Garbers was a bit off tonight and Deng has given me tons of stress this year but Deng really pulled through after his wheel route fiasco. Shoutout the whole team tonight, tons of grit like a real Wilcox team would show especially on the defense, here's to 3-3!
Well, the second half of this game reminded me of Cal under Wilcox. Good defense, below 'Needs Improvement' offense. Big props to Remigio, the offensive player of the game, and powering forward for the needed yardage on the 4th down conversion. Deng, Goode, Johnson and Bynum were the stars on defense, particularly in the 2nd half.
My final comment of the night will be this: I absolutely hated the broadcast tonight. I don't know what was worse; Gilmore's completely biased color coverage, or the Cancer Telethon feel that the broadcast had going to it. I know they are trying to raise money and awareness for the Jimmy V foundation, but everyone in this country is already pretty damn aware of Cancer. I get one or two little moments to reflect on the foundation, but the telecast spent two or three entire drives talking about cancer, and they had three or four different human interest stories. The world is in a bad state right now, and I turn to football as a momentary escape, I don't need one of the few happy places left being bombarded with this. It really took away from the game experience.
Great job by the defense. Special teams was asked to do as little as possible and to hide next to the curtains Comey style.
Offense did it’s usual turtle thing. Defense kept giving the offense opportunities to put the game away and they couldn’t.
I know we like to give Shaw shit for conservative play calling and sitting on a lead but I think Wilcox is of the same mindset.
A win is a win, wish we could have beaten Stanford and OSU but I’ll take a win over the ducks. Same flaws on offense and special teams as we have seen all season, the only difference is we won the turnovers margin and protected the ball.
I get what Cal was trying to do. Have the Ducks use their time outs. But running 3 feeble runs up the middle to then have to throw it on 4th down?? C'mon man.
So so fortunate that the defense came up big at the end else, welp the Ducks were moving the ball down the field with plenty of time. But part of the strategy was that Cal had held the Ducks most of the game save 2 plays (one was a broken coverage and the other was a mis-match Deng v Dye). So I kinda understand what Wilcox was doing but I kinda think we played it a wee bit too scared. But it sucks not having a FG unit you can trust.
The coaching decisions will look like good ones in the end cuz we won. Good to have the defense back ~ for the most part. Offense needs some work and we have to develop another QB.
We need to start a campaign to ban zoom announcers...worse than not having any at all...they were totally disconnected from the game, made worse by only being able to see what we could...I found myself muting just so I could enjoy they plays...no mas!
I usually avoid gamethreads because I don't like the cycle of negativity and onslaught of emotional and therefore illogical comments, but this team is pretty close being 3-1 in spite of not having played all that well (and yes, the reasons for not playing all that well can be debated).
Can't wait to see what the writers come up with for this game. What an inauspicious start ~ 2 defensive penalties: one was holding by a DL (WTF??) and the other was a chop block by a DB (WTF?? that was a 300 lbs lineman coming at him). The announcers were miffed as well saying something like, "folks these are PAC12 officials and things are weird with them".
Oregun gifted us with so many penalties that we should have won by 21 but we refused to take advantage of the penalties.
Thank gawd the defense held Oregun scoreless in the second half. And the last possessions by both teams....cardiac material.
This game reminded me of one of those space crafts with a solar sail. But instead of solar radiation, it was Oregon penalties/mistakes, our clever time consuming huddles, and Garbers' time consuming kneel-downs, gently pushing us to victory
Garbers was a bit off tonight and Deng has given me tons of stress this year but Deng really pulled through after his wheel route fiasco. Shoutout the whole team tonight, tons of grit like a real Wilcox team would show especially on the defense, here's to 3-3!
I like not being sad on Saturday
Huge props to Nikko. Took some big hits tonight, kept swinging, and delivered the game winner.
Well, the second half of this game reminded me of Cal under Wilcox. Good defense, below 'Needs Improvement' offense. Big props to Remigio, the offensive player of the game, and powering forward for the needed yardage on the 4th down conversion. Deng, Goode, Johnson and Bynum were the stars on defense, particularly in the 2nd half.
My final comment of the night will be this: I absolutely hated the broadcast tonight. I don't know what was worse; Gilmore's completely biased color coverage, or the Cancer Telethon feel that the broadcast had going to it. I know they are trying to raise money and awareness for the Jimmy V foundation, but everyone in this country is already pretty damn aware of Cancer. I get one or two little moments to reflect on the foundation, but the telecast spent two or three entire drives talking about cancer, and they had three or four different human interest stories. The world is in a bad state right now, and I turn to football as a momentary escape, I don't need one of the few happy places left being bombarded with this. It really took away from the game experience.
The defense had a few bad plays, but at the end, holding Oregon to 17 is a big accomplishment.
Great job by the defense. Special teams was asked to do as little as possible and to hide next to the curtains Comey style.
Offense did it’s usual turtle thing. Defense kept giving the offense opportunities to put the game away and they couldn’t.
I know we like to give Shaw shit for conservative play calling and sitting on a lead but I think Wilcox is of the same mindset.
A win is a win, wish we could have beaten Stanford and OSU but I’ll take a win over the ducks. Same flaws on offense and special teams as we have seen all season, the only difference is we won the turnovers margin and protected the ball.
I get what Cal was trying to do. Have the Ducks use their time outs. But running 3 feeble runs up the middle to then have to throw it on 4th down?? C'mon man.
So so fortunate that the defense came up big at the end else, welp the Ducks were moving the ball down the field with plenty of time. But part of the strategy was that Cal had held the Ducks most of the game save 2 plays (one was a broken coverage and the other was a mis-match Deng v Dye). So I kinda understand what Wilcox was doing but I kinda think we played it a wee bit too scared. But it sucks not having a FG unit you can trust.
The coaching decisions will look like good ones in the end cuz we won. Good to have the defense back ~ for the most part. Offense needs some work and we have to develop another QB.
We need to start a campaign to ban zoom announcers...worse than not having any at all...they were totally disconnected from the game, made worse by only being able to see what we could...I found myself muting just so I could enjoy they plays...no mas!
I usually avoid gamethreads because I don't like the cycle of negativity and onslaught of emotional and therefore illogical comments, but this team is pretty close being 3-1 in spite of not having played all that well (and yes, the reasons for not playing all that well can be debated).
First of all, I’ll take one of those yummy Cal cookies.
Post game attitude hours were quite the contrast to previous weeks. Much preferred.
Can't wait to see what the writers come up with for this game. What an inauspicious start ~ 2 defensive penalties: one was holding by a DL (WTF??) and the other was a chop block by a DB (WTF?? that was a 300 lbs lineman coming at him). The announcers were miffed as well saying something like, "folks these are PAC12 officials and things are weird with them".
Oregun gifted us with so many penalties that we should have won by 21 but we refused to take advantage of the penalties.
Thank gawd the defense held Oregun scoreless in the second half. And the last possessions by both teams....cardiac material.
WFC have fun writing this tale!!
Tonight’s unusual game and win over Oregon reminded me of the monsoon and Memorial flooded win against Oregon in 08.
holy shit we did it
This game reminded me of one of those space crafts with a solar sail. But instead of solar radiation, it was Oregon penalties/mistakes, our clever time consuming huddles, and Garbers' time consuming kneel-downs, gently pushing us to victory
IS THIS WHERE I OVERREACT AND SAY THE BEARS ARE WINNING THE ROSE BOWL????