The hit on Doug Free

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Great design and why don't we do THAT!

 

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Crazy thing is the guy player who knocked Free on his keester is only 224 lbs. Talk about leverage!

I am sure Church or Wilcox can do that as well. When you blind side someone with that type of head start.....the bigger they are they harder they fall.

 

[conner01]

we did. watch later in the game we did the same thing. by the way free did'nt give up the sack. murray was suppose to step up and block and he got ran over, and the other defensive guy came from the other side. not sure who got beat by him

 

[Zman5]

Remember what Brandon Jacobs said to RW31. In essence hits always look better when someone is not looking. Contrary to popular belief if you anchor from an attack from the front but get blasted from the side unaware it will always look bad.

Just like last year at Seattle when Lee got clocked by the WR.

 

[Zman5]

This is the defensive version of the Wham block.

 

[SilverStarCowboy]

It looked like hitting a defenseless player to me.

 

[cowboys1981]

It's fair game.

 

[WoodysGirl]

Sturm's take on the hit

Free was in pass protection and had Mathias Kiwanuka blocked pretty well, as linebacker Jacquian Williams blitzed on a rare occasion. But, instead of running at Romo and being picked up by a waiting DeMarco Murray, he ran away from the QB and right at Doug Free in a unique stunt idea. Free was knocked off his feet - as any tackle would be if blindsided by a sprinting linebacker while trying to block someone in a different direction and that left Murray to try to sort out what was happening and to pick up Kiwanuka which did not work out well. Kiwanuka pushed Murray aside and then put his helmet/shoulder pads right into Romo's ribs and looked like he did some considerable damage. You never see a WLB and a LDE stunt to that extent and there is no question that the element of surprise is what made that stunt work so well. They never blitz, and they definitely never blitz/stunt. Sometimes their scheme gets you, and they almost took out Romo in the process (medical exams pending).

http://www.foxsportssouthwest.com/n...aways-Steal-The-He?blockID=937785&feedID=9348

 

[ABQCOWBOY]

This is the defensive version of the Wham block.

This.

That's not a pic, it's a wham play. I will say this though, other then that play there, I really thought Free played a pretty dang good game.

 

[SilverStarCowboy]

This.

That's not a pic, it's a wham play. I will say this though, other then that play there, I really thought Free played a pretty dang good game.

Agreeable Free did have a good game and it's not like any other OT wouldn't have went down from a hit like that while being engaged with blocking a DE. This kind of play could be an injury waiting to happen to the best of the OTs in the game.