Stamps vs. Lions

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Football seems to go in cycles as the game changes with different players and new schemes.  Throw in the Ottawa expansion draft to really jumble things up and offences need time to adjust.   The higher scoring offences will come back eventually.

 

If you've watched the trends for 20 years, you can see that offences always take longer to adjust.  It's worth noting that more Canadians start on offense, so it may take longer to find new talent.  

 

So it seems that teams are still using absolute behemoths on the offensive line, whereas defensive linemen have been trending smaller for a while, could we be in a situation where they simply need to go with smaller OL who have better quickness to deal with the speedy players on defense? Or do you go in the other direction and just beef up the offenses to smash the puny DL and linebackers all over the league?