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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mradtke66" data-source="post: 758830" data-attributes="member: 4199">I don't think I could disagree more.Block-eater vs. Penetrating linemen don't necessarily have anything to with 4-3 vs. 3-4, though it does often correlate.  If you 2-gap, you have blocker-eaters.  If you 1-gap, you have penetrating linemen.  Historically, 3-4's have primarily been 2-gap defenses and 4-3 1-gap, but you don't have to be.  Wade Phillips is very 1-gap and he runs a 3-4.Further, I don't think Lowry would be a good DE in a 4-3.  He lacks the long arms of an edge defender.  He'd be pretty ineffectual doing it all game.And the idea that 3-4s are unique in needing "elite edge rushers," really makes me laugh.  Both schemes do better with elite edge rushers.  In a 4-3, we call them DE and their hands are in the dirt.  In a 3-4, we call them OLB and they stand in a two-point.  They're 95% the same position, which is why most sites refer to be universally as EDGE.Further, if we did switch to a 4-3 tomorrow, our nickel defense would probably be the same front 4 we have today: Matthews, Clark, Daniels, Perry.</blockquote>

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