Morgan plays out of control. That is a huge problem. He might make a spectacular tackle once in 8 attempts, but the other 7 he misses with rarely a slow down of the ball carrier. He needs to play more under control. From the little we have seen from him he does take the block on fairly ok...which none of our other backers outside of JS do correctly.
Personally I think our best chance against standford would be running 5 linebackers one of them being a safety.
Farley might be the worst safety on the country. I hate saying that about one of our own but god damn it he can't plays the run too out of control....takes horrible pursuit angles...(he fish hooks instead of proper angle) ...and this is just about the run. He might be just as bad against the pass.
But he sure loves to tell anyone who will listen just how good he is. He needs to stfu and start playing better fundamental football.
So is there a safety on the roster than is not afraid to get his nose dirty in the box? Plays under control even if beat once in a while with foot speed? We can hide that safety by using 4 other linebackers. There has to be someone because Farley is NOT it...and the Stanford game we better have both barrels loaded and carry a 1911 as well.
So we run 5 linebackers ...morgan, Grace, JS in the box, Jaylon will be the rover and a safety. The safety doesn't have to come up and play 3 yards off the ball but maybe in the 6-7 yard range.
BVG has probably already started scheming that game and rightfully so.