How Times Have Changed

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Over the holiday weekend I pop in the 77' Cotton Bowl and the dismantling of #1 Texas. At one point Lyndsey Nelson mentions how much bigger the Irish O-line is than the Texas D-line. He then tells how each on the Irish line are about 250 - 255lb, while the Longhorns averaged about 220lbs on the D-line.
 

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Over the holiday weekend I pop in the 77' Cotton Bowl and the dismantling of #1 Texas. At one point Lyndsey Nelson mentions how much bigger the Irish O-line is than the Texas D-line. He then tells how each on the Irish line are about 250 - 255lb, while the Longhorns averaged about 220lbs on the D-line.

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Over the holiday weekend I pop in the 77' Cotton Bowl and the dismantling of #1 Texas. At one point Lyndsey Nelson mentions how much bigger the Irish O-line is than the Texas D-line. He then tells how each on the Irish line are about 250 - 255lb, while the Longhorns averaged about 220lbs on the D-line.

Definitely a big change. I remember when any RB over 200 lbs was considered big. In '61, Bama won an NC with an O-line that averaged 210. That was small even for then, but still. John Hannah was perhaps the best lineman in NFL history and only weighed 275. That's tiny by today's standards and I'm not sure he'd even be effective against the behemoths of today. Now you have 260 lb linebackers that are faster than the RB's of a generation or two ago.
 

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Definitely a big change. I remember when any RB over 200 lbs was considered big. In '61, Bama won an NC with an O-line that averaged 210. That was small even for then, but still. John Hannah was perhaps the best lineman in NFL history and only weighed 275. That's tiny by today's standards and I'm not sure he'd even be effective against the behemoths of today. Now you have 260 lb linebackers that are faster than the RB's of a generation or two ago.

Even Earl Campbell looked small.
 
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