you want an elite 3-4 your crazy that’s not going to happen in one year.

 but it was YOU who said:

All we need in the 3-4 is three solid linebackers, and this draft runs deep at linebackers, we can make the switch

The whole point of a 34 defense is to be able to confuse an offense. You build a unit that can blitz from OLB/DE/Safety or CB. During the course of the game you change it up to cause confusion. You start by running the blitz from the LB spot the first 3 or 4 times the O lines up in say the spread package. That’s called a “set up”. Then, later in the game when the O lines up in spread you show/sell LB blitz. The QB reads the LB blitz and audibles to a dump off middle slant route, but when the ball is snapped you don’t blitz from the LB spot. You blitz Safety blitz, curl the DE’s to cover the screen on the edges and then drop the LB back into the middle and WHAMO .. Pick – 6!!

The 34 is built on the fact that the offense never knows whats comming. You can’t disguise the safety blitz on the skinny post route, you can flare the OLB’s and crunch the DE’s on the screens. You can bull rush the DE’s and slide the ILB’s to the flat curl-in blitz an OLB etc, etc, etc. The scheme is built on the idea of disguising blitzs and causing confusion. You force the QB into the wrong read, supprize him with a blitz from somewhere unexpected, throw off his timing, and thus sack or force picks by a roaming safety with speed to cover sideline to sideline.

Building a 34 that has the wrong type of player in the backfield and on the line, but 3 or 4 good LB’s will work just as well as running the 43 with no pressure from the front 4. The only difference will be that the 34 is not built to stuff the inside run.

No, I don’t need a tampon. What I need is a debate with someone that knows what a 34 is and doesn’t make statements like :

All we need in the 3-4 is three solid linebackers, and this draft runs deep at linebackers, we can make the switch

We need a hell of a lot more than 3 linebackers. If you can’t see that on your own then I don’t know how to explain it to you.

As far as backups, the guys we have on our roster right now would do well as backups

Yep, sounds good. Let’s put 43 cover 2 zone players on the field as 34 man to man blitz CB’s and Safeties. Then lets stick a 43 weak side tackle that cant command a double team in as a 34 NT that has to commad one. Then lets put a 43 dominate DT known for eating up double teams and pushing the pocket outside at the 34 DE position and expect him to contain the edge so that the new 34 OLB’s can blitz on every single play (because we don’t have the personnel to disguise out blotz packages and change it up). Then let’s seal it all up by having 43 LB’s that are not very good at coverage in space be the back ups for a 34 LB position that demands someone that can cover.

It’s a whole new scheme, and a whole new defensive set. GO ask the Denver Broncos if you don’t believe me. One of the hardest things to do as a D is to switch from a 43 to a 34. It’s not as simple as tossing 3 LB’s that played in a 34 in colege on the field and expecting everything to change.
The switch to a 34 is a project. It will take several seasons to complete, and it’ll take a hell of a lot more than 3 LB’s to make the switch. If KC wants a 34 base defense THIS YEAR then they need 2 LB’s, 1 Speed Safety, 1 man to man “shut down” CB, 1 NT, and 1 DE; and that is just to get it started.