The Case for Ed Oliver at Nose
This is what excites me most about this new brand of defensive football we are about to experience in Buffalo. The 3 down front opens up so many possibilities for us to win matchups up front, constantly changing and shifting our personnel to dictate to the offense. In another thread I posted a couple diagrams of how we can easily bring a fourth rusher from the field or boundary in this new structure, but since it's buried I will share those here as well.
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Teams will eventually get tired of their back consistently having to be responsible for picking up our edge pressures and will adjust their protection up front move from a more traditional slide protection to what is called fan protection.
Fan protection is a response to edge pressure. Against 3 down fronts the offensive line is responsible for all three defensive linemen plus the two widest blitz threats on either side of the offense. The RB is now responsible for any i
