Last season TS had many passes tipped. Against SU CT also had some tipped. Neither of them are short so who's at fault, the blocking or QB technique?
Tipped passes
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My guess is both as well as the receivers. There should be throwing lanes and for whatever reason, not finding them either because they are not there or they are missing them.
The NU center was getting manhandled and consistently pushed back into the QB. This was alleviated somewhat in the 2nd half as the Stanford D line was gassed.
Was the problem happening when North was playing, and alleviated once Ian Park took over? That's an important observation.
Except North returned to Center at the beginning of the second half............never let facts get in the way of an "important observation" though.
He asked a question if the issue was with North in the role or was it regardless of the center. Also was it North that had the problem with high snaps? Those high snaps might have caused him to focus more on than that and not get a good first step.
The entire line seemed to take a series or two to settle into game speed, which is slightly disappointing but hardly surprising. North got pushed around a bit early and Mogus got destroyed on the first series. After that, the line seemed to settle in a bit.
The high snaps occurred in the first half, before North was injured. Park did a great job, snaps were crisp and blocking good. I can't recall any bad snaps when North played in the second half, and the Stanford push was not as good as it was in the first half, probably because they were gassed from the number of offensive plays NU ran and the heat/humidity.
Doesn't hurt that their starting NG Phillips exited early in the second quarter with what turned out to be a season-ending ACL tear.
Both guards left North one on one with a nose tackle a few times when SU only rushed four. You rarely see that because a guy with his hand in his crotch is a sitting duck to a bull rusher with a two way go. On the one play that resulted in a tipped pass when North was "roller skated" into the QB, I think that was a mental error by one of the guards that didn't block anyone on the play. If you're an uncovered guard, you cannot leave your center on an island by himself. I'm not sure which one, but one of the guards was as least as culpable for that as North. I think the nose lined up head up and both thought it was the other guard's responsibility to help North.
