(06-05-2019, 08:58 PM)Jags02 Wrote:

(06-05-2019, 02:05 PM)NYC4jags Wrote: The Pete Carroll defense from the 49ers in the 90's was a 3-4 front most of the time. 

They liked to use (at times) a front featuring four players that they called "elephant." 

It added a pass rushing OLB wide as a DE to the weak side.  This position later was called the "LEO" by Carroll. He made it a fixture in Seattle with a 4-3 front. 
 
Capers Packers defenses ran a 3-4 as well, like Carroll's niners D. 
The "elephant" role was again, the addition of an OLB wide and outside to rush the passer. 
 The only difference being that Carroll and Capers selected players with differing size/weight and traits to play the role. 

You are suggesting Datone Jones would be playing what has essentially been Ngakoue's role heretofore.  That would be a bit of a shock to me. If that happens, then Wash is letting Capers really alter his tendencies. 

I think he's much more likely being looked at as a potential rotational fill-in for Calais Campbell at strong side end. 
If he can make the roster.

Are you sure you have the terminology right? Maybe I'm mistaken. The LEO is meant to be the player opposite the strongside DE, which I'm thought referred to the Elephant.  I recall seeing a chart of the Seattle defense, and I keep thinking it showed the LEO and Elephant as two different players. Reports were that Datone played the Elephant position, but he was never considered a 3-4 OLB type and his main skill set is run stuffing. 

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Up front, the Seahawks try to get the best of both worlds.

While Seattle uses a base 4-3, it also incorporates many elements of the 3-4.
As Quinn puts it, “We happen to have lots of 3-4 looks, but we are a 4-3 team.’’
The Seahawks use a smaller defensive end who is primarily a pass rusher, a position the Seahawks call LEO. (The term, by the way, doesn’t really mean anything. When Carroll worked for the 49ers they had a similar position called Elephant and Carroll later changed it to LEO.)