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Favorite Stanford Football Plays! (and who will run them now?) - CardinalSagehen - 08-14-2017
First, a disclaimer: Im a big fan of Stanford Football, but Ive never played and have no technical background in play-calling. This is purely a fan's view of exciting and frequent play calls in the Shaw / Bloomgren era, along with some idle speculation about the players that will be featured in these plays this season.
Slant / skinny post from the slot: You may remember that CMac ran this for a TD in his first game as a true frosh against UCD in 2014. Or if that doesnt ring a bell, then certainly you recall the first play we ran in Pasadena on Jan 1, 2016, with CMac going 70+ yards to the house. This year, based on the speculation in these forums as well as the fact that he was lined up frequently in the slot with the first and second teams at yesterdays scrimmage, Im guessing well see true frosh Conor Wedington. Conveniently, hes wearing #5.
Fade route / jump ball from the ~5 yard line: This is an exceedingly predictable play call by us. All casual observers of Stanford Football know this is coming when were at this part of the field, and especially when were having trouble pounding the ball. The opposing DBs are certain its coming, too. Presumably, we still run it because it sometimes works, it doesnt require much protection for the QB, and its low-risk if the ball is thrown correctly to the outside of the receivers large, leaping body. Like last year, we can all expect to see more of JJ A-W #19 on these fades, but Im guessing well also run this frequently with our TEs - probably mostly Schultz, but maybe also Harrington and/or Smith. (Side note for 2018 - Parkinson looks every bit as tall and athletic as Levine Toilolo, who used to run the fade for us, and he showed it on his TD catch yesterday )
The return of the 3-TE set: As speculated in the SF Chronicle last week, we will be seeing more 3 TE sets this year because we have an incredibly talented group. For whatever it's worth, in yesterdays scrimmage, I would guess that most of our targets and completions went to the TEs. To the extent that anyone was getting open, it was them.Â
Short-yardage back: Will we see Cameron Scarlett here? Or perhaps a healthy and rejuvenated Daniel Marx? Yesterday, we saw Marx, who scored on a goal-line run up the gut. Everybody loves when a FB gets the ball, right? Or is that just me?Â
Midfield play-action BOMB: I submit to you that there is no greater satisfaction in watching Stanford Football than when Power is working and we run it cruelly and repetitively to midfield, setting up the play-action bomb to one of the wideouts. Sometimes we see a flea-flicker thrown into this, as with Francis Owusus memorable around-the-back TD catch in 2015 vs. UCLA. We often saw Francis targeted on this route over the last two seasons, when he was healthy. In the Andrew Luck days, we sometimes targeted Fleener because he had incredible wheels, even as a TE. Will we now see more of Isiah Brandt-Sims on these plays, probably the fastest guy on the team? Others?
Reverse: This was mostly Rector's role over the last couple seasons, notably run for a long and timely TD against SC last year. Before him, we used it as another way to feed the ball to Ty Montgomery. Who will run it now?
Kick and Punt Returns: The only part of special teams play that I saw yesterday involved Trenton Irwin and Jay Tyler fielding punts. But will we be using Bryce Love here the way we used CMac?
Ogre: the interesting question here might be whether we'll be using one or both of our incoming frosh tackles, Sarell and Little.
What are yalls favorite Stanford Football plays (or just the ones we tend to see most frequently), and who will be involved in them this season?
Re: Favorite Stanford Football Plays! (and who will run them now?) - Durty Nelly - 08-14-2017
Wedington and Love will likely be candidates for the reverse this year.
Donald Stewart is a wild card for a deep threat, fades, outs, and slants. We have not seen enough of him to know what to expect of him.
TE's will rock this year and for a while.
Pass protection will determine much of what happens this year.
Re: Favorite Stanford Football Plays! (and who will run them now?) - Bruce Wang - 08-14-2017
I think it's called Bengal. Wideout fakes an end around. QB play action pass to wideout now on a corner route.
Re: Favorite Stanford Football Plays! (and who will run them now?) - BostonCard - 08-14-2017
Ye ole Spider-2-Y-Banana...
BC
Re: Favorite Stanford Football Plays! (and who will run them now?) - winflop - 08-15-2017
Power
Heavy Jumbo
Just run these ALL THE TIME and dare someone to stop us. I believe that some defenses could stack 11 in the box and still not keep us from averaging 4+ ypp if we did nothing but run Heavy Jumbo.
Re: Favorite Stanford Football Plays! (and who will run them now?) - fullmetal - 08-15-2017
Can we ask the OL/TE to wear some crazy war paint eye black? And do the haka? ;D
Re: Favorite Stanford Football Plays! (and who will run them now?) - Spiny_Norman - 08-15-2017
The double wheel that Stanford ran against Army in 2013. Stanford flooded a zone with RBs. Basically one guy had to decide to defend Kelsey Young or Tyler Gaffney. Sure looked good at the time. I don't know if I have seen it since then.
https://youtu.be/AuP2uUAkqMQ?t=3m
Re: Favorite Stanford Football Plays! (and who will run them now?) - CTcard - 08-15-2017
(08-15-2017, 09:27 AM)Spiny_Norman link Wrote:The double wheel that Stanford ran against Army in 2013. Stanford flooded a zone with RBs. Basically one guy had to decide to defend Kelsey Young or Tyler Gaffney. Sure looked good at the time. I don't know if I have seen it since then.
https://youtu.be/AuP2uUAkqMQ?t=3m
Interesting to watch that video again. At the time I was sitting in the end zone with the play coming at me, and didn't catch as many details as I can now.
What made that play work so well was a combination of misdirection by Hogan and terrible misread by the Army defenders that led them to having 4 players covering the flat to the offense-right with nobody at all on our team attacking that area. In addition, the safety double covered our one deep route. That led to both the 1 guy trying to cover 2 on the double wheel but also only 4 rushers against 7 blockers - which wasn't making any headway at all.
I do like the play, but it will be rare when it produces that much space.
Re: Favorite Stanford Football Plays! (and who will run them now?) - BostonCard - 08-15-2017
Our wide receiver beat double coverage in that play too.
BC
Re: Favorite Stanford Football Plays! (and who will run them now?) - CardinalSagehen - 08-15-2017
Here is another one of my favorite plays / routes. We typically run this from the ~20 yard line. The Tight End fakes a corner and runs a center post.Â
Chip Kelly actually ran this for Ertz with the Eagles - see Play #2 at:
http://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/inq-eagles/The-Emerging-Zach-Ertz-A-Closer-Look.html
Ertz also ran this exact route, very memorably, vs. Arizona in 2012 on 4th and long in the 4th quarter of a game that we eventually tied and won in OT.Â
Hogan threw this particular route well, and I saw it succeed a number of times in his era. Hope to see more of it in the red zone this season!