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Message: [QUOTE="DomeHolmes, post: 5173998, member: 10113"] A couple of the key things I saw. 3 Big Plays did not go our way. Despite everything else, that was the game. 1. The holding on Gadsden on Hatchers 2nd long pass appeared to be just a pancake block. That call was highly questionable and took away our momentum. 2. McCord had a “off game” (with 339 and three touchdowns!!!), but we saw what he did the first two games and this was not quite the same. Unfortunately, the interceptions (and some bad passes) were not because he was hurried. I think the Villari one, was still not thrown where he would’ve caught it if he went the correct way to the corner. To me it looked like the ball still would’ve been underthrown and behind him if he was cutting left. Only a stop route would’ve resulted in a completion (or PI) in my opinion. The announcers were pontificating that he should’ve broken off to the left, but perhaps he was just supposed to sit down in that area. 3. The other interception was the same pattern that Peña scored a touchdown on the previous game. I thought at the time (last week) it was a great play, but very dangerous pass pattern that necessitated the receiver getting inside of the defender. This time either the defender got inside position, or the receiver did not make an attempt to get inside position, or McCord did not throw it 5 yards further down the sideline to lead the receiver, (which would’ve been a different pattern than Peña's touchdown). I’m still not sure if it was an underthrown ball or the receiver was in the wrong position . Either way I would prefer they take that one out of the playbook. Things went about as bad as they could for us, but without the pick six would’ve been a 31-19 type game. Other than the speed rush issues with Washington, I thought we handled the rush/blitz OK. 27/42 - 339 aren't really numbers that show pressure was a huge problem for us. It just looked like Kyle was a little off, but still brought his B game. i’m not so much worried about other teams emulating Stanford‘s game plan as I am just us executing better. [/QUOTE]

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