08-21-2022, 03:27 PM
There’s a difference between a 3-4 nose tackle and a 3-4 DE. A stereotypical NT is a 330 lb “fire hydrant” short, stocky, and very hard to move. The ends are large at 300ish lbs, but not as big as interior defensive tackles in a 4-3 (more like 310-320 lbs).
When we switched from a 4-3 to a 3-4, the logic was that interior defensive linemen were very hard for Stanford to recruit, and it was easier to bring in a single nose tackle than two 4-3 DT’s.
I think now the concern is we can’t recruit space eating nose tackles like, at all, and we have really been playing undersized guys there, who are really more like 4-3 DT’a than 3-4 NT’s.
But no amount of shifting the alignment around makes up for the fact that we simply don’t have a ton of size and strength in the interior line.
BC
When we switched from a 4-3 to a 3-4, the logic was that interior defensive linemen were very hard for Stanford to recruit, and it was easier to bring in a single nose tackle than two 4-3 DT’s.
I think now the concern is we can’t recruit space eating nose tackles like, at all, and we have really been playing undersized guys there, who are really more like 4-3 DT’a than 3-4 NT’s.
But no amount of shifting the alignment around makes up for the fact that we simply don’t have a ton of size and strength in the interior line.
BC