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Originally Posted by Bobblehead
I think the Jets have shown how to beat teams who rely on the passing game with highly intelligent QBs. You do NOT blitz like crazy, Manning and Brady are too smart and will have eaten them alive. Instead they flood the secondary and take away the reads. It helps a lot that the Jets have 2 burners at corner, and while I don't like Cromartie based on his performance in last year's playoffs, the guy is fast and can cover. Then use the rest of the secondary to fill the intermediate routes and that leaves only really short stuff. It will be interesting to see if the pattern holds. The Steelers are the smashmouth team they have been in the past, but Mendenhall will be a bigger handful than anyone Indy or the Pats had.
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One of the brilliant things the Jets did instead of blitzing is they made the Patriots guess who was part of the rush. They rushed only 3 or 4 and still broke through due to 2 reasons. Shaun Ellis dominated anyone the Pats threw at him even Mankins, I think it's a case of a 11 yr vet who has been close to a Super Bowl a couple times putting it all out there. The other thing was (and you can see it on the Drew Coleman sack) is that they often rushed a corner as part of the 3 or 4 man rush instead of a D-lineman or LB.