10-27-2017, 10:54 PM
Ive been saying for a long time that Stanfords offense is best when its run heavy. If you analyze the numbers over the years it is an unassailable fact.
Well, yes and no. For example we know special teams has been consistently good since Alamar came to town, so I blame Reid more than Alamar on the silly penalty. (Which probably shouldn't've been a penalty, to be fair.)
On the other hand, if the coaches consistently trot out a player who's incapable of performing, it's on them on some level:
1) They can either replace him with a better player (which it appears Costello likely is)
2) or change the gameplan to accommodate his skills, inconsistent as they might be.
It's time to revive the CTCard theory: that everything that goes wrong in the offense tends to be throwing too much. Note that Chryst averaged 4.3 YPA -- but that doesn't include sacks. Throw those in and the average Chryst dropback performed worse than the average Scarlett carry. If the coaches were stuck on Chryst, they should've let Scarlett shoulder the load. But Chryst threw 33 passes to Scarlett's 17 carries -- odd, considering the purported power-run emphasis of the Stanford coaches.
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(10-27-2017, 08:42 AM)washingtonismoney link Wrote:[quote author=ColoradoTree link=topic=17801.msg208641#msg208641 date=1509118522]
I'm on board with this, with a few caveats: it's somewhat on the players. As the announcers noted, after as many games as Chryst has started, he ought to be able to go through progressions instead of fixating on his primary read. Our defense should have been better at avoiding idiotic drive-extending penalties. Our running backs should have been better at identifying the holes that were there and attacking them.
Well, yes and no. For example we know special teams has been consistently good since Alamar came to town, so I blame Reid more than Alamar on the silly penalty. (Which probably shouldn't've been a penalty, to be fair.)
On the other hand, if the coaches consistently trot out a player who's incapable of performing, it's on them on some level:
1) They can either replace him with a better player (which it appears Costello likely is)
2) or change the gameplan to accommodate his skills, inconsistent as they might be.
It's time to revive the CTCard theory: that everything that goes wrong in the offense tends to be throwing too much. Note that Chryst averaged 4.3 YPA -- but that doesn't include sacks. Throw those in and the average Chryst dropback performed worse than the average Scarlett carry. If the coaches were stuck on Chryst, they should've let Scarlett shoulder the load. But Chryst threw 33 passes to Scarlett's 17 carries -- odd, considering the purported power-run emphasis of the Stanford coaches.
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