Comments on: Football: Back at it

By: Will

Will — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 05:30:00 +0000

Whoa, More Unemployment Is Coming is back! I guess she got laid off her job…

By: takeoffthatREDshirt

takeoffthatREDshirt — Fri, 01 Apr 2011 01:50:03 +0000

i think we have to be realistic – a bowl game would be a major accomplishment with this roster. 5 wins will be not be easy even with our schedule.

Tedford will have another chance after the team is back at Memorial to show that this was a quick downturn and that the new recruiting classes are playing as well as expected.

i hope another 5-7 season will not make people go crazy. all programs (that don’t cheat at ridiculous levels) face rebuilding years and i truly believe we’ll be back after this year.

By: ScottyBear

ScottyBear — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 17:57:09 +0000

Raf:

At least our players will be rested from not having to take bus rides to 8 different practice fields so Teford makes sure he accommodates all the sports writers who want to watch all of the practices. We run such a new complicated and unpredictable offense that he wants all of the media to come admire it!

By: Raf

Raf — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 16:13:51 +0000

This season is a train wreck you can see coming. We have an anemic and predictable offense and now to improve the situation we have no OC or QB. Great. Well, at least we can just hand the ball off to a proven RB behind a stonewall OL. Whoops. Well, good thing we have clutch kicker who can consistently make them from deep. Shoot. Humm, then I’m glad we have a dependable return man to at least give us good field position. Err. Ahh… Defense! We’re returning our top two defensive play makers. No? Well, no one is gonna throw it on us because we have shut down corners.

Ok ok, look at the bright side, at lease no one will know how terrible we are! I mean it’s not like we have two nationally televised Thursday night games on ESPN or anything!

By: D-MO

D-MO — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 07:04:02 +0000

Tedford trying to channel Hairball with the multiple playcaller system? Whatever works Jeff, because this slop we’ve seen on offense the past few years is unacceptable.
This offense you install every year seems to be too much for our QB’s.
Riley got rattled and thought too much.
Nate was limited and injured.
Mansion…gees SHOW ME SOMETHING DUDE.
Sweeney- no.
Let’s hope the offense gets simplified but less predictable, that Bridgford or Maynard takes control, and
that our O-line returns to its dominate self.

ROLL ON!

By: Bears

Bears — Thu, 31 Mar 2011 01:15:59 +0000

I don’t care who calls the plays or if more than one do it or whatever.
Just execute and win.

By: ScottyBear

ScottyBear — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 23:41:24 +0000

Oregon and Chip Kelly call the plays literally as their offense lines up and sees the defensive formation. Brilliant! I don’t expect Tedford to be that innovative, but somewhere between what Chip Kelly does and Tedford’s three or four same mundane plays there must be a happy medium that moves the ball for Cal. And that does not include taking a knee against Stanford with the ball and 18 seconds left before halftime. Go Bears!

By: covinared

covinared — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:16:48 +0000

scanctions and schame…

By: rollonyoubears111

rollonyoubears111 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:16:18 +0000

oops oregon 2009

By: rollonyoubears111

rollonyoubears111 — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 19:15:46 +0000

I also feel that JT needs to be THE play caller as he did during his earlier years at Cal. It was an obvious mess when JT + flavor of the year OC were making calls together. We had some pretty gruesome blow out losses when this occurred (Oregon 2010, SC pick a year). There needs to be a strategically cohesive chain of events that should be mindfully implemented to be effective on offense. “talking it over” during a huddle may bring a lot of “spur of the moment/power of suggestion” events that may seem reasonable but ineffective and predicable. If the other guy was thinking it, then what makes you think the opposing team wasn’t?