(09-04-2022, 07:09 PM)Mick Wrote: I watched the replay and I thought msqueri's summary was excellent. I thought everything he mentioned was on target.
A couple of thoughts:
1) If it wasn't for Tanner McKee, this would have been a very ugly game, I think.
2) I don't think I've ever seen special teams this bad.
3) Some of the tackling by Colgate annihilated a few Stanford players. What's going to happen against USC?
4) Speaking of USC, they were favored by 32.5 over Rice and won by 52, 66-14. Saturday's home game vs. USC is going to be ugly.
5) I think our offense can improve, it looks like it has potential. I liked the play calls, I liked the crispness. I think we'll be okay on offense, maybe middle of the Pac-12 pack as long as McKee stays healthy.
6) That said, if you take away E. J. Smith's 87 yard run, he was 10 carries for 31 yards. Against Colgate. I don't think we have much of a run game -- we had three fumbles against COLGATE -- I think we're going to need to be really, really good at passing. At least we spread the passes around.
7) Our defense really, really scares me, and not in a good way. Stanford gave up 159 yards rushing to COLGATE.
Colgate is a lousy football team. (Or at least, not equipped to play at this level) But my goodness those teeth were shiny…..
Can’t take much out of this game. Not hopeful vs SC. But I wouldn’t be if Stanford won 72-0 and outgained Colgate by 700 yards.
It was essentially a practice game. Hopefully they got the dropsies out. But I can’t see then slowing down SC. That has nothing to do with what we saw and everything to do with what we knew coming in. This teams front 7 defensively is not very good. And that’s generous.
Maybe they can win a shootout. But I highly doubt it.