It doesn't fit.
Our personnel isn't tailor-made for either the 3-4 or the 4-3. In a 4-3 scheme, Sheldon, Wilkerson, and Harrison all are best fits inside, and some have thought Coples is best inside, too. In a 3-4 scheme, Richardson and Coples are tweeners, especially Coples. They're all good enough players where they could make it work in either scheme, but the personnel is best used in multiple fronts to take advantage of their versatility.
It fits very well actually. A DL of Wilk, Sheldon, Snacks, and Coples will allow us to do what we've been doing without the ridiculous failures of QC standing up. Our 34 was never at full strength because Rex never thought getting a passrusher was important, at least in a 43 Coples can focus his time on getting to the QB because him standing up never did anything for this team. Coples is and was always a better fit as a 43 DE, it's just that if put into a 34 he would have been better of hand down than hand up.
Our LBs will be better off because Davis might actually be able to reach some of his potential. He was never going to be a take on blockers type. David Harris is a statue, he can make plays with guys running right at him, but he had no place here. Our 34 OLBs have been garbage forever and are much harder to find than 43 LBs.
