[81alum]

I was rather encouraged by how Shaw took the loss in his presser.  He acknowledged that the loss was "on him" because he had not "mixed it up" and called more first down passes, etc.  He said they were sticking with the run because so often they were "one block" away but that that one block never came.  In other words, he admitted he had been stubborn and that his stubbornness cost us the game.

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I was a bit surprised when he said that we did as well running the ball as could be expected, given the quality of the run defense.  I kept thinking that our O-line must need to make some sort of adjustments.  I presume that the WSU D-line was not simply physically superior, but that they had some scheme that was getting them into the backfield and that we needed the right playcalls to punish their scheme--and Shaw did not call those plays, and he admitted as much.

[81alum]

I was rather encouraged by how Shaw took the loss in his presser.  He acknowledged that the loss was "on him" because he had not "mixed it up" and called more first down passes, etc.  He said they were sticking with the run because so often they were "one block" away but that that one block never came.  In other words, he admitted he had been stubborn and that his stubbornness cost us the game.

https://twitter.com/stanfordfball?lang=en

I was a bit surprised when he said that we did as well running the ball as could be expected, given the quality of the run defense.  I kept thinking that our O-line must need to make some sort of adjustments.  I presume that the WSU D-line was not simply physically superior, but that they had some scheme that was getting them into the backfield and that we needed the right playcalls to punish their scheme--and Shaw did not call those plays, and he admitted as much.