Jets blocking schemes are incomprehensible right now

[gmf1369]

GGN - It isn’t a bold statement to say the Jets offensive line has struggled through the season’s first two weeks. Too many guys aren’t executing their blocks.

There are other problems present, however. One of the biggest is how incomprehensible some of the assignments are. In Monday night’s loss to the Browns there were a startling number of instances where the Jets didn’t even account for Cleveland’s edge rushers (who are pretty good players of the game of football).

On the first series of the game the Jets ran a play action pass. It’s a faking a zone run. The offensive linemen all flow in one direction off the snap.

Ryan Griffin flows to the other side to block the guy at the end of the line.

But there’s a big problem. Myles Garrett is totally unaccounted for.

And when you don’t account for a guy like Myles Garrett, he wrecks the play.

When I watched this over, I spent like 90 seconds just looking at the screen and shaking my head. You can’t design a play like this in the NFL. This might fly in high school when the defense ends you’re facing aren’t that good, but this play has no chance against Myles Garrett.

I want to be clear on something here. There’s a big difference between not blocking a guy and not accounting for him.

Sometimes you leave a guy unblocked by design. Maybe he’s the target of a fake or some sort of misdirection. Maybe he’s the guy you read on an option play, and his movements dictate where the ball goes.

This play would make much more sense if Trevor Siemian had some sort of boot action, and the design was to get Garrett running in the wrong direction. Then you’ve accounted for him by trying to get him to run himself out of the play.

If something like this just happened once it would be one thing. But as the game went on the protections the Jets were calling kept showing the safe defect.

This is the very next play. The Jets have a full slide protection called here. The entire line is sliding to take the gap on their left. But the problem with this is nobody is there to account for Olivier Vernon.

If you are scoring at home, yes, at one point three Jets were blocking the same Brown as Vernon went unaccounted for.

Later in the first quarter, same thing. Full slide protection. Garrett unaccounted for.

Later in the game, another full slide. Another free run for Garrett.

If this happens once, I’ll blame the players. Maybe somebody just missed their assignment. The quarterback and center have presnap responsibilities. Maybe they misread the defense, and got the team into the wrong blocking call.

When it happens this many times, I think the coaching staff has to be the primary problem. They’re either making these calls and not adjusting to the defense wrecking them, or they’re not correcting something the players are doing wrong.

These are premium edge rushers. They need to be accounted for. Even if this is the result of Ryan Kalil constantly making the wrong calls because he doesn’t think guys like Garrett and Vernon are going to attack, it’s on the coaches to bench him because these blocking assignments give these plays no chance of working.

When you watch the way these plays are drawn up in the trenches, there’s only one question you can ask.

 

[TebowCan'tThrow]

I thought we had a good OL coach?

 

[McJet]

Thank you, somewhere else I’ve posted about the ridiculous blocking schemes/assignments. Again, thank you for going into detail about a few of the head scratching plays I cannot understand. After plays like this happen I pause, rewind and slomo, then I just talk to myself( my wife and kids don’t want to hear it. )wondering what the fuck their doing.

 

[AFA2017]

I thought we had a good OL coach?

We do. We just have an awful Offensive line.

 

[butterscotch]

Maybe the Jets don't understand what an edge rusher is? Lets be fair:global (7):

 

[The Wicker Man]

If I'm the DC playing the Jets, I'm blitzing non-stop.

 

[TonyFtLaud]

In his press conference, Gase was asked about this and his reply was typical Gase. His explanation was, our RB is too good of a player to have blocking, and the offense is designed to get the ball out faster than any pass rush can get to the QB..

 

[hatnlvr]

I have to chalk up the horrible offensive line play to piss poor coaching.

Pats plug any Joe Blow on the O Line and Brady has days to throw, no matter who we march out there we can't block to save our lives.

Yes talent matters but when you are constantly doing more with less, or constantly looking bad with good talent you can chalk that all up to coaching.

 

[SackExchange]

Who did the breakdown on this?

 

[cheaterhater]

I have to chalk up the horrible offensive line play to piss poor coaching.

Pats plug any Joe Blow on the O Line and Brady has days to throw, no matter who we march out there we can't block to save our lives.

Yes talent matters but when you are constantly doing more with less, or constantly looking bad with good talent you can chalk that all up to coaching.

Glad someone else sees this like I do

 

[TonyFtLaud]

Was really hoping the o line could get some extra practice with the bye week but Gase decided two days of meetings,class and no practices. The line needs to build chemistry and trust. Handcuff them together for the next 10 days and force them to learn to work together..:36_g:

 

[ReallyBigfan]

Guys, anyone who looks at those clips above and decides that it is a scheme problem, doesn't understand it at all. I can guarantee you that there is no blocking scheme that calls for them to have three guys all blocking the same one defender. What you had above is clearly misread defenses leading to the wrong calls, blown assignments, or most likely, some combination of both.

 

[cheaterhater]

Was really hoping the o line could get some extra practice with the bye week but Gase decided two days of meetings,class and no practices. The line needs to build chemistry and trust. Handcuff them together for the next 10 days and force them to learn to work together..:36_g:

 

[hatnlvr]

Guys, anyone who looks at those clips above and decides that it is a scheme problem, doesn't understand it at all. I can guarantee you that there is no blocking scheme that calls for them to have three guys all blocking the same one defender. What you had above is clearly misread defenses leading to the wrong calls, blown assignments, or most likely, some combination of both.

I agree but who does that come down to? The O Line with a combined 35+years of experience and average 6-7 years experience per all of a sudden don't know how to read a defense or call out assignments?

No scheme calls for 3 blockers on 1 player and no O Line with more than 15 minutes of practice time doesn't know how to call out assignments and hot reads. You have 5 guys completely lost like they just met stretching on the field.

Team isn't prepared PERIOD! That all falls on coaching