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Having 4 heavy *** linebackers on the field against 4 wide receivers is about the dumbest thing you could do. Les Miles knows what he's doing and has gone to lighter players, and started using packages like the 3-2-6 with regularity.

You're facing a spread offense that wants to kill you with tempo and speed in space, and your counter measure is to have a heavy front 7 with 4 linebackers covering large chunks of space vs quicker WRs? It's counterintuitive. It's the sign of a simpleton. It's Al Golden.
 
WhatTheHell said:
Having 4 heavy *** linebackers on the field against 4 wide receivers is about the dumbest thing you could do. Les Miles knows what he's doing and has gone to lighter players, and started using packages like the 3-2-6 with regularity.

You're facing a spread offense that wants to kill you with tempo and speed in space, and your counter measure is to have a heavy front 7 with 4 linebackers covering large chunks of space vs quicker WRs? It's counterintuitive. It's the sign of a simpleton. It's Al Golden.
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He's a scrub
 
The 3-4 is successful when you have a disruptive front 3. When you don't, your defense will look awful (like ours has for the last 4 years). Bama runs the 3-4 a lot and it works because their DL is taught great techniques, they are well coached and they have dominant D Lineman year in year out.
 
“I'm very committed to it[3-4], if anybody would play regular people against us,” he said. “But we're playing against so much three and four wideouts all the time, we're in nickel or dime. That's where the 3-4 defense is not really our base defense. You can pass rush better out of some kind of even front or flex front.”

Nick Saban
 
Sonny Long said:
“I'm very committed to it[3-4], if anybody would play regular people against us,” he said. “But we're playing against so much three and four wideouts all the time, we're in nickel or dime. That's where the 3-4 defense is not really our base defense. You can pass rush better out of some kind of even front or flex front.”

Nick Saban
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But we run the 4-3 exclusively on 3rd downs. 3-4 the rest of the time regardless of opposing Offenses.
 
D_G87 said:
The 3-4 is successful when you have a disruptive front 3. When you don't, your defense will look awful (like ours has for the last 4 years). Bama runs the 3-4 a lot and it works because their DL is taught great techniques, they are well coached and they have dominant D Lineman year in year out.
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Not necessarily true! Bama has not produced Disruptive DTs. Great 3-4 DTs are Stop Plugs....not really their job to be disruptive.
 
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Our coaches are to stubborn to admit that most offenses are designed to flex out your backers on a slot reciever to exploit them. Our coaches counter by flexing out a DE. Makes sense if you dont think about it. Wonder if our position coaches have to bite their tongues when we run our base defense against every formation. Barely see a nickle or dime package put in against 4 wide.
 
You can still have a base 3-4 but employe a 4-2 scheme against a spread team.

Regardless, watch a team like Stanford defend the Oregon spread. They mix 3-4 with 4-2 all the time.
 
WhatTheHell said:
Having 4 heavy *** linebackers on the field against 4 wide receivers is about the dumbest thing you could do. Les Miles knows what he's doing and has gone to lighter players, and started using packages like the 3-2-6 with regularity.

You're facing a spread offense that wants to kill you with tempo and speed in space, and your counter measure is to have a heavy front 7 with 4 linebackers covering large chunks of space vs quicker WRs? It's counterintuitive. It's the sign of a simpleton. It's Al Golden.
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LMFAO. Please tell us more.
 
This jackass will never change he's not even mentioned one time since he's been here that he called a bad defense or got out coached in a game not once. He always throws the kids under the bus, that's why all the starters quit on his punkass last year they got tired of that ****!!!
 
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AUcane said:
You can still have a base 3-4 but employe a 4-2 scheme against a spread team.

Regardless, watch a team like Stanford defend the Oregon spread. They mix 3-4 with 4-2 all the time.
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yeah but Stanford knows how to run it properly. Do you trust Golden/Dorito to do that after what we have witnessed over 4 seasons?
 
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AUcane said:
You can still have a base 3-4 but employe a 4-2 scheme against a spread team.

Regardless, watch a team like Stanford defend the Oregon spread. They mix 3-4 with 4-2 all the time.
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yeah but Stanford knows how to run it properly. Do you trust Golden/Dorito to do that after what we have witnessed over 4 seasons?
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Nope, I'm just pointing out that teams have run a 3-4 against the spread. We all agree that the way Al runs it does not work, to put it kindly.
 
Pushing the pocket with your NT is being disruptive. You're crazy if you don't think their front 3 has been productive the last several years. Bama front's always control the line of scrimmage.



Sonny Long said:
D_G87 said:
The 3-4 is successful when you have a disruptive front 3. When you don't, your defense will look awful (like ours has for the last 4 years). Bama runs the 3-4 a lot and it works because their DL is taught great techniques, they are well coached and they have dominant D Lineman year in year out.
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Not necessarily true! Bama has not produced Disruptive DTs. Great 3-4 DTs are Stop Plugs....not really their job to be disruptive.
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