A 20 yard gain on a screen pass from Baker Mayfield to Sterling Shepard late in the fourth quarter of the Jets’ Week 3 loss put the Tampa Bay Buccaneers within comfortable range of a game-winning field goal (or at least as comfortable as a team could be after Will McDonald’s previous heroics).

Watching the game live, something seemed off to me about the Jets defense so I jumped straight to this play when the NFL posted the film.

Presnap, the Jets have loaded the line of scrimmage with eight defenders.

At the snap, all eight players rush the passer.

Now without any other information, that sounds all well and good. The Jets are a defense based on trying to get to the quarterback by blitzing. With the game on the line, you’d expect them to send a big blitz.

There’s a big problem with thi

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