Prospects for Shanahans offense/Hasletts 3-4 D

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Originally Posted by The Goat

The ESPN crew had a couple comments about Haslett going to a 3-4. Basically we need to find a way to maximize London's tackling ability.

I still don't agree at all w/ the strategy. The offense needs a massive overhaul to compete in the league, while running a 4-3 defense we're pretty close to set already. Switching to the 3/4 just means we have to draft acquire guys on the defensive side, which is a shame when we could literally use every draft pick on offense, sign 2 or 3 offensive FAs, and probably still be a bit below avg on offensive talent.
On the one hand I'd say Allen and Shanny's decision to go w/ Haslett and the 3-4 means they're committed to a rebuild time of at least a couple years. On the other hand I don't sense Haslett will be here long. Shanny rarely gives his defenses, both coaching and roster, a chance to put something together over the long haul. And Haslett hasn't had great success anywhere. I tend to think he's here for a year, two at most.

First off, it's going to be an uncapped year so we could easily get Julius Peppers and have him as an OLB, sign Larry Foote from Detroit and have him at MLB with Fletch to teach them the 3-4, then we could go after Hampton and Wilfork, but probably won't get either sense both their franchises will either tag them or resign them before free agency. That just leaves question marks at NT and the other DE position, even though I believe that Haynesworth will be one DE and Gholston, Alexander could rotate as starters as the other end and Montgomery could be our NT. We could draft someone like Vince Ogabassee from Duke as a 3-4 DE cause he's 6'6 305 and an athletic DT in a 4-3, or we could get an Arthur jones coming off an injury, he graded out to be a first rounder, corey wooten the same.