Yep, we are the stupidest team in America, it is now confirmed. Coming into this game THE question was "could we stop the 8 minute 80 yard drives that Stanford laid on us with ease in game one. Well if we can't stop it, then you sure as hell don't want to pass the ball, have 3 and outs causing us to get off the field too quickly, not giving our D a breather. The 1st game they had the ball for 40 of the 60 minutes. Our D was on the field for 40 minutes!
One would think that reversing this trend would be our number priority! So how does this game start? Stanford opens with an 8 minute beauty. What do we do on our very 1st play? We throw a 1 yard pass putting us in 2nd and 9. Cody scrambles for a 1st to get us out of trouble. Whew, we dodge our stupidity there. Okay, how do we start our next set of downs? Incomplete pass, 2nd and long, drive killed, running game not established, no time taken off the clock, and our D goes right back our there for another 7 minutes.
The game was over, SC is two 2 scores behind because we absolutely suck when we are desperate and behind in the score. When we fall behind we panic, become 1 dimensional, and we simply can't block when everyone knows we have to throw. To not run the ball right out of the gate was a enormous mistake that we might not overcome. If we fall 3 scores behind we'll have to abandon the run and exclusive throw. Our chance to run the ball will have come and gone.
With 4 minutes left in the half, we've started to make and effort to run. Guess what, its working! Oh shit, another pass on 1st, incomplete, 2nd and 10 we suck!
One would think that reversing this trend would be our number priority! So how does this game start? Stanford opens with an 8 minute beauty. What do we do on our very 1st play? We throw a 1 yard pass putting us in 2nd and 9. Cody scrambles for a 1st to get us out of trouble. Whew, we dodge our stupidity there. Okay, how do we start our next set of downs? Incomplete pass, 2nd and long, drive killed, running game not established, no time taken off the clock, and our D goes right back our there for another 7 minutes.
The game was over, SC is two 2 scores behind because we absolutely suck when we are desperate and behind in the score. When we fall behind we panic, become 1 dimensional, and we simply can't block when everyone knows we have to throw. To not run the ball right out of the gate was a enormous mistake that we might not overcome. If we fall 3 scores behind we'll have to abandon the run and exclusive throw. Our chance to run the ball will have come and gone.
With 4 minutes left in the half, we've started to make and effort to run. Guess what, its working! Oh shit, another pass on 1st, incomplete, 2nd and 10 we suck!
