AP photo: Washington State Cougars quarterback Luke Falk (4) drops back in the pocket against the Oregon Ducks at Pullman last Saturday. Falk and the Cougars are at Stanford against the Cardinals Saturday Oct 8

On the Stanford Cardinal podcast with Matt Harrington:

The Cardinal (3-1) are coming off a 44-6 crushing at the hand of the Washington Huskies (5-0) last week in Seattle. The Cardinal now prepare to face the Washington State Cougars (2-2) at Stanford Stadium Saturday afternoon. The question is how Stanford head coach David Shaw needs to prepare the offensive line and get quarterback Ryan Burns some protection after Burns was sacked eight times last week from the Washington defense.

The Cougars will start quarterback Luke Falk whose 153-206 for 1495 yards and 12 touchdowns. The Cougars speaking of protection are looking to provide Falk with some blocking up front to give Falk sometime to throw. He’s been able to manage that with the 12 touchdowns he has for the season thus far. Against the Stanford pass rush if the last few Cards games are any indication Falk might get enough time to move the offense in the red zone and take aim at the end zone.

Matt has much more Stanford headline news listen in on today’s podcast at http://www.sportsradioservice.com