Originally Posted by Koko Ed

Good luck with that.
Forget looking at 2007. Look at 2005 where a similar devastating penalty awaited teams who foolishly played defense near the loading zone AND THEY STILL DIDI IT!
It's one thing to play Smash Everything With The Opposite Bumper Color Defense which teams will be cured of wanting to use with the first 30 point penalty levied against them and it's another to be consistent at playing effective defense when FIRST is going out of it's way to legislate it out.