How silly. Well thought out and reasoned posts take more than a bumper sticker to explain.
Whether any Super Bowl defenses “started 3 LB’s” or not is totally irrelevant.
In fact, a “KC Nation” site in a preview of the
2022 season had this to say about “starting 3 LBs”...."The traditional,
three-linebacker sets are far from the true “base” personnel of the defense; last season, only 27% of their defensive snaps came with four defensive backs on the field — which was still the 10th-highest rate in the NFL,
per Football Outsiders."
The FACT is that nickel and dime defenses have been steadily growing as THE defensive go-to for more and more snaps.
In 2008, the percentage of snaps over the whole NFL that had five or more defensive backs averaged 43.4% That steadily increased every year so that by 2015, it was up to 63.4%
In 2021 that percentage was
75%.
The team with the highest percentage of nickel and dime snap count was Dallas at 98%, followed closely by Buffalo with
95%.
The Bills led the league in nickel snap count with
92%.
Nickel and dime defenses are now the overwhelming norm in the NFL and the new “base defense”.
In Buffalo, the idea of taking Taron Johnson, who was their most steady and dependable CB last season, OFF THE FIELD and replace him with a LB
that we do not have is absurd beyond measure.
Of course what you stupidly dismiss as "
rambling word vomiting” shows unequivocally how the Bills are responding to the loss of Edmunds...concentrating on bolstering the secondary....and the idea that they will abandon the nickel as their “base” defense and regularly have 3 LB’s is not supported by the facts or any kind of reasonable logic or common sense.
The idea that your “one sentence” bumper sticker of irrelevance trumps the well reasoned and accurate analysis backed up with facts is really ludicrous.