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[Mongo]

I just read the Bills are planning a switch to a 34. Is this true? If so what do you do with Mario? Doesn't that make Mark Anderson expendible? Who mans the OLB spots? Manny Lawson fits, what about ROLB? Do you move Scott back to safety?

Questions abound.
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[TommyC376]

We are going to be running a hybrid defense ... Multiple looks in the 3-4 and 4-3.
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[cdavls17]

Bills will run multiple looks 4-3 and 3-4 this is what the starting lineup would look like at each scheme right now

3-4 Dareus DE Branch NT K Williams DE
with Carrington and troupe as back ups
Mario OLB Sheppard ILB Moats ILB Anderson OLB
With Bradham Lawson Downit Scott
CB Leodis and Gilmore
S Searcy/A Williams and Byrd

4-3 Mario DE Dareus DT K Williams DT Anderson DE
Bradham WLB Sheppard MLB and Lawson SLB
Leodis and Gilmore CB
Searcy/a Williams SS and Byrd FS

Buffalo rumblings put an article explaining the hybrid

http://www.buffalorumblings.com/2013/4/16/4230340/buffalo-bills-hybrid-defense-explaining-substitutions-alignments
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Thanks Max

[TommyC376]

As of right now - before the draft I would want the 4-3 and 3-4 to look like this.

3-4

Dareus - Branch - K. Williams
M. Williams - Sheppard - Bradham - Anderson/Lawson
McKelvin - Byrd - A. Williams - Gimore


4-3

M. Williams - Dareus - K. Williams - M. Anderson
Bradham - Sheppard - Lawson
McKelvin - Byrd - A. Williams - Gilmore
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[cdavls17]

Nix said they expect Bradham to be a 3 down OLB so I don't think he will be moving inside. Moats is said to be moving inside. Nix also said that an open competition at ss with searcy and Williams so no answer as to who will start there.
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Thanks Max

[TommyC376]

[cdavls17]

Haha I am assuming the bills will be going for inside linebacker at some point in the draft. I wouldn't mind a team like niners trade with bills and they get 31, 34 and other picks and with one of those 2 they take a guy like olgetree or minter to pair up next to sheppard
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[Trentwannabe]

Arthur Moats will be cut during camp.

The depth chart Tommy made looks very accurate as to what the Bills would have on the field. Before the draft obviously.
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[DKTurtle51]

[cdavls17]

Dk they said Bradham will be a 3 down OLB which means outside linebacker they never said he will be a 3 down linebacker which means he could possibly be moved inside, stay outside or play both.
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[DKTurtle51]

[PacAttack04]

Does anyone think Mario would play DE in the 3-4? He's physically exactly the type of player JJ Watt is if not more athletic. He could be used more like Watt than a LB. When he was with Houston, obvious Smith and Watt were there so they put him at OLB to get the best players on the field, but this would be a different case, put him at DE, Daerus at NT, and Williams at DE, Branch retaining a 1st lineman off the bench role. Then find a true OLB, someone who can cover and rush, unlike Williams whose more of a DE than LB

[cdavls17]

Its a possibility Mario stated in an interview afte mini camp that he likes the new defense and pettine has placed him in multiple ares on different scheme. Right now anything can happen but I think he is more of a 3-4 OLB he was in Houston and had 5.5 sacks in the 5 games he played in before injury.
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[DKTurtle51]

[Dark Angel]

I think Anderson maybe the odd man out if they find someone in the draft