[sherck]

As I was looking at potential free agents for our D-Line, I realized that I needed to get a better understanding of which teams played a 3-4 versus a 4-3 because players from both schemes are listed as "DE" or "OLB" but players from those positions are NOT interchangeable.

I could not find a good listing of which teams play which defense so I ended up going through each team's official depth chart to see what they said they played.

I knew that the 3-4 had been making a comeback after being out of favor for a while but I was a bit surprised to see that, for the entire NFL, that split between 3-4 defenses and 4-3 defenses was 50/50, 16 teams had the 3-4 and 16 teams had the 4-3 listed as their defense on their depth chart.

However, the other interesting things were the breakdown per conference:

AFC = 11 3-4 Defenses / 05 4-3 Defenses

NFC = 05 3-4 Defenses / 11 4-3 Defenses


Thoughts? Ideals about this split? It just seemed interesting to me that the defensive concepts were split by conference.


Cheers,