No more 9 men on LOS?

[Vince148]

I was watching some more "game" films and started thinking about the defensive set ups. Most rule sets, from what I can seem to decipher, look like they pretty much keep the offense into "recognizable" sets, even limiting the number of runners in the backfield or even not allowing them to have their interior lineman angled.

When you look at the defensive rules for most leagues, they all seem to say that they are not limited to any recognizable set. So you often see 8-9 men on the LOS and they can be angled whatever which way one deems necessary.

The bottom line is that the defense seems to have all the advantages. They get to press the receivers and have all the gaps covered.

I propose that rule sets be changed so that the defense can have no more than 6 men on the LOS. This would include cover corners.

I think that this would now give defense something to think about in the way of strategy. Do you press the receivers on the line and keep LBers back in zones? or vice versa. DBs play back and LBers come up to blitz.

I haven't tried it myself, yet. But I thought that this would be an interesting topic to discuss.