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Originally Posted by TheGuardian

Clancy does not. He has never run a 3-4 two gap front as a defensive coordinator and one of the reasons that Whiz let him go in Zona was because he wanted to get someone who runs a two gap 3-4. Gary Gibbs also ran a 4-3 with the Saints, not a 3-4. And this wasn't by request of Sean Payton, who is also a Parcell's descendant.

I didn't say either of them had experience with the 3-4 as a COORDINATOR. Both of them, especially Gibbs, have 3-4 experience as position coaches or graduate assitants for college teams.

The big knock on Gibbs with the fans in New Orleans was that his background was almost exclusively 3-4 prior to joining the team. And he was a key member of the 2005 Cowboys coaching staff transitioning them from 4-3 to 3-4.

Originally Posted by TheGuardian

Basically you guys keep going back to the fact that you think we are going to run a two gap 3-4 but you haven't shown a thing that points to that, other than Haley being a Parcell's guy and Pioli being in New England. If they wanted to run a true 3-4 that bad, they would have hired TRUE 3-4 guys. They didn't. They hired guys that have run fronts that are SIMILAR to 3-4 fronts, but run in 1 gap schemes. And that's a fact. So until you have something tangible that points to us going to a 3-4 two gap front maybe it's best to stop talking about it like it's fact.

I haven't said a word about gap assignments. I'm talking about 30 fronts vs. 40 fronts. The two ARE NOT inclusive. It's too bad the rest of us can't be up to your level of football acumen.