We don't have the personnel to run a 3-3-5 right now as a regular thing throughout the game. There wouldn't be depth at DE to do it. Could you work in it once in a while? Sure. You'd want your DEs be Jones and Dunlap with Williams at NT. LBs would be Gay, Bolton, and Chenal.
You wouldn't have Jones playing NT and you wouldn't have light DEs like Clark, Danna, and Karlaftis playing that front at all. I mean you could, and you'd get destroyed.
Anyhow, I otherwise agree with DJ. You're going to need zone blitzing and split coverages. Not every zone blitz needs to drop a DE but mixing it up will help keep Burrow off balance. You can roll linebackers and safeties to cover the vacated area just as well as you can drop a defensive lineman.
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