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Originally Posted by Alex Smith HATER
You're not fielding a top 10 defense with that group up front.
Combined DL pressures for the 2009 Jets: 42
Combined DL pressures for the 2012 Chiefs: 14
Combined DL pressures for the 2011 Chiefs 25 (10 of which came from Wallace Gilberry)
Starting to get the picture?
That Jets defense was #4 in the NFL in YPC allowed. Last year we were 25th.
You're asking for a quantum leap which just isn't happening.
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The jets were 18th in points defense and 16th in yards defense the year before they became the #1 defense. The personnel was almost identical. The 2008 scheme mangini ran is very similar to what we ran last year. Top 10 isn't a quantum leap. This defense when motivated is solid enough. Not spectacular, but solid enough. A good scheme could absolutely catapul tthem to the top 10.