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We certainly did play poorly in all three aspects of the game. In the past, Stanford has always gone out and established the run. Now, we go out and establish the can't run. Once that happens, we go into the "throw to receivers that are not open and hope they can muscle the ball away from the defense". We are now out of alternatives, so let's hope the passes work. Last night, they didn't, as we had troubles with interceptions and QB hurries.
The defense would probably have been adequate if the offense had been functioning. Not good, but probably adequate. Unfortunately, the offense and special teams made too many mistakes for a barely adequate defense to overcome.

Utah did play better on offense than they did in their previous games. How much of that was us and how much was them can be debated. However, we were clearly not ready to play last night. I had hoped that the coaches had managed to fire up the OL so they could move people, but it didn't happen. Until it does, we are in lots of trouble.

I would be interested in other peoples opinion, but it seems to me we played better when Scarlett was the running back. The coaches kept going back to Speights. He is faster, and probably a bigger "home run" threat, but doesn't seem to run in traffic as well as Scarlett. He has improved his pass blocking, but I think Scarlett is still a better blocker. It just seemed to me we got better results with Scarlett.

[Goose]

We certainly did play poorly in all three aspects of the game. In the past, Stanford has always gone out and established the run. Now, we go out and establish the can't run. Once that happens, we go into the "throw to receivers that are not open and hope they can muscle the ball away from the defense". We are now out of alternatives, so let's hope the passes work. Last night, they didn't, as we had troubles with interceptions and QB hurries.
The defense would probably have been adequate if the offense had been functioning. Not good, but probably adequate. Unfortunately, the offense and special teams made too many mistakes for a barely adequate defense to overcome.

Utah did play better on offense than they did in their previous games. How much of that was us and how much was them can be debated. However, we were clearly not ready to play last night. I had hoped that the coaches had managed to fire up the OL so they could move people, but it didn't happen. Until it does, we are in lots of trouble.

I would be interested in other peoples opinion, but it seems to me we played better when Scarlett was the running back. The coaches kept going back to Speights. He is faster, and probably a bigger "home run" threat, but doesn't seem to run in traffic as well as Scarlett. He has improved his pass blocking, but I think Scarlett is still a better blocker. It just seemed to me we got better results with Scarlett.