10-12-2018, 05:54 AM
Start games running a pro style offense with 22 personnel (1 RB, 1 FB, 1 TE, 2 WRs), give the same look for run and pass to start games, and start with play acton passes. Michigan is the team to follow here. They are the closest thing to Stanford on offense that you will see. They do a masterful job of showing run looks, faking runs, getting linebackers to come up to stop run, and creating space behind them and in front of safeties. Stanford may even be able to get behind safeties given how they too may overcommit to run.
Love should be used as a decoy more often than he has been, until things loosen up for him. Run hard play action fakes off power run action. Put him in motion to shift the defense to his side of the field and throw to opposite side. Line him up wide and fake an end around to him to find other guys one-on-one on the opposite side of the field. And throw some swing passes to Love in the flat to get him in space.
In the second half, employ the offense you really want. You can run 60-40 in the second half, or even 70-30, because the defense won't be selling out to stop the run given it was burned by doing so in the first half.
When is the last time you saw a defense truly off balance against Stanford, where run and pass were equally effective in a game Stanford wasn't coming from behind? Has there been one the last three seasons? When is the last time one paid dearly for overcommitting to stopping something? It seems to me they get rewarded for too often for their aggressiveness, and Stanford needs to do some things to put them on their heels a bit because they are playing on their toes too much, especially in first halves of games.
Love should be used as a decoy more often than he has been, until things loosen up for him. Run hard play action fakes off power run action. Put him in motion to shift the defense to his side of the field and throw to opposite side. Line him up wide and fake an end around to him to find other guys one-on-one on the opposite side of the field. And throw some swing passes to Love in the flat to get him in space.
In the second half, employ the offense you really want. You can run 60-40 in the second half, or even 70-30, because the defense won't be selling out to stop the run given it was burned by doing so in the first half.
When is the last time you saw a defense truly off balance against Stanford, where run and pass were equally effective in a game Stanford wasn't coming from behind? Has there been one the last three seasons? When is the last time one paid dearly for overcommitting to stopping something? It seems to me they get rewarded for too often for their aggressiveness, and Stanford needs to do some things to put them on their heels a bit because they are playing on their toes too much, especially in first halves of games.