A peek into what the Phil Snow defense could look like

[AU-panther]

A lot of people around here wanted to blame our historically bad run defense last year on going from a 4-3-4 to a 3-4-4.  Wouldn't 3-3-5 be even worse against the run?

Personally I think it was more of a personnel and execution issue than scheme.

If we are playing more 3 man fronts I like the Brown pick more.  Also what is the chance Burns plays one of the 3 LB spots?

 

[Black&BlueBubba]

18 hours ago, AU-panther said:

People get too caught up with what our "base" is, its a nickel league.

The questions is, are going to be a 4-2-5 with 3 CBs, or a 4-2-5 with 3 safeties, or a 3-3-5.  We seem to be investing in safeties a little bit more than in the past so that might tell us something.

We have a ton of Safties for the first time in a decade.  And virtually only one starting CB.  So I would say we will have 3 Safties with one playing the big nickel. 

[Drk89Wng]

This makes me excited to have a defensive minded coach with a hell of a OC hard to see us failing too badly as things progress. 

 

[JARROD]

All coordinators do is rotate old defenses. Dimes have been around since the 60s so it’s not like it’s new. 
 

teams get fast and air it out so defenses get fast and match. Then along comes the 49ers and Titans much like all the other power teams in the past to bulldoze the finesse teams

it all goes around in circles.

[Soul Rebel]

Good post on this article and potential insight into what we can see this year.

For me, I'm more of a 4-2-5 scheme fan, with odd-front sub packages mixed in to keep them guessing. Burns-KK-Brown-YGM w/ Shaq & Whitehead at LB. That allows us to push 5 DBs with one being a hybrid rover... Chinn. In essence two corners, two safeties and Chinn as the hybrid "Buffalo Nickel" guy....the swiss army piece that confuses opposing OCs. 

This also allows flexibility in moving to an odd front and dropping Burns back occasionally into a stand-up role too.