Projecting the Steelers in a 4-2-5 base defense

GoalLine · Apr 2, 2016

jeh1856 said: ↑

And this is why Shamarko can't figure it out.
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he has a low football IQ?

jeh1856 · Apr 2, 2016

GoalLine said: ↑

he has a low football IQ?
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Probably didn't need the word football.

Ok, I'm not being very nice.

RPO IZSB · Apr 2, 2016

Diamond said: ↑

There is the 2-4-5 and 3-3-5 front concept:

For years fans and pundits of football have tended to describe defenses by the personnel employed in their fronts, as in "are they a 4-3 defense or a 3-4 defense?"

This has become an increasingly out-dated and unhelpful way to describe what teams are doing for a variety of reasons. One reason for the uselessness of this terminology is that defenses are coming to be defined more by an outside-in paradigm with the coverages determining everything up front. What's happening up front is secondary to the defense after what they are doing on the back end.

Another is that there are "4-3" teams that will play their weakside or strongside 9-tech defensive end in a stand-up position and even occasionally drop him into coverage. Are they now a 3-4 defense despite utilizing the exact same front? Teams came to be better defined by whether they were asking their DL to be one-gap or two-gap players but then hybrid defenses started to take over in which some DL were two-gapping and others were not.

Finally there's the fact that with the rise of spread passing games at every level of football, most teams are rarely in 3-4 or 4-3 personnel packages anyways, instead playing nickel sub-packages. Since those nickel packages are the primary strategy for defenses, teams prioritize players that will fill the roles of those packages.

However, there are two nickel fronts that are coming to encompass the common packages of modern football in the way that the 3-4 and 4-3 served to describe what most teams were doing in the past.

The 2-4-5 front: And the 3-3-5 front:
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Diamond said: ↑

There is the 2-4-5 and 3-3-5 front concept:

For years fans and pundits of football have tended to describe defenses by the personnel employed in their fronts, as in "are they a 4-3 defense or a 3-4 defense?"

This has become an increasingly out-dated and unhelpful way to describe what teams are doing for a variety of reasons. One reason for the uselessness of this terminology is that defenses are coming to be defined more by an outside-in paradigm with the coverages determining everything up front. What's happening up front is secondary to the defense after what they are doing on the back end.

Another is that there are "4-3" teams that will play their weakside or strongside 9-tech defensive end in a stand-up position and even occasionally drop him into coverage. Are they now a 3-4 defense despite utilizing the exact same front? Teams came to be better defined by whether they were asking their DL to be one-gap or two-gap players but then hybrid defenses started to take over in which some DL were two-gapping and others were not.

Finally there's the fact that with the rise of spread passing games at every level of football, most teams are rarely in 3-4 or 4-3 personnel packages anyways, instead playing nickel sub-packages. Since those nickel packages are the primary strategy for defenses, teams prioritize players that will fill the roles of those packages.

However, there are two nickel fronts that are coming to encompass the common packages of modern football in the way that the 3-4 and 4-3 served to describe what most teams were doing in the past.

The 2-4-5 front: And the 3-3-5 front:
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Slow your plagiarism roll...

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/2015/5/1/8528407/modern-defense-and-the-2-4-5-vs-the-3-3-5

If you are going to post someone else's work: put it in quotes, attribute it to the author, and provide a link to the content they created so it gets the traffic it deserves

Diamond · Apr 4, 2016

RPO IZSB said: ↑

Slow your plagiarism roll...

http://www.footballstudyhall.com/2015/5/1/8528407/modern-defense-and-the-2-4-5-vs-the-3-3-5

If you are going to post someone else's work: put it in quotes, attribute it to the author, and provide a link to the content they created so it gets the traffic it deserves
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I don't need a lesson in posting Newbie, a reminder would have served without you going into detail, I didnt want to link the whole article, but since you are so offended from now on, i'll include the authors bio just to make you happy!!!!!!!!

RPO IZSB · Apr 4, 2016

Diamond said: ↑

I don't need a lesson in posting Newbie, a reminder would have served without you going into detail, I didnt want to link the whole article, but since you are so offended from now on, i'll include the authors bio just to make you happy!!!!!!!!
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Clearly, you did.

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