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Awesome Offense - A Closer Look

Enough with the handwringing, the headshaking, the shoethrowing (for those that were or are). On taking a closer look at the statistics, some forgotten details emerge from the dark afternoon of despair. For one, we have one damned impressive football team on offense who played quite an extraordinary game in absolute terms - whatever your burnt retinas might be trying to scream at you inside your head.

Just read (and re-read and re-re-read) the following.

For what it's worth (and it should be worth an eye opening or two):

 

1. Total Offense:  570 yards  (Stanford = 505).

    Yes, we outgained them. We. Outgained. Them. Let me say it again, because it needs to sink in.

    We, in the name of all that's holy, outgained Stanford in our 51-42 loss.

 

2. Rushing Yards: 236 yards (Stanford = 254).

    They had only 18 yards more of rushing than us. They outrushed us by 18 measly yards.

     Our average was 6.9 rushing yards per play.

 

3. Passing yards: 334 yards (Stanford = 251)

    We had close to a 100 more passing yards than Stanford. Our average:9.0 yards / play.

 

4. Time of Possession: 22:17  mins:secs.

    So we were close to scoring at a rate of 2 points / minute.

    Let me repeat that.  Close to 2 pts/min scoring rate.  And don't give me any grief about time mgt.

 

We put up 42 points and gained over 570 yards.  Masoli went 21-37, 3 TD and 334 yards of offense and NO interceptions. That is a barnburning good day.

Give me that any day versus the single-digit offensive struggles of the Big10 and SEC. Football is a game whose goal is to score points. The Pac 10 knows how to play football. You heard right. The Pac 10 plays football, damn it, let's all remember that and raise our microbrews  (not you, Pi, our 12 year old, you can raise your hot chocolate, kid).

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