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<\/a><\/p>\nPowers and Garett Bolles do a good job on this double team here, but Powers is mostly playing the body positioning game while it seems like Bolles is doing most of the driving. Since they have good hand and body placement on the DT, I\u2019d love for Powers to momentarily disengage, reset his bad level, and strike the DT with his hands hitting underneath the chest plate, and finish the block.<\/p>\n
I think he also needs to keep his base just a touch narrower and keep his hips back a little as well. Given the hip position near the end of the rep, his hips being all the way in mean he can really only lift the DT up as that\u2019s where the hips are driving. If his hips are back a little with his butt behind him, that would give him better vertical leverage on the block.<\/p>\n
One of Powers\u2019 best blocks in this game came on an RPO, and as a former lineman and current coach, it feels like it\u2019s always that way.<\/p>\n He takes a good first step and works his way across to the playside of the DT, cutting him off of the intended rushing lane. It\u2019s too bad we can\u2019t see how this run would\u2019ve played out.<\/p>\n An example of good feet and leverage, and then lunging at the point of attack and missing. He\u2019s lucky to even get a hand on the DT and slow him down just a touch. If the other two blocks were handled, then Powers might have been able to get away with this block.<\/p>\n I also don\u2019t necessarily like him trying to launch with both of his hands either. On a reach block like this, the goal is to get your backside hand to the playside shoulder of the defender.<\/p>\n There is a very specific moment of when this pass pro rep goes wrong. As soon as Powers stops his feet, he gets beat. His initial hand placement and leverage is good, but he just needs to keep working with the DT. He needs one or two more kick steps out as the DT continues to work through his outside shoulder.<\/p>\n It\u2019s that stopping of the feet that forces the soft shoulder, allowing the DT to press through and turn Powers, forcing a pressure.<\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<\/a><\/p>\n