3-4 questions (1 Viewer)

[Rozelle]

Cleveland has their ILB's listed as mike and will, beleive they are the only team that list them that way in NFL gamebook. Baltimore has Lewis as mike and the other inside backer as RILB.

Then we're to assume all the other 3-4 teams simply line up right and left no matter what?

Generally what side would the will lineup at most of the time, (as a general rule)?

 

[Jene Bramel]

Cleveland has their ILB's listed as mike and will, beleive they are the only team that list them that way in NFL gamebook. Baltimore has Lewis as mike and the other inside backer as RILB.

Then we're to assume all the other 3-4 teams simply line up right and left no matter what?

Generally what side would the will lineup at most of the time, (as a general rule)?

Every 3-4 I've seen designates a strong-weak rather than right-left ILB alignment. The ILB shift alignment based on offensive formation. Convention makes the SILB=LILB, WILB=RILB for generic depth chart purposes.

 

[Chaos Commish]

Every 3-4 I've seen...

Could you break those down for us?

 

[Rozelle]

Cleveland has their ILB's listed as mike and will, beleive they are the only team that list them that way in NFL gamebook. Baltimore has Lewis as mike and the other inside backer as RILB.

Then we're to assume all the other 3-4 teams simply line up right and left no matter what?

Generally what side would the will lineup at most of the time, (as a general rule)?

Every 3-4 I've seen designates a strong-weak rather than right-left ILB alignment. The ILB shift alignment based on offensive formation. Convention makes the SILB=LILB, WILB=RILB for generic depth chart purposes.

Thats what I thought ... With most teams being right handed so-to-speak, they run to the right. I charted Clevelands last preseason game and of the 32 plays Williams and Jackson played, D'Qwell lined up to the left of Williams 19 times and he always played on the weak side except when Denver used double TE sets and formation was balanced. I thought this was somewhat unusual for the will to be lined up to the left so often. Guess the Broncos were playing lefthanded