[CTcard]

It took one offensive touch to see that McCaffrey was special.  ... Yet he hardly saw the field the first half of the year. Incredible.  If you have to delay putting generational talent on the field because your playbook is the size of War and Peace then change the freaking playbook. Rip the damn thing in half.

When it works, that freaking playbook has given Stanford good to great offenses (which by most any advanced stats have generally better than the average fan seems to think), but it seems the thick playbook is at least a part of the problem when the offense hasn't been good.

But, I don't think the playbook is the reason that McCaffrey didn't play more in 2014. I really think that the staff didn't really realize what they had in him until 2015, really even until a few games into 2015.

... That [McCarrey's abilities] may not have been initially obvious to the staff, so that is on them. However, they eventually did recognize it, and/or by the middle of the season, CMAC had demonstrated he could run whatever they called.

McCaffrey's role in the offense picked up as of the Utah game, which meant the last three games of the regular season plus the Foster Farms Bowl, but it still was way too little.
Over the first nine games, McCaffrey averaged 1.4 carries per game and 1.1 receptions per game.
Over the final four games, McCaffrey averaged 7.25 carries per game and 1.75 receptions per game. 
Those 7 carries did make McCaffrey the number two back (just ahead of Young in carries), but well behind Wright (14+ carries per game over the same games).

[CTcard]

It took one offensive touch to see that McCaffrey was special.  ... Yet he hardly saw the field the first half of the year. Incredible.  If you have to delay putting generational talent on the field because your playbook is the size of War and Peace then change the freaking playbook. Rip the damn thing in half.

When it works, that freaking playbook has given Stanford good to great offenses (which by most any advanced stats have generally better than the average fan seems to think), but it seems the thick playbook is at least a part of the problem when the offense hasn't been good.

But, I don't think the playbook is the reason that McCaffrey didn't play more in 2014. I really think that the staff didn't really realize what they had in him until 2015, really even until a few games into 2015.

... That [McCarrey's abilities] may not have been initially obvious to the staff, so that is on them. However, they eventually did recognize it, and/or by the middle of the season, CMAC had demonstrated he could run whatever they called.

McCaffrey's role in the offense picked up as of the Utah game, which meant the last three games of the regular season plus the Foster Farms Bowl, but it still was way too little.
Over the first nine games, McCaffrey averaged 1.4 carries per game and 1.1 receptions per game.
Over the final four games, McCaffrey averaged 7.25 carries per game and 1.75 receptions per game. 
Those 7 carries did make McCaffrey the number two back (just ahead of Young in carries), but well behind Wright (14+ carries per game over the same games).