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As I was reading this, Ed Dickson scored another 2 TDs against us.

I expect we can replace this with Michael Mayer next week...

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I stopped reading after the Tight End. That was enough to have me skim thru the rest, drift over to my clubs calendar and see if I can schedule the IR sauna Saturday at game time.

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It's true that unsung back-ups can emerge from nowhere to unseat Cal, from Devon Modster at UCLA to Will Plummer last year. So I hope that the absence of the starter doesn't fuel some kind of breakout performance. I saw that Pyne is only 5'-11" so that is kind of a disadvantage. I guess one of the keys will be our D-line performance, which according to Sirmon (and he said this in general about Cal's defense vs. UNLV) had a lack of effort. Still if we can somehow hold Notre Dame's O to 14 points then we have a shot at winning the game, however you can't expect more than 2 TD's from Cal's offense, so the defense will have to score at least one TD. Pyne did suffer a Pick-6 vs. Marshall.

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Just checking in here to note that Braden Lenzy's dad is a former colleague of mine, and they spent a decent number of years in Taiwan before moving back to Oregon.

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Really love your work! Go Bears (...no effing idea what Saturday will bring other than COLLEGE FOOTBALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!)

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Kelly’s “you’re going to play better or I’m going to bench you” halftime speeches were an improvement over his “you’re going to play better or I’m going to kill you” halftime speeches.

Kelly is such a terrible person.

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