Height has no factor here. Tall guys have longer arms allowing for more effective pass rush moves.
The big hands help grab and the long arms provide leverage in any technique that uses upper body to gain an advantage.
Tall guys dont get pushed around right either. Short guys have a center of gravity that gives them a push advantage , but should hurt technique compared to guys with long arms. (A 5 '9 220lb RB should be slower and stronger than a 6'3 220lb RB. The small guy should break tackles better and the tall guy would have better use of ball carry rating)
Oline is the same way. No real life advantages to hieght. This problem is game wide. (Short WRs with high punish catching over taller DBs with equal skills. We abuse that too!) If one switched the others should too, because you could play small guys to block these small DEs right? This is when it stops being football and is gaming.
Example ......and i have the upmost respect for Ares, but...
Pro bowl DT for IRN in 75, Terry Lamb, at 247 lbs is a converted LB that complety destroyed a veteran B grade interior line that averages 300lbs . Ares had size in the right places and guessed my plays, but i was hoping to fair better against him (Lamb) particularly.
Still, i am OK with small DEs doing well. In multipule leagues i have tested a slue of players and routinely watch them get blow out in the run game. So, my references earlier to certian heights should effect play of players to ensure abuse is low.
Only, because I am running a Colts style D in 75 right now. I guessed wrong against Ares and he averaged probaly over ten yards a carry when he ran weak and my undersized DE.
And as a real life example look how well R.Mathis and D.Freeny did under this scheme. Note both were at least over 6 foot and I feel that is the point where a small DEs really should have a hard time matching up. Freeney was off the charts in terms of athletic ability and Mathis was close, but he(mathis) was drafted at 228 to play DE, and was a probowler at only ten pounds heavier.
The colts had big athletic guys in the middle. Lighting fast LBs and Safties. You did not know who was on blitz. They routinely would come out in two man fronts with Freeny and Mathis as blitzing LBs , but really it was a four man front with another blitzer to help cause confusion with speed to make up for there lack of size.
It was all on purpose, and if you apply that here you'll get a similar version of some of the defenses run in 75. Still, this is the " sideline sack" getting exposed by small fast guys plain and simple.
Make the QB throw it or have the QB turn it up. But i wish height effected pass blocking senerio. A 5'11 DB has to run around a 6'7 Tackle. Its like the cartoon of when the big guy just sticks his long arm out and the little guy is just flaling his little arms.
This is the reason linemen are taller and DBs shorter. Anything other the player better be an elite athlete with elite technique. Pro bowl Terry Lamb is not that. If he were 280 or more i would have felt better, but.......