A lousy playbook is my favorite diagnosis... more than inept WRs or poor route running (execution).
-- Fewer plays with a guy in motion or misdirection.
-- Easy to cover route combos, even if King Kong is your Tight End.
The first TD on ORST was a well-DESIGNED play, well executed.
The problem is not the QB.
WHAT IS THE THRESHOLD FOR MUIR? To Pressure Shaw to change the OffCo? [Not to fire Shaw; not that]
A) We get hammered by UW, say 38 to 13, sitting at 2-4, looking up at a 4-8 season, maybe? [UCF, U$C were real bad].
or B) We limp to 3-6, looking at WAST, Big Game, NDAM from 2-3 now. Enough?
or C) Shaw suffers his first Big Game loss, and it's in PA and we sink to 5-7 or worse.
And Stanford's Offense remains in the Cellar. Does he say, "We are on the way to better execution." ?
"We did not have a healthy O-Line, and we could not play OUR BRAND (!) of Football." What is that brand, now?
... MAKEOVER. Do we start losing student-athletes, as with the Basketball Team?
This is a 12-step process perhaps to overcome addiction to conventional thinking (?), and the first step is to ADMIT THERE IS A PROBLEM.
-- Fewer plays with a guy in motion or misdirection.
-- Easy to cover route combos, even if King Kong is your Tight End.
The first TD on ORST was a well-DESIGNED play, well executed.
The problem is not the QB.
WHAT IS THE THRESHOLD FOR MUIR? To Pressure Shaw to change the OffCo? [Not to fire Shaw; not that]
A) We get hammered by UW, say 38 to 13, sitting at 2-4, looking up at a 4-8 season, maybe? [UCF, U$C were real bad].
or B) We limp to 3-6, looking at WAST, Big Game, NDAM from 2-3 now. Enough?
or C) Shaw suffers his first Big Game loss, and it's in PA and we sink to 5-7 or worse.
And Stanford's Offense remains in the Cellar. Does he say, "We are on the way to better execution." ?
"We did not have a healthy O-Line, and we could not play OUR BRAND (!) of Football." What is that brand, now?
... MAKEOVER. Do we start losing student-athletes, as with the Basketball Team?
This is a 12-step process perhaps to overcome addiction to conventional thinking (?), and the first step is to ADMIT THERE IS A PROBLEM.