(11-10-2012, 04:24 PM)washingtonismoney link Wrote:Mid 3rd quarter adjustments to stop their screens won the game.
Great to hear this. Again, I'm just watching the play-by-play on the internet, so it is hard for me to understand the nuances of how the game is unfolding. To overcome 4 turnovers and a 7 penalties to beat a very, very good team, leaves a kind of strange taste in the mouth: extremely happy about the win, of course, but realizing how much easier the win could have been if we had not shot ourselves in the foot so often.Â
But the big positive obviously is Hogan. No need to question the quality of the defense he faced today, and he put up great numbers:
7/12 (almost 60%) on 3rd Down Conversions
21/28 (75%) completions/attempts
4 ypc on the ground
But more than the numbers, again just judging from following on the net but not seeing the actual action, he just seems poised. Your team takes a penalty in the red zone? Come back and throw a TD pass. You throw an interception? No problem, you keep running the offense. Only thing that it seems Stanford could do is use the WRs a bit more: only one reception by JRP (though I understand the 2nd interception was directed to him) and 3 to Terrell. But great use of the FB, RB, and TE. As Hogan practices more with the first team, I wonder if the receivers begin to come into play a bit more. Great job the the D, also, at the end.Â