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I've actually had a chance recently to go over a 3-4 under by jt

scheme with a kid who has to play against it. (I would have been taught to call it an over scheme, but Pete Carrol calls it an under so who am I to correct him?). Basically, you shift the DL over to the strength and slide a WLB/Jack to the far outside shade of the weak tackle. Basically, if you understand the number assignments of the defense, it looks like a wide 5, 2i or a 1 tilt, and then a wide 3 for the DL with the WLB walked up in that 9.

It is VERY similar to a 4-3, but they really can fuck with you on the weak side. In the pass game, if you man pro that (as you normally would an okie front) and the WLB drops in coverage and they blitz strength, you are going to have a hard time picking that up and will be outnumbered with the weak tackle blocking nobody. Or, you man pro that and they run a game between the OLB and the end (some kind of twist) and your line had better be able to switch (it was something that the Niners did all the time when they had Aldon Smith and Justin Smith). If you slide pro that, you run the risk of sliding to the side that's dropping into coverage and getting run over on the other side.

The thing is, you can run that front as a base look and as a nickel or dime as well, which is especially advantageous in the passing defense game.

It's really a good scheme for the pass game. To me, there's gaping holes and bubbles vs the run. You had better have a stud NG playing that 1 tilt/2i, and your weak end needs to be stout as well. The WLB/Jack has to be a two way player and a real threat in the pass rush scheme as well.

To me, it's more of an NFL defense, but I can see the value in trying it at the college level, especially with the pass concepts being so en vogue.