[BostonCard]

Tonight had plenty of upside -- we won the division title while forcing the 59ers to ingest about a hundred pounds of fecal artifacts. But this is the second game in a row where our offense has looked iffy against a crummy-beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt defense, and also the second in a row where the massive fault lines in our defense were exposed. The ESPN guys kept insisting that Shaw had a brilliant defensive game plan, to play well off the receivers and give up short passes in front while cutting off big ones behind. I guess that was the plan, but I don't know how brilliant it was. Eliminate the bad wave-off of the 59er touchdown in the first half and the brain-dead late hit in the second -- neither of which were created by our defense -- and we might have been looking at a 35-33 game. To me, that sounds more like luck than strategy.

Make that the third time in four games.  Only against the second worst team in the Pac-12 (Colorado) did we win convincingly (which is probably more than SC could say last week).  We are not firing on all cylinders, but good teams find a way to win despite that.

Still with or without Prosise, Notre Dame is going to be a big challenge.

BC

[BostonCard]

Tonight had plenty of upside -- we won the division title while forcing the 59ers to ingest about a hundred pounds of fecal artifacts. But this is the second game in a row where our offense has looked iffy against a crummy-beyond-a-shadow-of-a-doubt defense, and also the second in a row where the massive fault lines in our defense were exposed. The ESPN guys kept insisting that Shaw had a brilliant defensive game plan, to play well off the receivers and give up short passes in front while cutting off big ones behind. I guess that was the plan, but I don't know how brilliant it was. Eliminate the bad wave-off of the 59er touchdown in the first half and the brain-dead late hit in the second -- neither of which were created by our defense -- and we might have been looking at a 35-33 game. To me, that sounds more like luck than strategy.

Make that the third time in four games.  Only against the second worst team in the Pac-12 (Colorado) did we win convincingly (which is probably more than SC could say last week).  We are not firing on all cylinders, but good teams find a way to win despite that.

Still with or without Prosise, Notre Dame is going to be a big challenge.

BC