Last year one of our big weaknesses on defense was covering the tight end. Despite our defense looking absolutely amazing through 8 quarters of football, that was a problem last week as well, as Shiancoe (sp?) got us for a couple of big plays. Dustin Keller is set to have a breakout season and I'm sure Mark Sanchez will look to him a lot Sunday night. My question is, can we do a better job against Keller than we did against Shiancoe? Who will be tasked to keep him in check?
I could see Sean Smith drawing duty. He matched up well against Shiancoe last week, and limited him to one catch when matched up. Smith has the height and athleticism to run with the TEs down the field. Sent from my Droid using Tapatalk
I think we will be able to limit Keller with either Dansby and/or Smith. My main concern is LT catching out of the backfield.
Same here, if you look at the history of Nolan's D, bunched Wr's, Draws and Screens are all usual counters to what he is doing. That said, our team speed on Defense is amazing, this won't be Thurman Thomas taking screens 80 yds for Td's, in fact historically LT has a 3.1 ypa against the phins.
Bell will give him most of his yards but no big plays. Dansby IMO has the best chance of shutting him down consistently, and Smith is the best matchup for long yardage situations. My opinions.
A better question may be who will Keller be asked to block this week. This defense forces offenses to use one of the secondary receivers to act as a blocker. It may be John Conner who draws that assignment, but if it were me wherever Keller lined up, I'd make sure there would be someone coming off the edge. The Jets can't have him out in patterns every time.
Though I don't dispute that Keller is solid, I dispute basing that on one solid game against a young Patriots D. I doubt he'll have a big game if not for the pressure on Mark forcing him to check down one hell of a lot of times. LT will probably have more targets that Keller.
Keller had a touchdown in all three of our playoff games last season. He's easily Sanchez's favorite target. I do see what you're talking about when you mention LT, though. He looks pretty good thus far.
Keller is a solid TE. Nothing more, nothing less. He get a lot of targets because Sanchez is always checking down.
If sanchez throws like he did last week we are going to pick his *** off. Accros the field to a coverd TE...intercepted. Jump ball to Braylon...knocked away. He didnt look that great to me it looked more lke the Pats DBs suck alot, i mean alot like more than, hmmm...... ... ... ... ... yeah even more than ^^^this guy
this game really is a rinse and repeat of last week, except now we're home, and facing less talent. But a shaky qb, strong TE and RB, hurting secondary, weak wr's...last weeks gameplan should suffice.
Seriously...WHO IS COVERING HIM? So far Smith just watched him on the first catch and was totally out of position. Bell couldn't cover him for the TD. And now he has this huge wide open catch and not one person was covering him off the snap. He had a total free release and was wide open in the field with nobody paying attention to him. HUGE FAIL SO FAR!
Its so frustrating because for so long I can remember us being torched by Tight Ends and it looks like the same old story again.
Plain and simple, someone needs to step up...this could turn into the theory I was describing with Kris Wilson on either Bess or Hartline opening it up for the other receiver (Bess or Hartline depending on who K.Wilson was covering). Bess and Hartline need to step up even more regardless as I say halftime adjustments from the Jets aimed at Marshall... Looks like Clemons is covering Keller now...
