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Message: [QUOTE="Palatine, post: 4376079, member: 974"] It was a base 3-4. On most plays, one of the LBs would come forward on either end of the line giving it a 4-3 look. They changed the front on some plays sometimes giving it a 5-2 look and we did have 6 or 7 on the line on some occasions. They even moved pre-snap. Not often. But they the lined up in a 3-4. Moved the left OLB to LDE. Then they shifted the 3 DL to the right just before the snap. We never saw that last year. The problem was the complete lack of pressure. In a base 3-4 the DL are suppose to eat up the OL to give the LBs the opportunity to make plays. They played OK against the run (until the 4th quarter). But on passing downs they were a liability. None of our defensive linemen were winning their one on one battles. And none of our blitzing LBs, with the exception of one JMitch blitz, came close to getting home. That could be a scheme problem. But it might be a personnel problem. Meaning that our LBs were losing their one one battles when they had responsibility to apply pressure. It's sometthing the staff must look at. [/QUOTE]