Golden Nuggets: game day

Barrows: Hard hats and pancakes: How 49ers’ receivers became such vicious blockers (paywall)

“Does that mean Foerster and the other coaches have done a lot of yelling and ripping during the Friday meetings? Well, no.

Back in Washington, Foerster settled on the quasi-critical approach he uses today with the 49ers. He points out that a receiver can do better by showing him a previous example of him blocking well.

“What I would do when Santana missed his block is I started going back and finding other film clips of game tape where Santana did well,” he said. “‘Hey, Santana, hey man, look at this. Great job, great job.’ And then this: ‘Hey, ‘Tana, we know you can do better than that in this…