Full Transcript for Wes & Walker- Live Wire

00:00:00 Speaker 1: You ready to play some sound over there, Flound? 00:00:01 Speaker 2: This time, I truly believe that. 00:00:03 Speaker 1: I was about to say. 00:00:04 Speaker 2: Are we ready to go? 00:00:05 Speaker 1: 100%. I believe you. I really do believe you. You've earned my trust. 00:00:09 Speaker 2: So watch it, not fire. 00:00:11 Speaker 1: We got Boss Man here also watching. Colin with the eyes on Floundy. Time now for some sounding. The eyes of Colin are upon you. Yeah! Nailed it, Flound. What you got? 00:00:25 Speaker 2: Blah, blah, connect. Hey! All right. And let's go to the man that loves to talk about how a group is doing. That would be David C. Canales. I'm not sure if his middle name is C, but who knows? 00:00:42 Speaker 3: Most interesting thing that he said yesterday, he was asked about the defense and whether or not they would sort of switch things up a little bit. He is staunchly putting his feet down that this is... a team that is built to be a 3-4 team. 00:00:56 Speaker 1: Are you guys going to a 4-3 defense, base defense? 00:00:59 Speaker 4: I won't get into scheme and all that, but we're built to be a 3-4 team. 00:01:03 Speaker 5: You do understand with the context clues of an outside linebacker's coach going and coaching the D-line and also Todd's background that there is speculation that you would kind of mix in and match in some fronts. 00:01:15 Speaker 4: We're built to play a certain way. That's the talent that we have. Our commitment is to get the best 11 on the field, and I don't really want to get into the details of it. because we have a game this week. So, you know, we'll keep that to ourselves. But it's safe to say, you know, we have a really good, solid room of outside linebackers, you know, and pass rushers, and translate really well. When you play in a nickel, you know, it's just the normal deal, you know. So in base defense, you know, there's going to be a flavor, but we're going to put the best 11 on the field. 00:01:47 Speaker 2: All right, so. 00:01:49 Speaker 3: Do you believe the head coach that there will not be any adjustments to the scheme? Or do you believe some of the crackpot theories on Twitter? I've seen multiple ones of these that they will be switching to. I don't know exactly what this is. Maybe you would know, Wes, a little bit more than me. 00:02:05 Speaker 1: A 4-3-U defense? Yeah, I've never heard of a 4-3-U defense. That's 43 and under. We got that taken care of. 00:02:15 Speaker 6: Yeah, I would say it means you better be getting the job done. That's what I would say the U means. You better be getting the job done. 00:02:21 Speaker 1: That's true. J.J. Jansen still can play in a 43-U defense, right? 00:02:25 Speaker 6: Yeah, I would expect this weekend some tweaks. I wouldn't expect wholesale changes because I think at this point, Like you said, it isn't an easy defense to learn. So you've been spending all offseason learning it, implementing it, all of those different things. I think that's a lot to unravel all of those things, because the thing about defense, I know people will say once again, Wes, you know, calling defenders stupid, but that's not what I'm doing. But you want to have the defense as simple as possible. You don't want these guys thinking a ton. And that's the same thing with offense. You don't want your offensive players thinking a ton when they're out there, too. You want them to just play. But especially on defense, they're so reactionary. you know, to what the offense is doing. So I wouldn't think that they would take away a lot, but I think that they will add a few things that will get the guys going. That will be on the simpler side. 00:03:14 Speaker 1: I think that is the simplest way to accurately put it is that they are going to simplify the defense. That was the Avero issue. In my opinion, it was asking his guys to read and react and do a little too much rather than just forget everything and play football and react, right? Play with instinct. And I think that's what they're going to ask him to do. I think they are going to be more aggressive. I don't think they're just using these buzzwords because everybody's on the same page and they haven't heard it before. This is just organically coming up in every individual mind. I think they are going to be more aggressive from a defensive line standpoint. I think they are going to react. I don't think that they're going to have to, you know, uh, I don't think they're going to have to process as much. And we'll see how it unfolds. But not every 3-4 defense is created equal. Not every defensive coordinator that runs a base front the same way will call the same type of game. And I do expect there to be some differences in philosophy. when we see them take the field against Denver. 00:04:10 Speaker 3: So Tariel Swath and Georgia John pointing out that it is a four and three under defense. 00:04:17 Speaker 2: That makes a lot of sense. That probably would have been my guess too. 00:04:21 Speaker 6: And I've looked it up. 00:04:22 Speaker 3: I've heard of, I looked it up online. Apparently, I guess Washington ran this at some point. Washington and college ran this at some point and it says it is a highly effective variation of the, of the traditional four, three football front that shifts the defensive line responsibilities to mimic the blocking math of a three, four defense while keeping four, three personnel. Now, the thing is, we have heard people say this before about this Panthers defense, that they believe there are a lot of 4-3 personnel guys that they have in this system playing the 3-4. So maybe it would work if they shift to some of this sort of variation. 00:05:02 Speaker 6: I mean, and so when you start to get into breaking down what scheme guys are good for, yeah, I mean— Those guys, a lot of them can play in either or. A lot of them are built to play in either or. It's just the thought with a 3-4 is that you need a bigger defensive line