01-04-2018, 01:28 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-04-2018, 01:29 PM by Duck Tears.)
Good Grief: Thoughts on the failed two-point conversion pass to Smith.
1. When the field is three yards long, WHY drop back to pass? The odds of converting a two-point play decrease exponentially once you go backwards. The most successful two-pointers include deception/misdirection/momentum, or a combo of all three (see the Patriots in the last Super Bowl).
2. Has Stanford made a 2-point conversion (beyond garbage time) this decade? This Alamo Bowl, 2017 Oregon State, 2015 Oregon are the most recent foul-ups.*
*Combined with the related hardships near the goal-line (stuffed on fourth-and-goal in Sun Bowl 2016, P12 title games in 2017 AND 2015, USC 2014), Shaw-Vita has a problem to fix.
1. When the field is three yards long, WHY drop back to pass? The odds of converting a two-point play decrease exponentially once you go backwards. The most successful two-pointers include deception/misdirection/momentum, or a combo of all three (see the Patriots in the last Super Bowl).
2. Has Stanford made a 2-point conversion (beyond garbage time) this decade? This Alamo Bowl, 2017 Oregon State, 2015 Oregon are the most recent foul-ups.*
*Combined with the related hardships near the goal-line (stuffed on fourth-and-goal in Sun Bowl 2016, P12 title games in 2017 AND 2015, USC 2014), Shaw-Vita has a problem to fix.
Khalil Wilkes' fumble recovery against Oregon in 2012 is the greatest Stanford play nobody talks about.