[stupac2]

Why are Harbaugh/Roman and Bloomgren/Shaw both captaining the worst Red Zone offenses in their respective levels of competition?  The Niners can't score points and they have Frank Gore.  The Niners are terrible in the Red Zone and they have good run blocking OL.

I'm just not buying the "we don't have a power back" and "we don't have a pulling Guard" memes.  There is something fundamentally not working with the approaches these respective offensive braintrusts are taking.  This isn't one Stanford offense failing to produce, it's basically another one right down the road as well.

In 2012 SF was the #5 offense in DVOA, while we were #36. So Roman and Harbaugh are way better than Shaw and Hamilton, since they're getting it done as opposed to being merely good. Last year SF was #8 and we were #18, so Harbaugh and Roman regressed a small amount while switching from Hamilton to Bloomgren helped us. Now this year we're #65 and SF is #23. So Harbaugh and Roman lost their mojo, while Bloomgren was actually a downgrade from Pep but it took time to see.

Or this is all more complicated than your analysis because results are a combination of lots of different factors, some of which coaches control but most of which they don't, and comparing two different coaching staffs in a cherry-picked year of abnormal performance is facile, pointless, and counterproductive.

[stupac2]

Why are Harbaugh/Roman and Bloomgren/Shaw both captaining the worst Red Zone offenses in their respective levels of competition?  The Niners can't score points and they have Frank Gore.  The Niners are terrible in the Red Zone and they have good run blocking OL.

I'm just not buying the "we don't have a power back" and "we don't have a pulling Guard" memes.  There is something fundamentally not working with the approaches these respective offensive braintrusts are taking.  This isn't one Stanford offense failing to produce, it's basically another one right down the road as well.

In 2012 SF was the #5 offense in DVOA, while we were #36. So Roman and Harbaugh are way better than Shaw and Hamilton, since they're getting it done as opposed to being merely good. Last year SF was #8 and we were #18, so Harbaugh and Roman regressed a small amount while switching from Hamilton to Bloomgren helped us. Now this year we're #65 and SF is #23. So Harbaugh and Roman lost their mojo, while Bloomgren was actually a downgrade from Pep but it took time to see.

Or this is all more complicated than your analysis because results are a combination of lots of different factors, some of which coaches control but most of which they don't, and comparing two different coaching staffs in a cherry-picked year of abnormal performance is facile, pointless, and counterproductive.