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Originally Posted by osugrad21
I'm guess you are referring to a lineman's "punch" but that is not a bench press movement....if the DL is on an OL's body like a bench press, its over anyway.
Show me an offensive line technique that is reliant on the pectoral muscles and I will show you an unemployed coach.
Various Clean movements are the explosive measure of choice now...
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Couldn't agree more... I would take a player with great power clean numbers and mediocre bench press numbers rather than the opposite. Cleans are the closest coaches and scouts can get to measuring explosiveness, and that is the most important thing in football. Take this guy for example who projects to be a DT. He must explode out of his stance to get penetration or drive the offensive linemen back, and he must explode his hips into tackles that he makes. Good tackling comes from rolling your hips through the ballcarrier/ exploding through him. The best way to meausure these skills (as I mentioned before) is through some type of clean...
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