SayUWantAreVOLution
Well-Known Member
- Joined
- Oct 5, 2019
- Messages
- 7,254
- Likes
- 9,006
It's just a different game. Sure, traditional blocking has been replaced by hand techniques but the interior guys are so quick that old school blocking would be useless. You HAVE to get some jersey or they're on the QB.Teams in those days rarely lifted weights. Chip Kell was the first real weightlifter I recall ever playing at Tennessee. He benched 550lbs and I don’t think Tennessee has had many if any beat that.
Listen I’m not arguing that Reggie White, probably the greatest DL in the history of the game, wouldn’t have been dominant but the cut blocks, wider splits & crackback blocks (also illegal now) would have been different. I don’t think 300 OTs could survive today under those old rules. Hell, they can’t block good people now without holding even by todays rules.
Athletes at all positions are so quick now compared to the 60s, the rules are geared to faster athletes, and the conditioning is all science now.