(10-03-2019, 11:16 AM)SF_Cardinal_Fan Wrote: 5) If you don't mind please post your thoughts here to this thread about why Stanford's offensive production was so much better in the first half against OSU, versus the second half ?
Not Troy, but the infamous Shaw turtle - shifting away from WR quick screens and short passes on 1st/2nd down to vintage R2P2 (run run pass punt) once we had a 21-0 lead - was clearly an immense part of the problem. We don't have the talent advantage to be telegraphing our plays anymore. Same heart-attack-inducing stubbornness as the ASU game last year.
Case in point: we haven't passed out of a 4 TE formation a single time this whole season. On our 5 plays from that formation in the OSU game (all in goal line IIRC), we gained a total of... -2 yards. It doesn't help that the 4th TE in that formation is a walk-on (Kyle McCombs), so everyone and their mother knows we're not running in his direction.