News and Notes about the 2008 San Jose State Spartan football team.

9.20.2008

Thoughts on the Stanford Game

First, I do have one dirty little secret I must reveal before I go on with this post:


I'm a Stanford fan. I'm one of those people who roots for two teams almost equally. Eleven games each year, I root for the Cardinal. That one remaining game? I betray my favorite college team for the one I attend.

When I bought this shirt at the game today, this was the excuse I gave the man at the counter when he asked me if I would be putting the new one on over the one I was wearing (the shirt I'm pictured wearing.)

This being said, the play calling must change if the Spartans are going to have a shot against any of its tougher opponents the rest of this season.

Hand off to Yonus Davis. Quarterback sneak up the middle. Bubble screen to one of the wide receivers on third and long. Punt the ball and pray for rain. Repeat on the next offensive drive.

If I can follow the play calls and tell my friend Nate what's coming up, Jim Harbaugh and his coaching staff can too. The game was lost at half time when Stanford made defensive adjustments, and San Jose didn't make changes to its offensive calls to match.

Fans of the San Francisco 49ers can vouch for awful play calling derailing a team. Yes, the personnel last year for San Francisco was bad, but the anemic offense could have at least put some points on the board if it wasn't for conservative running call after conservative running call. Marcus Arroyo's choices were reminiscent of the same bad calls the 49ers made last year.

Something needs to change in advance of the Hawaii game, because San Jose State can't go to Aloha Stadium and play a team as down as the Warriors are with this strategy.

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