Last night , one of the sportswriters who covers the Jets was talking the entire game about how Rex Ryan told them that he had worked out a deal with Andy Reid to ban bltizing for the entire game. He talked about the vanilla defenses that were being played and allowed the high scoring first half.
Once the game got into the fourth quarter I had to inform him that both teams were violating their oaths.
Sean McDermott could point the finger at Ryan but they both sent more than four blitzers a time or two.
Buddy’s son couldn’t help but get a laugh from what eventually transpired.
“We were playing vanilla defense, both of us, until it got real
competitive at the end. A call or two slipped in there on both sides,
them as well as us,” he said.
A number of the calls slipped in there and almost got Michael Vick killed.
I haven’t met a member of the Ryan family yet who could resist calling a blitz, then calling another one as soon as the first one gets through.
Rex tried to blame the blitzes he called on the fact that the Birds started bltizing first. He said the misread the first couple of hits on Vick as blitz calls. He said they were regular four pass rusher defenses.
