OL Amoah RFrosh hobbling. #73

...and now a shanked punt give Stanford great field position...these are the kind of things that we simply can not do and have a chance...

Cam Trimble nice stop. Cloud gassed.

We need to execute on offense.

...and yet another poor punt...our D can't carry the entire load...offense has been anemic so far...

17-3 Stanford...the Cardinal is beginning to roll while our offense is pretty much non-existent so far...

Heated up, but then more passes off.

Doss showing up

Great job by the defense.

I think Hawk needs to let the offense go up tempo in the 2nd half and try to get in a rhythm. I understand the strategy of using the clock as much as possible but the offense seemed out of sync with Maier constantly taking the play clock down to nearly zero before the snap.

UCD Rushing Yards 4
Passing Yds 102

Furd 140 passing
60 rushing

Is the strategy to go uptempo in the 2nd half?

WTF just happened?

This one is about to get ugly...

For those watching, why is there no offense outside of passing to Doss? Are they getting a lot of pressure on Maier?

Big run!

Doss looks worn out. The guy needs a break. We have depth at that position.

Maier has primarily thrown to Doss with several dropped balls by our other receivers. Stanford's DB's are impressive.

Rodriguez in at QB. Hit 2 new receivers. First ball to Vaughn?

Why did we decide to go slow tempo? Reading their D? Protecting Maier?

Shaw decides to try and pad the score and the Ags make a 4th down stop. Great job D and questionable decision by Shaw...

Maier 22 of 45, 4.3 yards per pass. 13 to Doss.

Their 6'5" TE Smith had 6 grabs.

Aggie down.... Hunter O'Brien?

CJ with the TD grab? Lined up with our 6'5" JC recruit wideout Jacob Sipes.

Encouraging game. Defense better than expected, offense predictably had trouble against a team that was tough against USC.
Big thing is it had the feel of a football game. We didn’t get steamrollered.

Radio announcers don’t seem to be up to date on the redshirt rule. Thought Rodrigues burned a year

Even though it came in garbage time... we put more points up on em than U$C did!

I think today will increase their confidence, particularly defensive players.
We need to develop a better running game but this game was a high bar to cross so I wouldn’t make too much of their ineffectiveness in this game,

Hey, we beat the spread. Stanford was favored by 31.

This game will help our computer rankings. Losing by 20 to a top 10 team is a positive. We actually have impressive team stats, like their third down conversions 3-14

Thomas w only 4 touches. I'm guessing we were playing conservative to protect Maier.

We didn’t play conservative, we just didn’t play no huddle. We didn’t want a lot of plays in the game
It’s like gambling. When the odds are against you making fewer bets gives you a better chance to beat the odds. Part of the gamble was some of our trick plays working, I don’t think any did, and also going for it on fourth down near mid field and later forgoing a field goal for a fourth down play both we gambles we lost. Carson Crawford must be a pretty good passer in practice. It will be nice to see him throwing some completions.
It would have been interesting to see how the no huddle would have worked though.
Not much hope for the run game against this opponent but kudos to Modise

Seems like we escaped relatively unscathed, but I am concerned that Maier looked horrendous for the better part of a half starting with the last drive of the 1st half. Everything was behind the intended receiver by 2-3 yards consistently. He’ll need a far better effort in Cheney and Missoula.

Haven’t seen final stats but Harrell didn’t play apparently, and neither did Logan Montgomery. We had some dropped passes by some of our other receivers. It is curious about Montgomery.