“We were going to play mostly coverage,’’ Ryan wrote. “We were going to mix in a few more blitzes, but it was really going to be a lot of loaded zones. We were going to make Tom Brady work his ass off. We were going to make him have to be perfect. And we were going to make him make mistakes.
“Without Randy Moss, the Patriots didn’t have the same vertical threat to their offense, and we planned to show them how much that hurt their offense by constantly challenging the short stuff.’’
Rexy on the Jets playoff strategery…
Regardless of the Jets grand design of how to expose the lack of a deep threat I still think if Crumple-stiltskin hangs onto that TD it’s a different game.
