Thought I'd share a few thoughts on the new coaching staff's game planning thus far and what they may do this week. 

Of course, I'd like to hear everyone else's thoughts and observations as well. 

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First of all, planning for individual opponents is clearly a larger priority to this coaching staff. I'm beginning to feel confident that they will attack opponent's weaknesses and attempt to bolster our own weaknesses each week.  This is not a confidence I've had in a Jags staff for many years.

Listening to Marrone's radio show and interviews it's clear that he's thorough in the film room when scouting the next opponent and in gauging his own team's preparedness. 
Three things I've noticed from him:

• he mentions specific situational stats for opposing quarterbacks
  
• discusses the situational tendencies of an opposing defense 
  
• he talks about "what have we shown" in terms of having offensive plays that the opponent will not have tape of. 
  

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This week Hackett has an interesting challenge.

The jets front seven are all solid and gap-sound. They may actually be tough to run on despite their numbers. 
They let the Bills run on them, then the Raiders run numbers against them were actually low aside from two big individual runs that skewed the average. Last week they controlled the phins run game effectively. 
 So - they've gotten better against the run every week as far as I can tell. 

I believe they'll sell out to stop the run and force Bortles to throw.  

This is where things get interesting for Hackett. What cards are still up his sleeve? 
I think he'll need to let Bortles throw early as well as get a bit creative with the run game. 
They've had some success sprinkling in both inside and outside zone blocking plays already. Clever use of that plus a RB pass play or two that they haven't put on film yet may be on tap to keep the jets front off balance. 

How does Hackett use Bortles?  I really don't know how he might address this. Thus far nearly half (40%) of this team's scoring drives have come on a silver platter via turnovers from the defense. While the Jags D is capable of continuing the trend, it would be great for the offense to generate some early scoring drives on their own when they need to. What Hackett dials up in the passing game and how well Bortles executes will be huge in these situations. 
Skrine, Claiborne and Adams are all capable of taking advantage of poorly thrown balls. Hopefully Bortles continues to identify man coverage well and protects the football instead of forcing it into coverage. Halftime adjustment may be a key factor in the pass game if they don't have success through the air early on.

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