Comments on: Football: Washington quotables

By: Jskie

Jskie — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 14:58:11 +0000

Husky fan here,

I’ll trade you Nick Montana for 2 Freshman D-lineman. You guys are soo stocked! It’s rediculous how good your tackles are. Tedford is a classy guy. Nobody can cover those 2 receivers. Incredible vision after the catch. Good luck Bears! You’ve always been my second favorite team in the PAC.

By: gobears49

gobears49 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 05:41:48 +0000

The best Cal QB since Rodgers was Longshore, before he got hurt. Since Tedford arrived, he probably has had more QB talent at his disposal than most other college coaches have and clearly the most Elite 11 QB’s (the three currently behind Maynard — Brigford, Mansion and Hinder) — are all Elite 11 QB’s.

Cal surely leads the nation in Elite 11 QB’s since Tedford arrived. One day I’ll do a mathematical analysis of that. And true freshman Kyle Boehm, while not an Elite 11 QB, is supposed to be a stud, and I thought he looked very good when I attended a game at the school he attended, Archbishop Mitty. Next year we have Zack Kline coming in, the #6 ranked Elite 11 QB, who one of the assistants on the recent Elite 11 two hour show stated that Kline probably had more talent than the other 23 top national QB’s also featured on the show. So Cal has had and will have excellent QB talent. Let’s hope Tedford, now devoting some of his time working with the QB’s, will make that QB talent shine.

By: Saltherring

Saltherring — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 04:19:58 +0000

Coming from a Husky fan, the above comments represent a classy bunch of fans who live and die with their team, the Cal Bears. Your team has a helluva front seven and possibly the best pair of WRs we will see this year. Your QB is a huge improvement over last year and Jeff Tedford is always a class guy. Good luck the rest of the season and see you next year! Oh, and do the entire PAC-12 a huge favor and shut the mouths of those imbecilic, classless Duck fans.

By: NorCal Scott

NorCal Scott — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 03:29:53 +0000

I agree with the statement last years team would have folded at 21-10. And I’d suspect that would have started with Riley.

Down at the goal line Tedford needed a power run package that featured Kapp FB, CJ Anderson TB in the power I, and spread the WR’s out. Call the pass on 1st down on play action to keep everyone honest. Then come back on 2nd with a run in the strong side B gap, and then if necessary fake strong side run and QB bootleg the other way. Something other than two failed weakass attempts up the middle. The OL got blown back on both runs.

By: Dawgfan

Dawgfan — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:57:04 +0000

I wanted to say that you guys have a set of very good receivers. Keenan Allen is a stud. Your d line and linebackers are legit. Best of luck the eat of the way and beat the hell out of the ducks

By: Oski 88

Oski 88 — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 01:14:49 +0000

Issue with CJ Anderson at the goal line- he was 7 rushes for 9 yards total on the game – a 1.28 yard average per carry. Isi was 6 YPC at the last drive. Moving to CJ was not such a cut and dried option – it was not like they did not get him opportunities in this game to show what he could do.

THe fade is fine as a first or second down option to Allen. But as the 4th down option, it is a bit risky. A roll out with one or two options in the end-zone would have been a better 4th down play.

And, just so we don’t get out of hand – we needed 8 points to bring it to OT. What were the odds we could get the extra 2 when we could not score from the 2 yard line in 4 tries?

The game was lost earlier when we had 4 opportunities in the red zone and came away with 9 points.

By: Lady Bear

Lady Bear — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:14:47 +0000

Maynard is definitely the best QB we have had since Aaron Rodgers, notwithstanding his accuracy issues. But what is going on with recruiting where we can’t get a decent QB out of high school? What does it say about our HS QB recruits that Maynard just cruised in from Buffalo and immediately won the #1 QB spot, even though we have other QBs we recruited from HS who have supposedly been “learning our system” for much longer? Why is it that other Pac schools are able to recruit the Jake Lockers, Keith Prices, Andrew Lucks, Darron Thomases, etc., and these guys just jump right in and play well as freshmen & sophomores? I don’t know if this is a coaching problem or a recruiting problem or what; it just seems like other Pac teams are getting much more out of their HS QB recruits than we are!

By: Mike Heath

Mike Heath — Tue, 27 Sep 2011 00:05:47 +0000

On the radio broadcast Starkey complained that the Bears seemed to run the ball 80-90 percent of the time on first down. I’m not sure if that is accurate, but they do seem to run the ball almost everytime on first down. I think it got us into trouble in the fourth quarter when we were faced with a lot of third and long situations. Washington knew it was coming and they stuffed it.

We need to less predictable of first down.

By: rollonubears

rollonubears — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:32:52 +0000

we have to win one of the next two. losing by a little happened a lot last year, and look what it got us.

By: DubD

DubD — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 21:08:36 +0000

all in all, it’s hard to ignore the lack of Pass Coverage. The secondary has been dreadful. The rush D has actually been very good. They bottled up both Rodney Stewart and Chris Polk when they were rushing. The linebackers struggled on reading play action pass and screens which is where those guys really hurt Cal. The Defensive line has actually done a pretty good job. They have had to deal with back to back mobile QB’s in Hansen and Price. They made plays in the pocket, avoiding the initial rush and then made big completions down field. Those plays were on the secondary not finishing they assignment coverages.
Aside from the last series on the goal line, the offense looked a million/kagillion times better than it had with Riley under center. I take that as a good thing. Should they have tried to run Anderson? Maybe. Was Maynards pass horrible on fourth down? yes. But from 20 to 20, this team moved the ball affectively up and down the field. That is a huge improvement on the countless 3 and out’s Riley lead the team to.
For the most part, this is a inexperienced young team, at least their impact players are that. We all need to keep that in perspective. We need to happy if the Bears are able to win 7 games and get to a bowl game.
Everyone of importance outside of Marvin Jones will be returning next year. That will be the Bears big window to either sink or swim……and with that, goes Tedford’s future.