[stupac2]

Lots of football left until we have to worry about playoff implications.  My biggest takeaway from the week end are that many of our upcoming foes are beatable.  And that game in Seattle is looming larger.

Exactly, I think a lot of the things people have been saying are waaaaaaay premature.

Also, re: Shaw's playcalling, I just re-watched the whole game and I think it's flat-out wrong. There was one series where Shaw went full turtle and it was with a 13-point lead and 6 minutes left in the game. Running the ball 3 times used up ~90 seconds of playclock and a KSU timeout. That was worth it.

The rest of the series were either KSU making some great plays (there was one run were McCaffrey might've been gone if not for a defender grabbing his shoe as he ran by!), Burns making some bad throws that he had made fine earlier in the game, or the OL just failing to open holes. And note that there's like 3-5 plays in each of those categories, it's not like we're talking about a brobdingnagian sample.

My takeaway from the game is essentially the same as watching it live: overall a good performance, a few things to work on, and this team's ceiling is high.

[stupac2]

Lots of football left until we have to worry about playoff implications.  My biggest takeaway from the week end are that many of our upcoming foes are beatable.  And that game in Seattle is looming larger.

Exactly, I think a lot of the things people have been saying are waaaaaaay premature.

Also, re: Shaw's playcalling, I just re-watched the whole game and I think it's flat-out wrong. There was one series where Shaw went full turtle and it was with a 13-point lead and 6 minutes left in the game. Running the ball 3 times used up ~90 seconds of playclock and a KSU timeout. That was worth it.

The rest of the series were either KSU making some great plays (there was one run were McCaffrey might've been gone if not for a defender grabbing his shoe as he ran by!), Burns making some bad throws that he had made fine earlier in the game, or the OL just failing to open holes. And note that there's like 3-5 plays in each of those categories, it's not like we're talking about a brobdingnagian sample.

My takeaway from the game is essentially the same as watching it live: overall a good performance, a few things to work on, and this team's ceiling is high.