Interesting nugget in the press conference
 

1) other than luck still can't throw a football

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2) we are definitely going to a 4-3. and the one that lovie used in chicago. which i believe was a tampa 2 right? granted a way better version of ours.

i can't say i watched too much of the bears during that time so i don't know how much they deviated from the standard dungy version.

thoughts on this news?

Tampa-2 is great if you have an athletic MLB who can drop 20 yards, and a killer DL.

With Chubb, Colts could have 1 of those 2 things...

(But I do love the idea of Hooker in a Tampa-2.)

regardless of which style of defense, ILB/MLB remains a top priority in the draft. I'm sure Ballard has ideas on the kind of guy he wants in that position.
But a DL of Chubb, Hankins, Wood, Anderson - you know that's not half bad.

Lovie had Urlacher, Lance Briggs, and that safety who was good for a bit, Mike Brown. That's probably why it seemed like a better version. Pretty sure it was the same flavor of Tampa 2, just with better ingredients.

Under Lovie they did run more man concepts, maybe blitzed a little more, but that's about it.

Anyone have details on the Dallas defense from the last two seasons? That is probably the closest approximation to what we can expect here. I find it hard to believe it's that close to a pure Tampa 2 base.

that is a good point

i fucking hate dallas so i only watch them under protest

The biggest ingredient that you missed which makes the Tampa-2 go was Tommy Harris getting the inside penetration (just like Warren Sapp in Tampa).

We never had that in Indy except for Booger and that other DT that I cannot remember his name who had the bad knees. 2 or 3 good years in all the time Dungy was in Indy. Those defenses were improved because of inside pressure. Otherwise, our DTs were fricking 265 pound wonders.

With Hankins/Woods/Anderson/Hunt/Ridgeway at DT and Sheard/Chubb/Basham/free agent at DE, I think we will have a D-Line that can do the job of a Tampa-2.

Simon/Mingo at SSLB with perhaps a free agent/Walker at WSLB leaves our 2nd round pick to be the best ILB we can get; I don't think there are any good MLBs in free agency this year.

I think we can get to a Tampa-2 front-7 setup pretty well in 2018.

Walk Worthy,

Good reminder of the Tampa-2 (located here).
Key quote:
I hate getting run on.

Walk Worthy,

Yep. It wasn’t as vanilla Tampa 2 as we saw under Dungy here.