[WI wide body]

Okay, let's take that difference in size between CB's and receivers in another direction.

Since the Cb's appear (per some of the guys here) to be required to be 5' 11" speed burners with all those special skills why then does the NFL offensive minds not take advantage of it?

I would go looking at all the college basketball power forwards who can't make it in the NBA. Or maybe even some who could!

These 6' 5" to 6' 8" kids often already weigh 220 to 260 and they have to run up and down the court more than any football player ever travels. To play round ball they must have good hands and reaction time. And the way basketball is played today many of them are tougher than hell.

I would love to see those midget CB's trying to defend any one of a whole bunch of the power forwards in the NBA. Yes, the football guys could try to hit them and it might work with some of them. But for the most part, a guy like Paul Gadzurak (6' 9'' and tough as nails) would absolutely eat up any "one on one...bump and run" CB in the NFL.

I would use those giant wideouts until the defense was forced to go to a different scheme.

And if anyone doubts this should work, consider that the guy who set the all-time record for TD's by a TE and made the 2005 Pro-Bowl and who then caught about 90 passes the next season did not even play college football. Antonio Gates liked basketball better than football so he went to Kent State where he led them to the Elite Eight and he averaged over 20 points and 9 rebounds a game! NEVER played football.

But when he was told by the NBA guys that he was a "tweener" and might have trouble he simply switched to the NFL and became an all-pro.

How many more like him are out there but the NFL coaching brains get an original thought about as often as Mule!