[Austroturf]

"8-4 is still on the table!"

Right, I thought that the comment last week that "9-3 is still on the table" was a bad joke. But he may have meant it! 

We are pathetic in multiple aspects of the game. 

Pass rush, defense against the run, secondary, O line run blocking, O line pass protection, depth, to list six.

To list a seventh:  coaching.  Good grief . . . 

P.S.  But on a serious bright side: usually when we host a tailgate for our rather large group of fans (plus 10-50 strangers that just show up on the way to the game), it is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor in prep, in-game, and post-game hosting obligations.

For our game this season, I'm thinking a 12 pack and a couple bags of Doritos ought to cover it, as there will be no one interested in watching this team, under this staff, play this brand of football.

The part that irks me is that, after the K-State belly flop, I swore I would not be so emotionally-invested in Stanford football this season.  But I went into fan-rage when I saw how we failed to seal the deal after going ahead 31-27 against Wazzu.  And it was 5 AM over here.  A few more games like this one, and maybe I, too, will manage to escape into blissful apathy.

Yeah those last three sequences were maddening. All we needed was another first down or two to close it out and we couldn't get it, how easily Wazzu moved through our defense to score the go-ahead TD, and then the final insult, that sack fest to end the game.

Yes, and then I told myself I shouldn't care, but obviously I do, and that made me even angrier.  5 straight losses to the Cougars.  Really?  It's a sunny fall day.  I think I will go out into the garden and cut something back.

[Austroturf]

"8-4 is still on the table!"

Right, I thought that the comment last week that "9-3 is still on the table" was a bad joke. But he may have meant it! 

We are pathetic in multiple aspects of the game. 

Pass rush, defense against the run, secondary, O line run blocking, O line pass protection, depth, to list six.

To list a seventh:  coaching.  Good grief . . . 

P.S.  But on a serious bright side: usually when we host a tailgate for our rather large group of fans (plus 10-50 strangers that just show up on the way to the game), it is an expensive and time-consuming endeavor in prep, in-game, and post-game hosting obligations.

For our game this season, I'm thinking a 12 pack and a couple bags of Doritos ought to cover it, as there will be no one interested in watching this team, under this staff, play this brand of football.

The part that irks me is that, after the K-State belly flop, I swore I would not be so emotionally-invested in Stanford football this season.  But I went into fan-rage when I saw how we failed to seal the deal after going ahead 31-27 against Wazzu.  And it was 5 AM over here.  A few more games like this one, and maybe I, too, will manage to escape into blissful apathy.

Yeah those last three sequences were maddening. All we needed was another first down or two to close it out and we couldn't get it, how easily Wazzu moved through our defense to score the go-ahead TD, and then the final insult, that sack fest to end the game.

Yes, and then I told myself I shouldn't care, but obviously I do, and that made me even angrier.  5 straight losses to the Cougars.  Really?  It's a sunny fall day.  I think I will go out into the garden and cut something back.