re: Defensive Scheme

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As a retired coach, I ran the 5-2 for years. That's all the 3-4 is. When teams started throwing the ball more and got away I formation football, our adjustment was playing more athletic guys at Outside LB. I think we need to park the body types we have now and play more athletic guys at that position. Ronnie Clark may be the type we are looking for.

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I agree with you.

The 3-4 that Georgia runs is based on pass rush and stopping the inside run. We've now got a more athletic strong side OLB in true freshman Leonard Floyd 6'4" 220 that can actually keep up with mobile qb's and cover TE's/rb's. On the weak side, Georgia still has the more prototypical pass-rushing OLB, but that might change this off-season. We've got another guy at SS right now that is more of Floyd's body type and he might end up Weak OLB, with any luck.

I know this isn't the UGA board... just illustrating how our defense is kinda-sorta doing what you are calling for on the Bama defense, specifically for spread hunh mobile qb offenses. If you are going to play Malzahn, Ole Miss, and Tamu every year, it needs to be more than just a defensive scheme, it might as well just be your base defense. If you ever find yourself up against a more pro-style offense like UGA or USCe, or in a bowl game, then make some adjustments to have some bigger guys on the outside for those games.

Here's another benefit of doing this.... now your corners don't have to be as physical, because the edge is less of their responsibility.. you can now play the faster guys who aren't necessarily the most physical tacklers.