11 Comments
User's avatar
hoopdreams's avatar

Excellent breakdown and extremely witty

Unfortunately you had a ton of explosive plays to choose from in just 5 games

Having this QB with that protection and weapons at every position sounds like they will score 40+ on us, especially if our injured safeties are out

One of you clips showed the opponent blitz SIX and he still had a clean pocket!

I’ll be in my seats and will enjoy the band coming out on the field… after that?????

TKE Prytanis 79's avatar

Thanks Christopher...strangely I'm looking forward to watching this game with lowered expectations, and looking for pieces to be happy about. Small steps. And for all the well placed critiques of the coaching this far, it was a good reminder that we are down a shit ton of starters. Hoping for an entertaining game. Go Bears!

Chris Crawford's avatar

I expect a win. Secondary is gonna have to rise to the occasion without 1 starter and one out for the half. Offense is gonna hum in Air Raid mode.

Rae Moulton's avatar

The rule where a player has to sit out the 1st half of the next game for a targeting call that happens in the second half was done away with for this year. So, fortunately, Daniel Harris can play from the start in the VA Tech game.

Chris Crawford's avatar

Allegari (I think) mentioned it on Cal Bears radio on YouTube. Lame call. Refs are making college like the NFL.

justbearly's avatar

Nice work as always Christopher. The spread appears to be understated for this one I suppose. Quick comment, its odd that seeing these kind of games in person is somehow less frustrating than watching them on the screen at home.

Rae Moulton's avatar

Per the ACC player availability report that came out yesterday, Cal is liable to be without almost half its starters (if you count Manutai) on defense. But, if all the players who are indicated as “Questionable” play, that number would dwindle down to just one, At the least, though, they’ll be limited. To the point that, well, everyone’s got guys out by this point in the season I see that VA Tech, conversely, has no starters on their list.

Danny P's avatar

No one hates ucla more than this dude 😂 Great breakdown as always, Go Bruins

GoldenHairs's avatar

They’re everything I thought we were gunna be

GoldenBear68's avatar

Excellent (and chilling) review, Chris. Without our top performers on both sides of the ball it will be a challenge for Cal to stay in this game. QB2 did show promise last week so perhaps it won’t be as big a loss as I fear, regardless of who’s calling the offensive shots. I still see Cal at 3-9 but that’s assuming we can win back the axe in a worst of the worst (definitely not very) Big Game.