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2.  I know people here really DON'T want to believe that offensive woes could be attributable to Shaw's insistence on meddling in the offense/controlling the play calling, but I still think that is Occam speaking.  I also think Shaw's comment about improvement in O last 3 games being attributable to "the players just playing better" strikes me as something somebody would say if they didn't want to admit that coaches were screwing the pooch for most of the season (which was a common lament among Stanford fans).

Hulk has shown quite convincingly that the biggest factor in our offensive resurgence in the last three games was we stopped shooting ourselves in the foot.  The number of bad plays: turnovers, penalties, sacks, and tackles for losses went down dramatically.  You can make a case that this is very much about coaching: teaching the players ball security, discipline, situational awareness, etc, but it does not suggest that that the gameday playcalling is to blame.

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2.  I know people here really DON'T want to believe that offensive woes could be attributable to Shaw's insistence on meddling in the offense/controlling the play calling, but I still think that is Occam speaking.  I also think Shaw's comment about improvement in O last 3 games being attributable to "the players just playing better" strikes me as something somebody would say if they didn't want to admit that coaches were screwing the pooch for most of the season (which was a common lament among Stanford fans).

Hulk has shown quite convincingly that the biggest factor in our offensive resurgence in the last three games was we stopped shooting ourselves in the foot.  The number of bad plays: turnovers, penalties, sacks, and tackles for losses went down dramatically.  You can make a case that this is very much about coaching: teaching the players ball security, discipline, situational awareness, etc, but it does not suggest that that the gameday playcalling is to blame.

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