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After playing perhaps its best three-game offensive stretch since Andrew Luck left to close the 2014 season, Stanford laid an egg in its opener against Northwestern. In short, the Cardinal offense had reverted to some bad habits.
While the goal on offense was to "pick up the script where we left off last year", according to QB Kevin Hogan, was certainly didn't happen in the 16-6 loss to the Wildcats. Now the Cardinal are left to pick up the pieces to the puzzle and try to put it back together.
Of the performance against Northwestern, Hogan said, "We could have done so many things differently. So many things better."
The question is this: How do the Cardinal move forward?
"We need to be efficient in our passing game and we were not," head coach David Shaw said. "You feel stagnant when you don't complete the standard six- or seven-yard passes [on first and second downs] to get to third and medium."
Hogan's assessment of the situation: The offense needs to find a rhythm.
"I like getting into a rhythm, I think anyone will tell you that," he said. "Anything that gets our offense into a rhythm, I'm OK with."
(h/t ESPN)
