Bennett and Avril

Re-watching the 2013 season in detail....

Wow, are we lucky to have these two guys. Awareness, speed, strength. smarts and play making.

Great stuff from #72 and #56 last season. I really hope we can keep Avril after this season.

The Hammer and The Sickle.

In addition to their contributions on the field, I'm excited about their influence on emerging understudies. The growing and maturing depth at 3 technique and the end positions looks very promising.

Pandion Haliaetus":2sy4wp23 said:

The Hammer and The Sickle.

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I like it.

Jville":1o6qy39f said:

In addition to their contributions on the field, I'm excited about their influence on emerging understudies. The growing and maturing depth at 3 technique and the end positions looks very promising.

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Agreed. I'm hoping they really rub off on Scruggs, Hill and Williams.

Avril really impressed me with his nose for the ball. How many times did he force a fumble when we needed it?

-The Glove-":2l6tcghd said:

Avril really impressed me with his nose for the ball. How many times did he force a fumble when we needed it?

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A lot. He always goes for the strip.

Really hope we can keep Avril.

I am surprised there hasn't been some rumbling from the Avril camp about re-doing his contract. I know Bennett was talking him up on the stadium floor after the Super Bowl, saying they both needed to get paid. Avril didn't seem to disagree.

The guy has a knack for stripping the ball and raising havoc. He is going to get that big payday next year is safe bet in my eyes.

Agreed w/ all the above. Also of note is how well the work together. Sometimes players seem to just possess a special kind of chemistry and these two really do. Always seems one is doing hitting/stripping and the other is in position to clean up the loose balls. I would also really like to see these two stay together for future years...hate to break up a great pair.

Bennett and Avril were everywhere for us last year. I can't think of two FA signings that had a greater impact on their teams' Super Bowl season. We would not have won the Super Bowl without them. That's how big an impact they had.

Really hope we can find a way to keep Avril, but I think he's going to make a lot of money next offseason and I don't know if we will have room in the budget with the Wilson extension.

HawkFan72":1j8pwg59 said:

Bennett and Avril were everywhere for us last year. I can't think of two FA signings that had a greater impact on their teams' Super Bowl season. We would not have won the Super Bowl without them. That's how big an impact they had.

Really hope we can find a way to keep Avril, but I think he's going to make a lot of money next offseason and I don't know if we will have room in the budget with the Wilson extension.

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He said in interviews he wants to stay here. I think JS will get it done.
Cliff was an unstoppable monster in XLVIII! Remember he went from an 0-16 team to being a Super Bowl champion in just a few years time. He is the master of the strip sack.

Avril has 21 forced fumbles in his career. He had five last season while mostly rushing from the strongside as a rotational player. Imagine how many forced fumbles he will produce as a full-time starter rushing into a QB's blindside, with Bennett charging in from the opposite direction. He has a genuine opportunity to approach Charles Tillman's single-season record for forced fumbles (10).

The moment Avril strip/sacked Kaepernick in his debut in week two, I knew we had a damn good chance to win a Super Bowl.

Pandion Haliaetus":2u2o95hz said:

The Hammer and The Sickle.

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Avril and Bennett are best when working together. Komrads.

Sports Hernia":2cfarlfw said:

He said in interviews he wants to stay here. I think JS will get it done.

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This doesn't mean a lot. Almost every player says this of their current team. Tate is the most recent example. He went out of his way multiple times to say he wanted to be a Seahawk and didn't want to go anywhere.

Once another team backs up the money truck, that usually is enough to make a guy go elsewhere.

HawkFan72":aq8a93x2 said:

Once another team backs up the money truck, that usually is enough to make a guy go elsewhere.

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There's nothing quite like dollar bills to make an "attitude adjustment" pop up ought of nowhere!

Obviously "I'd like to stay here" can be loosely interpreted as "money being equal, I would probably stay here."

MidwestHawker":11w43k27 said:

Obviously "I'd like to stay here" can be loosely interpreted as "money being equal, I would probably stay here."

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Or something close, anyway.

Sports Hernia":11w43k27 said:

Remember he went from an 0-16 team to being a Super Bowl champion in just a few years time.

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This. It's not that he wouldn't go to another team for a lucrative offer, but he is going to be picky about what team he would go to. I don't think he'd do it for a team he wasn't absolutely convinced would win a lot.

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Sports Hernia":h76w9dgl said:

Remember he went from an 0-16 team to being a Super Bowl champion in just a few years time.

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This. It's not that he wouldn't go to another team for a lucrative offer, but he is going to be picky about what team he would go to. I don't think he'd do it for a team he wasn't absolutely convinced would win a lot.

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Of course, you could look at the flipside and think that now that he has a ring, he will always be an NFL champion. That can never be taken away from him, so that opens up the possibility of leaving for the big payday. After all, I imagine that the two main goals of every NFL player are:

1. Win a Super Bowl
2. Earn a deal that sets you and your family up for life

I would think that the HoF, multiple championships, etc. all have their place as well, but I do think that winning that first championship takes a lot of the pressure off of the "winning" aspect of future contract decisions.

Avril's ability to force fumbles is about as good as it gets in the NFL.