I've noticed a small chorus that discuss Tuiaki's defensive scheme of rushing 3 and dropping 8. It feels like an unchallenged internet meme that this is all he does with no variation and no adjustments.

I re-watched the 3rd quarter of the Toledo game and counted how many BYU DL were in a 3-point stance and rushed each play. Here's the first 22 plays from scrimmage, not counting punts or PATs: 4 4 4 ? 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 3 3 4 4 3 3 3 3 (I got bored at this point and stopped charting, but this is a reasonable sample.)

Tossing out the play where ESPN+ cameras were focused somewhere else, we rushed four DL on 15 of 21 plays; we rushed three six times. And LBs blitzed on three of the six plays when we had a 3-man front.

Summary: we rushed 4 or more on 18 of 21 plays I charted, or 86% of the time.

Question: What is CB's "3-man" obsession based on? Is it entirely based on the defense we ran against USC? Or can CBers simply not count above 3?

(This isn't a critique of complaints against Tuiaki's schemes in general, just the weird "3-man" internet meme.)