disagreeDisagree.There's plenty of blame to go around on the offense. Everyone thinks they're a football genius and can correctly diagnose what exactly the problem was. It's Miley, it's the line, it's the playcalling. Blah blah blah. Nothing was good enough.
They have a bye week to figure this out. The past decade plus the bye week deserved a "can we beat bye" joke. Now we have a real football coach that you can expect to utilize the bye and fix things. And he better or it's going to be door ass out.
The defense played well enough and the bye week will not "fix" an anemic offense.
HTH
And yet 0 bye weeks was enough for the defense to go from not being able to stop a division 2 school to getting praise about how they played well enough to win against a good PAC-12 team.
Stanford is not a good Pac-12 team.
Good Pac-12 teams don't lose at home to Sark.
Simple fact, case closed, end of discussion.
I'll still take Stanford's D over every pac12 offense this season. Dominant D-line, best open-field tackling by a mile, always in position to make a play. Their offense isn't special but it doesn't need to be. Shaw being arrogant against USC doesn't change that.
Unless Stanford fired Shaw, they're still fucked.
Somehow with Shaw, they've made 3 straight BCS bowls. They have a tough schedule this year, but they are a good team.