3-4 and the Scout Team

[jdbillsfan]

I may have misunderstood this or maybe no teams do this, but Trent said in his presser that the scout team didn't run the 3-4 all week, they ran the 4-3. The team was totally unprepared to play against Green Bay and once again the coaching staff didn't have the team ready.

Why would you not practice against the 3-4 during the week? It's not like some random defense that no one plays.

This team continues to be unprepared for NFL games.

[HHURRICANE]

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If this is true than some coaches heads should role.

[jdbillsfan]

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These are some trent quotes:

"We didn't face a scout team 3-4 defense, we faced our 4-3 defense"

"I was very surprised how many different looks their defense gave us"

"We haven't faced a full speed live contact 3-4 defense since the Patriots last year"


Due to so much trouble they have had vs the 3-4, wouldn't they practice against it? At least run the scout team as a 3-4 the week before you are playing a 3-4 defense.

[camelcowboy]

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Just the fact every team in our division uses a 3-4. To see the bills not practicing against is shocking to say the least.

[Dr. Lecter]

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I may have misunderstood this or maybe no teams do this, but Trent said in his presser that the scout team didn't run the 3-4 all week, they ran the 4-3. The team was totally unprepared to play against Green Bay and once again the coaching staff didn't have the team ready.

Why would you not practice against the 3-4 during the week? It's not like some random defense that no one plays.

This team continues to be unprepared for NFL games.

If they do this in the regular season I am upset.

Not doing it in the pre-season is meaningless to me.

[Meathead]

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the only way i could see defending their not practicing against 3-4 is that they are still following some internal schedule for installing their own defense - ie they dont want to take time to even start scout-teaming the 3-4 yet. even so, with the mnf slaughter looming id like to think they would have made better use practicing against GBs newly implemented 3-4. my conf in these coaches is at an all time low but id still have to hear their rationale before i could make a determination if it was another fubar move

[OpIv37]

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If they do this in the regular season I am upset.

Not doing it in the pre-season is meaningless to me.

Pre season is practice for the regular season. that's the whole point. Why wait until the regular season to practice something so important?

[Stewie]

Re: 3-4 and the Scout Team

I may have misunderstood this or maybe no teams do this, but Trent said in his presser that the scout team didn't run the 3-4 all week, they ran the 4-3. The team was totally unprepared to play against Green Bay and once again the coaching staff didn't have the team ready.

Why would you not practice against the 3-4 during the week? It's not like some random defense that no one plays.

This team continues to be unprepared for NFL games.

ummmm???

there have been real NFL games? wtf I knew I should stop drinking.

[OpIv37]

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ummmm???

there have been real NFL games? wtf I knew I should stop drinking.

this year, no.

But what 3-4 teams were we prepared for last year? Same ****, different day.

[mysticsoto]

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If they do this in the regular season I am upset.

Not doing it in the pre-season is meaningless to me.

Lecter, our season opener is against the Patriots...they should be practicing it now and it would have been a great test run to see how they did against GB once they practiced it. It's actually a lost opportunity. There's no one to blame but coaching on this. The Oline is new...they needed the practice before hand and then the game to gain experience against this formation. Anyway you look at it, it's a wasted opportunity - hardly meaningless...

[Hemlepp53]

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BLame it on Sick Dick.... He needs to hit the road. We dont need an entire season of bull**** like this. Mental Errors are what loses games along with bad play recognition.

[BuffaloRanger]

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This team is turning me into a Lesbian. I really hate Dick.

In fact, I may have to put that in my Sig.

[X-Era]

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I think they may go from evaluating players in their 4-3 to using the backups to run scout teams much more after the next game once they have the widdled down the roster a bit more.

No, I don't think they are in scout team mode yet.

[Dr. Lecter]

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Lecter, our season opener is against the Patriots...they should be practicing it now and it would have been a great test run to see how they did against GB once they practiced it. It's actually a lost opportunity. There's no one to blame but coaching on this. The Oline is new...they needed the practice before hand and then the game to gain experience against this formation. Anyway you look at it, it's a wasted opportunity - hardly meaningless...

But they also need to have their defense practicing their base formation and schemes. Running against a 3-4 as part of game planning for a pre-season game is no big deal to me, especially with the opener 4 weeks away.

[justasportsfan]

Re: 3-4 and the Scout Team

These are some trent quotes:

"We didn't face a scout team 3-4 defense, we faced our 4-3 defense"

"I was very surprised how many different looks their defense gave us"

"We haven't faced a full speed live contact 3-4 defense since the Patriots last year"

Same crap different year.


When will they start practicing vs. the 3-4 ? 1 week before regular season? Besides, how the hell will the scout team know how to mimmick the pats when our coaches themselves don't even know what a 3-4 is.