Belichick Press Conference - 9/15/2006

Fri, 15 Sep 2006

Bill Belichick addresses the media during his press conference at Gillette Stadium. BB: What are you working on today? Q: Last week against Tennessee, what did the Jets show defensively? BB: They've been primarily 3-4 throughout preseason and the Tennessee game, all five games. Q: How have the defensive linemen adjusted to the new system? BB: Again, they played quite a bit of 3-4 last year. Q: A lot of two-gap? BB: They've played some. They've stunted it some and they've played it straight some. They bumped [John] Abraham out to an outside linebacker. They might've called it an over/under, but it's really 3-4 spacing. In other words, the linebackers were off the guards and they played the linebackers at the end of the line of scrimmage. Now they also dropped down some too, played some over/under stuff, but they did that and they did it a decent amount of the time. I don't know what the percentage was. They played it. They have Kimo [von Oelhoffen] in there and he played right end last week against Tennessee. He played some nose earlier in the year and they look like they use [Dewayne] Robertson some at right end and they flip-flop those guys, but then last week they moved Kimo back to right end and kept Dewayne inside at the nose and [Shaun] Ellis on the left side. Their left side, our right. Q: Are you seeing them trying to use a lot of different guys in a different spots and trying to create some versatility? BB: Yes, there's no doubt. There's some of that going on. Q: When you have a guy like Kevin Faulk who lines up as a receiver, how much of a difference is there with the route running and sight adjustments between him and the other wide receivers on the roster? BB: That's a good question. There is some degree of similarity and you just don't have as an extensive a route tree. It's not anywhere near as complete as what a receiver would be out there. If certain things happen on the pattern, you still might have to make those same adjustments...

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