It's time for this week's Guerrero Grades. For those who are new to DD or are coming back after a hiatus, we have been using Dan Guerrero's own words to assess Dorrell's performance during the season. Here is what Guerrero said he expects this season:
"The important thing this year," Guerrero said, "is that we don't beat ourselves, that we play with consistency, that we're an excellent second half team and that we improve as the year progresses."
As we have posted all season and will continue to do, here is our assessment of Karl Dorrell's performance yesterday against Cal with Guerrero's clear points of analysis in mind … let's remember that were it not for one single play, a mistake by Tedford, we would most likely have lost this game: read more
This will be a bit obvious today, given yet another embarrassing loss to Notre Dame yesterday, but we will stick with it because we must be relentless until the outcome (Dorrell is fired) is secure. For those who are new to DD or are coming back after a hiatus, we have been using Dan Guerrero's own words to assess Dorrell's performance during the season. Here is what Guerrero said he expects this season:
"The important thing this year," Guerrero said, "is that we don't beat ourselves, that we play with consistency, that we're an excellent second half team and that we improve as the year progresses."
As we have posted all season and will continue to do, here is our assessment of Karl Dorrell's performance yesterday against Notre Dame with Guerrero's clear points of analysis in mind (obviously this won't be surprising): read more
As DD reader Jake Merrifield put it, we escaped with a 24 point victory over Oregon State at Corvalis last night. For more than 3 quarters we were looking at the end of the Dorrell era. Oregon state gave Dorrell his reprieve in the 4th quarter by giving us the game over and over again, providing us a reminder of Dorrell's frustrating ability to survive the hot seat. This was not a convincing win by any measure, regardless of what the Dorrell cultists, out in full force, are saying on the boards. The one positive is that Ben Olson faced the fire and never gave up, gaining more confidence as the game wore on despite Training Jay and Dorrell's horrendous play-calling.
So we are left to assess Karl Dorrell's performance according to read more
Below are this week's Guerrero Grades. For those who are new to DD or are coming back after a hiatus, we have been using Dan Guerrero's own words to assess Dorrell's performance during the season. Here is what Guerrero said he expects this season:
"The important thing this year," Guerrero said, "is that we don't beat ourselves, that we play with consistency, that we're an excellent second half team and that we improve as the year progresses."
As we will continue to do throughout the season, here is our assessment of Karl Dorrell's performance yesterday against Washington with Guerrero's clear points of analysis in mind: read more
This may be a pointless exercise from here on out, but we will stick with it because we must be relentless until the outcome (Dorrell is fired) is secure. For those who are new to DD or are coming back after a hiatus, we have been using Dan Guerrero's own words to assess Dorrell's performance during the season. Here is what Guerrero said he expects this season:
"The important thing this year," Guerrero said, "is that we don't beat ourselves, that we play with consistency, that we're an excellent second half team and that we improve as the year progresses."
As we posted last week and will continue to do throughout the season, here is our assessment of Karl Dorrell's performance yesterday against Utah with Guerrero's clear points of analysis in mind (obviously this won't be surprising): read more
It's time to use Dan Guerrero's own words to assess Dorrell's performance during yesterday's BYU game at the Rose Bowl. Sure, we won the game, and as we expected, the Dorrellistas are starting to come out in force in plain view … proudly … to defend the win and Dorrell against "haters." But the ultimate arbiter of the job Dorrell is doing is Dan Guerrero. Let's revisit what Guerrero said he expects this season:
"The important thing this year," Guerrero said, "is that we don't beat ourselves, that we play with consistency, that we're an excellent second half team and that we improve as the year progresses."
Like we did last week and will continue to do throughout the season, let's assess Karl Dorrell's performance yesterday against BYU with Guerrero's clear points of analysis in mind: read more
We published this in our postgame post yesterday, but we thought since we will do this every game that it would be better to break it out into its own post and category.
Lets look at Dan Guerrero's criteria for what Dorrell needs to get done this year and see how Dorrell did today:
- We don't beat ourselves. Grade: B+. No turnovers certainly helps, but going into half time with only a 7 point advantage against last year's worst team in the nation means Dorrell does not get highest marks. Also, blowing 1st half chances at the end zone and 7 punts hurts. Also, 7 penalties brings back the problems we had last year with penalties. It's not a great deal but it certainly isn't the best we can do.
- Play with consistency. Grade B+. We had close to 250 yards total offense at halftime 4 punts and a FG miss, and only 14 points. The Cardinal outgained us 83 to 66 yards in the 2nd quarter. We were inconsistent during the game. Of course, it was the first game of the season, 1st game with and for our new OC and OL coaches. But it was Stanford's as well.
- Excellent 2nd half team. Grade A-. We scored 31 points in the 2nd half, and had close to 400 yards offense. The only reason we dont give Dorrell an A here is because Stanford still was in the game with 11 minutes left of the 4th quarter. The defense allowed 10 points in the 2nd half, more than in the 1st.
- Improve as year progresses. N/A.
An odd win in some ways, but a good win nevertheless. Stanford came into this game having to hold the absolute worst team in college title and prove they didn't deserve it. We on the other hand had to prove that we are not the same team as last year, that we are better on offense and even more solid on defense. It turns out that we finished the game with some questions about the defense, and only a few questions on offense. Go figure. Here is our postgame analysis. read more
