[Hulk01]

Stanford's offense generally, and Hogan particularly, might be seen as less dynamic because we run fewer plays per game than any team in our conference.

We averaged only 64 plays per game last year, compared to Oregon's 75, Washington/Arizona State/Arizona's 79, and Cal's 87.

It's also easy to assume that Hogan also suffers by the regular comparisons to Luck.

And we were not a good red zone team last year.  That seems strongly correlated to the fact that we had only two strong dimensions in our offense--Gaffney running between the tackles and Hogan throwing deep--and the red zone eliminated our second option.  That made us truly one-dimensional, without tght ends, a competent intermediate passing game, or even a bona fide fade target, we were relatively easy to defend in the red zone.  That should not be the case this year, and a good bet is that the perception of Hogan, and of Stanford's offense. will improve.

[Hulk01]

Stanford's offense generally, and Hogan particularly, might be seen as less dynamic because we run fewer plays per game than any team in our conference.

We averaged only 64 plays per game last year, compared to Oregon's 75, Washington/Arizona State/Arizona's 79, and Cal's 87.

It's also easy to assume that Hogan also suffers by the regular comparisons to Luck.

And we were not a good red zone team last year.  That seems strongly correlated to the fact that we had only two strong dimensions in our offense--Gaffney running between the tackles and Hogan throwing deep--and the red zone eliminated our second option.  That made us truly one-dimensional, without tght ends, a competent intermediate passing game, or even a bona fide fade target, we were relatively easy to defend in the red zone.  That should not be the case this year, and a good bet is that the perception of Hogan, and of Stanford's offense. will improve.