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Also, Trevor Speights is not what I would call someone who gives Stanford a personnel advantage in the passing game (other than being a better pass blocker than Love), but you knew very well that when he was on the field with multiple formations that it was a limited number of pass plays. Zero exceptions.

The use of backs in the passing game is one of the things that I think Stanford did poorly this year. Not only did they almost never catch outlet passes or run routes, but weren't particularly distinguished at pass blocking either. Our main backs had 16 receptions all year (Love 6, Scarlett 6, Marx 3, Speights 1 - possibly one or two of Weddington's receptions were out of the backfield though I do not remember offhand).

I think that Love could have been productive in the short passing game, and the bowl game showed that Scarlett could catch and run (he also had the long catch and run vs Rice, and a good gain vs $C game 1). Both in routes and as an outlet, more RBs catching the ball could have helped out our QBs a lot and limited opposing LBers crashing.

Toward the end of the season, Love was almost always coming out on obvious passing downs. That sort of tipped our hand, but the down and distance did so as well. It's hard to tell how much of that was because he was less effective in the pass game and how much that was simply to find as many plays as possible to spell him.

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Also, Trevor Speights is not what I would call someone who gives Stanford a personnel advantage in the passing game (other than being a better pass blocker than Love), but you knew very well that when he was on the field with multiple formations that it was a limited number of pass plays. Zero exceptions.

The use of backs in the passing game is one of the things that I think Stanford did poorly this year. Not only did they almost never catch outlet passes or run routes, but weren't particularly distinguished at pass blocking either. Our main backs had 16 receptions all year (Love 6, Scarlett 6, Marx 3, Speights 1 - possibly one or two of Weddington's receptions were out of the backfield though I do not remember offhand).

I think that Love could have been productive in the short passing game, and the bowl game showed that Scarlett could catch and run (he also had the long catch and run vs Rice, and a good gain vs $C game 1). Both in routes and as an outlet, more RBs catching the ball could have helped out our QBs a lot and limited opposing LBers crashing.

Toward the end of the season, Love was almost always coming out on obvious passing downs. That sort of tipped our hand, but the down and distance did so as well. It's hard to tell how much of that was because he was less effective in the pass game and how much that was simply to find as many plays as possible to spell him.