Good stuff, love the details. Thank you Avinash. I don't know what to expect from Cal this season, except that they will be better than last season. Gotta be, right? It would be so much fun to beat Auburn!
Don’t you find it ironic that the same talking head “experts” can’t name a single member of our dline and reference 2022 offensive statistics as part of their argument.
This game sets up extremely well for us. Extremely extremely well!
I have Cal 45 Auburn 17 and here’s why. No not cuz night.
It’s the fact that.
When we’re on offense we’re going up against an extremely short handed secondary. As in 3 scholarship players 1 of them being a true frosh short handed. This is spavitals specialty and he will exploit it. And as soon as auburn flips to something softer up front we have Ott and a load of depth there.
On defense?
Yes they have a strong line and a great rb but this is Hugh freeze and his game is to attack teams that use lbs in zone reads and run protection. Sirmon doesn’t do that; we’re in 2-4-5 not 4-2-5 and Thorne has a habit of holding onto the ball way too fucking long. Imho we have the deepest dline in all of cfb in McKenzie, Correia, Johnson and Saunders and they are going to make it extremely easy for Sirmon et al once they shut down the run.
Don’t be a doom and gloomer. I can’t wait to watch these trumplican clowns do the walk of shame down Bancroft like their Tennessean, Texan, Mississippian, Carolinian brethren before them making excuses as they pass out in bushes and threaten the local homeless population.
When dealing with two teams that haven't had time to gel, I'd expected the team with more raw talent to win. Unfortunately, that's Auburn. But there is still a reasonable chance we take this one.
This one definitely feels like it depends on our offense. And, of course, our OL. Hoping Sammy Jax's speed can take just enough pressure off the line to make things happen. We don't know how well he can throw yet, which would determine how he's covered.
I’ll be right behind the auburn bench holding up this bad boy in my dirtiest most druggy looking greatful dead shirt ever with lettering on the sign that says “ian McCaw saves”
Every podcast, and personality I listen to that isn’t a Cal Fan essentially thinks we’re gonna get rolled. The average score being 34-13 or something. Is the difference in talent that wide?
its not that drastic, to me this reads like 2019 Cal vs Washington. A team of hype vs a team of grit before the team of hype gel'd together. I do think Auburn wins because of the lack of presumed lightning involved but not in a wash. Can totally see 28-17 or 28-20.
yeah and I wouldn't dispute it. I just don't see the dysfunction of an Auburn team under Freeze compared to an Ole Miss under Matt Luke, which constantly underperformed
Yikes. Well, we were a dropped TD pass away from winning on the road against a yet-to-gel Notre Dame team, so I’m optimistic that our revamped offense can give us a little more at home against a yet-to-gel Auburn team who will be playing until 1:00 AM, body clock time.
This game will tell you where Cal is as
a program.
Good stuff, love the details. Thank you Avinash. I don't know what to expect from Cal this season, except that they will be better than last season. Gotta be, right? It would be so much fun to beat Auburn!
Don’t you find it ironic that the same talking head “experts” can’t name a single member of our dline and reference 2022 offensive statistics as part of their argument.
This game sets up extremely well for us. Extremely extremely well!
I have Cal 45 Auburn 17 and here’s why. No not cuz night.
It’s the fact that.
When we’re on offense we’re going up against an extremely short handed secondary. As in 3 scholarship players 1 of them being a true frosh short handed. This is spavitals specialty and he will exploit it. And as soon as auburn flips to something softer up front we have Ott and a load of depth there.
On defense?
Yes they have a strong line and a great rb but this is Hugh freeze and his game is to attack teams that use lbs in zone reads and run protection. Sirmon doesn’t do that; we’re in 2-4-5 not 4-2-5 and Thorne has a habit of holding onto the ball way too fucking long. Imho we have the deepest dline in all of cfb in McKenzie, Correia, Johnson and Saunders and they are going to make it extremely easy for Sirmon et al once they shut down the run.
Don’t be a doom and gloomer. I can’t wait to watch these trumplican clowns do the walk of shame down Bancroft like their Tennessean, Texan, Mississippian, Carolinian brethren before them making excuses as they pass out in bushes and threaten the local homeless population.
When dealing with two teams that haven't had time to gel, I'd expected the team with more raw talent to win. Unfortunately, that's Auburn. But there is still a reasonable chance we take this one.
Hopefully Cal speed and explosiveness will enable us to avoid the tercel offense while the defense holds auburn close.
This one definitely feels like it depends on our offense. And, of course, our OL. Hoping Sammy Jax's speed can take just enough pressure off the line to make things happen. We don't know how well he can throw yet, which would determine how he's covered.
I’ll be right behind the auburn bench holding up this bad boy in my dirtiest most druggy looking greatful dead shirt ever with lettering on the sign that says “ian McCaw saves”
Full disclosure my goal is to bait Hugh Freeze
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Oddly enough this is the one I feel the most comfortable with.
Every podcast, and personality I listen to that isn’t a Cal Fan essentially thinks we’re gonna get rolled. The average score being 34-13 or something. Is the difference in talent that wide?
its not that drastic, to me this reads like 2019 Cal vs Washington. A team of hype vs a team of grit before the team of hype gel'd together. I do think Auburn wins because of the lack of presumed lightning involved but not in a wash. Can totally see 28-17 or 28-20.
Yeah that's more of what I see. I believe Cal is going to win 27-23 because of the unexpected element of our offense going forward
yeah and I wouldn't dispute it. I just don't see the dysfunction of an Auburn team under Freeze compared to an Ole Miss under Matt Luke, which constantly underperformed
Yikes. Well, we were a dropped TD pass away from winning on the road against a yet-to-gel Notre Dame team, so I’m optimistic that our revamped offense can give us a little more at home against a yet-to-gel Auburn team who will be playing until 1:00 AM, body clock time.
Hide the co-eds, Hugh Freeze is coming to town.
Co-eds? Apparently we need to hide the children.