Offensive Coordinator/Defensive Coordinator

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[PowerElite]

This Eagles forum is being dumbed down with talk of 43 to 34 conversion difficulties as if the conversion in itself could ever produce something as horrible defensively as what we have witnessed from the Eagles this season.
34 to 43 conversions are simple today because coordinators are more flexible. Just like morons use to say things like a running QB prospect may need to sit the bench in the NFL for a few seasons. Now coordinators adjust to the players. Bottomline, coordinators adjust to the personnel today much more frequently than in the past.

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[PowerElite]

[BirdsFan06050]

[nlesthought]

Actually stopping the run isn't solely on the NT its on the front 5
2 OLBs who line up on the LOS
2 DEs who line up from head up on the OT to head up on the OG
and the NT who's mainly over the OC

everyone one of those teams have good DEs or 5 techs notable OLBs and a decent NT

Shaun Cody is no slouch
Jay Ratliff is all pro worthy when healthy
BJ Raji
Dan Williams is coming into his own
Casey Hampton
Issac Sopoaga

NTs besides Ratliff aren't penetrating NTs but dirty work hard hat types

The thing that makes running difficult vs 34 is team can't go man v man vs that front 5 and expect to win so they have to double but doubling that frees up LBs and someone gets unaccounted for.

We had an ex Viking as our OL coach and he explained the 34 is pretty much why so many teams went to a ZBS so the OL arent responsible for a man but an area
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[Phire]

Swapping to the 3-4 isn't impossible, but citing the fact that coordinators have become more flexible is just plain weak.

Having a flexible coordinator means nothing if we don't have flexible players. If we swap to a 3-4, we will need to find those pieces. Wasn't Demeco Ryans basically booted from Houston because he wasn't the ideal 3-4 LB?

Does this mean we have to find yet another decent MLB to run in the 3-4?

We have all these dreams of Graham playing OLB, Cox playing DE... etc etc, and yeah, they might work. It would be silly of me to say it can't work.

But it won't be easy, and I'm confident of that regardless of how flexible coordinators are.

These guys will have to be taught a brand new defense, which could actually make this defense even worse.
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[PowerElite]

[nlesthought]

^the same could be said about Mario

Its more the level of play didn't fall off with the replacement who was making way less or would cost less (Mario's case)
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Bird Watch '13 - Placekicker #6 - Alex 'the podiatrist' Henery.
22/27 LNG 51yds; 42 XPs; 1 KOR TD given up.

[Phire]

If you can readily add the pieces fine.

We are an ill-equipped team even for the simplest 4-3 it seems. Forcing the defense into a 3-4 will do more harm for the short run and would only be remedied by building a good defense.

Can we do that? Certainly. But it's the long way around, or so it seems.
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