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My personal dictum is that you cannot judge a coach by a single season. But facts are facts. Stanford hired a head coach whose identity in football has been that of play designer and play caller, and in 2023–especially in November—the Stanford offense is among the very worst in the country and historically bad compared to past Stanford seasons.

For the season, Stanford is No. 119 out of 133 in points per play, a metric that gets a boost when you have a world-class kicker like Karty.

Stanford has scored four touchdowns in November. This is historically low for Stanford, and this has occurred against opposition—Kal and WSU—that have middling defenses.

The solution for most teams would simply be to fire the offensive coordinator, but obviously in Stanford’s case that would mean TT demoting himself. I wish that would happen, but it is very unlikely.

So, that is the concern. Subjectively, I think that Stanford has been blessed with having a relatively healthy QB and top receiver in November, and overall the offense has been hurt most by the loss of Yurosek. I am most open to the argument that having Yurosek out hurt the offense deeply but in ways that were at first obscured by the emergence of Ayomanor.
Still, at this point I can only look at this offense with dismay. There is one game left. Stanford scoring even one TD against Notre Dame would surprise me at this point. It is just that bad, believe it or not.

I don’t care how well you design plays. Or for that matter how great a play caller that you are. If you have an offensive line that can’t block, you’re not gonna succeed. Is that simplistic? Sure. It’s also true.

It’s not scheme. It’s not calls. It’s a lack of physical ability, athleticism and talent at the key position group on the field. Focus all you want on skill position players. If you can’t block, forget it. Daniels was running for his life on damn near every pass. Add 4 first half holding penalties. All of which were easy calls cause a lineman got smoked and just reached out and grabbed. They couldn’t run at all. Got stuffed. Constantly. And Cal does not have a good defense.

What do you expect an offense to be able to achieve under those circumstances? And this was not anything different from what we’ve seen all year. Solidify your offensive line. Once you do that, if they still stink on offense, then yeah, you can blame the scheme and/or the play caller.

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It’s not necessarily only a 2 opinion take on Coach TT and staff. That you’ll either support and accolade him through any failures, or that you’re bringing tar & feathers.
I’m of the opinion that he was a good hire and that he worked some occasional magic this season and that I’m hopeful for him & the team next season
I’m also if the opinion that he dropped the ball in the most visible & arguably most important game of this season
The excuses that we just don’t have the players rings a little hollow
It’s the same players that sparked a courageous come back over Colorado
Are we saying Cal is oh so much better & in a different league than Colorado?
It’s the same players that went toe to toe w Washington one of top 4(?) in country?
I realize no coach can bring the team to top readiness every game
But this was the game to bring it, and it wasn’t brought

I’m sorry but Stanford “just does not have the players”.  The effort they gave all year was admirable. But they are horrifically undermanned. Their offensive line is as bad as I’ve seen at Stanford.  Overmatched week in week  out.  RB?  Who stands out.  They have a couple nice WR’s.  And I give Daniels a lot of credit. He survived the season running for his life and looked pretty darn good at times. Hats off to him. He got the hell beat out of him. is he a top flight quarterback? Probably not. But pretty hard to tell under the circumstances he had to play. 

Defensively? Not physical. Slow. They gave up more yards passing than any team in the country. Not because of “scheme”. Because they simply don’t have the horses.

It’s always easy to stick it on the couch. But no one wins without talent.

Taylor has his work cut out for him. At least as tough a job as Harbaugh had. Unfortunately, the portal makes it that much tougher. Let’s hope they don’t lose Ayomanor, for example.

Taylor’s will havevtomrecruit like mad. Keep your fingers crossed. Because they need a massive talent infusion.

[lex24]

1700496878[/url]']
My personal dictum is that you cannot judge a coach by a single season. But facts are facts. Stanford hired a head coach whose identity in football has been that of play designer and play caller, and in 2023–especially in November—the Stanford offense is among the very worst in the country and historically bad compared to past Stanford seasons.

For the season, Stanford is No. 119 out of 133 in points per play, a metric that gets a boost when you have a world-class kicker like Karty.

Stanford has scored four touchdowns in November. This is historically low for Stanford, and this has occurred against opposition—Kal and WSU—that have middling defenses.

The solution for most teams would simply be to fire the offensive coordinator, but obviously in Stanford’s case that would mean TT demoting himself. I wish that would happen, but it is very unlikely.

So, that is the concern. Subjectively, I think that Stanford has been blessed with having a relatively healthy QB and top receiver in November, and overall the offense has been hurt most by the loss of Yurosek. I am most open to the argument that having Yurosek out hurt the offense deeply but in ways that were at first obscured by the emergence of Ayomanor.
Still, at this point I can only look at this offense with dismay. There is one game left. Stanford scoring even one TD against Notre Dame would surprise me at this point. It is just that bad, believe it or not.

I don’t care how well you design plays. Or for that matter how great a play caller that you are. If you have an offensive line that can’t block, you’re not gonna succeed. Is that simplistic? Sure. It’s also true.

It’s not scheme. It’s not calls. It’s a lack of physical ability, athleticism and talent at the key position group on the field. Focus all you want on skill position players. If you can’t block, forget it. Daniels was running for his life on damn near every pass. Add 4 first half holding penalties. All of which were easy calls cause a lineman got smoked and just reached out and grabbed. They couldn’t run at all. Got stuffed. Constantly. And Cal does not have a good defense.

What do you expect an offense to be able to achieve under those circumstances? And this was not anything different from what we’ve seen all year. Solidify your offensive line. Once you do that, if they still stink on offense, then yeah, you can blame the scheme and/or the play caller.

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It’s not necessarily only a 2 opinion take on Coach TT and staff. That you’ll either support and accolade him through any failures, or that you’re bringing tar & feathers.
I’m of the opinion that he was a good hire and that he worked some occasional magic this season and that I’m hopeful for him & the team next season
I’m also if the opinion that he dropped the ball in the most visible & arguably most important game of this season
The excuses that we just don’t have the players rings a little hollow
It’s the same players that sparked a courageous come back over Colorado
Are we saying Cal is oh so much better & in a different league than Colorado?
It’s the same players that went toe to toe w Washington one of top 4(?) in country?
I realize no coach can bring the team to top readiness every game
But this was the game to bring it, and it wasn’t brought

I’m sorry but Stanford “just does not have the players”.  The effort they gave all year was admirable. But they are horrifically undermanned. Their offensive line is as bad as I’ve seen at Stanford.  Overmatched week in week  out.  RB?  Who stands out.  They have a couple nice WR’s.  And I give Daniels a lot of credit. He survived the season running for his life and looked pretty darn good at times. Hats off to him. He got the hell beat out of him. is he a top flight quarterback? Probably not. But pretty hard to tell under the circumstances he had to play. 

Defensively? Not physical. Slow. They gave up more yards passing than any team in the country. Not because of “scheme”. Because they simply don’t have the horses.

It’s always easy to stick it on the couch. But no one wins without talent.

Taylor has his work cut out for him. At least as tough a job as Harbaugh had. Unfortunately, the portal makes it that much tougher. Let’s hope they don’t lose Ayomanor, for example.

Taylor’s will havevtomrecruit like mad. Keep your fingers crossed. Because they need a massive talent infusion.