There is a reason only 7 teams in the NFL play a 3-4. You can't do it without the players. You certainly don't switch to a 3-4 and then not even try to get the players. When you do that you are wasting everybody's time because the players you have now won't even be here to play that defense when you do get the players you need. It is total lunacy what Mangini did. Parcells at least got the players he needed.
I wonder from time to time if the Jets aren't playing a 3-4 right now just to get the coaches used to running it and learning the ins and outs. As you point out very few of the players who started in the 3-4 in 2006 will still be around whenever it reaches its peak. It's just a conundrum at the moment. The rhetorical question it poses is: does a team ever profit from playing a scheme for which none of its players are suited? There was one real bright spot from last season in the form of Bryan Thomas at ROLB. He wasn't Lawrence Taylor by any means but he was a solid part of the scheme. Then this season they shifted him to LOLB and BAM! he's invisible again, just like he was at 4-3 RDE when he was in the rotation there on JAbe's frequent absences.
Hmph. . . I fair point that I never really considered until now. It's true that we HAVE swapped between 3-4 and 4-3 over the last decade, and always seemed to have the wrong linebacking corps for the wrong defense. Lineman, also. But, it strikes me that it was the linebackers where the switch hit hardest.
Yep, although the lack of a real NT is just killer right now. James Farrior was one of the NFL's best interior 3-4 LB's with the Steelers and Vilma was headed towards being a top 5 MLB in the 4-3 with the Jets.
he had some severe eye problems when he was young and has a lazy eye, and he has a lisp, i agree he isnt that good, but to make fun of someones disabilities is just wrong....parcells always says u dont want a celebrity quaterback and leinart always runs with the celeb crowd from his days at usc, i love parcells
