How complex is smash mouth football?. If Stanford’s going to put all eleven guys in the box, how many different things can you actually do to try and stop them?
There are a lot of options, as it happens. In this video we look at how DeRuyter went down swinging even as Stanford ran out the clock late in the game. In that mass of TE’s and FB’s there was actually a lot of subtlety, and though we didn’t come out on top, it was encouraging to see our defensive staff match wits with one of the best-called run games in the conference.