Nobody was ready for this Stanford play to start. Look at the QB and left tackle.

During a rough first half at Washington, stuff like this was going wrong for Stanford. This came on a fourth down conversion try, which is a unusual enough event for the Cardinal to already let you know things had gotten out of hand.

What happened here?

Some combination of the snap coming too early (evidence for that interpretation includes quarterback Keller Chryst looking pretty surprised to find it in his lap), left tackle A.T. Hall simply not being prepared for the play to start (perhaps in part due to that snap), and the Huskies having a defensive line that’s hard to block even when you’re actually ready for football to start. UW is living in Stanford’s backfield on seemingly every snap, with six sacks in the first half.

Stanford head coach David Shaw was criticized for punting in similar territory late last week against UCLA. But it ended up working, very much unlike this disaster, so Stanford might just punt every chance it gets going forward.

And it might not even be the most unfortunate thing to happen to a Cardinal OL in this game; earlier, Hall’s bookend got bulldozed.

Still, this is the last offensive line we’d ever expect to see this happening to.