[CTcard]

[quote author=teejers1 link=topic=17712.msg206819#msg206819 date=1508185656]
3.  Stanford's run D is still mediocre.  I'm wondering when some team will just say "screw the pass - we're going to run it all game long?"  You know, follow the strategy Shaw did when Stanford ground out a W over Oregon a few years back at home.  I still have no confidence that this D could effectively counter such a strategy.

I think Oregon tried this strategy and it didn't work so well, especially in the second half.
[/quote]

Yes, but from another thread it appears that teejers means literally no passes, not virtually no passes.

And for the record, in that game vs Oregon we threw the same number of passes (13) that Oregon attempted against us on Saturday night.

I think that at full strength, Stanford rush defense has improved to the point of being mediocre (in the "of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad" sense, rather than as a synonym for bad). While the second half versus Oregon showed the run defense can be fine, the first showed how thin we are in the front seven.

[CTcard]

[quote author=teejers1 link=topic=17712.msg206819#msg206819 date=1508185656]
3.  Stanford's run D is still mediocre.  I'm wondering when some team will just say "screw the pass - we're going to run it all game long?"  You know, follow the strategy Shaw did when Stanford ground out a W over Oregon a few years back at home.  I still have no confidence that this D could effectively counter such a strategy.

I think Oregon tried this strategy and it didn't work so well, especially in the second half.
[/quote]

Yes, but from another thread it appears that teejers means literally no passes, not virtually no passes.

And for the record, in that game vs Oregon we threw the same number of passes (13) that Oregon attempted against us on Saturday night.

I think that at full strength, Stanford rush defense has improved to the point of being mediocre (in the "of only ordinary or moderate quality; neither good nor bad" sense, rather than as a synonym for bad). While the second half versus Oregon showed the run defense can be fine, the first showed how thin we are in the front seven.