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The score is reporting that the Bears have hired Paul Pasqualoni as their LB coach. All 5 years(3 years as a DC) he was in the NFL his teams ran a 3-4. He spent the last 3 years at UConn where, looking at film of Sio Moore and Yawin Smallwood, he ran a bit of a hybrid.

 

He is said to be a good teacher, and that bodes well for a team that just drafted 2 LBs, and it wouldn't shock me to see a 3rd drafted this year....Perhaps the previously mentioned Smallwood in the 2R.

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QUOTE (scs787 @ Jan 16, 2014 -> 11:48 AM)
The score is reporting that the Bears have hired Paul Pasqualoni as their LB coach. All 5 years(3 years as a DC) he was in the NFL his teams ran a 3-4. He spent the last 3 years at UConn where, looking at film of Sio Moore and Yawin Smallwood, he ran a bit of a hybrid.

 

He is said to be a good teacher, and that bodes well for a team that just drafted 2 LBs, and it wouldn't shock me to see a 3rd drafted this year....Perhaps the previously mentioned Smallwood in the 2R.

The writing has been on the wall for a while that the Bears were going to switch to a 3-4 defense or at least some hybrid of it when Emery was hired. He hired a head coach who ran a 3-4 in Canada, and Emery did do his best work in Kansas City getting guys that fit their 3-4 scheme and we saw how good that defense was with the right coaching. Looking at his drafts with the Bears, you saw a lot more 3-4 guys than tampa cover 2 guys. McClellian was definitely considered more of a LB type than a 4-3 rush DE even in a tampa 2 scheme. Hardin was a big physical corner who didn't fit into the mold of a cover 2 corner. Bostic wasn't a tampa 2 MLB, he's much more of a FILB in a 3-4 scheme because of his ability to run down hill and take on blockers. Greene was actually a good fit as a WILL in the tampa 2, but the WILL and the BILB in the 3-4 are very similar to because in the 3-4, the field ILB takes on the blockers to allow the boundary ILB to run around and make plays.

 

However, I do kind of hope the Bears stick with a 4-3 base but mix in a lot of different looks and play plenty of 3-4. I believe the Bears are the only franchise in the NFL to have never been a 3-4 team. Besides, I really hate the bubbles the 3-4 defense provides and I prefer the 3-4 really only in pass rushing situations to f*** with OLine protection rules and disguising where the 4th rusher or the blitz is coming from. Personally, I love the 2 gap 4-3 scheme the Seahawks run. It's very similar to the 3-4 where you have 3 down lineman who eat up blockers and 2 undersized DE's but oversized LB's on the edge (one stand up, one with his hand in the dirt in the Seahawks scheme). I'm sorry, I can go on for days about this stuff.

 

Either way, I like the hire of Paul Pasqualini, even if he might not be a very good collegiate HC. Whomever they hire as the DLine coach should probably give us a better indication of what type of scheme will be ran. I'm gonna guess it was someone with a background in both 4-3 and 3-4 schemes as I'm definitely thinking hybrid is the way the Bears are going.

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QUOTE (Paulstar @ Jan 16, 2014 -> 10:36 PM)
The writing has been on the wall for a while that the Bears were going to switch to a 3-4 defense or at least some hybrid of it when Emery was hired. He hired a head coach who ran a 3-4 in Canada, and Emery did do his best work in Kansas City getting guys that fit their 3-4 scheme and we saw how good that defense was with the right coaching. Looking at his drafts with the Bears, you saw a lot more 3-4 guys than tampa cover 2 guys. McClellian was definitely considered more of a LB type than a 4-3 rush DE even in a tampa 2 scheme. Hardin was a big physical corner who didn't fit into the mold of a cover 2 corner. Bostic wasn't a tampa 2 MLB, he's much more of a FILB in a 3-4 scheme because of his ability to run down hill and take on blockers. Greene was actually a good fit as a WILL in the tampa 2, but the WILL and the BILB in the 3-4 are very similar to because in the 3-4, the field ILB takes on the blockers to allow the boundary ILB to run around and make plays.

 

However, I do kind of hope the Bears stick with a 4-3 base but mix in a lot of different looks and play plenty of 3-4. I believe the Bears are the only franchise in the NFL to have never been a 3-4 team. Besides, I really hate the bubbles the 3-4 defense provides and I prefer the 3-4 really only in pass rushing situations to f*** with OLine protection rules and disguising where the 4th rusher or the blitz is coming from. Personally, I love the 2 gap 4-3 scheme the Seahawks run. It's very similar to the 3-4 where you have 3 down lineman who eat up blockers and 2 undersized DE's but oversized LB's on the edge (one stand up, one with his hand in the dirt in the Seahawks scheme). I'm sorry, I can go on for days about this stuff.

 

Either way, I like the hire of Paul Pasqualini, even if he might not be a very good collegiate HC. Whomever they hire as the DLine coach should probably give us a better indication of what type of scheme will be ran. I'm gonna guess it was someone with a background in both 4-3 and 3-4 schemes as I'm definitely thinking hybrid is the way the Bears are going.

 

So basically you want a hybrid defense.

 

You don't get Mike Pettine.

 

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QUOTE (GoSox05 @ Jan 17, 2014 -> 08:20 AM)
Didn't the Bears come out and say they aren't running a 3-4?

 

They kept Mel Tucker.

 

Tucker has experience running both 4-3 and 3-4, so it really doesnt matter that he was retained. All I keep reading is "hybrid 3-4", so it seems like they keeping it as an option

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QUOTE (LittleHurt05 @ Jan 17, 2014 -> 10:29 AM)
I'm 3-5 at picking winners so far this postseason, so might as well jinx two more teams.

 

49ers 20, Seahawks 13

 

Broncos 41, Patriots 28

 

I'm going:

 

Seahawks 31, 49ers 16

 

Broncos 27, Patriots 24

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QUOTE (BigSqwert @ Jan 17, 2014 -> 12:41 PM)
I'm going:

 

Seahawks 31, 49ers 16

 

Broncos 27, Patriots 24

 

I will be impressed if the Seahawks snuff out the 49ers like that, i see it much closer

 

Seahawks 24 - 49ers 20 (great sadness in the old rebuilt car community)

 

Patriots 35 - Broncos 27

 

im 4 - 4 so far this postseason, so one of these is right and one is wrong, lol

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I hope Manning wins. He seems pretty cool and I think takes a bad rap for winning "only" one Super Bowl.

 

The other game, I think Seattle will win but if it's SF, I wouldn't mind. I know Harbaugh comes off as a chooch sometimes, but when he was with the Bears, I played in a card game with him once, and he was really nice. He didn't seem like the sharpest knife in the drawer, but he sure has been a successful coach. And you should win some points for wearing $8 Walmart pants on national television.

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