Philidor Defense: Any New Ideas?

Well, I thought I had figured out a way to make the Philidor Defense useful. My idea was to play the following: 1. e4 e5 2. Nf3 d6 3.Nc3 B-e6!?. The only problem is that 3. Nc3 has been played about 190 times, whereas 3. d4 has been played 7,500+ times in the chess.com database. This means that 3.d4 is much more likely to occur. With that being said, I will solely focus on continuations of the defense after 3. d4.

This, of course, makes it even harder to find new ideas because I am already limiting myself to one variation. Oh well. I still think there are ideas still left to find in this defense, mainly because it has been abandoned by most of today's masters. I've read quite a few "refutations" of the Sicilian Dragon that have in turn been refuted. What I am trying to say is that once the GMs find an opening unfavorable, the generally abandon it for something that is "safer". My example of this is the King's Indian Atttack, which fell out of favor when a young Gary Kasparov destroyed a fellow GM who employed it as White against the soon-to-be World Champion. For the next 4 years or so (1981-1985/'86 [?]), hardly a single grandmaster dared to play the opening (check the database on this one). Then, in a tournament, the King's Indian Attack drew a game against a master that used the same opening variation as Kasparov had on Black. The innovation, which was an earlier exchange of the e-pawn, brought the King's Indian Attack back into favor with the chess playing world. 

My goal here is to see if we can do the same thing with the Philidor Defense.

Uh, ...b6 is pretty illogical for black, to be honest. White could play Bc4 (if he wasn't satisfied with dxe5 which probably wins material) and after Bb7 Nc3 black's king will be faced with many threats like dxe5 dxe5 Ng5. And I don't think that we can find    major improvements on any philidor lines because we're much worse than GM's who publish analysis. The ...b6 line doesn't defend e5 and develops the queenside first even though black may need to castle soon. Black's forced to play passive moves in the philidor so he would be punished for developing a queenside piece. So alot of moves in the hanham for example tend to be forced.

Yeah, I was aware that most of those ideas wouldn't hold water with the amount of holes they had in them. I was really just trying to use the forum as a sieve. Maybe the Philidor is just as lame of a defense as it seems. Oh well. I tried. Not much, but I at least pretended to try.