin’s is to Football, what a Mack Truck is to a Tonka Toy!
We will miss that Monster Truck in the Ground -n- Pound Warfare to be Won in the Trenches!!!
Let’s get offensive! A combination of Jones/Greene for 200+ and The Franchez reading his new color-coded wristband as well as sliding like Joe Girardi will hopefully produce a masterpiece tomorrow.
In addition, I see The Franchez opting for Dustin Keller more. This is where we miss dumping the ball off to Leon Washington in open spaces to let him do his thing – damn!
– How ’bout a draw play to Greene?
– Is it too cold, complicated too work a lil’ Brad Smith razzle dazzle or should we steer clear the wildcat due to much fizzle drizzle?
Finally, I’m thinking it will be a light day for the Jets receiving corps; yet, Schotty with get his Shots with a couple nice plays by Cotchery and Edwards plus a game-breaking, lightspeed bomb to Clowney!
Not back yet. I”ll be back Monday
Same Game plan will work just fine — so long as they replace some of the long-pass plays with a few slants/screens instead….
the 5 INTs last game were due in large part to the swirling winds and the poor play-calling by the O-Coordinator…
Playing under a dome, with the long-play calls used sparingly and only in ideal scenarios should make this a solid WIN for the Jets…
We’ll see…
Good post, Dean, but the Smith hit on Boldin was in the rain at the meadowlands. I know because I was there!
And yes, we be play in a dome, so it won’t be cold at all.
I’d like to see them give Woodhead a dump off play and give him blockers.
Just realized that Buffalo scored 24 points in the 4th to win the game last week
Is Buffalo playing more aggressive on offense since the firing of D Jauron?
I know it’s all money related, but the move to Toronto for games is a terrible move for the Bills, I always get nervous before games in Buffalo, because it’s cold, nasty, and the crowd is downright fierce. But in the dome, the place is huge, the fans won’t be as much a factor, sound drifts, I mean they got a hotel in centerfield for god’s sake.
To the game, I think the Jets should win this one handily, say what you want about the color code, but if it means throwing to Jets colors, I’ll take it, cautious is what we all expected anyways. I believe the Bills vaunted receivers (of late) will perform like the Panthers vaunted run game. I think the dome takes everything out of that team, no home field, no elements. The dome atmosphere will put sanchez right at home. It’s a night game, does this mean Braylon breaks out again for a big game? Heavy dose of runs, a lot of check downs and maybe mix in some wheel routes for a Dany Woodhead play here and there. Jets should lock this one up by the start of the 4th quarter.
6-6 and going to Tampa in ten days, hard not to think about, a lot can happen in the AFC WC picture as many of the teams ahead of the Jets play each other, but I have to hold myself in check, and focus on how important just evening our record would be.
GO JETS BABY
I agree with Greg, give Woodhead a screen or two. He’s the type of guy who just needs blocks to set up in front of him to break a big chunk of yardage off.
Just pound the football, give Sanchez 15-20 throws and watch the defense dominate. One timeeeeeeeeee.
Greg – it was purely stated with “tongue in cheek”
But I concurr with you. I’d expect that moronic level of preparation from Eric Mangini, not Rex Ryan….
My prediction still 5-11….Delhomme made Sanchez look like a MVP!
Being outdoors in the nasty cold in Buffalo would have provided an excuse…but playing in a dome what will the excuse be this time…..!
Jake stunk, but the Jets do deserve some credit…he had only one int in his previous 4 games, I believe.
Is Damien Woody the team spokesmen? It seems that he is quoted in every article written about the Jets.
He kind of is…at the end of the Miami game he was last guy left in the locker room and talked about the game in a measured, sensible and logical way. He’s very accessible, so it’s no surprise the media comes to him for quotes because he’s been around and speaks a lot of sense. I did get the vibe that he was respected and looked up to. Very underrated signing, that one.
Max,
What’s the point of a comment like that? You can’t possibly believe it, can you? If so, I’d love to give you any odds you’d like on a bet