Think about it, Marty Mornhinweg, Dick Lebeau, Cam Cameron, Greg Williams all were head coaches at one point. Now they are great coordinators on their respective teams. Now I really don’t know if that means Jim Haslett will be a great coordinator. I’m just hoping it does.

Shanahan wanted Haslett because he has experience running the 3-4. So there are signs drawing towards the Redskins running a 3-4 defense next year.

As I have posted before, I am a proponent of the 3-4. I believe we already have the personal on this team to be effective in the 3-4. Albert can play nose, but he can also play DE. Alaxander could be a great 3-4 DE. I think it is correct in saying one veteran NT can be brought in via FA. Daniels can be released. Monty and CG will be good in the rotation either at NT of DE. Jarmon will be a force I believe at DE in the 3-4 ala Marcus Spears(this if he can come back 100% from the knee injury). Carter, Orakpo and Wilson can be our OLB’s(maybe draft a late rd olb to be in the mix as well), with Fletcher, McIntosh, Blades and Henson manning the middle. Of all these guys I believe Orakpo and wilson will thrive at their new positions. Bothe are ment to play 3-4 olb’s IMO.

Haslett has a crappy defensive record, is about a scheme not suited to our personnel, and is most likely coming here to look for another HC spot.
We don’t have the personnel for a 3-4. We have built our defense for a 4-3 for the last 6 years. And now they are a quality defense. Now, we want to change all that up? What is Shanny thinking? Why wouldn’t he bring in a DC that would take what we have and make them better?
I do remember Haslett’s players playing very well for him. They all seemed to bust their asses for him, which is what we need. But we need a defense that will shoulder the load for a year or two until the offense gets their shit together. Is this 3-4 going to automatically going to do that? Hell no.

Haslett implement a scheme that uses our players to their strengths—just like Shanny said he will do with the offense. I’m not ready to end it all now because some of you guys have been exceedingly quick to announce that we are certain to switch to the 3-4. I have yet to see a source saying that we are going to a 3-4.
3-4 is just the hot buzz-word these days… even if we had hired Zimmer, alot of people on here would assume we were going 3-4 because he ran it for a few years in Dallas. All of these D-coordinators are like women, they may have experimented a little in college but they are not lesbians.

If Haslett comes in with an aggressive scheme and keeps the 4-3 (both possibilities) I can live with this. He is experienced and if he can hang with Our 2 Shannys’ energy-wise this could be good.

I have to presume that Shanny wants to get moving and doesn’t want to wait (potentially) til after the SB to hire a DC from a hot team. Makes sense. But 3-4 will set us back big time!!

I’ll be honest, I really wanted Zimmer on the team. I was also completely against jumping on the 3-4 bandwagon. With all the new converts to that style of defense I feel like the draft will not have a good supply of players that fit. The top 3-4 prospects will probably be reached for as well. We do not have the personnel for this style of defense. Maybe a for a hybrid 3-4/4-3. Whatever that is.

So yeah I was against it for many of the same reasons people are on here.

BUT, then I read this:
http://www.homermcfanboy.com/2010/01/13/learning-from-leonsis/#respond

I’m not trying to plug this or anything I just think it was a great read. Something we should foward to dan snyder 1000 times a day.

We have to be honest with ourselves, we are undergoing major rebuilding now. 4-12? We’re talking 3 years before we can compete. So if converting to a 3-4 and cleaning house is what it will take to build a championship roster then we need to do it.

So lets gets some realistic expectations here in redskin nation. We are not going 8-8 next year. We are not 2 players away from a playoff roster. We need Dan the ding king snyder to give this new staff time to build something here. Time measured in years not months.

A pick and a prospect. That’s what the caps operated on, the redskins could learn a lot from the 1 successful team dc has left.

 The only way this abomination, this dumb excuse for a defensive system to work is if we have absolutely dominating and huge LBs across the board and Carter refuses to play LB, we have Osackpo and Fletcher and thats it. Fletcher would be terrible in a 3-4 because he would have to deal with OL coming to the second level and blocking him and he is too small for that. We will absolutely destroy the only strength this team has if we switch to the retarded 3-4.

All people seem to want to do is bash everything thats foreign to them. Please try and realize we haven’t been relavant in the last decade. its not like were tearing apart a dynasty here and building from the ground up. For shits sake, lets give this a chance before shooting it down and acting like a bunch of fucking cry babies. If the staff feels we have the personal to run the 3-4 and they decide to give it a try, we need to trust their decision. They obviously know more about football, and what it takes to be successful than us fans.

I am not feeling too good about these moves.
Allen said we would add to what we already have to be competitive right away.
Shanahan said he believes in coaching to a teams strengths.
We didn’t even interview one of the best DC prospects out there, Perry Fewell.
If they are going to blow this team up, then fine, but have the nads to tell
your fans: “We are going to tear this thing apart and rebuild from zero.”
Then again, maybe they just did !

And I trust him to utilize the talent he’s given (or, if it’s worthless, replace it).

That would be the equivalent of drafting a QB with the 4th pick overall and just saying “not only are we retarded when it comes to personnel and system decisions, but fuck this season and next we are going to start to try winning again in 2012.”