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Neel's avatar

Jackson should've gotten Quarter 2 in Wash, then Mendoza should've gotten at least all of Q4 if things were still terrible. I hope Spav dials up some package stuff for Sam so his speed is still used on the field. Mendoza is the obvious starter for the next two years unless we get a 5 star out of the portal or HS. I remember when he first came to Cal he said he wanted to "get us back to the Aarron Rodgers days", I'm happy to be hopeful enough to think hes got the capabilities to maybe actually do that.

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We found our Brock Purdy.

Mendoza has always talked with some swagger. And I'm not sure if he's been given the full playbook or a simplified one. But he made reads and was WAY more mobile than I'd expected. He threw some dangerous passes early in the 1st and had some issues in the 4th, but overall looked like a real QB, especially against a ranked opponent.

Our odds of stealing a game in our hellish streak of upcoming opponents is higher now, but our recent iffy defense still leads me to expect all losses.

We also seemed to cover much better doing those line drive kickoffs*. It's embarrassing that we have to work around such basic flaws but the strategy seemed to help. Guess we'll be doing that going forward. Long story short, it feels like we finally figured some things out during this game. Maybe we can start building something now.

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