Jets just never had any healthy safeties last year which exposed, well, everyone. They played deep to protect the young CBs but that left the running box relatively bare given that we only play 2 LBs the bulk of the time. With 2 awesome CBs this year, our safeties can play up in the box more. Our strength is on the edges (CB and E) where games are lost and won, but we will be much better against the run than last year and Jordan Whitehead will have an all-pro season. Not sure our FS won’t get burned now and then but we shall see. I think our young, fast, aggressive, excellent tackling defense is going to be one of the best units in the league and will produce 3 or 4 new NFL stars by seasons end and a boatload of sacks
Jets just never had any healthy safeties last year which exposed, well, everyone. They played deep to protect the young CBs but that left the running box relatively bare given that we only play 2 LBs the bulk of the time. With 2 awesome CBs this year, our safeties can play up in the box more. Our strength is on the edges (CB and E) where games are lost and won, but we will be much better against the run than last year and Jordan Whitehead will have an all-pro season. Not sure our FS won’t get burned now and then but we shall see. I think our young, fast, aggressive, excellent tackling defense is going to be one of the best units in the league and will produce 3 or 4 new NFL stars by seasons end and a boatload of sacks