Scottemojo
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10:18, 2nd quarter.
San Fran has a running play with a fullback and Vernon Davis. The center and guard double Williams, the RT tries to cut Bennett and is pretty half assed about it, giving Bennett easy penetration into the backfield. Which seems like a good thing, but it's actually the play design, Iupati us pulling from the left with one intent, put his helmet in Bennett's ear hole.
In candlestick we had this wham block applied to us every game for the last few years, and it often got us. Alan Branch got smoked a couple of times two years back on this play, later Gore ran wild up the middle. Think of this run play as a heavy weight putting some body shots into a guy in the early rounds.
Except Bennett was ready. He just barely arrests his own forward momentum, making Uipati's helmet just miss his own, then he uses his right arm to throw Iupati past him, using Iupati's own momentum to throw him face down into the turf. He plants a 330 pound man with some straight up martial arts shit. Loss of one.
That game was a physical ass kicking, and plays like that might get ignored. The message was sent early to a once great O-line that we were more physical.
San Fran has a running play with a fullback and Vernon Davis. The center and guard double Williams, the RT tries to cut Bennett and is pretty half assed about it, giving Bennett easy penetration into the backfield. Which seems like a good thing, but it's actually the play design, Iupati us pulling from the left with one intent, put his helmet in Bennett's ear hole.
In candlestick we had this wham block applied to us every game for the last few years, and it often got us. Alan Branch got smoked a couple of times two years back on this play, later Gore ran wild up the middle. Think of this run play as a heavy weight putting some body shots into a guy in the early rounds.
Except Bennett was ready. He just barely arrests his own forward momentum, making Uipati's helmet just miss his own, then he uses his right arm to throw Iupati past him, using Iupati's own momentum to throw him face down into the turf. He plants a 330 pound man with some straight up martial arts shit. Loss of one.
That game was a physical ass kicking, and plays like that might get ignored. The message was sent early to a once great O-line that we were more physical.
