I don’t know how to say this more effectively, but Jane McManus got one of the greatest soundbites from a Jets player in five years, listen to it yourself on her blog.

“[Opponents] don’t know and we don’t know … and that’s the beauty of the whole thing. We don’t know what the hell we’re doing so how the hell they gonna know what the hell we’re doing? … We just make stuff up on the fly … it’s like it’s open to interpretation.”

Scott went on to detail this more fully, by explaining that there’s flexibility to swap duties in the defense (as long as all the jobs get done, we hope) and that players can change assignments, blitzers can swap with coverage guys, one zone or coverage responsibility can be traded for another. It all sounds very exciting, but also very confusing.

Somewhere in Berea, OH I imagine Eric Mangini in an office — barricaded with trainers tables — reacting to this quip from Scott and either having a very good chuckle or sobbing uncontrollably in a shower — the latter the more likely of the two in my mind.

Whatever the changes, it’s not like players weren’t blowing assignments all the time in Mangini’s defense anyway, now they can just swap blown assignments rather than be rigidly held to their own blown assignments. Kidding!!

From thejetsblog.com. Please read the complete article and let us know what you think below.