patsfan-1982
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Wilfork was used as a de a couple years ago to great success. The problem was that teams just ran to the opposite side because our olbs (tbc, nink and to a lesser degree Cunningham were all garbage against the run.
Hampton at the nose, wilfork at rde and a platoon of deaderick an Kelly at lde. Kelly played a little 34 de his rookie year and deaderick has shown to be a passable 5tech de as long as he's the worst guy in the front 7.
We wouldn't have the same players. This would get nink of the field which is a huge bonus and spikes/Hightower would be way more effective. The problem is that it likely negates or limits chandler
that may work for a few plays on obvious running downs like 3rd and 1 or 4th and 1 but as a base defense you would have no pass rush at all like you said that limits Jones who is pretty much the only true pass rusher on the team