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Originally Posted by Megatron96
I didn't say he was good. Just that he (or any of our RBs) weren't getting that conversion as the play unfolded regardless of whether he followed his blocks or cut back into that hole we're all looking at. The 49ers defense blew the play up, and Warner is waiting for in that hole. Not Hitchens, Fred Warner. Warner doesn't get dragged upfield; he either stops the RB in their tracks or they go backwards.
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Yes, they absolutely were.
Fred Warner isn't Ray Neitchske. He's an excellent coverage backer and an extremely smart player, but he's a 230 lb MLB - he's not a thumper.
He's not standing up a quality RB who gets downfield and hits that hole with any authority. They don't make easier short yardage conversions than that one.
It's essentially two guys equidistant from the 1st down marker at the mesh with one of them being pro-active and the other reactive. And the pro-active guy just gave away the initiative by unnecessarily cutting into the pile, killing his momentum and finding MORE traffic than the 1v1 matchup he had that should've been at the sticks at worst.
It was a lousy run.