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If any of you find a play caller that is perfect in your minds eye….  I don’t consider Shaw a great play caller by any stretch of the imagination.  But the nature of fans is to remember the ones that failed…..

It's remarkable how much better play calling gets when you have top notch talent, especially on the OL. 

Also, I recall back in 2018 when Stanford's OL was wiped out with a series of injuries, and Bryce Love was maybe 75% of his '17 self. Stanford couldn't run the football. 

Yet somehow the team managed to go 8-4 with a team that finished 11th in the league in rushing.

There were a few TV commentators who praised Shaw's ability to adjust on the fly, including Yogi Roth, who said that it proved that Shaw was one of the Top 5 coaches in football, pro or college. 

I had to chuckle at Roth's opinion of Shaw, almost as much as I laughed at the majority of the Stanford fans who whined about his play calling that year, and years since.  

When it comes to play calling, most fans don't have a clue. In the words of former NFL coach Jim Mora, " You don't know, you don't know, you don't know..."

[Red80]

If any of you find a play caller that is perfect in your minds eye….  I don’t consider Shaw a great play caller by any stretch of the imagination.  But the nature of fans is to remember the ones that failed…..

It's remarkable how much better play calling gets when you have top notch talent, especially on the OL. 

Also, I recall back in 2018 when Stanford's OL was wiped out with a series of injuries, and Bryce Love was maybe 75% of his '17 self. Stanford couldn't run the football. 

Yet somehow the team managed to go 8-4 with a team that finished 11th in the league in rushing.

There were a few TV commentators who praised Shaw's ability to adjust on the fly, including Yogi Roth, who said that it proved that Shaw was one of the Top 5 coaches in football, pro or college. 

I had to chuckle at Roth's opinion of Shaw, almost as much as I laughed at the majority of the Stanford fans who whined about his play calling that year, and years since.  

When it comes to play calling, most fans don't have a clue. In the words of former NFL coach Jim Mora, " You don't know, you don't know, you don't know..."