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Originally Posted by nunusguy
See that's my thought. PK mentioned earlier in this thread that Ryan let the dogs loose in the Jets very first preseason game, but everybody already knows the book on Ryan from his years in Baltimore: they know he's going to throw eveything including the kichen sink at the opposing QB.
But the season opener in Reliant will be Frank Bushs coming out party as a NFL DC, so why spoil the fun and more importantly reveal all the secrets in a meaningless preseason game ? Instead why not keep the Jets and their rookie QB guessing as much as possible ?
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I understand that train of thought. But, you're working under the assumption that the gameplan for the Jets is the same as the gameplan for the Cheifs/Saints/Vikings/Bucs. It may or may not be. Maybe we'll do the whole vanilla defense preseason thing. Or, maybe we'll do different things against a Saints-type offense than we would against a Jets-type offense.
Part of being an effective defense is being good at what you do, even when the other team knows you're going to do it; our offense is a shining example of this. We shouldn't be worried that a rookie QB has tape on us when the 15 teams proceeding him will have tape on us. We just have to be good at what we do, even when the other teams knows we're doing it.