Frank Bush ready to showcase his young players in the Saints game

[Joshua]

Originally Posted by painekiller

Partly because each day you install a little more of the play book. The early part of camp is basics. Then once the foundation is laid, you add the walls...

They are just now getting to the more advanced stunts/blitzes and how the team is going to disguise them.

You get the idea.

I guess my question would be why we only have the foundation put up but Rex Ryan already has the walls up. Didn't the Jets' D go through a major overhaul and a conversion from a 4-3 to a 3-4? I can't imagine that Frank Bush is changing our D more than Ryan is changing the Jets.

While its purely speculation, I suspect it has more to do with a coach's approach to the preseason. Some prefer to run vanilla offenses and defenses so that they don't give anything away. Others (it sounds like Ryan falls in this camp) want to see how their guys will execute what is essentially a regular season gameplan and think this experience trumps any secrets they may give away.

In my opinion, if your unit doesn't have a track record of success (like our D), I think the better approach is to have them essentially execute a regular season gameplan, with the associated blitzes and whatnot, to see how they do, even if you may be giving away some of your schemes. This sounds like what Ryan is doing in NY. He's decided any detriment of giving away his scheme is outweighed by getting his D to buy into his gameplan and develop his mentality. I agree with this approach. Considering how poorly our D has traditionally played, I think it's more important to getting them playing better and with confidence. Hopefully, we may start seeing some of this Saturday.