likely 3-4 lineup??? Do we have the guys to run it ....

[birminghamvol]

I just don't see it boys and girls.

Our ends are undersized as it is ... do you move Walker to LB??

I guess you stick Ben Martin and G. Williams at the ends .... but again ... small!!

Smith would seem to be a natural LB in that scheme too.

Is Hughes a big enough space eater for the Nose? Seems to me he'd fit the end position better actually.


I don't know ............ I could see us getting eaten alive running that shitt .... we don't have anything close to what Bammer had personnel wise.

[MagicDust]

I think you're right. The interior would be the problem.

[SmokyTheBigOrangeHoundDog]

Our DEs get run over as it is.
Problem for us in a 3-4, are the DTs. Hell, the DTs are just a problem period, we don't have but 2. And Ray Sykes, ?
Possibly John Brown, a 2010 commit, could play next year. We're dead meat unless we do something here.

I believe that CWalker, GWilliams, and BMartin could play ILB in a 3-4;
everyone on the other boards talk about moving those guys to the outside LB in a 3-4, but I've watched them carefully this past year, and they just do NOT have the speed and agility to cover the perimeter as a LB. NO way.

If you did have enough DT-types, say 5 anyway, in a 3-4 then our LB problem would be solved: put all the LBdepth at OLB, and play the above-mentioned personnel at ILB with NReveiz. That would put GKing, SFrazier, LThompson, HLathers, and JAskew at OLB. Surely out of all those 2 could be pretty decent?

If we went to the 3-4. possibly guys like WBohanon and SFowlkes, as well as any of last year's DEs that were not in at ILB (GWilliams, BMartin, CWalker), could play DL as pass-rushers in passing downs.

Thoughts?

[Volnilla Ice]

I honestly am starting to think this may be our best option with the personnel problems we face.

Walls was an LB now grown into a DT and could easily be the run stopping Strong side DE with Williams/Martin/Bohannon& then you have Hughes/Jeffrey(hopefully Brown) the NT and Martin/Williams/Miller/Smith/Fowlkes as Rush DE. Then you have the big LBs, Walker & J Smith to mix in at rush DE as well as LB with the seniors coming back from injuries(Frazier/Reveiz) and Thompson, King, Askew, M Thornton, Hawkins, Lathers and whoever else I'm forgetting.

Only needing 3 DL types each play eliminates our DT issues. We have some great tweener types that can be mixed between rush DE & LB with Walker/Williams/Miller/Smith and a few others.

The tweeners will supplement our weaknesses at LB and allow some mean stunts and pressure packages. This gives us interchangeable parts at DE/LB position and eliminates our problem with depth at DT. Not to mention it will have opposing OLs heads spinning.

We will match up with UF and some of the speedier/deeper teams- even better getting one more speed guy on the field by trading a DT for an LB.

[TheHighlanderReturns]

The DL wouldn't be my concern. Hughes has the frame and size to play NT. Walls at one DE and maybe Williams at the other. The problem would be the 2 MLB. Need bigguns there, 240 range and all our LB's are smallish.

[IndianVol]

It all depends on who we hire at DC

[Nation]

We have to have a DC before we run anything.