i understand your points tony and I more/less agree with where you are coming from.
1st - in the any-touch style - this gives the defense MORE options than the offense because you, in essence, by pass the O-line and can have more players in the offensive backfield. Coaches with speed players will win this way more than lose.
2nd - in front of the base style- as forUtohate stated, you most likely get knocked off the ball but the edge defenders still get into the backfield quickly.
3rd - the standard tournament defense (2 DL with 2 stacked LB coupled with 2 or more loopers) crushes most running games by allowing (usually) the center and 2 tackles to go uncovered and the stack presents the 2-man vs. one in the middle.
I am sure AB will jump in here about the MPFL way of changing that concept (which could be very true) by allowing all players to be adjusted during a play. However we are not all on that level, yet.
Most of us play "junk" defenses to get to the QB or have more defenders to stop the 5-wide formations we all have faced. None of these things are bad, just what is out there.
BEFL 2007 football will be addressing this season in a few ways that, our hope, will make both offens and defense play honest and not rely on the "junk".
K-LO