[yvonne]

But the stripes totally whiffted on two PI calls: the non-call on the hold on Irwin and the call on Murphy, which had me out of my seat; it takes a special kind of bad call to do that. 
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It felt like the refs were calling every uncaught UCF ball a PI. Several of them were clearly uncatchable.

This is a remarkable DB group.  Meeks had the best almost zero-stat game I've seen from a DB: Nine breakups in a single game is without precedent at Stanford, I'd bet.  Harris and Meeks stood out, and Martinez may have better instincts than Tarpley, who scored about 785 on the instinct half of the football aptitude test.  His breakup and INT were terrific. This is going to be a remarkable DB group for several years.

It felt like the refs were calling every uncaught UCF ball a PI. Several of them were clearly uncatchable.

When Love was 92 yards from the end zone, I turned to Steph and said "touchdown." The best speed-quickness packages we've ever seen in our own colors.  If he isn't DAT, he'll do.
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Not me. I was sitting there thinking, "Why did we call that?"

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The OL and DL hold the key.  We aren't getting enough pressure on the QB, and we're not pushing teams back when we stick North and South, and going East West is, of course, a high beta approach, especially against teams with talent on their edges.

For a couple of series after Aziz went out, I thought that UCF was going to do what Stanford used to do to other teams at the end of games: wear down the opposing D-line. Fortunately, the LBs, especially Martinez, picked up the slack.

[yvonne]

But the stripes totally whiffted on two PI calls: the non-call on the hold on Irwin and the call on Murphy, which had me out of my seat; it takes a special kind of bad call to do that. 
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It felt like the refs were calling every uncaught UCF ball a PI. Several of them were clearly uncatchable.

This is a remarkable DB group.  Meeks had the best almost zero-stat game I've seen from a DB: Nine breakups in a single game is without precedent at Stanford, I'd bet.  Harris and Meeks stood out, and Martinez may have better instincts than Tarpley, who scored about 785 on the instinct half of the football aptitude test.  His breakup and INT were terrific. This is going to be a remarkable DB group for several years.

It felt like the refs were calling every uncaught UCF ball a PI. Several of them were clearly uncatchable.

When Love was 92 yards from the end zone, I turned to Steph and said "touchdown." The best speed-quickness packages we've ever seen in our own colors.  If he isn't DAT, he'll do.
[/qupte]

Not me. I was sitting there thinking, "Why did we call that?"

[quote]
The OL and DL hold the key.  We aren't getting enough pressure on the QB, and we're not pushing teams back when we stick North and South, and going East West is, of course, a high beta approach, especially against teams with talent on their edges.

For a couple of series after Aziz went out, I thought that UCF was going to do what Stanford used to do to other teams at the end of games: wear down the opposing D-line. Fortunately, the LBs, especially Martinez, picked up the slack.