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Ok, a win is a win. Forget the score, Stanford was never going to win this game. Andrew Luck was on the sideline, but he wasn't walking through that door, neither was Toby Gerhart or Richard Sherman

But I hope Mario Cristobal realizes that when you slow the pace against inferior foes, you actually open the window to get upset. When you have the superior team, you want MORE plays, not less. That didn't happen tonight, but that's not the point.

Sometimes it's not the result but the process. Instead of 'establishing the run', how bout 'establishing points' and allow your team to play from ahead? And then run the ball late and let your pass rushers pin their ears back.

Don't listen to me, I'm just a crouching Tiger who is a fan. But that was the base philosophy of Bill Walsh every gameAs for the offense, my view is that if you run more spread sets(clear up some of the congestion in the box) and throw more on early downs, you can see a more free-flowing unit.It's good to see this team dominate the second half and pull away late. I hope that it carries over into Dallas (I'll be there) vs SMU.
 
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Ok, a win is a win. Forget the score, Stanford was never going to win this game. Andrew Luck was on the sideline, but he wasn't walking through that door, neither was Toby Gerhart or Richard Sherman

But I hope Mario Cristobal realizes that when you slow the pace against inferior foes, you actually open the window to get upset. When you have the superior team, you want MORE plays, not less. That didn't happen tonight, but that's not the point.

Sometimes it's not the result but the process. Instead of 'establishing the run', how bout 'establishing points' and allow your team to play from ahead? And then run the ball late and let your pass rushers pin their ears back.

Don't listen to me, I'm just a crouching Tiger who is a fan. But that was the base philosophy of Bill Walsh every gameAs for the offense, my view is that if you run more spread sets(clear up some of the congestion in the box) and throw more on early downs, you can see a more free-flowing unit.It's good to see this team dominate the second half and pull away late. I hope that it carries over into Dallas (I'll be there) vs SMU.
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Agree 100%--why do we limit reps vs inferior competition? We did the same **** vs. Louisville. We always do it vs GT, UVA, etc.
 
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Ok, a win is a win. Forget the score, Stanford was never going to win this game. Andrew Luck was on the sideline, but he wasn't walking through that door, neither was Toby Gerhart or Richard Sherman

But I hope Mario Cristobal realizes that when you slow the pace against inferior foes, you actually open the window to get upset. When you have the superior team, you want MORE plays, not less. That didn't happen tonight, but that's not the point.

Sometimes it's not the result but the process. Instead of 'establishing the run', how bout 'establishing points' and allow your team to play from ahead? And then run the ball late and let your pass rushers pin their ears back.

Don't listen to me, I'm just a crouching Tiger who is a fan. But that was the base philosophy of Bill Walsh every gameAs for the offense, my view is that if you run more spread sets(clear up some of the congestion in the box) and throw more on early downs, you can see a more free-flowing unit.It's good to see this team dominate the second half and pull away late. I hope that it carries over into Dallas (I'll be there) vs SMU.
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Hey, Steve! So easy a caveman can do it? Not our caveman, Mario...ooga booga.. must fit square peg...round hole...ooga booga!
 
Forget everything else.
That type of pound it, 5 rushing TDs, control the clock offense, is Mario’s dream offense.

I hate it. But if you’re going to run it, you need a Sellers at QB. Or even CJ Bailey.

You need a QB that can pull it and run on read option plays. That can pull it on drop backs and get you 3 to 5 yards.

The style of play struggles without an additional runner on the field to keep the defense honest and keep the methodical march moving.

That 4th and 1 stop is wide open for a QB to keep it and take it outside. That’s the difference between an offense that probably is 30-ish in the analytics, and 15-ish.
 
Mario is good at opening season games, but he can't seem to keep the boys motivated and ready after byes. Yes, we dominated FSU the 1st 3 quarters, but we have not done well after byes under him and now that this is out of the way, I'm actually glad the boys don't have time to relax. If we are to fully get back on track, then I beliebv it is aided by just playing week after week and hopefully getting better.

Let's finish strongly!
 
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Gave up a lil over 50 yards after the first quarter. Dominate Defense performance just need them to get off to faster starts like they did in the first 5 games. Offense is what it is. They’re front runners. On to SMU
 
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Ok, a win is a win. Forget the score, Stanford was never going to win this game. Andrew Luck was on the sideline, but he wasn't walking through that door, neither was Toby Gerhart or Richard Sherman

But I hope Mario Cristobal realizes that when you slow the pace against inferior foes, you actually open the window to get upset. When you have the superior team, you want MORE plays, not less. That didn't happen tonight, but that's not the point.

Sometimes it's not the result but the process. Instead of 'establishing the run', how bout 'establishing points' and allow your team to play from ahead? And then run the ball late and let your pass rushers pin their ears back.

Don't listen to me, I'm just a crouching Tiger who is a fan. But that was the base philosophy of Bill Walsh every gameAs for the offense, my view is that if you run more spread sets(clear up some of the congestion in the box) and throw more on early downs, you can see a more free-flowing unit.It's good to see this team dominate the second half and pull away late. I hope that it carries over into Dallas (I'll be there) vs SMU.
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Agreed. Upset minded teams who are at a talent advantage want to limit possessions and keep the game close where a sneak FG late gets them a dub out the door

Mario has to stop playing like he’s at FIU and open it up and let the team dominate. No that doesn’t mean bully ball. If they wanna load the box or play deep coverage to limit Toney over the top kill them with a million paper cut passes driving and when the box softens take their will away by running it then
 
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CJ/toney
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On D, they are playing with fire having Lightfoot in on 1/10. Blount should be getting those snaps.

Mario is playing with fire, up 28 and Bain is still playing? Not smart! We need to get scroggins, Pickett, McConathy logging snaps! Same is true for the DT! More snaps for Scott, Simpson, Russell,&jones!
 
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Forget everything else.
That type of pound it, 5 rushing TDs, control the clock offense, is Mario’s dream offense.

I hate it. But if you’re going to run it, you need a Sellers at QB. Or even CJ Bailey.

You need a QB that can pull it and run on read option plays. That can pull it on drop backs and get you 3 to 5 yards.

The style of play struggles without an additional runner on the field to keep the defense honest and keep the methodical march moving.

That 4th and 1 stop is wide open for a QB to keep it and take it outside. That’s the difference between an offense that probably is 30-ish in the analytics, and 15-ish.
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I'd love to bring in a QB next off season who is a legitimate running threat.
 
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Ok, a win is a win. Forget the score, Stanford was never going to win this game. Andrew Luck was on the sideline, but he wasn't walking through that door, neither was Toby Gerhart or Richard Sherman

But I hope Mario Cristobal realizes that when you slow the pace against inferior foes, you actually open the window to get upset. When you have the superior team, you want MORE plays, not less. That didn't happen tonight, but that's not the point.

Sometimes it's not the result but the process. Instead of 'establishing the run', how bout 'establishing points' and allow your team to play from ahead? And then run the ball late and let your pass rushers pin their ears back.

Don't listen to me, I'm just a crouching Tiger who is a fan. But that was the base philosophy of Bill Walsh every gameAs for the offense, my view is that if you run more spread sets(clear up some of the congestion in the box) and throw more on early downs, you can see a more free-flowing unit.It's good to see this team dominate the second half and pull away late. I hope that it carries over into Dallas (I'll be there) vs SMU.
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It’s like Mario is so programmed to coaching a less talented team that he coaches the same way even with a more talented team.
 
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No idea why we play so slow. We dont have to run a ton of tempo but there are times we are snapping the ball with a couple seconds left on the play clock early in games. Makes no sense.

Mario wants to run the ball, which is fine but why not play faster and try to wear down the defense earlier?
 
Stanford is truly awful, so let’s not go nuts here, but this defense is one of the best in America. That was a stat padding game, and we haven’t had many (any?) of those in terms of FBS games. I expect Miami will be in the Top 10 in basically every category defensively when the numbers run tomorrow.

But we continue to have a big problem on the other side of the ball, and after 7 games, you gotta think you are who you are. If we win the next 5, it’s likely going to be with defense and hopefully some timely offense. It’s just a pedestrian operation on that side, which is insane to think this is who we are after what we saw last year. It’s basically a total 180.

Also, god bless Malachi Toney. I’m running out of adjectives for him. We have probably the best freshman in the history of the program and we’re still very meh on offense. Unacceptable from Mario and Dawson.

Anyway, I’m not gonna kick my dog after winning a game 42-7. As bad as the first half was, they play 60 minute games for a reason. All 60 matter. The final 30 were obviously a lot cooler than the first. But holy **** we need to do something on offense to start games. We play SMU, and then two awful football teams after that. Find a way to score next week and we *should* be 9-1 headed to Blacksburg. But good lord please figure out a way to score some points early in that game next week
 
I’m glad we won by dominating the second half

Still games like this don’t tell us much of anything

It was the same team trying the same things they always do, just so happens the other team wasn’t nearly good enough to do much about it. Though they did more than I would have liked

Toney on specials and the turnovers obviously made it look really lopsided

I saw one flicker though. Faked the dive inside and hit Lofton for a wide open 9-10 yards. That’s easy money right there the way teams crash the middle on us

Defense was fast and physical and that’ll keep up as long as we stay healthy
 
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