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Watching the OSU-UW game last weekend, I was very impressed with the OSU DBs individually (they were often draped over their WRs in man coverage) but I wasn't that impressed with them as a team. They gave up a surprising number of yards on busted coverages where it looked like the DBs weren't on the same page. I'd like to have some confidence that Musgrave can draw up some routes to exploit that but, well, it's Musgrave...

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Nov 11, 2022Liked by Christopher Helling

Thanks for the write-up Christopher. I also watched part of the OSU Washington game. Our best hope is that the Bears can stop the OSU run game and not give up too many oassing plays. The problem with our bend but don't break philosophy is that while we have stopped the deep ball completions the dink and dunk approach has resulted in a lot of YAC for opposing receivers and TEs. If it is low scoring then it could be a rockfight. We used to win those games (cardiac Cal) but now it seems like we always end up on the short end of the stick. We need to reverse the trend of losing the close games, but it is apparent to me that we don't exactly know how to win those games anymore.

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Actually, Benny was giving Butch chest compressions to resuscitate him. And it worked!

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