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We Are a Shadow of our Former Persona as per Jon Wilner - AncientCityIndian - 09-19-2017
http://www.mercurynews.com/2017/09/18/report-cards/
The link is to the SJ Merc report card on the game. The following are some of Wilner`s salient points. He and I are remarkably and unusually on the same page. Coach Shaw has gotten completely away from the prior Stanford identity despite great recruiting. Bottom line is we are not doing what we need to do to prepare for our opponent instead relying on some vague notion that we can just line up and overpower them because of what we are supposed to be. Obviously, so far this year it has been totally ineffective and unfortunately our coaching staff deserves 95% of the responsibility. We were so unprepared for SDSU and its 3-3-5 D, I feel badly for our players. They deserved better coaching. Wilner makes a back handed argument for Costello based on Chryst`s relative lack of experience and his lack of offseason preparation although he does not even mention Costello as a focal point of the discussion and probably was not even thinking about it. His analysis that we had one tight end completion and no downfield passing game could have been written by me on any night on my computer and I NEVER agree with Wilner. Such are the times. Given the vanilla and uninspired O game plan, it is difficult not to draw the conclusion that Shaw and the O braintrust completely underestimated SDSU`s D and game plan and was looking past them to UCLA, not wanting to use tight ends or to go downfield. Unbelievable but demonstrably true.
"Bottom line: There is no downfield element, no ability to stretch the defense. Save for the occasional gash run by Love, its plodding and easy to defend.
When Stanfords offense is working best, the tight ends are heavily involved. They had one catch against SDSU.
Stanfords national ranking in third-down defense:
13th in 2012.
10th in 2013.
28th in 2014.
45th in 2015.
38th in 2016.
115th in 2017.
When Stanfords offense is working best, it dominates time of possession. It had the ball for 18 minutes Saturday (thats partly on the defense, too).
When Stanfords offense is working best, its efficient on first down, which leads to efficiency on third down. Saturday, the Cardinal was 3 of 11 on third down"
Re: We Are a Shadow of our Former Persona as per Jon Wilner - oldalum - 09-19-2017
18 minutes total time of possession is unbelievable--must be a Stanford record in the Harbaugh-Shaw era, if not any era. How could it have been so low, given how many times we ran the ball?