re: Parys Haralson signs one year deal.

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I think this is one of the adjustments you're going to see in the league soon.

The 3-4 and 4-3 base sets are getting overblown. Seems like good defensive teams are starting to go with a 3 safety set (Seattle and us are the main two) because all the safeties are rangy in coverage and can tackle relatively well to stop the run as well.

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That's not true at all about Seattle:

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Their 3rd and 4th safeties played a combined 79 out of 1,042 snaps(7.5%). Combined two safeties would have played 2,084 snaps. In total Seattle's safeties played 2,093 snaps. That means there were only 9 plays where they had 3 safeties(less than 1%).

And there are no other teams that had 3 safety sets as the norm.

The ONLY reason we did it is because we had 4 starting quality safeties vs. 3 corners half the season(after PRob went down) and 2 corners the other half(after Greer went down).

We were actually starting to play White a lot more in nickel than a 3rd safety(when Harper was injured). Then Greer went down and Harper got healthy.

Going forward, if Prob is healthy and/or we draft a corner, I expect to see us playing 3 corners vs. 3 safeties more evenly. Situation dictated last season a lot more than scheme.

The only thing I agree with is that 3-4 and 4-3 are not base defenses any more. The league average was over 50% nickel packages(I think around 60%).