Brandon Staley is Defensive Coordinator

meily said

I am not asking what kind of defense he is known to run, I am simply stating neither Staley nor Moore has spoken about scheme, just stating the facts not going against the wishes of SR.com to run a 3-4 because apparently it was invented in NO and we will be successful with it because of the Dome Patrol.

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It has nothing to do with the Dome Patrol. It has everything to do with the fact that Fangio's scheme, whatever base is run in it, is the only scheme that is currently stopping the McVay/Shanahan system and is the only one really stopping the mobile QBs.

So, snarky remarks aside, I don't care if it's a base 3-4 or not. But, the fact is that Fangio, who taught Staley, and Staley tend to run odd fronts. He has occasionally used 4 or even 5 man fronts, but the base of the scheme is the 3-4 with a two high shell in the secondary.

There is simply no way that a DC is going to completely change the scheme that got him jobs as a DC and HC. He may not be able to implement the entire system right away and may play more even fronts than usual, but he is going to run his base scheme.