[Goose]

Shaw needs to do some serious reflection to determine why his OL are seemingly regressing.

Little was better as a True Frosh. Herbig looked like a disaster last night. Hall, after playing well against Oregon, looked like he was on roller skates.   They keep on rotating Fanaika and Hamilton at LG.  

But the sight that made my eyes the most sore was routinely seeing Book back to pass, and ALL THREE Stanford DL playing patty cake with ND OL. WTF was that? Nobody was trying to push them back, nobody was playing with any leverage, and they weren't even trying to angle past them.  They were all standing up, like little kids jumping up to try to get something an adult holds over their heads and knows they can't reach.  

Reminded me of Stanford at Washington in 2016 for total LOS dominance on both sides of the ball by opponent. Not a good look.

I think that was our "cover all the receivers, force the qb to run, and maintain containment by not rushing across the LOS and giving up contain". So I think the DL was doing what they were expected to do. It just didn't work very well. Unfortunately, neither did any of our other defenses.

[Goose]

Shaw needs to do some serious reflection to determine why his OL are seemingly regressing.

Little was better as a True Frosh. Herbig looked like a disaster last night. Hall, after playing well against Oregon, looked like he was on roller skates.   They keep on rotating Fanaika and Hamilton at LG.  

But the sight that made my eyes the most sore was routinely seeing Book back to pass, and ALL THREE Stanford DL playing patty cake with ND OL. WTF was that? Nobody was trying to push them back, nobody was playing with any leverage, and they weren't even trying to angle past them.  They were all standing up, like little kids jumping up to try to get something an adult holds over their heads and knows they can't reach.  

Reminded me of Stanford at Washington in 2016 for total LOS dominance on both sides of the ball by opponent. Not a good look.

I think that was our "cover all the receivers, force the qb to run, and maintain containment by not rushing across the LOS and giving up contain". So I think the DL was doing what they were expected to do. It just didn't work very well. Unfortunately, neither did any of our other defenses.