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

[nero THE zero]

Spencer Tillman was a guest today on Tim Brando's show, and he was talking about the upcoming Saints game and how it would be much more of a challenge than playing against the Chiefs' offense.

Tillman specifically mentioned that his friend, Frank Bush, is chomping at the bit to showcase his young defensive stars and hopefully "give Brees some different, aggressive looks." So, if Tillman's right, we should be getting a bit of a glimpse of what our scheme is all about on Saturday.

I wish Cushing was playing, nonetheless it should be fun to see something other than 'vanilla defense' in a preseason game, especially against a prolific offense like the Saints'.

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by nero THE zero

nonetheless it should be fun to see something other than 'vanilla defense' in a preseason game,

Just watch the Jets preseason games. HC Ryan does not appear to be holding back anything on defense.

[NBT]

......And brings up the question of why Kubiak didn't let the new D show it's stuff in the Chiefs game? I am looking forward to seeing that more aggressive defense they keep talking about.

[painekiller]

Originally Posted by NBT

......And brings up the question of why Kubiak didn't let the new D show it's stuff in the Chiefs game? I am looking forward to seeing that more aggressive defense they keep talking about.

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.

[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.

[painekiller]

I am guessing here, so take it for what it's worth. If you listened to Kubiak interviews, they have dumbed the defense down, and they did the basic install during OTA and again during minicamp. Why, so the young guys could get up to speed and contribute.

Then Kubiak said they where going to start all over again at training camp, again so the young guys could get where they are playing at full speed, not thinking near as much as in the past.

Look at our roster, especially the defense, we are one of the younger teams. And we are expecting a lot from our draft picks. Teams like the Steelers expect the draft picks to learn a year or two and play special teams.

[nero THE zero]

Originally Posted by NBT

......And brings up the question of why Kubiak didn't let the new D show it's stuff in the Chiefs game? I am looking forward to seeing that more aggressive defense they keep talking about.

Who said he didn't?