[washingtonismoney]

However, after 4 games now, I think I have come to realize that the Stanford DBs are playing to scheme.  Stop the run.  Let the teams dink and dunk, but tackle right away.  The Stanford D will probably finish the season ranked as the #1 D in the conference.  So it just can't be that bad.

Except I'm not sure it works that way. Halftime stats for UCLA had a 9.0 yards per attempt through the air and a 2.2 yards per carry on the ground. 9.0 ypa is not characteristic of a dink-and-dunk offense; it's better than Luck's ypa all of last year, for example. Then, past halftime, it flips: UCLA goes down to 6.1 ypa and up to 4.9 ypc. So we stopped the pass in the second half and got gashed on the ground. The same thing happened against Arizona last week.  To me the evidence is far more consistent with the idea that we can stop either the run, or the pass, but not both.

[washingtonismoney]

However, after 4 games now, I think I have come to realize that the Stanford DBs are playing to scheme.  Stop the run.  Let the teams dink and dunk, but tackle right away.  The Stanford D will probably finish the season ranked as the #1 D in the conference.  So it just can't be that bad.

Except I'm not sure it works that way. Halftime stats for UCLA had a 9.0 yards per attempt through the air and a 2.2 yards per carry on the ground. 9.0 ypa is not characteristic of a dink-and-dunk offense; it's better than Luck's ypa all of last year, for example. Then, past halftime, it flips: UCLA goes down to 6.1 ypa and up to 4.9 ypc. So we stopped the pass in the second half and got gashed on the ground. The same thing happened against Arizona last week.  To me the evidence is far more consistent with the idea that we can stop either the run, or the pass, but not both.