Both the Buffalo Bills and the New England Patriots possess the ability to stretch teams out wide and then hammer the middle of the field. Jets linebacker Bart Scott knows that well after the loss to New England in Week 5, but says the Bills can be attacked in a different way.
"One thing that's different between them is that (Buffalo) doesn't have Tom Brady," Scott said. "(Ryan Fitzpatrick) is a good quarterback and he's playing well, but Tom is a totally different monster and we can play them a little different."
Scott sees no difference schematically or personnel-wise in the Bills' offense from last year. The difference seems to all be in a self-confidence that was absent last season.
"This is the same offense we played last year. The thing is, everything they did last year they're doing a lot better and they're very confident," Scott said. "They've always played hard and been scrappy but I think that they're playing with a tremendous amount of confidence and want to prove to people that they're for real."
Scott also said that Fred Jackson, who has more rushing yards than Shonn Greene and LaDainian Tomlinson combined, is simply validating what they've known for a long time.
"I've always thought he was a very good back and now he's showing the rest of the NFL that whenever you have success, wins and losses, I think he's validated now," Scott said. "We've been saying for years that he's very talented not only in the run game but in the screen game."
As for the Jets rush defense, currently ranked 25th in the NFL, Scott suggested looking past the numbers, using the game against New England as an example.
"The numbers don't always tell the story," he said. "We gave up rushing yards to BenJarvus Green-Ellis because that's what we chose to give up. You have to take something away, when you decide to play with a bunch of DBs you're inviting them to run because as long as Tom is handing the ball off he's not throwing it."
After a practice today where the Jets did more live hitting than usual, Darrelle Revis said it was helpful to keep the team in good tackling form.
Revis said that the defensive backs have been staying after practice to work on tackling as well.
"The first half of the season, the first couple weeks we were missing tackles. (Darren) McFadden went 70, and you know the secondary got blamed for not tackling," Revis said. "So the next thing you know, the last couple weeks we've been doing tackling drills with the dummy bags out there.
"And now in practice today the guys were tackling so it's good. Especially since it's getting cold, too. Guys are definitely harder to tackle when it gets November, December into January."
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