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Eric D. Williams took over the Seahawks beat and Seahawks Insider blog in December. Williams has covered the Seahawks, Sonics and high school sports for The News Tribune since joining the paper in 2006. Eric lives in Tacoma with his wife and two children.

Tacoma News Tribune columnist Dave Boling also contributes to the Seahawks Insider blog.

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Seahawks Insider
Thursday, July 16th, 2009
Posted by Eric Williams @ 11:23:10 am

Seattle Seahawks defensive coordinator Gus Bradley has said that Seattle will be a 4-3, cover-2 team with its base defense, but that they will show a lot of other looks as well, including a 3-3 scheme.

With that in mind, I thought we’d take a look at the 3-3 scheme and talk about the benefits of the Seahawks running this type of defense.

A lot of high school and college teams have switched to more of a 3-3 scheme defensively for a couple reasons. First, the 3-3 allows for defenses to get more guys with speed on the field to defend against the proliferation of spread offenses in both high school and college. Secondly, it’s hard to find talented defensive linemen in high school and college, and the 3-3 allows high school and college teams to play more of those speedy linebacker-safety-type athletes.

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