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Message: [QUOTE="Nick44, post: 3526101, member: 540"] The biggest adjustment to the 3-3-5 scheme always was and will be the ability to adapt to this new run defense. You are down one additional defensive lineman and are relying on an additional safety/DB to be there at the line of scrimmage. Setting the edge is a similar issue that hurt us yesterday. If the outside backer isn’t blitzing, he has to use his length to shore up the edge or else the RB is going to get to the sideline and down the field. Linton and Stefon Johnson need to improve here (and I realize they are just freshman). Missing Cisco and Labrosse (is he okay?) yesterday hurt not only from a talent standpoint but from a size and length standpoint. Robert Hanna was playing a safety position at probably 175 lbs. Yikes. [/QUOTE]