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<blockquote data-quote="Legal Jacket" data-source="post: 170578" data-attributes="member: 601"><p>On the first point - I just think we reach a ceiling quicker on the undersized linemen who are fast. I think we are getting pretty close to that ceiling - especially with our line from last year. There are certainly bigger and faster linemen in the pros, but not as many as you would want to see to offset the number of defensive guys who are bigger and faster. I think one of the reasons you see more pass heavy offenses in the NFL is that its much easier to assemble a group of fat, slow, immovable mountains than it is to assemble a group of fast, but still strong, OL that can block downfield. Even if you can get guys more in the 310-330 lb range, which I think is what you'd have to find, I think the conditioning to do what we do would start taxing them too, so you'd have to have a backup set of OL to switch out (as opposed to keeping your fat, immovable objects in the whole game since they don't have to move). It would get more expensive for a team to sign decent linemen - especially since guys who are big but also somewhat fast are a rarity to begin with. </p><p></p><p>In short - I don't think the gain in OL talent, especially for what we want to do, comes close to the increase in what you see on the defensive side going from college to pros.</p><p></p><p>On the second point - I think our scheme would be weaker at the pro level because the positions I feel that are the strongest, relatively, in the pros are exactly the positions that we have the biggest trouble against. May that's true of all offenses, but stacking our line with a bunch of guys who are slightly undersized, because we need them to block downfield in our run game, has caused fits even at the college level in our pass blocking, and therefore our passing game. That would only get worse at the next level.</p><p></p><p>And let me be clear - I'm not saying it wouldn't work at all. I'm just saying I wouldn't expect it to put up 40 points a game. I wouldn't be surprised if you could field an average NFL offense with pretty good players. I would just have a hard time seeing a team able to afford enough quality players to make our offense work.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Legal Jacket, post: 170578, member: 601"] On the first point - I just think we reach a ceiling quicker on the undersized linemen who are fast. I think we are getting pretty close to that ceiling - especially with our line from last year. There are certainly bigger and faster linemen in the pros, but not as many as you would want to see to offset the number of defensive guys who are bigger and faster. I think one of the reasons you see more pass heavy offenses in the NFL is that its much easier to assemble a group of fat, slow, immovable mountains than it is to assemble a group of fast, but still strong, OL that can block downfield. Even if you can get guys more in the 310-330 lb range, which I think is what you'd have to find, I think the conditioning to do what we do would start taxing them too, so you'd have to have a backup set of OL to switch out (as opposed to keeping your fat, immovable objects in the whole game since they don't have to move). It would get more expensive for a team to sign decent linemen - especially since guys who are big but also somewhat fast are a rarity to begin with. In short - I don't think the gain in OL talent, especially for what we want to do, comes close to the increase in what you see on the defensive side going from college to pros. On the second point - I think our scheme would be weaker at the pro level because the positions I feel that are the strongest, relatively, in the pros are exactly the positions that we have the biggest trouble against. May that's true of all offenses, but stacking our line with a bunch of guys who are slightly undersized, because we need them to block downfield in our run game, has caused fits even at the college level in our pass blocking, and therefore our passing game. That would only get worse at the next level. And let me be clear - I'm not saying it wouldn't work at all. I'm just saying I wouldn't expect it to put up 40 points a game. I wouldn't be surprised if you could field an average NFL offense with pretty good players. I would just have a hard time seeing a team able to afford enough quality players to make our offense work. [/QUOTE]
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