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On the UW Dawg Pound the folks are saying that there is no way that they can lose 3 in a row to Cal. Cal! Well, yes they can.

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Tedford beat them 5 times in a row, so yes they can.

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Using last week as my guide, Washington played a Sun Belt conference team and manhandled them. Cal faced an FCS team in Sac State that struggled in its first two games and could not put the Hornets away. So I say advantage big time to the Huskies. But if I use the 2018 season as my template, Cal had a 3-game stretch that year where they stunk up the field in three straight losses to Oregon, Arizona and UCLA. The 37-7 loss to UCLA at home might have been the all-time stinker to a lousy Chip Kelly team. Somehow, Wilcox rallied the troops and beat Washington two weeks later. That same Washington team went on a tear after the Cal loss, winning four straight and beating two Top 25 teams along the way. So let's see if Wilcox has any juju powder to sprinkle over Husky field.

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Thanks for enduring the pompous and painful fan base of the Fuskies to do this post. I still believe anything at all can happen in this game. A total crap shoot for both teams. Fusky fans always think they are national title contenders, cough cough. At least us Bear fans are more sober in our estimations, even though we've beaten them repeatedly under Wilcox.

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Looking forward to the game. The Husky arsenal appears to have a lot of weapons. Can the Cal backs perform better than the UW backs? Can our wide receivers maintain or expand their recent proclivity in catching the deep ball? Can we pressure the QB giving our secondary an easier task? All will be revealed on Saturday.

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If we continue to need to score 30 points to beat the average offense we face, this strength-on-weakness matchup could get ugly really fast (as about everyone here has been suggesting/fearing since midway through the 2nd half of Sac State).

Ball control and time of possession on offense will be probably need to be our best defense going forward based on what we saw last week, so I wonder how that forces Musgrave's hand with game planning / play scripting, and if that will impact the chemistry that Chase and the offense have been building, which could compound things.

But you need to play the game of course and we shall see who shows up on either side this Saturday, as our intrepid reporter suggests.

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The most important thing for any offense is spin moves! Bigelow had Madden 99 rated spin moves and was breakin' ankles out there. O-coordinator need to ensure madatory spin move camp for all players.

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How would you compare Moore to the Fresno Flash? Still remember that Ohio State game.

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Moore is More workman-like, gets downhill. Deuce Bigalow Male Gigolo was high risk high reward, with tree trunk legs but tree branch hands and playbook unmastery that got him put in the Tedford dog house woof woof woof! Mr Moore is a perfect fit for the Muskrat offense while Mr Fresno was a flash in the pan only because he wasnt allowed to make more spin moves.

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Certainly 1-3 would make it very difficult to make a bowl game.

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