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This was a great interview with Carroll, Pete‘s a funny guy
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yENJ6m93pFk

Looking forward to seeing a competently run team. It’s been so long though I'm not sure we know what that looks like.

[quote=CWood24 post_id=1289326]Pete Carroll generally doesn’t call the plays he lets his coordinators do that like Dan Campbell does for the Lions

Pete is more of a strategist type, which i think works in the NFL pretty well. So i can him leaving scheme upto them aswell.

Whilst his OC & DC are getting the players ready he is looking at the strengths & weaknesses of the opposition to devise a plan to negate those strengths whilst taking advantage of the chink in the armour he can see.

I think the days of HC calling plays is slowly coming to an end & we’re rolling more to the OC /DC play calling[/quote]
Yes but thing is that Graham is a 3-4 coach. If they were really planning to let the DC run things his way then we would be running a 3-4. We signed signed three veteran linebackers. Maybe all three of them will start in a 4-3 under scheme?

[quote=erickench post_id=1289478]
Yes but thing is that Graham is a 3-4 coach. If they were really planning to let the DC run things his way then we would be running a 3-4. We signed signed three veteran linebackers. Maybe all three of them will start in a 4-3 under scheme?[/quote]Graham isn’t a 3-4 coach he runs more of a hybrid scheme which you have to be in todays NFL

Singing 3 veteran linebackers does ‘t really mean anything for the scheme. Robert's probably starts but at this point in there careers White & Smith are depth at best or dare i say it camp fodder

[quote=CWood24 post_id=1289500]Graham isn’t a 3-4 coach he runs more of a hybrid scheme which you have to be in todays NFL

Singing 3 veteran linebackers does ‘t really mean anything for the scheme. Robert's probably starts but at this point in there careers White & Smith are depth at best or dare i say it camp fodder[/quote]When Graham was hired, he came in known as a 3-4, and of course there was a ton of scuttle about Maxx fitting in, long before the 1st snap. Every year since, we've pretty much run a 4-2-5 base, but we've always ran a 4 man pass rush when the game was still on the line, we've gone to 3 man pass rushes when we're up by 2-3 scores.

Carroll usually ran a 4-3 or 3-4 hybrids, whichever you want to call it. The LEO is the spot where we move into a more hybrid spot. He always had that speed DE/LB edge rusher, so some will say oh, that's a 4-3, some will say that's a 3-4. Now with the passing game, we've gone to a 2 maximum LB on the field in the last 2-3 seasons. I would think that base is going to continue, thus Jeremy Chinn starting in another hybrid role, that of a S/LB. It's quite a bit confusing when depth charts are put out or starting lineups are posted on the TV as to how to label players. End of day base will be 4-2-5. With a dime of 4-1-6. Now who gets the Spillane role of playing all snaps? Hard to say.

We shifted to a 4-3 defense because Maxx is at his best in that system. We, like all teams, run variety of sets during a game and with our weaker LB position we have utilized more safety packages dropping out one of the LBs quite a bit but the base has been the 4-3

[quote=Attyla post_id=1289534]We shifted to a 4-3 defense because Maxx is at his best in that system. We, like all teams, run variety of sets during a game and with our weaker LB position we have utilized more safety packages dropping out one of the LBs quite a bit but the base has been the 4-3[/quote]Last time I remember us running a 3-4 as our base was the late 70's.

[quote=SkullCrusher post_id=1289536]Last time I remember us running a 3-4 as our base was the late 70's.[/quote]We ran it in the 80's as well. We ran it in SuperBowl 18. We still had Reggie Kinlaw manning the Middle Guard spot. We drafted Mike Wise/Scott Davis stacking it on top of Howie, Pickel and Townsend in 1990 is when we changed to the 4-3.

You need a special guy to be the NT in a legitimate 3-4 defense. We have never really had a great NT since I can remember.

[quote=rcraider post_id=1289384]This was a great interview with Carroll, Pete‘s a funny guy
[/quote]Funny how? Like he's a clown? Like he's here to f[raiders_icon]cking amuse you?

[quote=raiderjohn post_id=1289537]We ran it in the 80's as well. We ran it in SuperBowl 18. We still had Reggie Kinlaw manning the Middle Guard spot. We drafted Mike Wise/Scott Davis stacking it on top of Howie, Pickel and Townsend in 1990 is when we changed to the 4-3.[/quote]Good knowledge. I didn't remember them playing 3-4 after Hendricks retired, but you are absolutely right.

The Raiders won their first superbowl using a 3-4 defense. I was a great fan of it for a very long time until I realized that cover 3 was a more balanced type of defense. Graham is clearly a 3-4 coach. You can tell that by the way he scouts defensive linemen. Since he's been here he's been ordered to run a four man front. He just knows how to handle linebackers and Carroll knows how to handle defensive backs. As for Leonard I am not impressed with his resume. He doesn't seem to have a good reputation when it comes to handling defensive linemen. Any success he's had as a Raider Coach may be considered a fluke.

This will be year 3 under Patrick Graham, so all of the kinks should technically be ironed out by now.

[quote=rich72 post_id=1289578]This will be year 3 under Patrick Graham, so all of the kinks should technically be ironed out by now.[/quote]Agreed. I don't dislike Graham..... but, I'm not quite sure he's what people seem to think he is. I will be quite happy to know I'm wrong.