I am convinced that some people think the 3-4 was just invented in the last decade.

Majority of your snaps are run out of nickel in today’s college football so if you run a 4-3 that is a 4-2-5 with 3 cb’s and two safeties (base 4-2-5 is usually 3 safeties and 2 CB’s) and if you run a 3-4 that goes to a 3-3-5 with 3 CB’s and 2 safeties. On almost every single play you are rushing at least 4 towards the LOS and the offense knows who your base 4 rushers are now matter how many d linemen are on the field based on film study and tendencies.

Once you get to exotic blitzes and what not a 3 man front has advantages in being able to disguise blitzes, but a dominant 4 man d line that can get to the QB regularly without blitzing, which is what O wants, allows you to drop 7 in coverage and will lead to more TO’s.

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Posted by SlowFlowPro

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Posted on 12/28/20 at 8:10 am to geauxtigers33

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so if you run a 4-3 that is a 4-2-5 with 3 cb’s and two safeties (base 4-2-5 is usually 3 safeties and 2 CB’s) and if you run a 3-4 that goes to a 3-3-5

most 3-man base Ds go to a 4-man DL in the nickel. it's not a 3-3-5. sometimes it's labeled as a 2-man front but that's just trying to be clever

base 4-2-5 and 3-3-5 are different than nickel looks from a 4-3/3-4

gap assignments matter a lot more than how you label your down lineman anyway. there are 2-gap 4-man base Ds and combination gap schemes (like the Tampa 2, which had a 2-gap DT typically over center to allow the star 3-tech to attack a single gap of his choice pretty freely)

This post was edited on 12/28/20 at 8:27 am

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