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Article: NFL DRAFT PREVIEW: LINEBACKERS Scheming to acquire the best available 3-4's popularity has talent at premium
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- The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (Milwaukee, WI)
- Article date:
- April 23, 2009
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Unless you've been living under a rock, you know the Green Bay
Packers are moving from a 4-3 base defense to a 3-4, with Dom Capers
replacing Bob Sanders as defensive coordinator.
While the Packers have done nothing to adjust their personnel in
free agency to the new scheme, which calls for larger defensive ends
and linebackers, the draft will likely be the place general manager
Ted Thompson gets the players who will be at the center of the
transformation.
The good news for the Packers is that this year's draft is loaded
from top to bottom with outside linebackers for the 3-4. They are
the proverbial "tweener" types: players that fall somewhere between
being an end and a linebacker.
The bad ...