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Stanford scored about 3.8 points per drive once you filter out the end-of-half junk stuff. That's pretty solid -- per Brian Fremeau Stanford scored 3.58 ppd last year (http://www.bcftoys.com/2015-ppd/). And Stanford averaged 6.52 yards per play, just about an average performance for the team last year. (Indeed, Stanford rang up 6.49 and 6.52 ypp in its two games against SC in 2015).

As stupac says, the lack of drives/plays was probably the biggest factor. Stanford's averaging 55.5 plays/game so far this year -- down from 66 plays/game last year. I have a suspicion that Shaw wants to keep things simple for Burns: it's a small sample size, of course, but Burns has started off each game so far hot, only to lose accuracy in the second half. Pure speculation, but it may be Burns feels very comfortable in scripted situations but not as sharp deeper in the play book.

Note that Burns has passed far less in his opening two games than Nunes (28 passes/game), Hogan (26 passes/game), or of course Luck (28.5 passes/game ... though interestingly Luck had 12 and 14 attempts in games 3 and 4 of his illustrious career.)

[washingtonismoney]

Stanford scored about 3.8 points per drive once you filter out the end-of-half junk stuff. That's pretty solid -- per Brian Fremeau Stanford scored 3.58 ppd last year (http://www.bcftoys.com/2015-ppd/). And Stanford averaged 6.52 yards per play, just about an average performance for the team last year. (Indeed, Stanford rang up 6.49 and 6.52 ypp in its two games against SC in 2015).

As stupac says, the lack of drives/plays was probably the biggest factor. Stanford's averaging 55.5 plays/game so far this year -- down from 66 plays/game last year. I have a suspicion that Shaw wants to keep things simple for Burns: it's a small sample size, of course, but Burns has started off each game so far hot, only to lose accuracy in the second half. Pure speculation, but it may be Burns feels very comfortable in scripted situations but not as sharp deeper in the play book.

Note that Burns has passed far less in his opening two games than Nunes (28 passes/game), Hogan (26 passes/game), or of course Luck (28.5 passes/game ... though interestingly Luck had 12 and 14 attempts in games 3 and 4 of his illustrious career.)