Highlighting just a few of the problems you saw on Saturday
They say that the way major institutions fall is from a death by 1,000 paper cuts. That's exactly what the Cardinal suffered in their Saturday morning loss to Northwestern. Stanford shot themselves in the foot time and again, and Northwestern emerged as the victor, 17-6. There were three key things I noticed that were not just concerns for the game, but will be moving forward as the season continues to unfold.
1) Poor Running Attack
Let's start with the run game. Where was it? In 27 rushing attempts, the Cardinal averaged 3.