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Not gonna win running into thjs front. Will have to pass to win

2 big runs and everything else under 3 yards. Thats ok for now. Really happy with the pass rush to. Better than expected across the board

conservative first half plan. Think they’ll sit in the pocket and let it rip a bit with the oline doing better than anticipated

That was the stupidest thing I’ve seen him do since the lateral

Because he'd play that role in a massively different way than Bernard, to the point you'd have to change the entire coverage scheme. Kirksey is absolutely not playing man on anyone

McDermott can not plug and play Kirksey at Mike in his base defense. He's 31 and played 8 years in the NFL as a linebacker. He's probably a 4.9 at this point in the 40. Just not happening. I mean he wasn't even graded all that high last season. My guess is that he comes only the rare times we run a 4-3 look. But if Bernard can't go, it's gonna be Dodson.

last point about Benford, he came out as a rookie in 22 and WON the Corner job, and didn't lose it - he was injured. It shouldn't be a surprise he's won this job again.

Nothing I've seen on field from Elam suggests to me he's been a bust. In fact he finished the season as our best corner last season - with Benford injured. Despite being a first-round pick in 2022, Elam failed to become a starting cornerback by the start of the season and had an inconsistent rookie year. However, as a former first-round pick, he should have plenty of opportunities to win that position battle. He also finished the season strong, flipping his 56.7 PFF grade in the regular season to 87.1 in two playoff games, a mark that would have ranked second among cornerbacks in the regular season. Rather than seeing this as Elam busting (he's officially listed as Tre's backup FWIW, which is the same line in the depth chart as Jackson), I lean towards thinking McDermott loving Benford.

Roquon is a 3-4 backer which means he's gotta be bigger. Though point made. Bernard is absolutely undersized for the postion, but the hope he's big enough to be a 4-3 Mike.

Benford, I think, is going to end up really good. He's got a lot of great athletic traits to be a zone corner, and he's actually a bit quicker than I thought he'd be. What he showing is better ball skills than pretty much anyone expected

I'm not at all trying to be argumentative or even say I'm confident in Bernard - but McDermott literally never took Milano or Edmunds off the field unless they were injured. Those two played a 100% of the available snaps after week 9. After Week 9 the only other linebacker to play was AJ Klein, and he only barely played. But there is absolutely space for McDermott not liking what he saw out of Bernard in that WK9 Jets game and shelving him.

I don't feel awesome about this either, but when healthy we have a pretty good battery of DTs for Gap Control purposes

This was Bernard's participation by week last season He was exclusively Matt Milano's backup and played the Will. his only PT came when Milano was injured in the Steelers game and the Jets loss in week 9. So if you're saying he sucked at MLB because of what you saw last season, you should realize you never saw him play MLB last season

The last time we saw Bernard playing a ton of ball was his last season with Baylor, and against a talented Ole Miss team in the Sugar Bowl. He finished with 20 tackles in that game and was the defensive MVP. He's got just enough size, and in his pro day ran a 4.59 40 and 4.25 shuttle and a 123" broad jump. Basically one of the better athletes on the roster. I know he looked lost in very limited snaps last season, but he's only entering his 2nd season. Beane/McDermott both hinted at getting away from the zone heavy look they used with the Predator stalking the middle of the field, and going to more man zone combos with the backers. If Bernard had the game slow down for him this camp and off season, people are going to like what they have with him

Hamlin is the box safety and Hyde the deeper safety to Poyer's box safety...one would think that's going to be Taylor Rapp

The whole things is super bizarre

Listen to what fitty said

Stop looking at twitter comment. Whether your an NFL fan, LGBT, conservative, whatever. Stop looking at twitter comments lol the random drive by shooting from Madden

The version with the fans is legit awesome and best ever. Though I now fear for them. That chick gonna tear her ACL walking the dog tomorrow

So I used to work for Boeing in Renton, where the build the 737s. The first shift started at 7am, and the cafe opened at 6am. About once every two weeks they’d have steak and eggs. Let me tell ya, that hits different at 6:30am

To be fair he also might have been drunk from the night before when he did his pre-game coke, so perhaps it normalized him

Ed is a borderline elite 3T. Love that they’re getting him for this price. If you’re gonna pick between him and Edmunds you pick Oliver pretty much every time

Sure, can we also cut out the incessant whining that's taken over the fanbase? Because that's what got me off kilter in this thread

For example, the Jets faced the 8th most rush attempts in the League, and the 12th least pass attempts. The Bills faced the least number of rush attempts. right around the Bills were the Niners, Bengals and Chiefs (along with the Ravens and Titans), teams with excellent offenses so opposition knew they had to go big against them

The Jets defense reminds of the so-called elite defenses the Bills used to have during the droughts. A lot of that was OCs game planning fairly conservatively, knowing that the Jets offense was so bad, that all they had to do was not turn the ball over to win games fairly easily. They are absolutely talented...but some of that is a bit of a mirage. You look at their roster, they don't have as many + players as you'd assume, with a team D with a DVOA that high. They're gonna fall off this year, as teams are forced to respect the Jets O a bit more