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will be moving inside. Including McPhee and F. Cox. Newsflash, it might be good to have a big athletic defensive end too. LSU has been doing it for years.

Yes, I know that we are having to make up for what we don't have on the interior, but still. I prefer to get my pressure from the outside and have two fat space eaters in the middle. Ok, Love and Williams may not be able to rush the quarterback, but can they just hold the LOS? They should be able to. Particularly, when you are facing a mobile quarterback, pressure up the middle means nothing but a jailbreak.

I still feel like we are an excellent candidate for the 3-4. We are always going to be able to recruit more linebackers than lineman. It is just the way it is. We are always going to have "tweeners" that arent quite athletic enough to play end or not quite big enough to play inside - see Devin Jones, Sean Ferguson, Shane McCardell, Nick Bell, KJ Wright, etc. All of those guys would be prototype OLBs in a 3-4. White and Chaney in the middle, Wright and Ferguson/McCardell on the outside - McPhee, Love, Burns on the line. You are more athletic, faster and better tailored to our talent. Especially when you have two hosses like White and Chaney in the middle to plug the inside running game. And how many teams really run a focused power inside running scheme anymore? MAYBE, LSU, Auburn, UGA? The 3-4 is definitely better against option/spread schemes, I would think. Tell me what I am missing.

True DT's are the hardest guys for us to land. I think Cox and McPhee would make fine ends in a 3-4. Shmuley, I know we are going to run a 4-3, this is just wishful thinking. I understand the other guy's point about needing large DE's in a 3-4, but I think we can do that.

As for the OLB's, you have a lot of NFL teams that run pure pass-rushing OLBs and use the zone to make up for any coverage deficiencies. Look at San Diego. Do you think Merriman's forte is coverage? Sure he is a freak, but that guy is in the game for one reason, to kill QBs. And, yes it is best to have big MLBs and monster NTs, but it is all relative, we are talking about college - not the pros, and it all boils down to whether it would work better than what we are running right now (Not if it would work as good as what LSU or the Steelers are running).

WARDLAW, if you are reading this, I would love to see something about this asked to Mullen or Torbush. Specifically, it seems to me like the 3-4 could be to the defense what the Spread is to the offense. A more adaptable scheme better tailored to the type of talent we get here.

As for the remark about Joe Lee's defense. I could do without that. What I am talking about is not really about blitzing. Just getting the best players on the field. Outside of 3rd and long situations, we dont do ourselves any favors by running Dog safetys all game when we are talking about putting Bonner and [whatever other safety backup] in the game at the expense of White or Wright.