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Moved to 4-3?

Khyber53

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Did I miss something or in opening lineup announcements at this past Sunday's game, did they have us showing a 4-3 (really a 4-2-5) alignment as our base set?

It also seemed like we moved to that for much of the game, but maybe I wasn't seeing what I thought I was.

I've been hoping we'd leave behind the 3-4 defense for years now as it just doesn't match the team or pair up well against the builds of the opposing teams in the NFCSouth.

 

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14 minutes ago, LinvilleGorge said:

Nickel has become everyone's base D in the modern NFL. Standard nickel is a 4-2-5 alignment but you can also run it as a 3-3-5 stack. The Vikings and Patriots jump to mind as teams that run a lot of 3-3-5.

Yeah few teams are running 3-4 and 4-3 most of the time.  I feel like we use nickel and I know we used a lot of big dime against Atl.  The 4-3/3-4 argument isn't much of a thing anymore. 

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Not sure but the last few weeks they have been doing what Rhule and Snow used to do.

Rhule ran a 3-3-5 but would show different fronts: 3-4, 4-4, 4-3, 4-2 Big Nickel, etc.

It looks like they have been showing 4-4 and 4-2BN packages since Atlanta.

Wash ran a 3-4/4-3 hybrid when he was the with Jags, so imagine he’s doing something similar on the front 7.

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35 minutes ago, ForJimmy said:

Yeah few teams are running 3-4 and 4-3 most of the time.  I feel like we use nickel and I know we used a lot of big dime against Atl.  The 4-3/3-4 argument isn't much of a thing anymore. 

Yeah, even vs. odd front is probably the more accurate modern nomenclature because you're gonna have five DBs in the field the majority of defensive snaps.

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2 hours ago, Khyber53 said:

Did I miss something or in opening lineup announcements at this past Sunday's game, did they have us showing a 4-3 (really a 4-2-5) alignment as our base set?

It also seemed like we moved to that for much of the game, but maybe I wasn't seeing what I thought I was.

I've been hoping we'd leave behind the 3-4 defense for years now as it just doesn't match the team or pair up well against the builds of the opposing teams in the NFCSouth.

 

Yeah, the broadcast announced we were set up in a 4-3 (4-2-5 in the graphic) in the opening.

We looked a lot better with 4 up front and I hope it long continues that way.

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