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Early on $C was winning on both lines of scrimmage. We couldn't get anywhere on power runs and we couldn't stop $C on the same.

Then that started to change. First it became sort of even, then Stanford started controlling the LOS. $C wasn't exactly shut down on the run, but they couldn't do so at will and then they didn't have time left to do so. And while it wasn't perfect, we started to gain yards running when it was 100% clear what play was coming. That last drive (with the unfortunate late block out of bounds) chewed up five and half key minutes, and at fourth and 1 it probably could have kept going if necessary.

So, maybe the $C linemen are just not in great shape, certainly they are thin on the DL, but that turnaround is the first time this season I started to think we could have another season with Stanford controlling both sides of the LOS most games.

Were we in nickle the whole game? I noticed that early in the game when they were killing us with the runs we were pretty much exclusively in nickle, if we mixed in more base that could explain it, but given game situation it seems unlikely.

[stupac2]

Early on $C was winning on both lines of scrimmage. We couldn't get anywhere on power runs and we couldn't stop $C on the same.

Then that started to change. First it became sort of even, then Stanford started controlling the LOS. $C wasn't exactly shut down on the run, but they couldn't do so at will and then they didn't have time left to do so. And while it wasn't perfect, we started to gain yards running when it was 100% clear what play was coming. That last drive (with the unfortunate late block out of bounds) chewed up five and half key minutes, and at fourth and 1 it probably could have kept going if necessary.

So, maybe the $C linemen are just not in great shape, certainly they are thin on the DL, but that turnaround is the first time this season I started to think we could have another season with Stanford controlling both sides of the LOS most games.

Were we in nickle the whole game? I noticed that early in the game when they were killing us with the runs we were pretty much exclusively in nickle, if we mixed in more base that could explain it, but given game situation it seems unlikely.