Lombardi's column

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While it's clear in hindsight that this team did not have the personnel to run the 3-4, the assumption that we had the personnel to run the 4-3 is based on another assumption that Albert Haynesworth would have been both a good soldier, and a dominant player in the scheme. Perhaps, but I don't think it's any more likely than it would have been running the 3-4, but without the feud between Shanahan and Haynesworth in the offseason.

I think the assumption is that we would have put Orakpo at DE in the 4-3, but we would have had the same problem against the run then that we did this year, not enough run defenders to keep blockers off Fletcher. That changes if Haynesworth eats blockers...but, you know, that could have happened in the 3-4 as well.

We're caught in between two defensive fronts right now, and need to go one way or the other in the offseason. No riding the middle.