There has been a lot of discussion about the New Orleans Saints changing their base defense from a 4-3 to a 3-4, but it still won't be their most frequently used defense. Brandon Staley laid out his ...

To do this, we used a nickel defense. Had we used a base 4-3 defense, Oregon's Jeffrey Bassa would have been the additional linebacker. If we used a 3-4 defense, the extra interior defensive ...

Canada did it in 2012, and the Defense Department stopped using pennies on its bases in the 1980s when it decided it wasn’t worth the cost of shipping them. Eliminating the money-losing nickel ...

The most common personnel packages these days are nickel and dime defenses. That was the case on Staley's 2020 L.A. Rams defense and each of his Chargers defenses. Run-first NFL offenses have had ...

opponents could dictate how much he played in a game simply by going to three wide receiver sets and forcing the Steelers to match their wide receivers on the field with a nickel defense. Finding a ...

He started all 17 games and was a key piece to the team’s 4-3 base defense as well as a core special teams player. McDuffie lost his starting position in the nickel to rookie Edgerrin Cooper, but he ...

That could help determine which prospects might rise and fall in the draft. To do this, we used a nickel defense. Had we used a base 4-3 defense, Oregon's Jeffrey Bassa would have been the ...