Cal Football Film Study: Damien Moore's Big Game
and Pin and Pull Run Blocking
In this video, we dive into Damien Moore’s 121 rushing yards in the Big Game. We’ll see that the vast majority of those yards came on one play, run out of one formation, and we’ll go into the details of why that play was so successful, highlighting the play of Moore himself as well as the key blocks on several highlights.
My takeaway was that Moore was a bit harder to bring down than Dancy and used the straight arm a couple of times to good effect. However, he demonstrates good vision in my opinion, though probably not elite speed. The announcers (Petros I think) compared him to Eric Bieniemy several decades ago as he went to the same high school.
Berk, I remember thinking on the first play of the game.... "Wait, did we just pitch the ball???" Am I making it up that we've NOT been pitching, but have been handing off under Wilcox (Baldwin) so far? And did that play into the success of our run game in against 'Furd? Great analysis, as always, though it's a lot more fun to watch after a win.......sads......