Appreciate the breakdown of our poor line last week. In typing the headline I know what that analytical head of yours had to be thinking: Cal's protection (or lack there of). I thought the guards were particularly poor especially in dealing of 92 (no matter what his accolades are, 49ers held Aaron Donald nothing of note). Daltoso for him being healthy compared to the rest of the lineman aside from Curhan and Saffell has really had tons of problems from my view despite his versatility, Mettauer could do better but he's young so I'll relent. Backs could also do better in blocking.
To what extent do you think the passing game troubles v UCLA were a function of it being our first game and our offense having relatively little time to learn and practice a new system? From the video, it looked like the problem was more a matter of execution on our part (e.g. there is a plan for what to do when there are more pass rushers than blockers but we did not execute it well), rather than intrinsic flaws in the scheme. The problem would not seem to be that UCLA's defense is on par with Alabama's, Colorado piled up points against them at will.
Appreciate the breakdown of our poor line last week. In typing the headline I know what that analytical head of yours had to be thinking: Cal's protection (or lack there of). I thought the guards were particularly poor especially in dealing of 92 (no matter what his accolades are, 49ers held Aaron Donald nothing of note). Daltoso for him being healthy compared to the rest of the lineman aside from Curhan and Saffell has really had tons of problems from my view despite his versatility, Mettauer could do better but he's young so I'll relent. Backs could also do better in blocking.
The backs also were poor at blocking///
To what extent do you think the passing game troubles v UCLA were a function of it being our first game and our offense having relatively little time to learn and practice a new system? From the video, it looked like the problem was more a matter of execution on our part (e.g. there is a plan for what to do when there are more pass rushers than blockers but we did not execute it well), rather than intrinsic flaws in the scheme. The problem would not seem to be that UCLA's defense is on par with Alabama's, Colorado piled up points against them at will.