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or the NFL will change the way they play. At some point a team is just going to completely adopt a college style offense. We ahve certainly see teams start to incorporate it, but eventually one team is just going to take the plunge.
The only thing that will cause the NFL to change it's offensive schemes would have to be rule changes that further penalize a defender from being aggressive or widening of the hashmarks.
College offenses have been lauded in this thread in particular as being some kind of revolution. You know what causes the offense to look so much more diverse? They identify the defenders who have a future in playing professionally and keep the offense away from those guys as much as possible. They attack the defenders on the field who are lucky to have a scholarship and have a future selling Allstate Insurance. In the pros, the weak link of a defense just isn't that weak. Add in the hashmarks being more than twice as wide in the college game, and it is just harder to take advantage of a defensive weak point.
I personally believe high school and college will eventually shrink the hashmarks to be more like the pro game. Wide hashmarks lead to more wide open offense, but also allows defenders and ball carriers to get more momentum during a collision. The safer route to go is smaller fields, and football as a whole needs to be safer.
Again, day two of me wondering why certain posters don't think a professional OC doesn't try all of these college sets on a weekly basis. They do... there are just reasons everything that translates in the college game doesn't translate perfectly to the NFL.