This is pure speculation on my part, but Hafley pulled out his former 49ers schemes last year, which were basically copying the Seahawks cover 3 from the legion of boom days, though mixing up the coverages more with creativity, and then blitzing more, due to needing to get more pressure.


My thought is that once again, we're going to be copying a scheme of the Pete Carroll's Seahawks, a similar one in terms of coverage but different one up front.

With drafting Bruce Irvin as a DE/OLB the Seahawks had a hybrid 4-3 where they basically had 3 DTs and 1 DE on the field, with an OLB acting as a wild card DE/OLB where they might rush or they might drop into coverage on any given play.


The Packers already have the DE/DT tweeners with Enagbare, Van Ness, Brooks and Wooden.

Before the draft, they might have lacked the DE/OLB tweeners, but Sorrell, Oliver and Simmons might fit those roles well. Plus, MAYBE that role might fit Mosby and Hopper well also. Mosby is basically a DE/LB tweener, and I honestly haven't seen Hooper enough, but supposedly he had an extremely high grade of blitzing from the OLB spot, being able to weave his way through traffic.


Just a thought I had of a possibility scheme.

That being said, the Seahawks from that scheme often asked the 3 DTs to run clog, and let the DEs and LBs fly around to make the plays. Which I don't see Hafley asking his DL to run clog, he seems to want them to be in penetration/attack mode as much as possible.