Quote:I mean in a 4-3

 

That's kind of the thing.  It's both a 3-4 and 4-3 depending on assignments.

 

In our scheme it's not necessarily one or the other, it's one and the other.

 

Virginia Tech has run a similar kind of defense for years.  It requires discipline in the secondary, and is why VT puts so many secondary players into the NFL.

 

Our very own Nick Sorensen played the Telvin Smith role in college.  He played safety, LB, and emergency QB, too.  It's a unconventional defense that relies on speed and assignment, but the weakness is that bigger, more physical teams can wear you down and run you over late.

 

It's not uncommon to have a DT sized LE.  Even in a traditional 4-3, if you don't have a jumbo anchor at LE you will struggle (and many teams do at that position.)  Again, Planet Theory - you don't see as many because there just aren't enough good ones on the planet.  Teams compensate.  A traditional stud RDE is the real prize, even in today's tweener leaning league.  Tweeners usually only work out if you've compensated by moving to a 3-4 or other means to try and keep the DPR (or the "edge" nonsense the neophyte hipsters love to hear themselves talk about) as clean as possible when on the hunt.

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