The Death Of The 3-4

well damn somebody should tell all the teams switching to it, they dunno what they are doing!

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Its coming. This season. Teams still running this (i.e Alabama) are in for the final 'nail in the coffin' so-to-speak. And it won't be 'the spread' that kills it. It will be the emergence of the running QB as never before in the SEC

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Tebow and Newton couldn't run for shite the last three years against Alabama and they're two of the best dual-threat QBs ever.

actually its kind of going in the other direction. many NFL teams are making the switch to 3-4 not away from it. as for college, i don't know. but, it won't die.

People don't encourage him, if you've seen his previous threads, you'd know he's a dumbass...

actually it's better at stopping the running QB.

in all honesty, how many times a game is Alabama in a true 3-4 against spread formations with running QBs?..... I'd say not too much.

even if this was a serious thread, we spend so much time with 4 DL's, two LB's, and five Secondary guys that its a bit misleading to just call us a 3-4 team. Its our base obviously but the key to our 2009 defense was the three CB's and they spent a lot of time out there together.

are one of your secondary guys like a LB when you run the 4-2-5 variant? serious question, i have always been fascinated by the 4-2-5

Um what?

The 3-4 works...if you have the personnel. The keys are the LBs and a true NG. If either of those isn't up to snuff then the defense can struggle to reach its potential. If you can manage to apply pressure to the QB and still hold the front line with just 3 true DL then I don't see how it will ever NOT be effective. Even the great Cam Newton was getting stoned by the 3-4 when he came to Bama and that was probably one of the weakest DL we've fielded since moving to the 3-4.