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diasfordays's avatar

Oh man. I remember that Nevada game ball/scholarship vid. It hadn't clicked with me that it was *that* kicker. Wonder if Wilcox had seen that clip... he tried to played the numbers and lost. Next time, bet on your defense, Wilcox...

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joshcal2020's avatar

Edit: wanted to acknowledge that the 2nd down call at the 11-yard line was not a designed pass play. It was a QB draw. Still a questionable decision, but not as egregious as I originally thought.

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paulie's avatar

Forgot how awesome that Williams INT was, dude was FLYING

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Terence's avatar

Yeah - I don't think that was a bad read by Strong. He had his receiver over Gamble and Miles Williams came all the way over from the opposite hash to make the pick

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Ynot Cal's avatar

Baffling...when Musgrave is asked whether UN did anything differently after the 1st Qt. to alter what Cal did Offensively! Also, a question why the tight-ends were barely used! Doesn't instill a lot of confidence in our OC!

https://cal.rivals.com/news/video-musgrave-and-sirmon-talk-tcu-nevada-lookback

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sycasey's avatar

The one thing I didn't like about that goal-to-go series where we went backwards is I think we had empty sets on those plays (definitely the 2nd down play where Garbers ran for minimal gain). We weren't even threatening the thing that had gotten us down the field in the first place (handoffs to the RBs).

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goldenone's avatar

It seems we telegraphed what we were going to do. With a run, their line would have been forced to stop something that had been working so well. Considering we outweighed them by 30 pounds on the line, why not try to pound it in?

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OldSoCalBear's avatar

The three running plays in the second quarter were gains of 1 yard, 2 yards, and a holding penalty. Bad run results put us into passing situations. I think Wilcox was right about Q2.

My problem with the play calling was on the long 4th quarter drive when we kept throwing once we got to the red zone, even when runs were working well.

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OldSoCalBear's avatar

No they lost 10 yards on a failed running play. You can’t just ignore the data points that don’t support your position. If there’s a penalty or sack on a passing play, would those count?

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Rob Hwang's avatar

Well we have the tape and the drive chart so anybody could go look at what the 9 plays were. I don’t think he’s trying to deceive anyone.

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Steve W's avatar

I think Whittingham is quietly the best coach in the Pac 12. Every year he gets the same level of recruiting talent as Cal - mostly 3-Stars with an occasional 4-star sprinkled in the mix - and competes at the highest level of the conference. The word "coaching up" seems to have been invented for this guy. He should have been a candidate for dozens of jobs by now, including the USC job after Sark hit the bottle. BTW, Utah just expanded their stadium capacity to 50,000 plus fans and is going on 65 consecutive sell-outs. Imagine that at Cal.......

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paulie's avatar

Whittingham is a great coach, no question! I've noticed in particular that Utah always seems to have really physical D-linemen

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