Bengals offensive line

[DJ's left nut]

Originally Posted by poolboy

call it what you want...safeties and linebackers are getting moved around

No - it's a completely different alignment. Stop arguing and read.

A 3-3-5 is an odd front and we don't use our DEs as standup backers apart from occasionally widening them into a 9 and letting them rush from a 2-point stance. Nor do we run odd fronts. We do, however, heavily utilize heavy nickel formations that utilize four down lineman, 2 backers and 3 safeties.

A 3-3-5 isn't 'shifting safeties and linebackers.' It's changing the entire nature of your DL. Jones would line up as a zero technique (effectively guaranteeing a double if not TRIPLE team) and the DE's would align as 3-techniques, a position Clark doesn't have the functional strength to do well and Danna/Karlaftis don't have the length for. Dunlap is the only guy who might do well in a 3 technique but he has so little burst these days that you may as well have him 2 gapping.

Maybe consider shutting up and learning something. It would be a fundamental shift in our defensive philosophy. If you wanted to do some of it you might find some success with Jones at the 3 technique, Williams/Nnadi/Saunders at 0 and Dunlap at the other 3 with Clark playing OLB, but now you're just talking about shifting to a 3-4.