Everything Gregg Williams did to create a unique defensive identity in 2019 is now gone. The unit starts from scratch, back to square one.
Sometime around Week 10 and 11, around the time the young quarterbacks started to hit the roster (Daniel Jones, Dwayne Haskins, etc.), the New York Jets defense began to come up with a specific identity that worked. Thanks to a lack of a four-man conventional rush, Williams’ defensive backs blitzed more than any secondary in the NFL, and pre-snap disguised zone coverages began to take hold.