Cal about to smash USC today
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funny how these dudes came in AFTER the game was over.. where were they before and during?
If it wasnt for Nate Longshores 2 stupid mistakes CAL shoulda won. Forsett, Hawkins, Jackson were owning. Plus we also had more total yardage than USC. Looks like we made the "best" defense in the pac 10 look bad?
If it wasnt for Nate Longshores 2 stupid mistakes CAL shoulda won. Forsett, Hawkins, Jackson were owning. Plus we also had more total yardage than USC. Looks like we made the "best" defense in the pac 10 look bad?
One thing you can depend on from Nate Longshore. The Cal quarterback will lose a close game. Always, he will find a way. It is what he does.
At a certain time, long, long ago, he seemed like a talented young player, Cal's answer at quarterback. There were certain reasons for that line of thinking. He could throw a long pass as well as anyone. If his offensive line held and if he had time in the pocket to look downfield and count one, two, three wide receivers, and if he had time to wind up that big arm and let it rip, he could look like an all-time great. It was very impressive.
But last year at Arizona and several times this season, we began to notice other things. Like how stiff and immobile he is, and all those mistakes he makes. He doesn't just make regular mistakes. He makes mistakes that kill the team. He is a specialist at doing that late in the game.
Against the Trojans on Saturday, he made two late whoppers. With Cal trailing, 24-17, in the fourth quarter, he dropped a snap from center. Of course, he lost the ball to the Trojans. To put an exclamation point on the loss, he threw an interception on Cal's next possession, threw it short to an open Robert Jordan, and that was that.
At least four other times, Longshore missed receivers when the receivers were going one way and he was throwing another. One of those misses resulted in an interception.
Afterward, Cal coach Jeff Tedford said Longshore was out of sync with his receivers only twice. Tedford was wrong.
Tedford also said Longshore played well. He was wrong about that, too.
Longshore was unacceptable. Longshore is a veteran quarterback and his receivers are veteran receivers, and they are not on the same page.
So, now I'm going to criticize Tedford and, sure, I know it's heresy to criticize Tedford because he is the saint of Berkeley. When he came to Cal in 2002, the Bears were the worst team in the nation, and he made an astonishing change in the program.
Most people thought Cal never could win big, but he turned the Bears into a national contender year after year.
Saturday night's game against USC was the eighth sellout at Memorial Stadium since Tedford arrived. He is a good guy and he didn't run off to the National Football League and he's made Cal a big-ticket item.
So all credit to Tedford. But he still deserves criticism. He is a quarterback guru, but Longshore has regressed. And, yes, I know Longshore has a bum ankle, but that doesn't explain all the mistakes.
And there's something else -- call it Tedford's creeping conservatism. When you think of Tedford, you think of a mad genius with that play card as big as a large pizza and a million plays spinning through his head. You think of an offensive risk taker. That's not true anymore.
Take what happened early in the second quarter with the score tied, 7-7, and Cal at the Trojans' 6.
Tedford called a run to Justin Forsett. He lost a yard. A few plays later with the ball at SC's 1, he called another Forsett run up the middle, and since the Trojans and everyone else in the stadium saw it developing, the Trojans easily stuffed it for a 3-yard loss. Cal settled for a field goal and and that series changed the game. It changed the game because Tedford showed no imagination, zilch.
Bill Walsh once said you can't depend on power football because you always will meet a team more powerful than you. Tedford insists on playing straight-ahead macho football at the worst possible time and now he's lost four of his past five, and a team that was No. 2 in the country is in free-fall. As smart as he is, Tedford still has a lot to learn.
At a certain time, long, long ago, he seemed like a talented young player, Cal's answer at quarterback. There were certain reasons for that line of thinking. He could throw a long pass as well as anyone. If his offensive line held and if he had time in the pocket to look downfield and count one, two, three wide receivers, and if he had time to wind up that big arm and let it rip, he could look like an all-time great. It was very impressive.
But last year at Arizona and several times this season, we began to notice other things. Like how stiff and immobile he is, and all those mistakes he makes. He doesn't just make regular mistakes. He makes mistakes that kill the team. He is a specialist at doing that late in the game.
Against the Trojans on Saturday, he made two late whoppers. With Cal trailing, 24-17, in the fourth quarter, he dropped a snap from center. Of course, he lost the ball to the Trojans. To put an exclamation point on the loss, he threw an interception on Cal's next possession, threw it short to an open Robert Jordan, and that was that.
At least four other times, Longshore missed receivers when the receivers were going one way and he was throwing another. One of those misses resulted in an interception.
Afterward, Cal coach Jeff Tedford said Longshore was out of sync with his receivers only twice. Tedford was wrong.
Tedford also said Longshore played well. He was wrong about that, too.
Longshore was unacceptable. Longshore is a veteran quarterback and his receivers are veteran receivers, and they are not on the same page.
So, now I'm going to criticize Tedford and, sure, I know it's heresy to criticize Tedford because he is the saint of Berkeley. When he came to Cal in 2002, the Bears were the worst team in the nation, and he made an astonishing change in the program.
Most people thought Cal never could win big, but he turned the Bears into a national contender year after year.
Saturday night's game against USC was the eighth sellout at Memorial Stadium since Tedford arrived. He is a good guy and he didn't run off to the National Football League and he's made Cal a big-ticket item.
So all credit to Tedford. But he still deserves criticism. He is a quarterback guru, but Longshore has regressed. And, yes, I know Longshore has a bum ankle, but that doesn't explain all the mistakes.
And there's something else -- call it Tedford's creeping conservatism. When you think of Tedford, you think of a mad genius with that play card as big as a large pizza and a million plays spinning through his head. You think of an offensive risk taker. That's not true anymore.
Take what happened early in the second quarter with the score tied, 7-7, and Cal at the Trojans' 6.
Tedford called a run to Justin Forsett. He lost a yard. A few plays later with the ball at SC's 1, he called another Forsett run up the middle, and since the Trojans and everyone else in the stadium saw it developing, the Trojans easily stuffed it for a 3-yard loss. Cal settled for a field goal and and that series changed the game. It changed the game because Tedford showed no imagination, zilch.
Bill Walsh once said you can't depend on power football because you always will meet a team more powerful than you. Tedford insists on playing straight-ahead macho football at the worst possible time and now he's lost four of his past five, and a team that was No. 2 in the country is in free-fall. As smart as he is, Tedford still has a lot to learn.
putting up 17 points is owning?...jackson had like 1 good catch...he was pretty much contained the whole game..
looks like SC's D made ur offense look bad...u got shit all backwards..SC made DUMB mistakes too...they also fumbled a snap...AND fumbled on the goaline..
this SHOULDA won shit has NO WEIGHT..
looks like SC's D made ur offense look bad...u got shit all backwards..SC made DUMB mistakes too...they also fumbled a snap...AND fumbled on the goaline..
this SHOULDA won shit has NO WEIGHT..
Who was the Cal QB that ran around like a chicken with his head cut off with like 10 seconds left instead of throwing the ball and lost the game when they were ranked number two in the nation? That was some of the stupidest/funniest stuff I've seen in a while in College football. If I was the coach I wouldn't let him even look at a football field in weeks just off principals along.