Jets to use 46 defense...

[557Miles]

To be honest I thought the Jets should've been running this type of defense a long time ago. They must have used it last year a few times but I never noticed it. They have one of the top 3 CB's in the NFL and if they do bring that much heat the Pats will need to use the TE's to help in blocking. You have to knock Brady on his azz to beat the Pats and Fitz and whoever Miami starts cannot beat teams with the deep pass anyways.

I think our game with the Jets will be a defensive battle but we will end up winning it.

[YoungEz]

It just concerns me because Fitz more likely than not hasn't seen this defense, and we'll obviously have no tape on them to start the season.

The nice thing about the Jets is their starting QB is still Sanchez, one of the few guys who enjoys throwing pics just as much if not more than Fitz

[billswinbillswinbillswin]

4-6 as in 4 lineman and 6 LBs? Fitz has a pretty quick release and if he sees it i have faith in him to audible and get it out to one of the many open receivers in that situation

OMG!!! The 46 is not in referene to having 4 of this and 6 of that. Com'on MAN!!! Buddy Ryan called his defense the "46" because his favorite player at the time on the Bears wore number 46!!! Don't you people KNOW any pro football history my GOD, some people's kids!!!

[polar2292]

He's also not with the team anymore. But Landry at SS would scare me in the box.

I was just thinking that... I guess we know why they got Landry. Dude's huge... but injury prone.

[John from Hemet]

I hope they run that formation.....Chan will spread formation them to death with that

[Joe Fan]

The nice thing about the Jets is their starting QB is still Sanchez, one of the few guys who enjoys throwing pics just as much if not more than Fitz

Sanchez being horrible is the main reason the Bills are 1-5 against him, instead of 0-6. If the Jets had Fitz, 2012 would be the year they were looking for the threepeat super bowl win.

[silver]

The 46 is a sell-out type defense. It either works or it doesn't. The offense runs a few fakes and it can be made to look ridiculous.
The immobile Steve Bono ran a 76yd bootleg against Buddy Ryan's cardinals on it.

[sjhbillsfan]

The interesting thing about this for me is Maybin. We KNOW he sucks as a DE and I doubt he can play OLB in a 4-3 base.

He will be as useless for them as he was for us.

[RED800]

It just concerns me because Fitz more likely than not hasn't seen this defense, and we'll obviously have no tape on them to start the season.

Fitz is very good at reading a defense, not worried at all.

[sjhbillsfan]

You guys are right to worry about the 4-6, it won a Super Bowl for the Bears...... in 1985!!!!




Seriously guys, we ran the 4-6 when Williams was our coach, it isn't exactly the FIRST time that Chan has seen it.

[SoulCrusher]

well following this they would seemingly need a top notch saftey. Don't think jim leonhard is considered this (pretty sure he is like 5'8" as well)

That's why they got Laron Landry.

He's one of the best, harder hitting, in the box safeties in the game when healthy (which he never is).

[ThatsWhatSheSaid]

You guys are right to worry about the 4-6, it won a Super Bowl for the Bears...... in 1984!!!!




Seriously guys, we ran the 4-6 when Williams was our coach, it isn't exactly the FIRST time that Chan has seen it.

1985-86 season....quickly edit it or the immature posters will bash you.

[BuffaRuKuS]

1985-86 season....quickly edit it or the immature posters will bash you.

too late you quoted it. now it is forever etched into the board

[BuffaRuKuS]

No

"This formation was invented by Buddy Ryan, defensive coordinator of the Chicago Bears during the 1980s. Instead of having four linemen and six linebackers (as the name may suggest), it's actually a 4-4 set using 4-3 personnel. This was accomplished by moving a safety up into the "box" instead of a fourth linebacker. The '46' refers not to any lineman/linebacker orientation but was the jersey number of hard hitting strong safety Doug Plank, the player Buddy Ryan first used in this role at Chicago. The other feature of the 46 was the placement of both "outside" linebackers on the same side of the formation, with the defensive line shifted the opposite way with the weak defensive end about 1 to 2 yards outside the weak offensive tackle. This defense was the philosophical equivalent of the "Notre Dame Box" offense devised by Knute Rockne in the 1930s, in that it used an unbalanced field and complex pre-snap motion to confuse the opposing offense. Chicago rode this defense into a 15-1 season in 1985, culminating in a 46-10 win over New England in Super Bowl XX."

cool breakdown thank you

[ThatsWhatSheSaid]

too late you quoted it. now it is forever etched into the board

[Savior77]

A 46 Defense would scare me a lot more if this wasn't such a passing league now.

[sjhbillsfan]

I fixed it.

[Soda Popinski]

Didn't the west coast offense basically kill this defense?

The short passing game gave it fits

[LarryDavid]

oh no not the 46 defense........... who cares.

[silver]

If the Jets switch to the 46 defense full time, the Patriots and Bills will absolutely kill it. I could see us putting 46pts on them.... in the first half.