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IIRC Fox bit hard on one read option and Herbert burned him and blew past the vacated space for a crucial first down.

That's the big mistake I remember by Fox. It was on the final drive, when Herbert ran for the first down that almost iced the game.
It's a mistake that our OLB made a lot vs Oregon in the days of our Oregon Problem. Trent Murphy got burned that way many a time.
If I am remembering correctly, Fox's offisde wasn't early movement but lining up with his foot across the line.


Still, a very good game by Fox. A very good game by Williams complete with heart-warming story.

When the OL was juggled in the first half, Dalman held his own, but he also didn’t seem to be engaging people much — might have been zone blocking or maybe just a missed assignment. That was a tough task to take on and IMO it had the effect of weakening two positions (RG and RT) at once — three if a healthy Dalman is considered more effective than Burkett just getting back to speed at C. 

Even in zone blocking you have to block somebody. Not engaging is a problem.
Pretty sure that Burkett is playing ahead of Dalman if he can make it on the field, so I don't think the third position depleted holds.
It was interesting that Hall came in an played three plays*, then was taken out until he played the whole second half. Would like to hear a candid description of what was going on [though the broad outlines we can certainly guess].

*Well, I noticed Hall gone by play number four and in during play number one. I am not completely certain where he came out.

Hall came back in for the whole second half and our yards per run quadruple. Yes, the change to passing helps, but so does have (some) of the starters back

I need to go recheck my numbers, but I think that outside of sacks Stanford avergae 3.15 yds/rush* the first half and about 3.6 on the game, so not that much uptick in the second half. Stanford also called passes on a similar percentage of plays in first half, but the two sacks slightly skew the official stats.


* It might be a little closer than that, but I have to check how they counted the yards lost on the fumble by Costello while being sacked (that we recovered). It appears the sack was only for -7 yards, but there was an additional -11 yards given to Costello's run total. That was at the end of the first half.

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IIRC Fox bit hard on one read option and Herbert burned him and blew past the vacated space for a crucial first down.

That's the big mistake I remember by Fox. It was on the final drive, when Herbert ran for the first down that almost iced the game.
It's a mistake that our OLB made a lot vs Oregon in the days of our Oregon Problem. Trent Murphy got burned that way many a time.
If I am remembering correctly, Fox's offisde wasn't early movement but lining up with his foot across the line.


Still, a very good game by Fox. A very good game by Williams complete with heart-warming story.

When the OL was juggled in the first half, Dalman held his own, but he also didn’t seem to be engaging people much — might have been zone blocking or maybe just a missed assignment. That was a tough task to take on and IMO it had the effect of weakening two positions (RG and RT) at once — three if a healthy Dalman is considered more effective than Burkett just getting back to speed at C. 

Even in zone blocking you have to block somebody. Not engaging is a problem.
Pretty sure that Burkett is playing ahead of Dalman if he can make it on the field, so I don't think the third position depleted holds.
It was interesting that Hall came in an played three plays*, then was taken out until he played the whole second half. Would like to hear a candid description of what was going on [though the broad outlines we can certainly guess].

*Well, I noticed Hall gone by play number four and in during play number one. I am not completely certain where he came out.

Hall came back in for the whole second half and our yards per run quadruple. Yes, the change to passing helps, but so does have (some) of the starters back

I need to go recheck my numbers, but I think that outside of sacks Stanford avergae 3.15 yds/rush* the first half and about 3.6 on the game, so not that much uptick in the second half. Stanford also called passes on a similar percentage of plays in first half, but the two sacks slightly skew the official stats.


* It might be a little closer than that, but I have to check how they counted the yards lost on the fumble by Costello while being sacked (that we recovered). It appears the sack was only for -7 yards, but there was an additional -11 yards given to Costello's run total. That was at the end of the first half.